plan is about preserving healthy san francisco, we're here today to talk about why healthy san francisco and the health care security ordinance is still really important even with obama care, so locally under the health care security ordinance, the minimum workers is 20 but if the ordinance was replaced by the affordable care act, the minimum would be raised to 50. this is important because lez people would be covered or get health care and businesses and instead businesses should also share the profits by helping the workers get health care. the health care security ordinance would secure that more workers would get health care and health care is the human right and everyone should have the right to access health care regardless of their income. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to call a few more names. (calling speaker names). next speaker. >> hi, supervisors, my name is judy and i'm a resident of the easier neighborhood and i'm part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the health care services ma

commissioners and staff to welcome you back to the san francisco port. and this historic pier 48. pier 48 as you may know was one of the last piers built right before world war ii. it was built in concert with pier 45 and fisherman's wharf in the changes of technology in cargo movement. those changes were stimulated by the fact that we had two bridges opening up here in the bay. and our opportunities to move cargo changed by vessel and rail to also by truck. pier 48 as you can see is much like all the other piers you are familiar with. it has a great large and long apron for cargo to be shipped and stored and out into distribution. the difference of pier 48 than others you know. on this side is a second transit shed with another apron. in the middle is a long divide. that's where the rail cars and the trucks came in to pick up the cargo. across the way is seawall lot 337. that was filled in by the santa fe railway. in order to create a new headquarters for their train movement. that would go down the peninsula and out into the greater california area. and seawall 337 known as lot "a" and pie

wine in san francisco. >> i imagine you have already reached out o the district supervisor, this is in district 6. >> we have reached out to our supervisor and to the public. >> why don't we now hear from the san francisco police department, either inspector fong or gordon. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm inspector fong, abc liaison region, he filed an application seeking a type 21 off-sale general license for 810 mission street. this permit is currently operating with an existing type 21 license and is seeking approval from the committee to extend the license to conduct the newly constructed entrance of the floor, police called for service from april, 2012 to april, 2013 is 0, there's no residents within 500 feet of this premises and a notice of the public was posted on may 22, 2013. this premises is located on plot number 222, it has 210 police reports reported for 2012, so the applicant's premises is located in a high criminal area. this is 176.01, the off-sale license authorizes by this tract is 7 and the active off-sale license is 9, so the applicant premises is

world class city of san francisco congratulations everybody for being a hero today. you know the san francisco hospital foundation the general hospital foundation has been such a wonderful wonderful entity and i want to just thank stephanie your leadership, i want to thank julie and rich at the board with all of the other board members, the staff at the hospital, all of the staph, you know sometimes the doctors have to do it's emergency work but what makes that whole hospital run is literally everybody that works at the hospital from the social workers to the accountants to the administrators to the nurses, and nurse practitioner and is the doctors and all of the fundraisers thank you everybody for working together. and for today, again, a big thanks to ellen and pam for your leadership and bringing the hearts and the heros together. it's such a wonderful just community effort to support our general hospital and all of the work that it does. everybody knows what it does already. but i also want to say there are other heros that you are acknowledging today and i would like to just giv

through healthy san francisco and won't get it otherwise. thank you. >> i have a few more names. (speaker names being called). >> next speaker, please. er >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is olivia fang, i am the founder and executive director to have latino breast cancer act si, a small non-profit organization based here in san francisco. through our organization, we use this low-income uninsured weekend to access breast cancer screening services including follow up, diagnostic care without cost and without barrier, many of the women who have come to our program have lost tha*ir insurance as their employers have cutback their hours, these women rely on programs like ours, i too rely on healthy san francisco for preventative care and prescriptions as i do not have health insurance because i cannot afford health insurance, i don't qualify for health insurance because i am considered to be at risk, i am a breast cancer survivor, when the affordable care act is fully implemented, that doesn't mean that folks of me like the [inaudible] it is very lieb likely that we won't be

palo alto. i left after about three years and became an investment banker here in san francisco at thomas was all partners. working the industry for about five and a half years. in the summer of 2009, joined a venture capital firm. i am happily married. my wife and i lived around laurel village in district 2. we have two small children. our goal is five and our boy is three. how parents and excited to be here on the board. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? and tell us about what motivated your interest in politics. >> choosing to live in san francisco was natural, given that i was born and raised here. when you are a child, you do not understand what you have until you leave home. i have the fortunate opportunity to live in los angeles and abroad in ireland and in philadelphia. there is no place like home in san francisco is your home. very natural and something was looking forward to in trying to find a job to come home to after law school. my job afforded me that opportunity, to come back to the bay area. so i'm lucky, and i will be here the rest of my life. in term

training programs and all the other engaging programs that we have. san francisco is the innovation capital of the world and in that way all of the different ethnicities that arrive in san francisco of all different backgrounds need to be part of this innovation, because innovation is not about just one particular group of people. it's about everybody participating. and you should hear some of the tech kids that are in the city who want to hear from the chinese american community, the southeast asian american haunted, the african immigrant community, the latino immigrant community, southeast asian community, all of them, they want to hear how they can innovate technology with everyone else and how they can improve lives ~. technology is there for our use and one of the reasons we support it is it's got to improve our lives for everybody. you cannot improve one's life if you're not communicating with people that speak spanish only. or in the shadows. this is why we're making this announcement. we're also making a timely announcement and adrian is very strategic on this because we are

enormous success in san francisco and we believe that san francisco will be the model for the rest of the country on how to maximize its success of the aca because of the health care security ordinance. there's a last point that i want to highlight here before asking the department of public health to come and present, in 2015, the aca will include a requirement that employers provide insurance or pay a penalty if they do not provide health insurance to employees that work over 30 hours a week. what's going to happen as a result of this unfortunately, in many parts of the country to the extend that the threshold is at 30 hours a week, there's an anticipation that many employers will be lowering the number of numbers that employees work to 29 or under and because of the health care security ordinance, we know here in san francisco, an ordinance that goes beyond the coverage that the current law provides, we believe that, that trend will not happen in san francisco because the health care security ordinance ensures that employees that work more than 8 hours are covered. this is yet a

san francisco's cal works program. it's statewide and the benefit levels are the same statewide. what's different is the set of services that each county provides to families and we have the most robust compared to other counties. so if owe're on our county, it would be they transfer their case to san francisco. it's done electronically, but it allows them to get engaged in our services here. a change that we made to initially rolling this out is families where every family member is undocumented so they're not required to apply for cal works. we would not require them to apply. it's something that would be a waste of their time and something we don't want them to do, however, we do have a number of families where the parents are undocumented, but the parents are citizens. they are eligible for cal works, they're eligible for grants on behalf of their children and for food stamps and med-cal. >> i appreciate the intent behind this modification that you don't require undocumented families to apply for it because it requires reporting the information to the federal government or a

boeing 777. asiana flight 214. took off from seoul as we had been reporting enroute to san francisco. runway 28 l it was supposed to land but made the crash landing tlchlt they said they are working now enroute and are in their way to san francisco and are working in conjunction with their counterparts in korea to find out what is going on and boeing will likely be part of the investigation as well. robert francis, if you could hear me this time, former ntsb vice chairman and investigator, you heard that press conference. that's about what you thought would come out of that press conference, right? >> exactly. oops. i just lost you. >> okay. we'll get back to you. thank you very much for that. it's the top of the hour. we want to update our viewers now. >> i'm don lemon. live in new york here i want to update our viewers on what is going on. i welcome our viewers in the united states watching around the world, watching cnn international and also other net works. it is our breaking news here on cnn. a boeing 777 on a flight from south korea crash landed today at the san francisco airport. 291

>> breaking news on the fox report, an international flight crashes in san francisco and bursts in flames and most of the people on boardwalk away. i am hoether childers recollects asianic airline crashing while landing in the san francisco international airport. the boeing 777 burst in flames. and the passengers were forced to sloyd down to safety. the top of the fuselage burned. survivors look, and walking away from the wreckage. and the ntsb sending a team to investigate what went wrong and a witness describing what they saw in the ground. >> i saw the tail come in low. and when it hit sparks flew. and then he must have lost control. this wing hit and spun it around and there was a big explosion. something you never imagine to so yourself. you are looking live in the airport. this is what we are waiting for, a news conference in the san francisco international. we are getting word from a local report that two-run ways are reopened in the airport. we'll bring you this new's conference as soon as it happen. the airport is located on the water just south of san francisco. claudia c

trying to deal with and again, it is my hope that in san francisco, we can stand up as a model of how to do this and really celebrate how far a lot of our businesses have come. >> okay. >> any other commissioner questions before we go into public comment? >> you know, i have want to... >> commissioner o'brien? >> the count is to a year unless a major life event has occurred. and so, if a major life event has not occurred, can you give me an example of what a request will be based on? >> sure, what we said was that you can make a requests and you can make at least two requests during the year and the idea around the two is that we know that a lot of parents deal with the school time and schedules and have to deal with a different summer schedules and so we want to give them the opportunity to make those shifts. and the major life event, is defined in the ordinance, so again, if you have a child, if someone in your family goes sick, that could be a opportunity for you to go to your employer and say hey, i know that four months ago we asked for a schedule based on the school situatio

for san francisco and we want to make sure the design that we come up with can be implemented with a minimal amount of disruption. a lot of those best practices comes from trade contractors so we want to seek their input early so at the time we go out to bid and begin construction, results in the least amount of disruption to the residents that use the project. we have a plan in place that's been largely modelled after general hospital project where we also procured trade contractors early on and that has paid huge dividends for us. the hospital is tracking to on time completion and budget and a lot of that has to do with comments we got early on in the project in regards to how to build a building in an occupied area. be happen toy /p*eu >> as we're looking forward to contractors coming in, how do you ensure we have the highest level of dbe and lbe? make sure we're meeting high marks on these participants. >> absolutely. we're committed to meeting and exceeding the goals like we have on other projects. as you recall, we did a renovation a couple years ago and we met and exceeded tho

that's a big shout out to all of the taxpayers in san francisco. thank you, everybody, for coming and to celebrate. thank you for enjoying with me a brief moment of time wasted and remembered all in celebration of this great waterfront. thank you. (applause) >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. i really appreciate all those remarks, and i'm glad that you are as happy about it as i am. of the great features here is the fact that underneath where all of you are now standing is a fairly robust and rebuilt seawall. so, that was an important cadence of this project as well as a lot of great seismic features we are piloting here at the park and piloting a response to sea level rise. so, we're very, very proud of everything you can see and a lot of what you can't see. and we'd also like to thank our partners at our other city departments starting with our dedicate and had hard working board of supervisors. the department of city planning. especially chelsea ford ham. department of public works [speaker not understood]. rec and park, and don, calem and nathan who helped us get this far. and i w

employees nationwide are excited about this event in san francisco. because asian pacific americans have made a large contribution in this country in this state and of course in this city. and at all levels of government, business, and society, the product of all of the work of our immigrant father and mothers are evidenced by the people, standing in this room, the various elected officials. the company representatives who have strived and made their way up in their respective positions and all around us in our daily lives. >> this month is to celebrate all of those particular achievements and more importantly from craft's perspective and all of the programs that it does with the community and the employees is the opportunity to be able to show our future generations of asian pacific americans, the impact that they too can make as they are in school, in the arts, in government, and you are at craft foods, so, so pleased and so, so privileged to be able to celebrate this very special occasion and we look forward to being a part of this month. thank you, claudine. >> thank you. this is my

people and please give a special welcome to our very own heros san francisco police officers john coffee and david sans . >> thank you things going to be short and sweet and but i like too thank my hair cannot be that white ... i like to thank all my interfere and is especially gregg surfor allowing us do what we do is special thank to supervisor camp poe and is his assistants for always being there for us and i know the mayor left but if there is anything in this room that can get they two minutes of his time, i know i can get this city to be a safer place for awful us. with the help of my partner. and then in closing i'll like to say there is a lot of beautiful hearts here and there were some big ones on the way in and none of them came as whole with the love that i have for my if girlfriend. plast. >> that was short. i thought i was going to stand there for an hour. first i would just like to thank every everyone for their support and this idea that has become so much more with their help and captains col rails and most zero and our sergeant and supervisor kayser camp poe and is his s

associations, our fellow san francisco museums and many other con stitcies. >> raising the money to turn this bold vision into a reality was a true labor of love for the board. two factors made our job actually quite easy. first, everyone in the bay area loves the exporatorium. [ applause ] and second, it is an institution that in its first 43 year has made a big impact in the world. what you see here is the end result of a lot of work by thousands of people. we see this space not just as a new campus, but as a transformative platform from which to multiply our impact, those within the museum and also beyond its walls. it is a great honor for me to represent the entire board along with two chairman ameriti who are both here today, dan casper and bill bos. >> both of who played... [ applause ] both of whom played critical roles in making this happen. over a decade, i'm thrilled to be placing this first ring on our beautiful new bell, this ring represents visionaries and designers, the dreamers, architects and imaginers, of the exporatorium, thank you very much. >> george, thank you very m

many different challenges in law enforcement i truly enjoy working until the city of san francisco that i was born in and somebody once said absorb what is useful discard what is not and -- with intentions we have taken approach to help average gangs members toss teach them to may be better choice chois and change their lives forever and finishing education and get aing a job has helped individuals keeping off the block and along with that we are seek to go educate gangs so that they can continue their education and live their dreams and we call it family and education ever over everything and i'm very humble for receiving this apartward and thank you to general hospital foundation. >> (applause) . >> our second award will be presented by 98ian nay men. head of state and local relation, visa incorporated.. >> (applause) . >> good afternoon everyone god you look so great out there. i wish there was a camera up here so that you could see how wonderful you look especially with the backdrop of the ballpark. you know, i love this event for calm reasons usually it's because it's done around v

>> good morning. and welcome to san francisco city hall. on this momentus occasion, we are going to have and celebrate the unveiling of the adolf trotro bust. and so we will begin with the present mayor of san francisco, mayor ed lee, talking about one of the former mayors of san francisco adolf trotro. >> all right. thank you, ellen. >> you are very welcome. president lee. >> good morning, everyone and welcome to city hall. and thanks for as a various departments that are here, i understand that we have three representatives from our counsel general offices, certainly our counsel general from germany, from israel and russia. thank you very much for being here. former supervisor clint is here, i can see him in the crowd thank you for being here as well. our chiefs from the fire and police department are here. members of our commissions are here as well and thank you very much. my good buddy, leonid, mucupkin has been an advisor to me for many, many years previous to my being mayor of san francisco. and he is always been giving me great advice on not only history, but how we can cele

>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> good morning, and welcome to the joint meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission and local agency formation commission. my name is john avalos. this meeting is brought to you by sfgtv staff. call item no. 2 please. >> roll call. avalos present, breed present, commissioner mar? present, schmeltzer is absent and leah pimentel is absent. >> president torres, commissioner cane present, commissioner moran, and commissioner courtney is excused today. >> mr. chairman, we have a quorum. >> very good. thank you very much. if you can call item no. 3, please. >> item 3: opening remarks and discussion of expectations for the joining meeting. sf lafco chairperson john avalos and sf puc president art torres.sf 31234 >> thank you very much. as chair of local agency formation commission, i would like to thank you for joining us at this meeting. we are at a very critical juncture now to approve the water program. we have received a lot of information from people across san francisco and even across california that we are an approving a shell contract today and

] currently five health plans are approved for offering in san francisco under undercover california, they are anthem blue cross, blue shield, the chinese community health plan, health net and kaiser. technically, there is no mandate on employers to provide health insurance under the affordable care act, instead there are incentives and penalties for employers to offer coverage. they can offer for affordable coverage on the exchange, and for more full time employers, there is a financial penalty structure if employers offer no coverage or unaffordable coverage, no coverage is defineesed as an employer who offers coverage for fewer than 95% of its fte's and the employer is imposed if one employee receives a low-income subsidy on covered california, [inaudible] health insurance that covers less than 60% of health care expenses or costs an employee more than 9.5% more of their income, a penalty is imposed if one employee receives one subsidy. [inaudible] at a cost to an employee of no more than 9.5% of their family income would avoid any penalty. these provisions were scheduled to becom

not understood] media, of course san francisco immigrant rights commission. well, i've often said in many speeches that our immigrant population is important. well, over a third of our population are immigrants and we acknowledge that. but i don't just want to say it as an announcement. everybody knows that. what we want is full participation. we want people to not be afraid or not be meeting as many barriers as they are today, from activating themselves in full participation. and i do want to have people of all languages and all heritages telling us how they want our parks to be managed, how they want community safety, how they want transportation to be had, all these things everybody else gets to do, and they weigh in pretty heavily. but i want full participation of that. and until we get so, we'll always feel we're not representing everybody in this city. and, so, this effort is to get to the additional 100,000 permanent residents to encourage them to get to the citizenship, enjoy all those benefits. those benefits are numerous. you're going to be able to situate yourself in bette

. here's the information that we have for you -- just a short time ago at the san francisco international airport a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago. it is a passenger plane, a boeing 777 from asiana airlines, which is a large south korean airline. we have live pictures as well as pictures from passengers who were fleeing that plane. the one you just saw was a passenger. this one is live picture. this is a live picture. you can see the tail section of this plane is gone. you can see the top of the fuselage is burned. the wings are mostly intact. parts of them, though, have fallen off. parts of the plane fell off when this crash landing happened there. there you can see it spread across the runway there. what appears to be landing gear on the runway. you're looking at those pictures. the stairs were deployed. the slides were deployed for people to get off of this plane very quickly. we don't know exactly how many people were on board the plane. the extent of any injuries, if any at all. the extent of injuries, if any at all. and we want to see one of the f

community based orchestras are the first place of contact for a people in san francisco. we provided language interpretation and we also assist the city when >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good morning. i'm gail. i'm a founder and on the member of san francisco village. it's part of the national movement that empowers seniors to remain in their own home. we are continuing to expand throughout the city. we plan to double our membership in the next 18 months. we have members in every single one of our district in over 23 neighborhoods. why is san francisco village so important to you and the city? the village is a pro-active response to the growing population and needs of seniors in senior. it helps those folks to stay in charge of their lives. we do this through safety training. a core of direct visits and social efforts to help provided an important tall by making our anybody's acknowledgeable about them. we're a platform for trusted relationships for our members. we're in communication with our members daily and monthly following up on their well-being. we've been able to pro

living in san francisco because of the preschool and the community and i went to school my entire life in san francisco. several schools, and i can honestly stand up here and tell you that i have never seen a school and a community offer so much to the children and to the entire families. families rely on it, and there are not any other options there are more familis that want to stay in san francisco. and it is impacted with more and more young people that are looking to start families without preschools like this in san francisco, what is the future of san francisco what is the future for children living in san francisco? >> there is a lot of compromises that need to be made, noise, being one of them. but, children they are such an important part of our community, we talk about community, and i am here to speak for the children, because they can't speak for themselves. their lives are enhanced by the preschool. i trust them with the family future and i plan on remaining in san francisco and thankfully me and families like me are able to stay in san francisco and walk to a commun

rarely are new trials granted. even here in san francisco we have struggled to fill three investigators positions for the last six months and we have hundreds of cases that need the attention of an investigator. so today we are going to study the aftermath of gideon and discuss what has to happen in order to fix it. i want to thank everyone who has made today so possible, all of you for being here. i want to thank or sponsors, kicker and van ness and jim and douglas and maratel and investigations. i would like to thank all the volunteers who made this possible. kathy, angela and everyone else who helped out today. i want to express my gratitude to the san francisco library for the last ten years and there is san francisco government tv and this is going to be broadcast throughout the year. so thank you. i would like to thank julie tron from the bar association. the bar association has been our partners in terms of providing defense for poor people. in cases where the public defender is not able to provide representation, those cases are handled by the private bar and they

healthy san francisco, while most of our members are fortunate enough to receive benefits, they have a class of secondhand workers who are hired at part time hours, they'll often work full time hours and they're not provided with health care, however, under the affordable care act, more employers will have incentive tos do exactly what uc is doing and cut employees's hours so they don't have to provide health insurance, healthy san francisco has the incentive to cut hours as well as to provide health insurance to the many san francisco residents who will not quality under the affordable care act. all residents deserve health care. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good evening, thank you for your time. my name's kathy, i'm a part time teacher with the city college of san francisco and i'm a proud member of the activist committee with jobs with justice, as a teacher, i want to talk about our students, i'm aware that many of our students like my god children are lower income workers and i watch my god children, i watch other students struggle if you make 14 to 15 doll

desire to run, you have a desire to serve. you really care about what happens in san francisco. you just have a different way in which you believe we should go about doing that. and i just think that i don't necessarily see myself in one particular category because i have different feelings about different situations based on my various experiences of growing up in the city. and, so, my, my, my commitment to san francisco trumps any ideaology i might have. i mean, i'm going to need to make decisions that impact people's lives so i have to make sure that i'm being responsible in those decisions. i can't let ideology get in the way of that. >> i think the city is always dealing with complicated issues as you mentioned. what do you feel are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco right now? >> i think there are a few big issues, but in particular, my priority is public housing. the fact that it's a neglected community is really a problem for me. the fact that they're still dealing with rodent infestation and some of the challenges of job opportunities. i think this city is a we

these very issues. this is a policy that i think is worthy of adoption here in san francisco, and it is a policy that at a national level has already been attempted. but, because there have not been local or state jurisdictions that have adopted this, it has been harder to have a conversation about how we should accommodate and be more flexible to our working family and so i was asked by the national and state advocates to consider moving this forward as a ballot measure in order to have this public dialogue in san francisco. and as i said before, given how many employers already are doing this not all employers, but many are. i think that it is an opportunity for us to celebrate what many employers are doing and make sure that all employers are doing it and be an example to others in how we ought to do it. >> unfortunately because of the timing of the ballot, calendar, and if we had receive a draft on a monday and i needed to introduce it the next day and rather than wait a week. if i waited a week i not would have had the opportunity under the calendar to actually amend this ordina

>> and this is a fox news alert. tragic in san francisco when a commercial jet with more than 300 people on board crashes on landing at san francisco international, two are confirmed dead and some taken to the hospital, some critically injured, all passengers are now accounted for. welcome to our special coverage of the crash of asiana airlines, flight 214. i'm rick. >> and he let's get to claudia who has the latest from san francisco. claudia? actually, right now we are going to go ahead and take the ntsb pre presser already in progress. let's listen in. it looks like right now they are preparing for that presser. we a we are going to get some new information right now as we said when we came in with the show. 130 people injured. and rick, you know, we were tacking about this earlier, by looking at the plane, the back of the plane gone, two people that you know, were killed. could it possibly be members of the crew who were in the back of the plane? we have not really heard anything new on that yet. two dead, dozens injured, many of them critical. >> that is right, it's a crash t

secrets that made the city san francisco one of a kind .m >> an award winning book reveals secrets that made the city of san francisco one of a timened and hear and the summer concerts. i'm susan sikora and that's on bay area focus next. ,,,,,,,,,, si t summer >> welcome to the show, i'm susan sikora. if you want great summer grading, the season of the witch could be your best start. now in paper back, this historical account reads like a novel. it is filled with characters you know, but may be filled with stories you are not. while san francisco's summer of love is long over, it shaped who we are, our value, an our influence on the rest of the country today. meet the author of season of the witch, david talbot. he also created salon.com. hi david. >> hi susan. >> i haven't finished the book, but i love it. why have you decided to cover the years be67-82? >> i thought this was the revolutionary period in san francisco's history. it radically transformed itself and then the world. medical marijuana, immigrant sanctuary, livable wage. bicycle friendly streets. all of this began here

to what you've been told, our goal is not to dismantle healthy san francisco, we want it to provide health access to individuals who are not covered under the affordable care act, however we mrao*efr it's irresponsible to encourage employee that is have an individual mandate to have full insurance under the law to accept a health plan that doesn't require plans under federal law, to get subsidized coverage and their dependents through covered california, we look forward to working through these complex issues so we can successfully implement the sca, those that fall under the safety net continue to have healthy choices in san francisco. >> thank you. >> jim lazarus, khim beer of commerce, because there was a lot of testimony earlier, one of the solutions is going to be passage of the comprehensive immigration reform bill. the chamber has supported that from day 1 and it's clear that many of the people testifying today would obviously benefit from a pathway to citizenship. we struggle with the same issues in 2006 that we're talking about today, 2006 when we sat down with business and

community leaders and providers who help us deliver services to the people of san francisco. and it's because of this consensus approach that i'm proud to propose a responsible and balanced two-year budget that reflects the core values that we share in san francisco, values of fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, and investing in our city's future. when we began this year's budget, we began like many years before, trying to reduce significant budget deficits. but because we have pursued policies to control costs, grow our economy, create jobs and stabilize our fiscal health, this year i'm proposing a budget that protects our social safety net, one that increases public safety, and one that invests in our city's infrastructure at unprecedented levels. and it is a budget that significantly grows our city's reserves. this budget is being delivered as san francisco's economy is recovering, going, and moving in the right direction. and san franciscans are getting back to work. in fact, our unemployment rate has dropped, as you all know, from 9.5% in january of 2011 to an asto

he's been on this journalist with the city to rebuild the shipyard. the san francisco labor council is the center of the labor in san francisco it's comprised of 1 hundred and 50 local unions representing 1 hundred thousand working men and women in this city. it's to promote social justice for all. please welcome tim to say a few words (clapping) >> thank you pam. so on behalf of the san francisco labor council i want to acknowledge what the previous leaders talked about. we were involved in a complexed process. and i'm proud of our partners that actually sat down and did the agreement that's he hopefully b will be the strongest in the country. i want to acknowledge my partner and all the building trades that are repealed just stand up real quickly (clapping) >> thanks for what's going on. i also want to acknowledge connie ford who's been working diligently with the community whether or not it is with the pact or the other partners we're proud of the work. but one out of 3 households has a member in it. we want to make sure that everything is going to benefit the community local higher

stand forward and support all of the labor standards that we have passed here in san francisco as well so it's all tied up. good jobs and healthy communities so thank you very much for your support. >> thank you ms. ford and the last speaker that i have cards. if anyone else would like to come forward please do that now. >>i colleen from st. anthonys and we know that nutritious food is important for well being and we are a neighborhood with many small corner stores that sell processed foods and sodas and cigarettes and we have people living with disabilities and low income people in sro's and low income families struggling everyday and we serve many as our guest. people struggle to get food. lack nutritional and culturally appropriate in the neighborhood and limited to go out of the neighborhood to buy food. when they run out of food we see them in the dining room too. we support the healthy food retailer program and promotes healthy food and we're excited for the retailers to do and providing them with the existence and technical support to do that. expanding the number of health

next speaker our distinguished mayor from this wonderful city of san francisco in which the california sun shines. i don't have to introduce mayor lee to you. but i have to mention i found in your cv that you are a graduate from u.c. berkeley from 1978. welcome. we have a line up of berkeley graduates. (applause) >> well, thank you for that introduction, dr. weber. and if there's any doubt in your mind as to how governor brown figured out the budget, you just heard it. that's the power of his leadership. good evening, everyone, and thank you for your attending the 2013 inter-solar conference here in san francisco. and first i want to give my personal thanks to the governor. just a couple weeks ago, by the way, all of the mayors from the top 10 city in the state of california met with him just a few weeks ago and we had on our mind a discussion with him about the economy, our budgets, our economic challenges. well, before we could sit down at his picnic table meeting room -- if you've ever met with the governor, you should realize he doesn't have an ordinary meeting table in

singing. good dancing. here we go. rocking san francisco city hall. good dancing. all right. (drums). napsters take it away. two starts. all right. we would like to get the honorees. if the honorees could come up here by the first step. napsters if you could take care of this honoring song. here we go. (drums and chanting). all right. how about a big round of applause for all our honorees. thank you dancers. thank you singers. that concludes our program.@@to th awards here at san francisco city hall. thank you all so much for joining us here tonight. it is an honor to be here. my name is daniel homsby and i am the program manager for the neighborhood department networks. an honor to see you here. many of the same faces for the fifth year for the men awards. let's give you an a plays for coming back. (applause) >> and celebrating one of the most important things we have in san francisco, which is our neighborhoods. without further ado, i'd like to start the program off by introducing my colleague, christina palone, the new director for the mayor's office for neighborhoods. christin

appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of san francisco. >> i am from san francisco. i grew up in the local neighborhood. i did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied political science with a concentration in public administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. then i earned a master's degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. i spent some time as assistant executive director for a non-profit. we did work if a lot of kids in the neighborhood. i have done fundraising for candidates and issues. i have experience with the federal reserve bank of san francisco. when i look around my neighborhood and see the changes that are happening, i so there is no neighborhood grocery store. i see that small businesses in particular are coming and going, and they haven't been able to really sustain themselves. from my work experience in working for the city in the mayor's office as well as in the non-profit, i had a good sense as to what some of the challenges were. when i look in the future, i could see

time within 30 minutes, whether it be here in san francisco or anywhere else around the world, to rally, to rally support and provide services. and, so, in closing i just want to thank our city leaders, mayor lee, president chiu, the department of emergency management, the bay share and the sharing economy companies for getting this dialogue started so that we're ready when it's needed. thank you. (applause) >> thank you, nate. and thank you all for coming. this has been a great day today. we are going to get -- go back into our meeting and continue our dialogue, but mayor lee and president chiu and i believe nate and milicent also will be here to answer a few questions if you would like to. so, thank you all for coming. >> good morning. today is majority opinion in the perry case where i live by chief justice roberts and held at the u.s. constitution which governs the appeal to parties that suffer an injury. at the a leaves in place that the fundamental marriage reporters for same sex partners in california have's violated their rights. this has no place in california but the proponent

think it's fitting that my first foray into san francisco politics involves plants and i have been a fan since i was three. i am a new resident of san francisco but coming to the botanical garden for 20 years. it's one of the things i visit every trip so i have a perspective as a non resident visitor in the past and i don't find -- didn't find the fee to be particularly onerous and i don't find it onerous currently especially in light of the fact this is part of the budget that actually is bringing in a bit of revenue and others have asked for it to be cut. i think it's a modest imposition of bringing some form of id which most of the services that are target the towards residents require anyway. the botanical garden is a museum that is living and breathing that requires care and maintenance for the collections to survive and thrive and to consider it merely as a place to picnic is doing it a disservice. it's far more than that. i urge you to support the lease management agreement and the non precedent fee. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello supervisors.

doesn't have to worry about medical bills, thanks to the benefits of healthy san francisco in emergency medical situations. these two examples illustrate in one hand the costly effects that the elimination of healthy san francisco can have in the pockets of rest ranted workers. on the other hand, healthy san francisco is an affordable option for our workers who work less than 30 hours per week at the city post minimum wage. i want to remind you that restaurant workers are the face of san francisco in the sense that we take pride in the services we provide to rez densest and tourists by means of entertainment and pleasure. i assure you that restaurant workers are happy with the benefits of the healthy san francisco program, we will make our economy a healthy one. >> i'm going to read a couple more names. (reading speaker names). next d >> supervisors, my name is connie ford and i'm one of the vice-president of the san francisco labor council, you can tell by the color of my hair that i've been around for a while, i know that san franciscans love good health care and health care for all o