city of san francisco. i am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. services administration did we know how hard your job is. we get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. >>[applause] >> good morning. i was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. i was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of san francisco about 4,000,000 ft.2 of office space and $1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 year-tenure 25 million capital plan. and compared to those numbers that's small. compared to the gsa. but, it's really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. it will be very helpful in that it's helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government

revenue for the city and in turn, other spending elsewhere in the city. again helping us with the city's ability to write this kind of services to our agencies and other agencies provide those services to small businesses and non-profits and others. again, think supervisor those are interlinked. but to that point, supervisors we'd been very specific very very specific and try to strengthen the connection between local businesses and large employers including technology companies. so, we see the one of our programs the business connect program were directly linking small manufacturers like granola and organic pastry company directly receiving contracts with technology companies in san francisco. that are doing local purchasing at small businesses. thank you >> supervisor peskin >> thank you chairman farrell. this may be a procedural question where is the city economist? >> he is not here today. >> okay. respectfully, to mr. rizzo and the chairman i totally appreciate having oewd here but it's not a substitute for the city economist. and i take exception to

the city. i will say it, i always call him jimmy, you can call him james, you can call him jim, but i always call him jimmy. jimmy is one of the best prepared police commissioners that this city has ever seen. his decades of experience have taught him not only how to lead and how to continue to improve the extraordinary work of the vision of neighborhood policing that is now taking hold as the philosophy of this department. he is the architect of our neighborhood policing strategy, a strategy that commissioner bratton and chief o'neil convinced me over the last few years would be the future of this city and was deserving of the extraordinary investment, the strategy that's going to make us safer, a strategy this is the man that created that neighborhood policing. he is the man who will see that vision through the good of all new yorkers. we will never forget or fail to honor the achievements of bill bratton. he and i have developed an intense bond over these last 31 months. and i am happy for t

in our city. and let's talk about the port of san francisco. what a vision. thank you so much for that. thank you so much because without a vision what can you do? thank you very much to kim who told me i have to do this, i appreciate that. we are on our way, this is a wonderful event but it has to go on and have to keep going and have to realize there will be challenges but we can over come everything. thank you and we got the goals, it is a win, win, situation. thank you. >> i also wanted to acknowledge supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen couldn't be here today but provided a proclamation for us just announcing how wonderful it is that our ships aribeing and economic opportunity will flow and that pier 80 will employ district 10 residents and be filled by workers of various skill levels and will enhance the economic opportunity of this place. supervisor cohen is with us in spirit and i just want to thank you everyone for coming out and celebrating with us, all the dignitaries. i want to thank por

. >>> a renter fights to keep city. >> in the past. the city said stlald to arrest him now. his actions may cause sweeping changes in how the city deals with rental properties. >> reporter: ernie de herrera took matters into his own hands and is stood up against the city. >> i will know a martyr for the cause. >> are you willing to go to jail? >> yes, i am. >> reporter: after a week of fighting city hall, ernie got the break he's been hoping for. >> i kind of got pleasure out of ernie, a civilian, going up against the city attorney and winning >> reporter: nathan and his group watched de herrera take a stand. the city served a warrant after he refused to allow inspectors wearing bullet-proof >> reporter: wednesday a judge is dismissed a contempt of court case against him after a judge learned the warrant was served 17 days after its deadline. a second warrant for an inspection was issued minutes later. >> i think they just had a vendetta against him and want to go into his house and search it and videotape it and win. >> reporter: at a city council meeting tuesday, some city

to leave her heart in the city and certainly make sure i do what i to make sure the city continues to be the great place it is, that is our own senator, senator diane feinstein. [applause] >> thank you very much mayor lee. [inaudible] my pal charlotte schultz, the one and only willie brown. the leader of the giants who has done so much to bring glory to san francisco. [applause] distinshuished speaker who is very unusual in that this is a woman in a very difficult and divided time. has been able to really constructively put together those programs which have been become law in our nation and that is nancy pelosi. [applause] obviously, i welcome the distinshuished person about whom this sculpture will be dedicated. i want to take you back to 1873. a man by the name of holiday, was standing below a hill when he watched a street car driven by 4 horses fall backwards off the hill. excuse me, 5 horses. they were all killed and he decided to look for something to replace those horse driven street cars. and of course, this was the system. well, it wasn't on and on and on , and it began to de

>>deputy city atty. rob kappla the ordinance has originally had applied any hosting platforms to provide these are booking services and collect a fee for these services it is meant solely upon those who perform and engage in the business activity and perform a business contactor of providing that service for us.>>so, for example all home away or air b and b or whatever they call them they will connect you to people and then the transaction to rent is done separately and would that be captured under we would have to look at the factual scenario.this >> i believe they have several sites to provide this service but if the arrangement is not being made under the particular site for collecting or booking a service thenit would not be collecting a fee for booking services that type of transaction. several companies have different types of services provided and when they offer the actual calendar or reservations and accept the fee for those services that business activity would be covered. we are regulating not

city. now donald trump pointing the finger at liberal policies. >> democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies, have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty. >> it's time to rebuild the inner cities of america and to reject the failed leadership of a rigged political system. >> is he right or wrong? i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto. charlie, jeweleny, along with gary and scott. dagen as you saw doing her usual great job hosting "bulls and bears" and adam working on the huge book. gary, are this administration's policies hurting inner citys? >> you know, charles, every day it's an opportunity for an administration to get into the inner cities and do something about it. i mean really do something, not just flapping your gums. over the last eight years, crime rates up, poverty rate is up and the most important part of the equation, child poverty rates are up and the family structure is down. that means children have no chance to get ahead. the

but in any event, has that impacted on the public of new york city? we're hoping to develop new lines of communication through our neighborhood-policing effort. so relationships sometimes are problematic. i have some interesting relationships with the city council that -- but despite that, i think i've done pretty well politically in that realm, also. >> well, you've done very well, many would say, in the city council and with politicians in general. we'll talk about that when we come back. will you stick around for another segment or two? >> more than happy to. >> all right, our conversation with the outgoing nypd commissioner, bill bratton, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold! ya! and hide it from the crew! ya...? squuuuack, they're all morons anyway! i never said that. they all smell bad too. no! you all smell wonderful! i smell bad! if you're a parrot, you repeat things. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. squuuuack,

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trees help to pull carbon out of the air and san francisco as a city we're a liveable city my appreciation to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and supervisor yee and others for thinking about the common interests of all the neighborhoods i think that friends of the urban forest have been at that over a year several years actually and pleased this is moving forward i would have appreciated the progressive parcel tax i'm looking forward to this commitment made by this probation officer body we find the funding for a thirty year problem our city has not addressed until in hits the ballot in november i want to say that would not have come forward without the activists and the friends of the urban forest keeping the light shining on how we are united and my hope in november to pass this measure and regrow our canopy and be a liveable city thanks to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and all of us for moving forward. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you supervisor president london breed i want to say thank you to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and supervisor yee particularly

they will inevitably involve discussions of the city's growth, where the city is going, how the city is growing as well has access to the transportation systems are and where that system evolves and grows. including issues of pedestrian safety housing affordability, traffic congestion that's all going to be encompassed in this subway and we have to address accurate as you'll hear in the presentations from the staff, we are-this is a transportation plan editor needs to be but happily informed by land use patterns and other cities growth in the next coming years. so, what you will hear is a presentation from reese espinosa and members of the staff or the mta about the components of this plan. as well as the land use productions we are prepared to kind of informed decisions about this plant can we look forward very much to hearing your comments and as you'll hear, we are ready and will be preparing in the fall for a more robust public outreach on this effort. so, with that i think will get into staff presentations. thank you. >> good morning commissioners could bury a espinosa with the

we mi >> well, good afternoon everyone welcome to our city hall i want to say thank you to members of our board of supervisors that are here today and thank you supervisor farrell, supervisor yee supervisor tang supervisor cowen thank you very much for being here to our department heads and the controller to our commissioners to many others who are serving the city gridlock here to do something that everyone looks forward to every single year and first of all, in the context just a few years ago we were all struggling with double digit unemployment a half a billion dollars to try to kind of gap the to finance that gap in the budget and talking about layoff off a lot of people i'm glad we all worked together to make the city stronger i'm happy to say it is my opinion but particularly finance people that having worked hard on the way we do our budgets and the way we conduct ourselves at city hall financing we're in the strongest finest position in the history of the city. >> (clapping.) >> yeah, that's worth clapping for. >> (clapping.) >> and so today, we're going to move on that progr

but i am new to the city family. this the government family but bit around the city for a while. so, the data question. a couple of things. one is part of this whole person care application, which was committed to the state that is can provide us some resources to work out some of these issues and try to figure out the create a band diagram, dph has a data set. we have a data set. there's some information in the middle were to be able to share. but it will be able to share more readily dph them dph will be able to share with us, but that's appropriate given people's rights to privacy and the medical records. but we will be able to know things like that somebody is at the hospital were that somebody is a patient. you will be able to know that somebody is homeless and where they are in the system, whether they're in a shelter, whether they're permanent supportive housing. there's a lot of details that need to be worked out but i know the city's chief data officer is actually working on the density making the entire city hippa compliant so data sharing becomes easier. but we are wor

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.) >> sandra has a great dilate called the fix it leader of the city thank you to supervisor president london breed for joining us this more than the leaders on board the board president and for the neighborhoods particularly the ones she represents they wants it fixed yesterday but i also want to say thank you to both the captains of taraval value and the park stations for being here as well our homelessness outreach teams part of fix it teams thank you. this is a difficult job you're helping to improve lives for everybody formatting we put together a new department to really be dedicated and focused on the outcomes for our people that on the streets i wanted to say thank you to rec and park the dpw, that i used to head and i know that they're happy because they always said we can't do it by ourselves we need the partners they got the partners the fix it teams as sandra will explain a coordinated multi department this has handles things from our health department and mental health person on the team that is part of outreach team their services were needed just this morning was we reme

to demand management goals to other goals of the city so the letter you got from livable city and walk sf a lot of advocacy groups working an vision zero this is a proxy for serial killer then this measure needs to not only reduce is auto trips but walking and cycling safely but get people to where they're going safely in order to get there we need important appraised in 4 main areas a fix if you build parking lot and that is somehow in the generating automobile trips i reader the staff report we can't reduce that we'll prevented imagine if you try to director climatic change we'll exempt coal and pretend that coal didn't exist you might have more pole consumption coal consumption if you allow a big loophole you'll get more and two won't be effective all the goals for tdm are calibrated to the average of the projects that are here you need to look at the capacity of streets to carry additional traffic if you're in a neighborhood that seize double the amount then by the ordinance the amount of traffic and auto trips in that neighborhood could double what neighborhood could you not doubl

city of san francisco. i am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. services administration did we know how hard your job is. we get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. >>[applause] >> good morning. i was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. i was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of san francisco about 4,000,000 ft.2 of office space and $1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 year-tenure 25 million capital plan. and compared to those numbers that's small. compared to the gsa. but, it's really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. it will be very helpful in that it's helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government

the city's future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco >> good morning and welcome to the board meeting of the treasure island mobility management my name is jane kim and chair of the committee and keith is our clerk i'd like to recognize mark and nona melkonian for broadcasting our meeting today mr. richie commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin absent commissioner tang commissioner lee commissioner yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you mr. clerk, call the next item. >> chair's report on information item. >> thank you this is our first meeting since january and i would like to recognize my committee members vice chair commissioner avalos and commissioner campos for serving with me on the timma committee there's been a ton of activity on the island and to see the infrastructure projects and mobility programs that the staff has led and coordinating it is incredibly exciting to see our transportation program ta

well, one big source of that solar energy is right in boulder city's backyard, the city created what it called the energy zone some time ago to lease land to solar companies. acre copper mountain solar facility. it has constructed hundreds of thousands of solar panels generating power for tens of thousands of homes and created hundreds of construction jobs not to mention thousands of jobs for solar related and solar serving industries, and, miss lagan, we have so much to get to today. it is all exciting and i remember you contacting me several years ago. when you first learned that copper mountain was coming to boulder city you were so excited to your town. and i remember saying, well, we will have to have you to d.c. sometime for a show on solar power one day, and here we are. here you are and have your predictions about its benefits for the state, are they coming true? >> i am so grateful to be here, and, yes, i'm so glad that several years ago it was just a concept. it was just something we talked about. to date, with all of the solar energy projects and some of the billion invest

is it the city's fault? is it their fault? carolina leid trying to get to the bottom all this. >> everything is blocked and in my basement. >> reporter: johnson says calling this a nightmare is an understatement. the stench of human fecal matter is enough to make anyone gag. >> high blood pressure and stress, that comes along with it because i can't see myself living in this filth. >> reporter: the sewer backup started saturday at johnson's home on isabella avenue in irvington. so just use your imagination. >> the scent is very high. when the heat is on there, the scent rises, it's like living in hell. >> reporter: johnson said she had four feet of water after hurricane irene, so just before superstorm sandy, the city took preventative measures by cleaning the system. she said that worked like a charm. >> if sandy was such a bad hurricane, especially in jersey, sewer system was clean, i had no water at all. >> reporter: now johnson is waiting for a private company to come in the morning but she believes the solution is on the

julie hayden is live at city hall with the new developments. >> about half an hour denver city council members will be voting on more than a suspended for aledmys conduct in this case. we reached at the city council members so but nobody is commenting and so far no explanation as to why taxpayers had to fork out more money over the scandal. allegations of widespread abuse, corruption and cover-up involving the denver sheriff, police and city to two years later city council members are poised tonight to pay another chunk, $660,000 to the city attorney at the heart of the controversy. >> the public never gets to hear what's really going on here. and says taxpayers deserve going into this machine to hide the truth. the lawsuit revealed e-mail and audiotapes. the city attorney handling the case intimidating and tampering with witnesses. and then, head city attorney suspended chaparro over the alleged misconduct. in an unexpected twist earlier this year and will now receive a $660,000 check and letter of apology from the city. >> somebody needs to get to the bottom of this. >> the city says

we are here for you, the people of this city. later as i became a precinct commander my horizons were broadened and fragile this relationship between law enforcement and community is. let me tell you, this is a shared effort and shared responsibility. our successes as a police department, as a society work only when we work together. with the help of every new yorker we will continue facilitating while we help. a small percentage of the population. this is something that we concentrate every day. we know who these people are and will continue to go right after them as we have done over the past 2 1/2 years in some of the largest take downs. we will continue follow up and will do all of this while keeping the city safe from ever changing threat of terror. it's a different world. you're already strategic response group and critical response command. those officers are among the best trained in the nation to respond to emerging threats including an active shooting situation. they work hand in hand with counter terrorism and intellig

the city hasn't had to on prague, brussels, and london. -- an been edge on cities edge on cities like craig, brussels, and london. 1968,er: rewind to may the height of the french social movement. the film could have been made in brussels, where salaries are four times less than in france. >> [speaking foreign language. --orter: instead, the winner the director of the award-winning film "the artist" has decided to film his next film in paris. >> terrorists have helped us gain authorization easy -- paris authorities have helped us gain authorization easy. we can work freely here. reporter: the french capital has a lot to offer, gorgeous and tax benefits. >> the budget for our film is around 11.5 million euros, and we get 2 million euros in tax benefits. it does not apply to movie star salaries, though. like paris, many european cities give financial aid to movie production. in the bid to remain competitive, france rolls out the red carpet to film crews. >> we want to boost on productions by staying in contact with authorities and on a daily basis. here, we are in a theater. a theater ca

the mob had absolute control over the city and the city government. the gambling establishments were segregated like everything else, but a lot of african-americans were employed by the mob in phoenix city. and even though the segregated the black establishments were white owned, they put african-americans in charge of running those clubs. i also wondered about political involvement of the mob and who were they supporting and what kinds of things. from -- i can't -- as far as i have been able to tell, they were for democratic party was running the county and running the state, but they were for anybody they could buy. and it really didn't matter who they were, what they were. hoyt shepard, the kingpin i mentioned, is the only one that i found any -- really just from oral histories. i don't have any documentation of this but that the only one that i have any indication was in the kan. and he made no secret about that. but people were more afraid of him because he was hoyt shepard the kingpin than because of his klan activities. and some of you may know

historic lays over like 240 years old this city. it is in between baltimore and washington. a place called howard county there. just devastating flooding. just unbelievable. you can't plea of you are watching whitewater rapids in a place that they ever gets that. thunderstorms in ocean county around stafford there, and barnegat right there along the garden state parkway, and very intense, with very heavy downpours, just this one little area. rest of the area doesn't have any thunderstorms but doesn't mean we won't get any. they could pop up anywhere. today's then are storms will be isolated in nature. we will get one very intense and 20 miles away nothing going on. that is possibility through 4:00 this morning we have a chance in the pocono mountains where they have having the rescheduled race today the one cancelled yesterday. possibility is really there anyway of pop up showers and thunderstorms even throughout the night tonight. lesser chance tomorrow but still unsettled until wednesday when high pressure can finally build in and

, more industrialized cities. and phoenix city, what is happening in phoenix city challenged ideas about the safety and the security of small town life, even as industry and big agribusiness took over as drivers of the national and regional economy. anxieties about that transition along with challenges to the national -- to the racial and sexual status quo that were magnified by the mob's activities were projected on to attitudes about the state's regulatory responsibilities, which they increasingly believed meant that they needed to define and punish criminal behavior. as phoenix city, along with the rest of the south, shifted away from an agricultural society to a more urban and industrial one, industrialized one, it embodied larger and increasingly fraught regional fluctuations and negotiations between citizens and the state. by the late 1940s, when the parents of cold war policymaking reshaped the ideas about safety and security in more global context, the citizens heightened responses to the presence of organ

trees help to pull carbon out of the air and san francisco as a city we're a liveable city my appreciation to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and supervisor yee and others for thinking about the common interests of all the neighborhoods i think that friends of the urban forest have been at that over a year several years actually and pleased this is moving forward i would have appreciated the progressive parcel tax i'm looking forward to this commitment made by this probation officer body we find the funding for a thirty year problem our city has not addressed until in hits the ballot in november i want to say that would not have come forward without the activists and the friends of the urban forest keeping the light shining on how we are united and my hope in november to pass this measure and regrow our canopy and be a liveable city thanks to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and all of us for moving forward. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you supervisor president london breed i want to say thank you to supervisor wiener and supervisor avalos and supervisor yee particularly

city attorney- mr. deputy city atty. >>if the project sponsor chooses outside of this appeal to make commitments to the city or the community, that is between the project sponsor and to ever the project sponsor is making those commitments to but this discussion should really focus on the adequacy of that. >>do you guys see a quickly jumped up there deputy city attorney john gibbut i was actually joking but we will talk to the neighborhood about that.the appellant's of the community really talked about needing more open space in the neighborhood can you tell us a little bit more about that in your project? >>sure we really connected that promenade that connects 16th st. and 17th st. and whereas the code requires that that pedestrian promenade be 20 feet wide we have made it 30 feet wide and so, we have voluntarily increase the amount of open space and we also mentioned previously that we will have a secure children's play area on site,again, we want to be a family-friendly project and we want the kids that are living ther

as city leaders are you willing to let the cultures part of city slip away i support the metals shed alternative i think you should as well. >> thank you >> next speaker, please. >> hi i'm sorry here on behalf of the peter i've lived in potrero hill since 197234 changes some for the better and some for the worst on the can company there was not much traffic to block and at mission and sierra street but the 53 has access to exist and the can companies is gone making room for more housing and more housing and missouri housing i grew up in manhattan that is a place in the country but in manhattan you could and still can get anywhere on the subway or bus it is unique san francisco sided a car culture of california where nearly everyone feels they have at right to park and drive anywhere we know now is not necessarily a good thing but that is a city lacking infrastructure i want to visit any granddaughters took two buses and two hours and get pretty close or drive any car and be there in 10 minutes on the other hand, if i need to get to south of market are downtown between 3 and 7 forget

beyond that, i care deeply about the city. i'm a proud third-generation san franciscan raising my family here. when i signed the lease at 1276 market reach out to supervisor kim's office to kind of get advice on the issues that plagued the neighborhood. at her suggestion for my walk the property with house and birth of sf safe as well as cmdr. teresa humans of the tenderloin command and learned a little more of the specifics about the problems that are on the block. at their recognition to secure the best lighting and security cameras, and the central market community benefit district. i recommended i use applied video solutions about which currently are being used by public safety for public safety by the sf mta union square and many others. also, the suggestion of capt. humans i form the midmarket public safety group. this group consists of residents of small businesses that are working collectively to affect change down there. in these meetings we come up with some tangible solutions to improve the conditions. these include

citywide investment building a seismically resident system one of the later projects undertaken by a city agency that agreement within the sf puc and labor unions will help us make sure those projects are delivered on time and on budget project deliver agreements with not uncommon for large projects what exists us the unique nature of that agreement and that about allow to focus economic benefits on community and workers that need it most and will help us cultivate and train the future workforce in the city and county and insures that - >> yes. >> (clapping.) >> - my bad; right? it insures the contractors pate prevailing wage and finally it insures a steady supply of skilled union workers for the projects jobs are training and prevailing wages and benefits that's why we're excited to be here today, this is a historic event is possible through the agencies partnering with the building and construction counsel i shout out to the secretary treasurer >> (clapping.) >> also to larry who is in conference couldn't be here for his leadership and commitment to all the folks and harlan kelly our ge

that was pretty well received by other folks who are there representing other cities. thank you. >> think. commissioner mar >> i just one at supervisor avalos that's down as one of the key leaders of local progress which is sponsored by center for popular democracy,, but it's progressive city council leaders from around the country and i think there's a lot of tremendous accolades for his leadership at the national level could also, his using of san francisco in the bay area region as a model for other city councils to look at for model legislation am i think for the transportation justice and equity activists and leaders and city council people, they really were focused on a lot of our whole region in the bay area appreciative of all the stories but also examples of legislation we shared. there was a national people's convention as well with grassroots and community-based organizations and we had a number of different receptions but also marches and dealing with the issues of transportation justice to displacement and other issues going on in pittsburgh and around the

billy grappling with the city and not just the city says city of office workers but a city of industrial businesses and other nonprofits and other activities make it real whole diverse economic workplace. so a lot of these digitally eastern neighborhoods and southeastern neighborhoods really where the rubber meets the road on these policy questions about how we not just accommodate both in terms of housing but as well as how we accommodate our economic activities. billy, the fourth and final thing is on the present everybody's minds today locally statewide maybe not as much national but the regional housing crisis. in the bay area. the neighborhood is. it's not a citywide crisis really a regional one. billy, for the first time since the 1970s is really the state to talk about housing policy. i say the late 70s purse issues like rent control, ellis act, and all these issues did not until recently has there been any action even discussion on existed believe san francisco we as you see we been doing this plan on neighborhood by neighborhood basis. how should this neighborhood grow? that we

we find that cities really do both. those are successful cities. they do both in terms of sequencing are doing them together. that matters. who does these things? when we talk to our clients, and a lot of our clients happen to be mayors of cities or governments or states. the policy space that is available to them is limited. they cannot control trade or customs or national level issues that might matter. at the world bank, we encourage -- too the more october be more opportunistic about the city went. it is about what falls within the administrative agreement of the man himself. it involves external partnerships with neighboring jurisdictions where the national government. ist is really important growth coalitions. bringing in stakeholders in the private sector and other actors in the community to build a growth coalition around a shared strategy or vision be many give you an example closer to home. -- strategy or vision. let me give you an example closer to home. in south america, a city in columbia. it was a city that had an economy mainly domin

but i am new to the city family. this the government family but bit around the city for a while. so, the data question. a couple of things. one is part of this whole person care application, which was committed to the state that is can provide us some resources to work out some of these issues and try to figure out the create a band diagram, dph has a data set. we have a data set. there's some information in the middle were to be able to share. but it will be able to share more readily dph them dph will be able to share with us, but that's appropriate given people's rights to privacy and the medical records. but we will be able to know things like that somebody is at the hospital were that somebody is a patient. you will be able to know that somebody is homeless and where they are in the system, whether they're in a shelter, whether they're permanent supportive housing. there's a lot of details that need to be worked out but i know the city's chief data officer is actually working on the density making the entire city hippa compliant so data sharing becomes easier. but we are wor

of the city. heather o'rourke with a look at your commute. have flashing lights. there is going to be this on going detour. hopefully lifting it shortly. northbound side traffic detoured 61st street and southbound detoured 96 street. this section is closed down for now. divert you to first, second, york, 4 and 5 trains track work should be cleared away. alternate side of the street for today city wide. >>> nypd investigating after officers helped a man propose to his girlfriend. they pulled the man's car over, and accused the man and his girlfriend of transporting weapons and drug in a car. when the girlfriend opened the trunk, balloons came pouring out and he got down on one knee. that's different, right? >>> we are following breaking news in brooklyn, police on the hunt far driver after that crash that left two people dead. live with details on the car that police are looking for this morning. >>> several trucks were torched and police are searching for an arsonist who left a local community on

on the city's most famous crowd does it get? >> super disgustingly crowded. >> reporter: sarah of park slope said a surge of cyclists and tourists has jammed up her daily walk across the brooklyn bridge. >> usually i'm getting slapped in the face by tourists using selfie sticks. >> reporter: many blame the bikes which whiz by within inches of people's arm and legs. >> i think they come down here too fast sometimes. it's not necessary. this is a pedestrian walk. >> there's a lot of anecdotal ne crowded. i don't think anyone would deny otherwise. >> reporter: transportation commissioner polly trottenberg announced a seven-month pilot study to see if the city could widen the 17-foot bridge path on the 133-year-old bridge, or potentially build a new walking deck above the vehicle traffic. >> a bit crowded. >> reporter: engineer daniel sharp said it's doable -- >> anything's possible. comes to money. how much money they want to

attorney john gibner, deputy city attorney. >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. yesterday dhr met and confederacy with the poa about the charter amendment and the poa asked for clarification clarifications about the intent of section the types of complaints from individual members of the public that the public advocate will have authority to investigate and we clarified that it is the not the intent felt board this the public advocate will be investigating allegations of individual police misconduct that police officers scooted of misconduct will be investigated twice once by the poa and we asked to clarify our intent before the vote today. >> okay. just for clarity mr. gibner we don't have to amend anything for the public advocates and the police accountability. >> just a public statement expressing what the language of this ballot measure means don't safety net to make any amendments to clarify. >> okay. great with that, colleagues madam clerk on item number one can you please call the roll. >> commissioner kim h supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor peskin

sweeping towards the city. berks, chester and montgomery counties all under a severe thunderstorm warning until 5:15. meteorologist kathy orr will have more on that in just a moment. >> we begin with pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane preparing to step down. this is just one day after a jury found her guilty of perjury obstruction and official oppression. >> good evening i'm lucy noland. >> iain page. all major down fall for the state's first female attorney general who is now accused of of abusing her power to get back at a rifle. fox 29s jeff cole is live in harrisburg tonight following all the fallout. jeff? >> reporter: iain she's not just the first female attorney general first democrat attorney general. we've had historic 24 hours. not only was she convicted last night on all counts including important perjury counts but by early this afternoon kathleen kane quit. so why are we in harrisburg? kane isn't here. i think she's in scranton. we're here because her first deputy bruce castor who will tak

that is something which we want to do in the city wants to do. can you tell us the amount that is being set aside of these tax increment for affordable housing? 17.5%. can you tell us how we have arrived at that 17.5%? >>> that figure was stipulated in the financing plan. that figure comes to us from the 2011 dda and financing plan. that was the figure that was settled upon when we moved from redevelopment public financing to the our ird or ifd public financing model. as we discussed previously, because of particularly in escalation and construction prices, and the loss of some revenue streams, we do have a significant gap in the affordable housing financing. we have completed an update of the fiscal analysis that was done, which looks at the total general fund revenues flowing to the project and the additional general fund obligation but that that the city will incur because they will be higher level of police and fire staffing on the island and so forth. there are other revenues that are currently going to flow from the project area to the city

and in cities, we figure this stuff out. you cannot divide the world in a city into us or them. we have to act like a family, the same way we do around the dinner table. no matter how much you argue over dinner, tomorrow you are coming bacyou have to find solud together. jessica: great stuff. thank you. we appreciate it. announcer: still ahead, he is in charge. what is this millennial doing to tackle his town's oldest problems? plus, need a lift? who's going to pick you up? what if no one does! and they're winning in rio. but what's ahead for athletes at ? ? the ford freedom sales event is on! our biggest event of the year just got better! ? ? announcing zero for seventy-two across the entire lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. plus, tagged vehicles now get a thousand smart bonus. that's freedom from interest... and freedom to choose with ford. america's best selling brand. ? ? now get 0% financing for 72 months across the entire ford lineup, jessica: welcome back. now, to a mayor who is making history. at 19, brandon paulin became the youngest mayor ever elected in the state

agreement between city and bay bridge for excess of 10 years and city and pacific bell for excess of 10 year contract and with respect to agreements waibing requirements of the administrative code prohibiting automatic provisions and contract. >> supervisor kim, absent. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor peskin, aye. supervisor tang, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor yee, absent. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor breed, aye. supervisor campos, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. there are 8 ayes. >> this passes on the first reading. madam clerk can we go back to item number- >> yes, just for clarification- >> let's go to general public comment. >> item 5 will be sent to the august 2 regular board meeting. >> thank you. and we will be taking general public comment, so specifically if you like to comment on the items for adoption without reference to committee including item 4 from the 8:30 meeting and item 7 from the 8:40 meeting. this is a time to comment during general public comment. mr. gillbirty, this is general public comment so you are welcome to come forward. >> thank you t is a l