Good morning and welcome to mornings on 2. It is so it is a sober morning on this sunday, september 11th, im claudine wong. Im Frank Somerville frank malacott. About 15 minutes ago this was the moment of silence held in new york. We showed that to you at the top of the show. This was the moment of silence held when the first plane hit the north tower. And the ceremony reading of the names started earlier this morning. An honor guard made up of people representing the new York City Fire department, the police and other Emergency Response agencies all participating this morning. And heres some video of another moment of silence. This was held at 9 03 eastern time, about an hour ago our time, when the second plane struck the south tower of the World Trade Center. There is president obama as well. This is going to be a morning, you know, 15 years, we take this moment to just have this remembrance, to have this moment. We have talked to viewers and folks who have been asked, are we doing en
Younger or older. Also, i am introducing an important Water Conservation measure today with the puc. The current drought highlights the need for Even Stronger Water Conservation efforts in our city and also region wide and thats why these two resolutions im introducing mark an important moment in San Francisco where we began groundwater supply project that will help expand and diversify our water supply and increase reliability for our water system. The first adopts ceqa findings for the project and the second approves the construction of a first project facility in Golden Gate Park which will create six deep groundwater wells and the Treatment Facilities on the west side. Although the project has been in the works for sometime now, it is especially timely to break ground now as california continues to experience one of the most extreme droughts on record. Also, the groundwater from these sick wells would be mixed with our hetch hetchy water in two reservoirs and when this project is c
Chiu. We found that there have been issues when were trying to address the issue of vacancies when there are buildings where there are commercial spaces below and residential spaces above. So, weve been working very hard with dbi and stakeholders to make sure that we address this in our current existing ordinance and so, i do want to thank the stakeholders and look forward to working with our city departments to ensure that we cannot only better track these vacancies, but also provide them these businesses or Property Owners with better city resources to help them either for vacancies or attract new businesses to their commercial corridors. So, with that, i submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor tang. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. I have a request, a hearing request that follows up on a motion adopted by our very own youth commission, and it will focus on the citys efforts to address the needs of young people with incarcerated parents. In 2011, a dcyf Needs Assessment found
Supervisor tang, thank you for waiting. Thank you. Ill be very quick. Today im introducing a piece of legislation that really seeks to address the issue of commercial vacancies here in San Francisco and it really builds upon the work of the vacant abandoned building ordinance that is currently in existence that was passed by this board in 2009 by introduced by supervisor david chiu. We found that there have been issues when were trying to address the issue of vacancies when there are buildings where there are commercial spaces below and residential spaces above. So, weve been working very hard with dbi and stakeholders to make sure that we address this in our current existing ordinance and so, i do want to thank the stakeholders and look forward to working with our city departments to ensure that we cannot only better track these vacancies, but also provide them these businesses or Property Owners with better city resources to help them either for vacancies or attract new businesses to
The details for the Draft Program for the next two 2 fiscal years. I will start. At this time the city is expecting a general Fund Shortfall of just over 100 million in fiscal year 1415 and over 118 million in fiscal year 1516. These projection are much lower and much lower during what was issued in the last budget project. The Economic Outlook has improved over the past year. Many uncertainties still do exist in these numbers such as the economic uncertainty, the results of this citys Union Labor Negotiations as well as continued cost in increases in employee fringe benefits. As for the budget instructions for our department is to reduce general fund support by 1. Percent in fiscal year 1415. To 40,000 and by 1 percent which equates to 67,000 for 1516. We dont receive much general support from the general fund. There is an additional one 1 percent contingency reduction in fiscal year 1516 and instructions by the mayor department is reveal of departmental fees and well be submitting a