city into the right direction. thank you very much. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, and i want to thank c.y.c. and sarah wong for all of her advocacy. thank you to the s.f. parent coalition for rising up and doing what's necessary to not only support your children but to support all children in san francisco, and thank you to katie albright for being with us today from safe and sound. we have a sector of people who truly love and support kids in san francisco, and i'm very positionate about supporting kids because i was probably one of the most problematic kids growing up. again, had it not been for the support of those places that i had to go as a kid, and teachers and all those things that i was exposed to, i just don't know where i would be. the people that i grew up with ended up, unfortunately, in many instances, in the criminal justice system, they ended up dead, and they ended up on drugs, and i still see some of those people today in various places, and somewhere along the way, we failed the

pipes to the city's household. ah outs, blogs, water management system served as a model across europe in 2021. more of the once mighty roman empires frontier was added to the unesco world heritage list. ah, the western segment runs along the danube from the bavarian city of vegans book to bulgaria. mm. mm. another 2021 newcomer is listed as the great spot towns of europe. ah, it comprises 11 spas located in 7 countries, including 3 in germany, bought kissing and bought ems and bowden, bowden, blue. they are all considered excellent examples of 18th century spawn culture, which include not only bads and wellness facilities, but also casinos and hotels. ah, ah. the artists colony on the matter in her, in darmstadt, has also been recognized for its cultural value once one of the most important centers of modern art and architecture in europe and the world. it was established in 1897 by grand duke, and to ludovic. and meant to drive the local economy through a combination of art and trade. on the matter in her grounds

the city workers. this pandemic has just had a horrible hardship on city government. i applaud you guys to try to work in these horrible conditions, but the group that is impacted most are these people who were hired before 1996. these people -- now, i know these dates are set for the schedule to get a charter amendment on, but they are unreasonable because city government can't function, so we are hoping that we could get an extension, a continuance from the board to carry this over to the february 15th meeting. this is an emergency. these people are dying at a rate of 50 a month. if we have to wait till november, another 200 will die. i was inspired when i saw a poster at the station of supervisor peskin with his arm around an elderly senior, asking for the public to report elder abuse, this is reporting elder abuse. when these people are dying at a rate of six a month, something can be done to expedite this. the cost comes from the retirement system. they make, in april or may of this year, they mad

who made the call? the mayor? the city council? the city council and the mayor. young, creative people like sinisa are doing their own thing, navigating the city's somewhat inadequate planning. the denial art gallery, for example, invited artists to paint murals in an alleyway, hoping to give a new life to a derelict place. and hey! now, it's covered with works by artists from around the world. business owners here have even made their own tv ad to attract young professionals to the city. we're doing basically guerilla branding for the city. we're just kind of seeing what is here and what it can be and unapologetically going for it. we're at a definite crossroads right now and i think it's really important that the next generation, that we don't test their patience and that we give them this sort of platform to test these ideas and go forward. just a few kilometers from the city center, the neighborhood of ford city is experiencing an unexpected renaissance. this once industrial district was established by the ford motor company in the early 1900s. it thrived for

cities of the future. ah, the time to build green spaces is now the time to use sticks knology to foster environmental sustainability is now the time to act on moving away from fossil fuels is now i hope this episode has given you some perspective on how environmental sustainability in cities is possible and already under way, i'll see you again next week with many more such thought provoking stories until then. goodbye, and thanks for watching the news. news . news. ah ah, with who i am the battle against cove, with the oma calling variant is putting healthcare systems around the world to the test vaccination campaigns are accelerating while restrictions are intensifying once again. but are these measures enough to stop the spread of omicron fax data and reports? you know, weekly coping 19 special every thursday on d, w. p is a master of the art of confrontation. this is wrong. a veteran of verbal combat. i mean, you're gonna, we, we are twice the undisputed champion of tough political talk. you trying to

i'm a mayor of the cities. we need to not meddle with those that get by and protect all of those who are weaker . i know identities, senior citizens. people with disabilities. that's our mission, the mission of democracy. >> mister chairman i'm going to finish. this has been an inspiring hearing. i'm so grateful to our witnesses and mayors and i look forward to continuing this conversation to advance democracy in europe and i'm sure that continuation will be as strong as possible for democracies. >> i couldn't agree more with the tenor and the remarks and significance of our witnesses testimony. how inspiring that is. our next member is a former mayor and a person who has a leadership role in our national association. and now he's a congressman and he's recognized so it's one of your colleagues recognized for five minutes. >> thank you mister chairman and thank you for thishearing . thank you to these extraordinary mayors for being here. i'm not at all surprised that mayors are going to save democracy around th

the creative energy in the city is so important. i remember, back in the day, i played in a band called suicidal tendencies, and we weren't allowed to play in l.a. for seven years because there was some violence there or whatever. and san francisco took us in and actually became our second family, and i know this also happened with a lot of the skate board community because they were also part of our tribe when i was a part of suicidal tendencies. so the skate boarders from san francisco would stay with the skate boarders from l.a. and vice versa, and in my mind, there's always been a connection. there's the outlaws, the creative types, this connection. and when i joined metallica, it was a perfect fit. the mindset, the level of creativity, everything about it, and it's just almost 20 years ago for me. i'm happy to sit here with lars and celebrate this moment with you all. thank you for having me. [applause] >> are we going to take questions? >> sure. just not from that guy. [indiscernible] so i work a lot with local musicians, and

the city. i definitely think that a full forest is an effective solution for the city because it's all, you know, creating an ecosystem by itself. adding, adding a lot of value to the green gobble, it's going to benefit a lot of fall bonds and people a sudden pencil livelihood, depending on them. the food was well conceived by georgia may deals, and his nonprofit organization turning died. he decided to take action at 6 years ago after his mother developed respiratory problems from the poor. quality trees was something that i was attracted to as a solution to try and fight back the feeling a quality and i decided on the food for us concept. mainly because a food forest is based on a natural living ecosystem. although it takes a few years to establish, we regenerate the soil, we lea, generally the landscape. there are various ideal locations for a small pool of water in the middle of the oven jungle, from open spaces on the grounds of school, and often ages 2 strips of land between apartment blo

issues in the city. as said, coming into my tenure almost three years ago, i focused on equity and inclusion because what i knew in my city is that there were too many people that had been left behind. chicago is a great prosperous city but not all of our communities and people were benefiting from the economic prosperity that we had achieved so i put equity and inclusion as the key northstar for my administration which means as we think about coming out and addressing the economic meltdowns that are followed, we have to make sure the recovers are inclusive. chicago had a decades long history, economic policies that were made along racial divides which manifests itself in the present day challenges of violence and poverty and many of the issues and challenges that we see in the city of the answer to it is poverty and the solution, the long-term solution is investment and people and strategies. there's no doubt that you've all heard about the challenges that we've had over c the last few years in particul

both are in the city. the main map here on the far left shows in green the location of all of the new wells that the p.u.c. has installed in cord nation with our partner agencies as part of this program. as i mentioned. the recovery project agreement involves partner agencies, sanbruno and daly city to help us during dry years. during normal and wet years we provide additional water for storage in the basin. we have availability to access that during dry years. the two wells were constructed in daily city. these produce 400 gals per minute. those will be connected to the west pump station. daly city will treat the water at the west lake pump station. this license agreement would allow daly city access to two wells, to operate during recovery or dry year period and maintain the wells during regular periods. that is it for my presentation. i will take any questions you might have. >> good morning. we did not report on this item. >> chair haney: any questions or comments? supervisor mar. you are on mute. >> s

we have very common needs, whether we live in the city of taft or the city of arvin or the state or california or anywhere else. how many people here have family members that have been involved in the industry for a while? just about everybody. woman: they don't focus on the bigger picture behind the oil, and there may be incidents where there's spills or fires, but that's not our goal. we're more focused on the pros than the cons. man: there's always gonna be trade-offs, but oil is one of the most widely used fuels that we have out there, and it's really efficient forur community and everywhere around the world that uses it. noerr: that's the reality of it. that is a fact. quality of life is important to all of us, and ignorance is not an evil thing. ignorance just means people haven't been exposed to the facts. that's what dialogue is all about. it's not about throwing rocks or casting persions upon one's credibility. it's about a sharing of realities. oil will be a critical part of our quality of life for long after i'm dead and long after my children will be dead. we will find more of it,

the city. so i'm so lucky to be able to work with each and every one of you. and i think a lot of you know from my work in the city, small business has been a huge passion of mine and trying to give businesses more flexibility. so if you can make more changes if you needed to without having to go through an owner's process or removing fees. we did permanently wave the awning fee so every year in may, you know this is coming up, you don't need to pay for it. you can replace your awning without a permit fee. you know, we have also tried to shave down the amount of time that a business has to go through which is a lot of times for businesses already in our planning code are permitted. it's a permitted use, so why do you have to go through all these different hurdles still. and so i fully recognize that even though i come from a policy making background that a lot of the solutions that we're going to be implementing are not policy based and in fact probably best not to be policy based sometimes and

some of us live in the city. some of us live outside the city, i guess. [bell ringing] >> your time has expired. >> madame secretary, one more caller in the queue. next caller, go ahead. >> all i want to say is that in order to address this drastic change, there are many entities from restaurants that need to be consulted, but most importantly, we do have a department of the environment, but we want a realtime empirical data on green gases. i must understand that one -- of gas contains 22 tons carbon monoxide. in close proximity. we also want to know how much of the -- construction aggregate and concrete? that's about climate change. when it comes to replacing our gas pipes, we just have to study the department of building inspection. there have been very, very slow. they have been very, very slow. and if money doesn't buy that, if we have contractors who can do quality work. so -- [bell ringing] -- i am for eliminating -- >> your time has expired. >> thank you, caller. madame secretary, another caller has joined the queue. next caller, go ahead. you have

for many, this mega city is the embodiment of the indian dream. ah, moon, by india's economic and financial center. over 20000000 people live here. traffic dams sometimes stretching 4 kilometers, spring city light to a standstill. millions commute by train every day. however, the city's railway system only has 4 lines. during the rush hour stations become very crowded with the platforms are filled well beyond capacity mostly with mail, passengers. as the train every morning vin, it, a young accountant spends 90 minutes commuting is here in a minute. i you need to elbow your way through just to get on the train. with empty seats are hard to come by. it's very exhausting. every day you have to find a way through the crown because sometimes you can't even get to the toes. sama pushing in others and pushing their way out. sometimes i have to like 2 or 3 trainings go by for the fans are not powerful enough. it's almost 45 degrees inside. but despite the crowding, these insurance clerks, lawyers and bankers are in a good mood. a we're enjoying every day

of the city of her. it's a meaty relaunch decal. gauge to measure or estimate rainfall or other forms of precipitation in a given area. funny ego or album need are flux oper, donaldson yet. and the way it works is it emits a signal that interacts with the precipitation and then relate back to the radar. on done, we don't follow that from radar. this data allows you leon hoffman to make a precise prediction about which areas will be most affected. not cancer come on and you can see it very clearly when you look at the simulation and evaluate it. this is rosetta secondly, the water flows along the street and goes around ben's when t on the finish. i know is, here is a small traffic island which is factored in, which 6 or the water flows along it, and then reaches a local low point on. so now look on teeth. this is the vest, bonham station and underpants that was flooded in 2018 and rendered inaccessible. mab, fabiola such an early warning system could be hugely beneficial in countries like india, where ext

area of the city. novak djokovic prepares for a court hearing, arguing that he has a vaccine exemption to enter australia, after having covid last month. the entire population of the chinese city of tianjin — 1a million people — are tested after the latest covid outbreak, weeks before the winter olympics. morrisons becomes the first supermarket to scrap �*use by�* dates on its milk — encouraging consumers to reduce waste by using the �*sniff test�* instead an afghan baby separated from his parents in kabul during the chaos of the us withdrawal — is reunited with relatives. and it's one of hollywood's biggest nights — but this year's golden globes ceremony will be held without a—list stars or tv coverage. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. starting off with some news that has been developing in new york and we will hopefully be showing you some life for girls of something we have been seeing. life for girls of something we have been seeing-— been se

the city shaped an annotated the urban experience and was shaped by it. so there's no one way to understand the growth of cities in the early republic their significance comes in many different forms from the stories of men and women who found ways to make a living in the new streets and new buildings of the early national period to the architectural and archaeological evidence that tells us about how these places grew and functioned. so we know that cities were places of social economic and architectural change. and i hope that as you go forth and we talk more about this in future semesters and classes that we understand that at the intersection of people places and things we can find a way to tell this story. thanks guys. join us next weekend for more lectures and history with american university professor joseph campbell who teaches a class about the 1972 watergate scandal and what he calls the myth of heroic journalism. weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast every saturday american history tv documents america's story and on sundays book tv br

, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. however, commissioners are participating remotely at the same extent as if they were present in person. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001. the access code is 2488 829 7758. when you hear the agenda item you would like to comment on called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. you will be lined up in the order you dialled star 3. the system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. all callers remain on mute until their line is open. everyone must account for the time delays between live coverage and streaming. you may submit public comment by e-mailing the commission. if you submit via e-mail, it will be included in the legislative file. and written comment may also be mailed in. please note this commission meeting is recorded and will be available on sfgtv.org. item 2, president's report. >> let me be brief. i w

the city. this pillar reminds us that before the fall of communism life, the used to be gray, rundown at many houses were derelict. that's hard to imagine. to date, one men who witnessed and accompanied this transformation is i like home life, a concert reader you mustn't. what lights it like before in 1989, especially the inner city area. what did that do to people as a one was his love. you can imagine the leipzig of the 1980s as a city that had fallen into the depths of despair give after 20 to 30 years of hardly any renovation. many of the buildings were in a desolate state. and that effect that the people don't want the so you're picked off people who had close links to leipzig for many centuries. so it was painful for them to see the city center, in particular, to case so badly, and open would mazda for few. and in my opinion, this per condition of life 6 buildings was an important factor in triggering the 1st protests in the autumn of 1989 that eventually led to the peaceful revolution.

turning point in city planning with the warden. c. as one of europe's largest ecosystems, an area of 11500 square kilometers, connects germany, denmark, and the netherlands. ah, this world natural heritage site is a unique habitat for around 10000 different species of plants and wild life. lu. the ancient beach forests of germany were named the unesco world natural heritage site in 2011. ah, they present a fascinating picture of the regional european landscapes. ah, due to their remarkable adaptability beach trees spread out across the continent. in germany, there are just a few on touched beach forests. left. 5 areas in germany are part of this cross border world heritage site called primeval beach, forests of the carpet, the ins and other european regions. blue. the next destination for our drone is the fall goose factory and other fed. this shoe last factory was built in 1911 and is widely regarded as a model for 20th century industrial architecture. it was designed by, by the gold bias who would go on to become a star architect

the first thing this morning, they filed a 23 page lawsuit. the message to the city? we will see you in court. >> we did it immediately, because we want to make it very clear that there are ramifications to passing america's most insane gun control. >> reporter: deadly brown, with the national association for gun rights is spearheading the lawsuit which claims the city has no right to charge a $25 fee because it is a tax on the second amendment right. >> supreme court ruled that the power to tax is the power to destroy a given activity, and that is why the courts are highly skeptical of taxes on constitutional rights. >> reporter: greg woods is a professor of criminology at san jose state. >> the tax will definitely demand criticism. ultimately, the court will probably conclude that the city of san jose is within its power in this particular measure. >> that is $25 fee will be collected by a nonprofit to be distributed to other nonprofits, to do work with suicide prevention, domestic violence, and firearms training. >> this ordinance says the city of san jose is not g

and we do have people go out and inspect the bridges, as you know, the city of pittsburgh is the city of bridges. we have a lot of them. and they're routinely inspected. if there was any warning or concern, we would have been notified and would have made sure we debidn't use this route we would have come up with an alternate route. this caught everybody by surprise this morning. >> we did hear from our reporter jean casarez that there is still an effort under way to make sure there's no one else in danger. the possibility that someone might have been walking under the bridge on one of those paths as this happened. do you have any update on that, sir? >> we've called in our regional resources, pennsylvania urban search and rescue strike team one, and they're going to come in with their search specialists. we're going to drill some holes into the bridge deck and use our search cams to check just to make sure everyone's accounted for. >> in terms of moving forward, obviously, this being such a vital artery for the city and traffic there, it will take a long time to rebuild. what does tha

travel into the city. the task is, according to the chasm government, which requested help from the peacekeepers. their job is to seize vital strategic infrastructure in the city, which includes a higher loading, a military higher learning facility education facility. and that is where we are on our way to. fortunately, the journey was uneventful. show no signs of violence. all the mobs that stock the city were generally very few people out in the street, simply know where to go. most businesses i shut. shops have been looted and people are fearful of unnecessary travel. while peacekeepers have been authorized to use their weapons in self defense, multiple official to come out and said that peacekeepers won't be out there. quote, restoring order their duty will be primarily to god various sites which will free up cassock troops to restore order in troubled areas. a ah, one of the locations that see su peacekeepers help secure and guard 1st is the airport. i'll muddy 1st of all because it was the request of

failure of the city to approve the housing element by complying with the state would cost the city tolose funding and lose out on local land use a variety . so i believe these are some things that must betaken into consideration when deciding about the charter amendment . >> anyone else for public comment? >> we have one more, we are doublechecking . we have to more. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is megan wilson. on behalf of our organization we strongly urge you to oppose the proposed charter amendment. this amendment will disempower historically marginalized communities, bipoc immigrants, low income and no income residents and seniors like myself withdisabilities to determine our future . firefighters, nurses, teachers and nonprofit workers do not make 140 percent of area median in hundredthousand per year and 186,000 for a family of four . the one bedroom apartment is 3700 among. honestly, who can afford that weston mark it's a slap in the face to essential workers who have labored tirelessly over the past two years to keep san francisco operating. we urge you to reject this c

not only in the city, but across the entire globe. this painful moment can turn into a purposeful moment as we send the right message of something simple as closing the door. amy: housing activists say the real responsibility for saving lives lies with city agencies like housing preservation and development or hpd that failed to enforce building safety codes. democracy now! spoke with the director of community action for safe apartments, pablo estupiÑan, on tuesday. as a organizer the last eight years and working with tenants of countless buildings who have all experienced these issues as well as being harassed, living without gas, have to say i am shocked and astonished the city leadership would blame tenants, that they wod say closing the doors is enoughnd people should not have had space heaters. that kind of response neglects any responsibility or accountability on city agencies ke hpd or dertment of buildings and their lack of code enforcement. our experience is tenants will go in buildings with these conditions, lack of heat fo

particularly in districts in the city and neighborhoods in the city with overcrowded living conditions. so my question to dph is will you still be allotting beds for people residing in overcrowded conditions particularly like those living in sro housing and other forms of overcrowded housing and how do you plan to deal with that dr. colfax and/or anyone on your team? >> yeah. and just to emphasize, i think the omicron variant is going to be around for the foreseeable future and the most important interventions we need to do is to ensure that everything in crowded conditions is up to date on their vaccinations and as dr. baba just emphasized is that people themselves are at high risk, or are exposed, if they are at high risk and exposed or if and vulnerable to the worst outcomes from covid that we will do everything we can to make beds available. i think during this latest surge, one of the key factors was we need today make sure there was hospital capacity across the city and many of those isolation beds were being used for people we really didn't, we couldn't have stay in the hospital

the rules set by city council. >> the city's planning department conducted the survey, and they found that over 93% opposed digital billboards going up around town. >> reporter: residents like jason have been pushing back for years. the city and the county worked for years as great partners in the fight against light pollution. he is hoping to take another look. >> the city council and the airport commission is needed to consider the wider picture here , and hopefully public opinion will lead it. as i said before, the needs of the observatory fall in line behind the majority public opinion. >> reporter: this debate will go back before the airport commission next wednesday evening. we are here at the lick observatory on mount hamilton. wilson walker, kpix 5. >>> pg&e is days away from ending if i think your felony probation over the deadly san bruno explosion. but today, a federal judge ripped into the utility using especially strong words. he said pg&e has gone on a crime spree, and will emerge from probation as, quote, a continuing menace to california. in an eight page report, the u

this provides 10% revenue share as part of the rent to the city. it allows the club to designate an annual fundraiser which is city revenue share would decrease to 4%. this waives market rate that is required. this is reasonable because this is partially open to the public on those three days a week for day pass for nonmembers. that is generally open to the public and not invite only as it is for some other similar club in the city. this lease is consistent. terms are consistent with the lease approved for southeast rowing club in 2019 by the board of supervisors. for that reason we recommend approval. happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. public comment, please. >> clerk: operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. if you wish to comment press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. if you are on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. that will be yourque to comment. first speaker, please. >> this is dianeual ton speaking. our president is also on the line. i will go first because my line got

most of the city's plastic waste gets sorted in the slum. now you got the body to ravi is actually i bet lots of people live here and run businesses. they raise their kids and take care of their families. it's difficult for businesses to pay taxes. still people manage to get by my hash earns the equivalent of 500 euros a month. that's pretty average and mom buy, but it's around 10 times as much as in the rest of india. he lives with his parents and this 5 square meter home by now you tough living conditions, but it's fine for mahash. i did it at the hydro building. we have really changed this neighborhood for the baton. we used to have wooden walls here. now we have real breaks. no, no, like we took out loans to build this house. we have water, electricity funding, everything we need to go to put her lou mahash and his family own this entire building. they go up to the 2nd floor with a ladder and a rope. ah, ah. oh amy, they had a finished flow, is also a part of my building. i rent it out and as long as people walk, they live here and pay u

we met with folks in the city, the d.p.w. and the administrator's office to talk about the needs for an a.d.a. coordinator in the new agency. we have some concerns that as the new agency begins to take jurisdiction and starts to handle complaints, we're concerned that there will be a transition period where it's not clear who handles which one. we're worried that will slow down the process of getting to resolutions. it's clear who's responsible for what. the other issue that hasn't been brought up here, we were happy to see somebody from bureau of urban forestry here. the direction that san francisco is taking under the new climate action plan update. however, it's very important for there to be oversight about how much sidewalk clearance is left after a tree has been planted. >> clerk: the speaker has hit their five minute mark. >> there's been enough clearance especially when some of volunteer organizations that are also involved in planting trees become involved. >> chair melgar: thank you very much. that was really great.

in the largest city. ah. ahead of these scenes, the compound in marty had been torched. gunfire could also be heard and security forces seen retreating from a nearby square. this all fled up a new year when the cousin coleman lifted a cap on the price of liquefied petroleum. just lpg, which is, is widely used in cars in kazakhstan and had been heavily subsidized. so is the price, let's authorities, which authority said was due to rising production costs the entire economy felt the impact ah the demonstrations of also spread to smaller cars are towns and cities. this on verified video appeared on social networks and he shows a crowd of protesters trying to break into the government, built in, in october in the west of the country. police could also be seen using water canada and stung grenades. so quite a lot going on there, and archie will be keeping on top of all the developments you can get all the pickled dates here, honor on deadline. so your bankruptcy dates with the latest from around the world. and

over the course of history, our cities have been beacons of hope when you see the lights of the city or even a small town, is a symbol of jobs, community, prosperity and most important, love. far too long the dream have been chiseled away by lack of investment policies that seek to divide us and instead of unitinu us, around a common purpose, by reclaiming the stream from we can work together on common principal, voting rights, infrastructure, economic development, homelessness, poverty and so many elements we need to focus on. we can challenge ourselves to reimagine the american city we know today. the pandemic has exposed deep disparities that exist in our community. we can workk together build mor, cities where outcomes and whites arefe determined based on the quality of your work. these past years have shown what city leaders can do when their back is up against the wall. we can do incredible things but remember, we can only do those things together. let's keep doing incredible things in 2022 like repair on america's roads and bridges, strengthen our voting systems build more equ

the city was like an open playground. there was so many empty building for to haven't been used before. and that attract the influx of creative people that occupied the space of at the same time, there was of course, also a boom. expect that investment for there was a lot of buying of property. and trying to figure out who actually own something at the time. because even that was unclean, good period. but that economic boom that everybody expected barely enough the portal to eastern europe and so on. that just didn't happen because it attracted artists to stake people. you know, you, community is the best clots and all that. and it became of the night life center here, just because the boom didn't happen. so it was a different boom that happened. and i think that made the for the very interesting, even though that was not planned, it just happened to me because it's organic. we are plan of fear, we are plan those yet at the same time. that's exactly what you want to know and an exciting place with freedom. the freedom ove

i really applaud the city attorney's office and the city attorney for taking action and paying close attention to challenges that could arise for people taking the situation for granted. >> it is not unchecked power for the police department. the fact is we want to address the challenges of crime in our city. in facts, you know, everyone is now carrying around all of these gadgets, phones, some someone's face in the public. anyone not law enforcement can see everything going on. people from all over the city and when you talk about a situation for example what happened in union square. the fact that there was a lot of online chatter, our officers were aware and needed another resource through video to observe the behavior and because of our ordinance could not, there are a lot of things that could have been prevented based on information we get. we are not only asking to allow this to happen based on evidence. part of my ordinance is to say we have to also report this information like when this is accessed by the san francisco police department it will be made public, it will be prov

suffering the fire had brought to the city. this is a horrific of writhing, painful moment for the city of new york. and the impact of this fire is going to really bring a level of just pain and despair in all city minorities corresponded cal mop and give us details from the scene. so i'm walking around here near where this fire happened, this, this building behind me that you can see that it's just been totally burned out. 19 people, dad, 9 of them children. and this is, this is a serious situation. we have the mayor of new york city, eric adams, calling this the most serious fire in modern new york city history. now there was a huge mobilization of the new york city fire department over 200 firefighters were mobilized. as you can see, this is a fire truck here behind me, you know, and they're still on the scene. and this point we have folks in hazmat suit in front of the building. we have like kind of immobilization of people in hazmat suits that clean out the wreckage. that has happened. it's a very serious situation. 19 peo

the city has the resources to make this happen. the city passed legislation to protect these facilities and we should not let a loophole stop this legislation. >> thank you. that is your time. you will have a one minute rebuttal. project sponsor, you have three minutes. >> thank you. good afternoon, president and commissioners. if you could just display the slides, perfect. following a catastrophic fire in 2015, the subject building has set a vacant and dilapidated for the last six years. they purchased the property in 2019 and have diligently pursued this rublev tatian project ever since. the project provides as much housing as possible, where none currently exists by creating a new five bedroom unit and a two-bedroom unit, all without substantially altering the existing building envelope. slide two, please. the d.r. requester has reduced housing. this is false. the property has not had any occupants are provided any housing at all since the 2015 fire. the d.r. requester asserts that the project could result in the loss of the res

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that's my job on the mayor of the city. you know we need to not meddle with the affairs of those who get by and protect all of those who are weaker minorities. senior citizens, people disabilities, that's what we do. that's our mission and the mission of the local government. >> i'm going to finish again just where i started. this is been inspiring hearing. i'm so grateful to our witnesses , to these mayors, and i look forward to continuing these conversations to advance democracy in europe and to ensure the continuation of the possible liberal democracies. i think you very much. >> thank you very much for this hearing. thank you to these extort name mayors for being here. those of us who served as mayors are not at all surprised that mayors are going to save democracy around the world. that the organization you founded, we always tout cities as the great incubators of new ideas. the work you are doing to preserve democracy around the world is extraordinary and inspiring to hear. we want to support you in every way we can.