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way that jumping from the frying pan to the fire, the central subway, at a particular juncture, is not going to get the amount of money to expand, but we still think, you know, that we have people in congress who are somehow going to deliver some money. so, some of us come here and we speak to you all and we tell you all this, you think that is good, but we are not. the businesses in of beach are going to suffer a lot. they are not even told that this, that, and the other is going to happen. i do not know. i have been attending these meetings for a long time. but we have reached a po...

anecdotal evidence for that. there is also a ton of empirical evidence in the form of over boats and san francisco. buster's mayor's race had 1% of the votes being tossed in the garbage can because of over votes. -- last year's mayor's race had 1% of the votes being tossed in a garbage can because of over boats. lastly, are run off system allows us, and i think we specifically solve this last year, the ability to have a hard look at candidates. last year i attended a number of the debates. there were 8-10 people on the debate. no real clear choice. people did not want to distinguish ...

because the laws that we have in terms of like local hire or first source don't really take me down that train in other industries except at this point construction. >> right. my understanding and i know we have the city attorney is the l.a. case that's referred to often is we cannot condition the development agreement based on conditions of labor agreement. but we could still talk about community benefits and what's fair to the existing permanent work force. but can i just ask for that advice? my understanding is that we can discuss issues that are related to the impacts of the proj...

this city offices of around san francisco. rank boating will continue in supervisor races. i want to thank my colleagues to a join me today as co-sponsors of this charter amendment. supervisor of lolague, cohen, and wiener. i know we've had a lot of debate about this, but speaking again to explain why i brought this forward. first of all, this has not really lived up to its promises that were originally articulate it. one of the initial things is it would promote a lot less negative campaigning in city politics. i think if you look at the 2011 mayor's race, one would be hard- pressed...

the benefits of rank choice boating, and when it comes to confusion, the data does not support the conclusion that rank choice of voting is the worst system you can have. in fact, the level of competition is -- that is in some of the other races that is taking place in san francisco, whether it is the board of education or city college shows there is more confusion around those and a higher rate of error then there is with frank choice voting. no system is perfect, and the answer is to implement a system the best way possible, and the issue where i think word -- workmates to be done ...