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been full liken at the jewish center and the effort you made was commendable. but this community says they didn't have enough notice and they are real legitimate concerns. if we at the board were to over turn the planning commission's conditional use permit, would at & t resort to those right-of-way on the street poles to achieve the coverage of the gap that you said exist? >> so, at & t does not even have an approved distributed antenna designed approved by the san francisco. this is a pretty clear case. i think we would pursue legal means
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to pursue this site. we've been waiting 2 years, our federal shot clock is 150 days. if we had noticed through oh omar, we worked closely with the planning department, if he gets wind to opposition right before we had our community meeting we held a separate meeting for 3-4 hours to address these concerns, we didn't have that in this case. this is the first time. i think we had 7 or maybe 9 people at the planning commission. it's been almost three 3 years in january. our shop clock is 150 days. we met our legal obligation and we ask that you move forward to support the planning commission's decision. >> thank you.
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>> colleagues, any more questions? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment . if there is any member from the pub protected bike -- public wishing to speak. let's hear from our rebuttals. >> supervisors, thank you for listening to us. we could have potentially resolved this much easier had the problem been approved. i think there is a problem with trust. why do we, the community not trust at & t? how come, why can't they get our trust? not just us, not just our
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community, each of your communities as they apply, not just at & t but the other carriers they are going to the same same thing. he said she said type situation where it doesn't of to be like this. the wts siting guidelines, i think the spirit was excellent back in 1996, but somehow that wholen at the present time has the focus has been lost. there is no accountability to us, the citizens. you are our leaders and we look to you to help us. district 1, with supervisor mar is our leader and each of you have your own constituents. this is going to be a problem. we need to find solutions, residential areas are not where antennas should be. they should be as indicated
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in the guidelines on public areas, places where people are not living. and it's interesting that the international firefighters association had a resolution that prohibits antenna on their buildings. i wonder why? i think there is a problem. so we need to solve this and i really thank you for the opportunity to bring the sub. it is a bird in the saddle. i am for technology, but it has to be right. thank you. >>president david chiu: thank you, colleagues, any final questions for the parties involved today. >> yes, ma i i continue my pictures.
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i didn't finish. >> unfortunately man -- madam, public comment is closed. >> you will see the picture clearly. >> we hear what you are saying. we need to give the member of the public the same amount of time. thank you very much. colleagues any final comments before we close this hearing? >> supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: i want to thank many of the neighborhoods. >>president david chiu: colleagues unless there is any objection, this hearing is now closed. supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: i want to thank everyone for attending. i urge my colleagues to listen to the sentiments of my neighbors.
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i will be moving to not authorize this. the lack of communication with at & t is a critical part of it. the independent study done by the neighborhood should be looked at carefully as well. i appreciate the planning staff walking us through the issues, but in my opinion based on my knowledge of how close sensitive receptors like young from birth to five children are so close to the nine antennas plus the many different restaurants and other activities especially sushi bistro which is one of my daughter's favorite restaurants. it's my neighborhood that we are talking about and my neighbors are very fearful of approval of a project like this. so i ask you to stand with me and my neighbors in rejecting this conditional use authorization decision. so i will move that we
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disapprove the conditional use authorization. that's item 23 and that we table items 22 and 24. >>president david chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion to disapprove the cu, second by supervisor kim. any additional from colleagues. >> mr. president if it's the desire to disapprove the appeal, it would be important to approve item 24. >> let me ask the city attorney if we need to know more. >> deputy city attorney. a number of issues raised that supervisor mar is lack of notice which is a planning requirement. not a codified requirement
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for the bases of a conditional use. >> so it's not in necessary or compatible based on the evidence in the record and the testimony from the community. >> thank you, and my office will work with the clerk to prepare findings for the next meeting consistent with your comments. >> okay. >> so then mr. president, we would not approve item 24. >> item 24 would direct the clerk's office to prepare the findings based on the testimony and evidence provided today. so the board would approve 23 and 24 and then the clerk's office would prepare findings to present at the next board meeting. >> and we table item 22? >> that's correct.
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>> okay. again, we'll make the motion as has been proposed by supervisor mar and second by supervisor kim ascribed by our deputy city attorney. let's call the roll. >> city clerk: supervisor farrell, no, kim aye, tang, no, wiener, no, yee, aye, supervisor avalos? no. supervisor breed. no. supervisor campos, aye, supervisor chiu, aye. supervisor cohen. there are 5 ayes and 6 nos. >> the motion fails.
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>>president david chiu: i have been adviced by our clerk that a motion to approve the cu would be a motion here. do you want to add anything else to that. >> deputy city attorney john gibner, no, the motion to approve item 22, tabling 23 and 24. >>president david chiu: okay, is there anyone who wants to make that motion? supervisor farrell is making that motion. is there an is second to that motion? seconded by supervisor breed. with that let's take a roll call vote. >> city clerk: supervisor farrell, aye, kim, no, mar no, supervisor tang, aye, wiener aye, supervisor
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yee, no, supervisor avalos, aye, supervisor breed, aye, supervisor campos, no, chiu no, supervisor cohen, aye. there are 6 ayes and 5 nos. >> the issue of conditional use is approved. and with that, colleagues, madam clerk could you read the in memoriams. city clerk: today the memory in the following individual for the late mr. sandy segal. >> with that, madam clerk, is there anymore business in front of the board of supervisors? >> that concludes the business for today. >>president david chiu: ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >>.
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good morning and thank you all for being out here we'll get this started some very important people has something to say about this tunnel project finally opening my name is vince a commissioner with the public utilities commission i'm proud to be here it's exciting just a moment agree we saw the waters coming down the tunnel we're standing 80 years ago we began it deliver precious resources to the customers we serve open this very location awe as accompanied 25 years ago we had one of the biggest quarters in modern times this is a semireminder of how important it is to invest ♪ infrastructure to make sure we are prepared with protocols in
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place i want to give a shout out to my partners in labor many lopez and san mateo building trade and the engineers in the house the work you've done at the project managers the things you've done exceptional and an >> inspiring momentum the water is coming in and the next speaker will have a little bit more to say about the water he has a background it education and transportation and really knowledgeable he is an attorney went to arthur dong college and one of the most important leadership in salting dave the president of the board. >> welcome everyone to setting san mateo county it is my
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privilege to celebrate this incredible accomplishment san mateo couldn't hearsay been pivotal to the water supply back to 1952 when a dam was constructed across the creek and create a water entry nor the city of san francisco and, of course, san francisco and the puc has been critical to the couldn't the san mateo we're the beneficiaries of the remarkable hetch hetchy system which was first brought water here 80 years ago that in and of itself was a remarkable piece of engineering a gravity system over $155 million and serves tremendously well, for 80 years but today is an open tun time to talk about the upgrades that have occurred and celebrate the accomplishment of the molestation that tunnel as was mentioned the trying
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anniversary of the loma prieta earthquake and we read in the paper the u s is seeing movement in the soils and the geography it suggests another quarter could come sometime soon so this work is done ahead of that it is not often that you know government can get ahead of that problem it could have he'll seen an earthquake and seen an off water supply but thanks to the foresight of the puc the investments have been made at that strengthen the system to when the earthquake is caring we'll be better off the peninsula is a tremendous beneficiary of the upgrades as and mentioned we receive all of our water from the hetch hetchy
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system as well the alamed in santa clara couldn't county we're talking about a benefit to after all us so, i say my thanks to all of the people to the self-puc and the contractors labor and others who have seen their water bills go up sometimes, we is having maybe a little bit disgruntled but the outcomes of the investment they'll be proud and celebrate with us again my pleasure to welcome to the san mateo county for this historical event. >> our next speaker is a yack of all trades yesterday touring our meeting he continued to make sure that the san francisco giants were in a position to win
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that game i know that harlan kelly makes sure he shares the credit i see members of his team here for me it's an honor to be working with those folks including andy moraine we're going lucky to have harlan kelly managing this entire system (clapping.) so good morning, everybody. so can you imagine in 1906 we had a major earthquake and the city of san francisco broke down this was the impetus of our water system a startup and 1934 was the day that the city engineer actually designed and built this system and at a later date this system in operation right here 80 years ago so 25
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years ago we had another ground shaking event was the loma prieta earthquake in 1989 that was the impetus our our water system program 83 projects $86 million we are investing a main backbone of our system is the tunnel an amazing system the ferries tunnel that is built under the bay most people thought it was the bay tube but it is the actual tunnel under the bay it was amazing you know, i had the opportunity to go down and witness the actual correction that was being done it is like a factory underneath the bay it was just to expressive how the contractor our design team and the management how we all worked
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together to finish this project under budget it's significant i'm here to sing praise to everyone the one that thing that people don't recognition when we talk about water infrastructure it is also buried invisible so if we look at a dam or you look at streets and bridges you actually see that infrastructure is failing but when you look at buried pipe and tunneled you don't see that condition so when we actually bring this in operation i want to everyone to remember we deliver water underneath the bay my job as 1yrd or general manager we're invested money it maybe invisible but vital to deliver you water the source of everyone's existence i want to thank the team the team that was put together because it was amazing the first when he
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landmark the options we were thinking about putting a pipeline where the existing pipeline we were looking that but wanted to make sure we put something in place that was ritualistic to earthquakes we of time the funnel was the best option and want to minimize the virginia and the tunnel was also the best option it was more expensive by our with twhoerl customers think this is the best option i want to thank everybody i'm excited i here the water flowing thank you very much. >> thank you very much harlan i want to give a shout out to betsy she works with the public utilities commission and she helped to set this whole thing up and just handed me more notes
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about construction numbers i want to thank betsy for all the work today. >> it's important to note especially i come out of a labor union for the workers we were confronted with one of the biggest recreations in 2008, when this project was getting jump started the numbers were more 60 percent of the half million dollars were performed by people in if the bay area and the apprenticeship hours were built by residents of san mateo county it's about doing the work but making sure the community gets an opportunity to perform those functions in our industry and get health care and pensions and everyone else this was a triple bottom line effort the next speaker is the chairwoman
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of i scombrietd spending time with her i think some of our board members are here i want to welcome ruben and marty and john weeds they're on nicole's board nicole please come up to the front. >> well commissioner courtney and timing hines and harlan cell thank you for inviting me here i'm happy and revved to see it water come through thirty this area 12 years ago we only mingled this this is a great day the 4.5 million residents and the corporations that my agency represents truly building that this is a project that will sure
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the emptying emptying supplies in the future this is an expensive project but critical for each one of them their water supplied risk to the community it e community from the 80-year-old pipeline no longer exist we say the first every tunnel underneath the bay and not only is this an expressive job with the team meeting their deadlines and exceeding many but $29 million under budget i want to say there's another projects on the water system program that remains to be completed we look forward to our work with the puc as we see these move forward this is completely reliable in the event of an earthquake including the new dam in our work with the puc we're proud of
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the fact the $4.7 million is one hundred percent ratepayer funded our communities seen the cost increases in our builds and yet stand here today and see the benefit i look forward to the work on the water improvement program and on behalf of everyone say thank you to the team for their completion of the job thank you (clapping.) if you haven't had an opportunity really do take this opportunity to look at the work of the men and women and the law workers and the electricians they take care of the ground we have a dprauth go on they replaced the state of the art the applicant and went with a
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water conservatism so diverse users a chance the message for mayor ed lee the santa fe san francisco baifr is stronger and more resilient because of the tunnel this mask achievement makes us you fortunate we're able to complete f it i want to thank you for all being here please give users a retained yo retained of
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