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you can -- i can take tethe action to the full authority or you can modify item three to include language related to that. it is your pleasure. >> commissioner mar, i will make that motion. >> is there any objection? we should make that so it has been moved. we would like that added with number three. the legislative program. one following question. do you have a crystal ball? >> normally, the hearings would be in late march. they were introduced in december and it didn't do anything, and it passed the 30-day period. they have a bill ready to go. we will get back to the transportation committee for the policy bill hearings. this is typically early to mid march, when most bills are ready. if history is guidance, it would be mid-march. there is a quick set between now and that time. there is no appetite and until they get past march 7, it will foster ill will. i think it would be a bad play to try to go fast. but i wouldn't set it aside. mid-march is when we look at the bill. >> the only thing i would ask, given the timeline between our meetings, you gain knowledge that is moving faster. ca

there must be some way you can serve people. even on the texas appeals commission, we have gone to wear a business was on the second floor. there was no way to get in that business at all. the existing business can provide home service, or something like that. just trying to figure out a way to do that. in terms of dbi and how it can help people, they could make better use of their home resources. there is one casp certified inspectors in the department. i studied with him. he was taken out of the access appeals commission. he has nothing to do with access. that is not a good use of your own resources. i know i may use of several -- make use of several hot lines all the time. the department of justice has an 88800 number you can call to get free information about the ada. if they do not know, they send you over to architecture transportation barriers compliance board, who actually wrote the ada. i did that this morning trying to figure out how you define "firm." they have an 800 number in washington. they will give you free info

it can be age. it can be corrosion, and it can also fail in performance due to size. our treatment plants are really were courses. they are working, working, working. we have mechanical processes that have to run 24/7, and then have to be reliable. we have equipment that has excessive wear and corrosion and facilities reaching the end of their useful life. we talk a lot about the digesters. the digesters are a 1940's design, but we also have issues with our treatment plants. you can see the collapsing ceiling. most of you have seen the situation and conditions, and it is dire. we are living on effectively borrowed time. over the last 18 months, we went through hearings and workshops and public workshops and hours and hours of discussion and came up with goals and levels of service for the waste water system. i'm going to run through these five, and then we will start drilling into what the project are in a sewer system improvement program, what size we want to look for in the future, and getting started. the first goal is provide reliable, resilience, and flexible sys

can i have your name? and give me a phone number, i can contact maybe next of kin. is that kind of being cruel? no, you are trying to help them out because if they are rushing in, they may not come out. but at least you have a name. a physical description, a clothing description. is that helpful? yeah, it's going yeah , it's goi ngto be helpful. with 9- 11, hurricane katrina, you have to take care of yourself because we're not going to be there. apply the nert perspectives to any suspected terrorism. we're going to use the term be nice. we're part of -- the president asked americans to volunteer to help improve your own community. you are doing that now. you are part of the umbrella called citizens corps. what's the objective? for you, it's to prepare for natural disasters, especially if you live here in san francisco, the earthquakes. form an exercise, neighborhood and workplace teams. is that what you're do ?g we did a little practice right now. you are going to respond to immediate needs in your area following a major disaster. what about here in san francisco, m

and then we have total package cost together, then we can see where we can get funding from. commissioner campos: how long will that take? >> we can start evaluating and collecting the last piece. we should have some information by the time we meet next time. commissioner campos: so for purposes of this committee, when can we have the specs are you can report on the status of this? >> probably in september, october. commissioner campos: that is a long time. commissioner avalos: can we make it july? commissioner campos: we will have a hearing in july and see where you are. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. actually, we do. please come on up. >> good morning. local 258. let's talk about the switchbacks. most of the time, we do not know when they are going to occur. for example, there is a delay in the subway but we do not know until we come out of the portal. whoever got on in the subway will not know there will be a switch back. the other thing i wanted to mention, on the border team line, i have liv

if we can get everybody to understand it is about creating productivity so we can support high wages, then a lot of the rtisan concerns tend to get less vigorous. i think you can communicate to your citizens that my job is to create conditions here so we can all get paid more, but we cannot get paid more unless we turn that, unless we can be more pructive and have better skills and have a more efficient infrastructure. hopefully that can be a less partisan discussion that some of these broad issues of stimulus or not stimulus, should taxes be this high or that high. those issues get very partisan. a lot of the fundamentals can be agreed upon, certainly within the business community. i would not go into this thinking it has to be partisan. i know there are other governors here who have had these experiences. >> dr. porter, you were describing the importance of not having resources leave the state, and the competition that often exists between states going and offering significant financial incentives to ge a corporation to build a plant or open an office in their state. is it feasible

how can communities, how can families begin to support considering the lack of extensive, you know, network of recovery support systems for youth, how can families and communities help? families and communities can help a lot. we have over a thousand what we call community coalitions. and a coalition is a group of interested people in a community coming together for a common goal. and what the coalition's job is, is to connect people to services, connect people with helping to restrict availability of drugs and alcohol in a community, to strengthen laws, policies, and get them enforced to working with your law enforcement officers and associate with the schools. so we, i would say that within every state we have a good handful of coalitions. we need many more. but every state office of behavioral health, alcohol and drugs or mental health should have a listing of those coalitions and i would say parents if they were really looking and were lost and didn't know how to maneuver the waters because some of what you're talking about is very true, i would call the state office first and get a con

how many things can go wrong? one day, it can go way wrong. one day it can go wrong. that this -- you are slaughtering the industry, the drivers future. an electronically bill is no good for the drivers. -- an electronic waybill is no good for the drivers. you do not pay them a health care or pensions. you do not give them anything. it is brought to you by lobbyists and cap companies who brought you through a certain way. they are going to benefit out of it. the way bill costs $300 a month. we are starting from $70 a shift.

can you hold the volume down? president newlin: minutes approved, item number three, a report of the executive director. >> commissioners, the evening. my report shall be brief. the legislative policy of de, i have to talk to you about tonight, i don't know how many of you paid attention to the board of supervisors. we called for a hearing requesting the economic impact study. i. attached a short memorandum with information regarding that instruction and the file number so you can follow it. that happened on february 1, and there will be a hearing at land use and economic development committee when the report is finished. it will be at least a month to before we see that report. it could be even longer. the staff was involved in the meeting today regarding the scope of the study. the staff will continue to keep the commission in formed of the progress. that takes care of the legislative update for now. we expect the supervisors to continue to introduce other legislation that involves the entertainment commission.

i think the 12 taser 14 week backlog potentially can be -- 12th to 14 wheat backlog potentially can be rectified with a premium thfee. the fire department has cut. if you request an expedited service, there is a fee associated, so it is possible that some of my clients would be willing to pay that additional fees. in terms of the interface between dpw and some consultants, perhaps a warning leveabel, but in regards to the expedited permit fee, it helps significantly within the fire department as far as the review process. as far as a similar process were an additional fee will put u.s. ahead of the line, there are some exceptions that have been made for life-saving issues were potentially an additional fee may help people who are willing to pay that and expedite it. >> thank you. any further public speakers? seeing none, next item. >> item number six, presentation and discussion on gthe dbi online permit tracking system with vivian day. >> i am the director of dbi, and i am here to discuss our current tracking system. in 2006 and -- actually in the 2005-2006 fiscal year, and we had a p

you can spend it. you can enjoy your money. what i'm telling you is: you can eat again. [laughing] you can eat again. you can enjoy your money. it's okay. you don't have to save it for anybody. they're taken care of. enjoy your life. enjoy your money. take a limo ride before the last one. be like the guy who said, "95% of my money, "i spent on wine, women, and song. the rest i squandered." enjoy your money. that's how you get more, more, more. let me give you a real-life example of more, more, more. this is actually a client that we had. 12 years ago, they came in to do their planning. we talked about the things i just talked about with you: creating their plan, not the government's plan. we recommended life insurance. again, i don't sell it. i'm telling you based as a tax advisor using the tax code. we recommended life insurance. we recommended long-term care, checked beneficiary forms, see how they own their assets, the good planning that we do for all of our clients. they came back 12 years later. so we went through our notes, took out the notes. they were sitting the

how much fun can that be?, the four guys from the high school that came over to be part of this. so, thanks again for watching this program. we have another segment. and just stay tuned, and give us a call when you have a chance. >> oh, yes, it's a lot of fun here in the sewing with nancy studios with nancy and mary, and our great set of volunteers, and you. definitely, public television isn't possible without you and our member support that we all offer to the station. it keeps great programs like this coming our way. fun stuff. again, let me remind you that when you call and make that membership gift of support to your station, today, right now, we have these "kick it up a stitch" thank-you gifts. with a gift of $40 to the station, we have the kitchen gear. this is patterns for two of the things that we have looked at, nancy's salad bag and mary's recipe apron. very cute. and also within these patterns, we have the recipes from the shows that the two ladies were cooking up today, the recipes of all this fun

you can ask for a block of time, and your organization can speak. but then nobody else from the group is talk. that's all we hear from h.a.k. all night. sometimes people prefer not to do that because more of you can speak and be more represented. yes, mr. goodman. >> i didn't know about that. >> that has been a commission rule for years. everyone can ask for that block of time. sometimes it is housing action coalition. it just depends. see what will happen is if one person -- if then this person speaks representing the whole group, that's the whole time you get kind of thing. individuals can speak, but no one representing that park m erced action can speak. let's take a recess for five minutes. >> i think there is a lot of confusion because a lot of you don't come to commission hearings on a regular basis. but the commission has had the rules and regulations for the 30-some-odd years i've been here. one of the rules they have amended is one to allow people modified times to address. they interests futured mod -- they instituted modifications to thei

that a solution can be eliminating the hill, that can eliminate the problem. or build a structure right into the hill so there is no longer an exposed face or bold enough of iraq together so that it acts as a big buttress to prevent further movement. -- or hold enough of the rock together so that it acts as a big buttress. we are allowing the wall of the building to act as a retaining structure. there was a time when we did not get any. there was an epic one before in 1982. we brought with us and rainfall charge. >> you were saying that this is somehow correlated to rainfall. this goes from 1914 until 2006. it is the red line in the backgrounds which are the annual rainfall from each year is plotted on here. you can see it varies all over the place. if you take an average, the average is a thin gray line. that does not give you a feel for what the rainfall really is. that is an average over four years. you can see that these build up until we had the big events before. >> you expect to see them during the apocrine fall. in fact, they might occur at that time b

can you deal with it, please? ( doorbell ) jake, can you let jane and alexa in, please? ice cream money? you've got money in your piggy bank. i spent it. what on? on my friends. well, that's nice. i gave everybody in my class 20p. why? so they'd vote for me in the school council election. ben, you can't give all your classmates 20p to buy their votes. why? isn't it enough? no, you see, ben, that isn't how democracy works. what am i saying? anyway, can i have some ice cream money? ben, i said get your shoes on! come on! next up is nigella! oommy, aweee, slurpy, skirpy, lovely, ovely, scrummy, tasty, mastey, slurpy, burpy. jake: it's not jane. two men delivering a shelving unit. the one i waited in for yesterday. can you get them to put it in the sitting room, please? no, they've gone. they put it in the hall. oh! it's flatpack! they didn't say anything on their website about it being flatpack. is some furniture not flatpack, then? karen! what's up with the suit, dad? you up in front of another disciplinary panel? no. it's johnsy's funeral. what happens at a funeral? well,

so our focus will be on how we can create jobs for the many people looking for work at home, how we can use this crisis to better position our states and our country to be leaders in the world and how we can secure a strong future for our children. the recession has forced many states to make difficult short-term decisions, actions necessary to balance budgets and to find new and innovative ways to make government more efficient and more productive. over the last two years, states have had to make significant changes. cutting spending by more than 10.7%. 75 billion dollars. tapping our rainy day funds, shrinking the size of government, streamlining state services. more difficult decisions will have to be made over the next few years as we are still facing collectively a $175 billion shortfall. including the cliff that we will all see in july, as the additional federal medicaid and education funds go away. and as congress works to get its fiscal house in order, we call on them to cooperatively work with the states. we want to help them and we need their help as well. it is a partnership

can. discuss new directions for the middle east i'm joined by harold wrote in washington he's an expert on islam and the middle east also in washington we have here one he is rector of the international transcend peace university and author of fall of the us empire and then what and another member of our crosstalk team eleanor hung up all right gentlemen you have difference of opinion this is crosstalk so you can jump in anytime you want harold if i go to you first we've all been watching the events going on north africa first and we had it in tunisia egypt and now a very bloody end it appears are going on in libya here let's look forward what kind of middle east is coming into being in north africa how do you see it and we fucking upon the events of the revolutions as it were. well it is absolutely wonderful that people should have the opportunity to be themselves claim to be free of the autocratic and dictatorial rule which is bend the case that most of the middle east with the exception

i am pretty good where i can look of something and realize if we can help you out. if we cannot, i look for the micro guys to help me out with the smaller loans. it is a collateral loan that we cannot do, i do what i can. we are here to lend. >> thank you. hopefully, people have their question cards. i am going to open it up to the audience. if you have written a question down, please give it to us so we can start compiling them. if i see a repeat questions, it will help to expedite the process, answering those questions that people want answered. we have some of the best and brightest minds here. don't be shy. if you could do us a favor and use the microphone so that everyone can hear your question. >> you had mentioned about assistance in public contracting. for small companies, one of the issues is bonding. what do you do on that? >> for all public contracts, public agencies need to see that there contractors have bonding in order for them to demonstrate they can complete the contract. sba provides an insured bond guarantee to those who do bonding to small busine

can you touch on this? >> of course, the most well- known maintenance of effort would be with current medicaid requirements on the state. and there are many other grants in aid that are handed out to the states that occasionally come with maintenance effort requirements, or may encourage the minister how the government to raise taxes and support spending. i do not know if i answered your question. >> there are certain states that are in different fiscal situations. i noticed some research has been done on this. the difficulty of policy makers to balance the budget, does that have a bearing on their credit rating? certainly, it does, one would believe. in your discussion of various sub groupings of the state, not the general obligation bonds, but the dormitory authority for road authority, does that have a bearing? the state revenue sources, whether they are not -- whether or not they are sustainable. can you touch on that? >> yes, and without saying whether these 80-the rating agencies are right or wrong --

you can send a text message. we are trying to get our residents give them the knowledge to do that should we need to evacuate again. and this is just an example of a flyer for our expo and you have to tailor it to the diversity of your community. making sure what other dialects or languages that are present in your neighborhood that you address that. and you make sure that you are inclusive to everyone. just an example of our agenda for our expo. and the communications, this is a piece that we have come up with post katrina and that is a 1-800 evacuation check in number that our residents can call into in the event that we must evacuate. residents can call and let the improvement association know where they are. let us know their barriers. when i evacuate i'm responsible for taking the vontage router with me and plug it into a real phone or also receive these messages by internet. i don't have to have access to a phone. the voice mails come over the internet. this is something that we have done today after katrin

can we do that? can we help the businesses in a way, once they go through the process of certification? they posted on their business and say, "we are fully compliant." we start building a list of businesses that are fully in compliance, just like we do for green businesses. the department of the environment has a list of all those businesses you can go to. right now, we are finding a new green buildings also. is this something we can do that may help create a better business environment to certify these firms? >> i think at this point it is up to the small business commission. i personally have participated in joint meetings between the small business commission and the access appeals commission. i have also actively supported the small business commission in whenever meetings they were taking to try to get the word out to the community. i will say again i think the job they have done is amazing. the information i am hearing now is such a wonderful term from what i saw several years ago. at that poi

here's what we can do. how can you help us? how can we work together. that's the key. organizations love coming to our meetings because it's not a c p complaints we try to keep it positive we work with the agencies and that's the key to it. >> we were going to have volunteers but i don't see them so we are doing it this way. [inaudible]. >> great question. the question posed was how do we engage the young professionals in our community? how do we pass up the time and speak from people who have been engaged in the organizing effort to the younger people coming up. >> we organize block parties where we have bands come that are basically we have parties. and people come out for parties [laughter]. that's the bottom line. we have bbq. they can get a beer at the local corner store. you know. >> we have apartments and condos all over our neighborhood it's the same thing. i'm telling you you have an event where there is music and food people will come. they just will. may be it won't be 200 people may be 50 people but the next time you do it you get another hundred people. i

what can washington learn from sports? >> it can learn a great deal. i learned a lot growing up on the sidelines in the training camps and playing sports myself. probably the most overarching thing, when sports the race, religion, ethnicity doesn't matter. can you help the team win? not guaranteed equal results, but equal opportunity. which is what our country was built on. you would never see the way that washington operates, redistributors from the winners to those who are not winners. if we are up to washington, they take one the steelers six super bowl trophies. the poor detroit lions. they've never made it o super bowl. let's give them a trophy. no you have to earn it in sports. there's accountability. and personal responsibility. there's measurements. you know who's winning and losing. and there's also in sports a competitiveness that you are always looking how you can improve yourself and how you can make your team better. and for team america, we need to be looking at what are economic policies, tax policies, energy, education policies, which a

we have to we have to take that into consideration so i think i can be more i can have a more equal a comprehensive view on on how should we deal with the different issues and i don't know whether it's because i've woman but i feel that sometimes i have a broader view on things well you also have reading your interest in mentioning the holistic approach is this what you mean yes exactly exactly if you are. position yourself as a civilian minister with a military brace up there when it comes down to security and transparency our defense minister will eventually have to choose one or the other when it comes down to it we're trying to protect first. of all i want to know. i know that i was appointed minister because i have a civilian background and because i don't have a military background and my prime minister was very clear saying that well you had the chief of defense he is responsible for the military things and my prime minister was very clear you don't want a general to choose me the minister because then there would could be some conflict between the the chief minister so i'm act

. >> can ask it in the commission president, can i ask our environmental group. >> i am sure staff is prepared to do so, right? to highlight of the points that were raised. >> we are only aware of one letter that was delivered and i can show you the point on that letter, no other letter has come to the attention of staff. the letter that i will address is the one from -- that was submitted on behalf of -- the first point in the letter regarding the eir addressing has his materials. the hazardous materials were scoped out in the context of the initial study but we did to note that there had been a slight non substantive error in the check box. those impacts are in fact less than significant with the medications that were identified. the second point whether it addresses the whole of the project we disagree and we feel that the project was discussed and described adequately and the context of the eir. it is unclear what deficiency is the -- there are aired only regulations and the possible impact of the project. moreover, there is a full discussion of possible medications where signific

. >> i think we're going to try to be a model so other governments can show it can be done and you can survive it. >> his strategy of cutting and then reinvesting has earned national recognition as unions across the country face a watershed in wisconsin from their early days of organizing coal miners, immortalized by singers like woody guthrie. ♪ i'm sticking to the union ♪ sticking to the union >> the groups were once a power house in politics, but today, labor unions' favorable ratings are at their lowest level in decades with less than half of americans having a positive view. and now in wisconsin, the very right to collective bargains is under attack. >> the turmoil could just be beginning in wisconsin. but it's very likely we're going to see this replicated in other states. >> the thinking is as goes wisconsin so could go the rest of the country. the union movement may be facing its toughest battle to date. david. >> thank you. and from the budget battles in cities and towns across the country to the huge one brewing in washington. tonight, republicans in the house have approved $

death. >> it can. it is not designed to kill anyone. commissioner dejesus: i don't want our officers thinking they will tase the person and they will live. if used the way designed, it can cause death. it would be more of a shock to an officer using a taser thinking he will say the person and he kills the person because it electrocutes them, or it is a young person, a pregnant person, a skinny person, or someone who is sick. how do patrol officers know when people are sick? this weapon use the way it is supposed to be used can cause death. that is the problem i have. how do you put that in your guideline? >> we are dealing with 800 police departments in the state of california, over 10,000 police departments in the u.s. almost every major police department has now had five years' worth of data. they have a number of situations in which police officers like you heard here tonight have stood up and said, if i didn't have a taser, i would have had to kill this person. in charlotte, north carolina, in phoe

you can get them into arguments. while we're doing some thing about it it's going to be more volatile and cause problems. what am i doing? i started say we live and everything we get in the delta but we spend a billion dollars to build a reservoir it spiked rates but we thought it was a right thing to do. we're part of a de salinization and we're now going to spend another hundred million dollars in moving. the delta is getting saltier and we think that will be a trend that's moving and particularly with some of the run off patterns so we'll invest in that. our 50 year water supply program. we will be 7 hundred thousand people whether we want to or not we were 3 hundred thousand. one of the fastest growing areas in north california. we're serving less water than we were when i got there. that's corner stone of our growth. anybody that does not know what that means what that means with respect to drought or any emergency you may have is not playing with affair deck. when you harden the demand you must have flexibility

can you commit to that? this is a very good of example of where we can stop the infection. right? we know it's there. so let's stop it before it becomes a disease. can you commit, you have worked with people. this is something that has been raised. >> i am committed to continuing the conversations >> you had another question. >> we would love to hear commitment from other folks. just to put it out there. we are talks about immigrants. a lot of people we are working with are undocumented. people do not trust the police. especially our young folks. we had a person beat up by the police. we are hoping in the future. the police department can think of how the immigration rates. it's not proimmigrant. especially undocumented youth are afraid for their safety and aren't coming forward. >> i would like to address some of the issues on our undocumented youth in san francisco. it's important that we protect all people regardless of their immigration status. the police and rates that have happend and been on going. the mayor has been in discussions minimizing that in san francisco. we are n

i think i can support that amendment. >> i can support that. hong but again, i worry about abuse. -- but again, i worry about abuse. director nolan: the time period of six months or something. >> i think the way we should do this, actually, if we're going to make any amendments, i think we should vote for the original proposal up or down. and director lee can make his amendment? if this is the way it's going to go, i can support director lee's amendment. i am not sure how we are supposed to do that procedurally. director nolan: that would be the first action. >> if you wish to amend it today rather than draft amendment language, consider the amendment first. >> getting a sense of the board and conversation, there is some consensus around a resident survey. that is the time it will take us to mobilize the staff, put a process together, that will bring us to january. there will be management issues and those types of things that we can bring back to you. we can bring back to you the age limit discussion and we can bring back to you the penalty di

>> can we pull the camera back? commissioner chan: if we need more time to make this work, we can have another speaker. i want to maximize our time. we will try to make it work. maybe we will have jack speak. sorry about this technical difficulty. mr. bryson, are you in the room? he is not here yet. ok. rimi from -- i will try one more. barbara. >> all right. commissioner chan: she is the founder of accountability associates. she is an independent police auditor. and stand she is part of the occ. thank you for joining us tonight. >> good evening, chair mazzucco, commissioners. thank you for inviting me to speak tonight. thank you for that introduction. that is some of what i was going to talk about. i started my career in oversight as a member of the staff of the office of citizen complaints back in 1983. i worked there for 15 years, seven years with the city of berkeley and four with san jose. i serve for 10 years on the board of the national association for civilian oversight of law enforcement. i am here to speak

i can write something down, but i have to see what we are balking at before i can give you anything. as soon as i put it out, i will be held accountable to being able to do that. there are all sorts of unknowns right now. it is a little difficult. but i will list all the assumptions and work on a schedule for you. president o'brien: thank you. commissioner kasselman: i think now when you search for an address on the dbi web site, you can get what permits have been issued and completed. what other information will be available on the system? is there a little bit more for people to look up? >> there will be more information that is going to be available, but i am being a little reluctant to go into a lot of detail because a lot of that is contained in the rfp and i do not want to do anything to jinx the rfp. what we are doing first and foremost is to make what we have right now better, and to be able to have more visible information so that you would know exactly where you were in the process, who has signed off, who has not signed off, what is next. hopefully, there could be some inf

it was good news, if i can remember, but if you can just define that term. because it's confusing for ming negative declaration. >> i'll bring mr. sider up from the planning commission to talk about that. other than the process getting filed with the board of supervisors, i don't have any of the information regarding decks, any of those other terms that are used when they're actually giving and making those decisions. president o'brien: maybe that's probably better off putting aside. i'm kind of interested in the appeals, to stick on that particular point. so any project of any size, is there any distinction between any of these types of appeals as to what size the project needs to be before they could be forced up to the board of supervisors as an appeal, or can it just be -- if it's a two-unit, vertical horizontaled a dig, or if it's a 30-unit or bigger project, could they all be appealed on the same basis without exception for size or anything like that? >> if there's been a determination by the planning department on ceqa, they can be appealed to the boa

>> i can answer that. his suggestions have already been included in the previous rfp and the new one. the reason we cannot do it with the current system is the current system is not capable of doing this. that is why we have to get a new system. we have to get a system that is compatible to other city departments that can be a citywide system. our system is the in-house system. planning department, even though it is right next door, cannot enter into our system unless they are in our building. it is kind of a weird system. it cannot be network. it is in-house. it is a departmental, cloned, home grown system. to do this, we would have to do vpn's forever city department at a cost to the city department which would be more than the new system would cost, to let the other city departments have access to our servers. commissioner murphy: it seems to me that what commissioner hechanova is asking, the gentleman who gave the presentation, who was involved in the origin of the old system, why he is not involved in

you can look that building and actually see, if you look carefully, you can see the number of floors. two floors with an addition in the back and a bunch of an abbreviationses and the big key in front of the thing and the one with the little stairs. so how is that important to you. san francisco has amendment to the code that says if you have a stairs and a deck on your back porch and you want to replace them you can replace them in their original configuration if they were properlyibility in the first place. how can you prove they were? in many cases that's hard to prove. but here it is this shows exactly where the shaping configuration of the stairs is. so we have a set of the most current inborn or sand born map's behind the planning department counter that will be happy to make or let you look at them and make copies of them there's a free copy machine. i've seen the old ones. not in the last year or two, do you know where they are? >> the series four books are on the sixth floor of the san francisco public library and early series are micro film also from the library. if you belo