next as aaron said, milton's successor as the president of the community college board. >> so aaron peskin stole my line. i was going to open with calling milton a mensh but i can't do that now, so i will call him a warrior in that case because that's what i think. that was one aspect of him. he fought the good fight. he brought on other soldiers. he brought me to fight the fights and when he was ill he was fighting two fights. he was fighting the fight for his life and he was fighting the fights at city college. it's fitting that we pay tribute to milton here in the hall of the people because milton was a model public servant. he stood for the principles of service to the communities, of honesty, and integrity. he was thoughtful in public policy. he would consider all sides and then come to a decision and stick to it. above all though i have to say he was dedicated, dedicated, dedicated to the task, to his job. he took it very seriously. he went above and beyond when it came to dedication. he was at board meetings when he was felt as sick as a dog, and he would come. he had a better atten

found myself chair of the finance committee with my trustee and able co-chair, vice chair, supervisor peskin and milton was in my office now that we have this trusted friendship. he learned well from his father and mother and the money raised for the urban forest needed to stay in the budget, and it was going to be a heavy lift, but he certainly delivered the message well, but i couldn't guarantee him anything. of course milton was going to put all of his eggs and money in one basket so he went to ever supervisor's office and often with ten, 20, 30 neighborhood constituents of that supervisor to make the ponent yet again, and when the issue came before the finance committee and subsequently before the board i had to write milton a thank you note because he made my job so easy. it wasn't controversial. he did all the work himself and that quarter of a million dollars stayed in the budget that yeemplt i think if milton was asked about the accomplishments he would be most proud it would immediately be the love of his family. he was a very engaged, loving, playful, creative, present father, and

now when these facts were put to mayor gavin newsom and supervisor peskin, as whether proposition k was to be observed. they state and i quote, we are not support of the effort to merge taxi commission unless beyond proposition k. you are looking way beyond the authority that was imagined by the legislators or written into those three simple lines of text. parts of which are being flagrantly ignored. i have the duty to supervise proposition k. instead the entire waiting list of those people in good faith is ignored if the present application of 150-200 medallions is granted. lastly i would like to point out this is not a free sort of situation. this is unlike anything that any city in america is doing. san francisco mta is trying to go into the taxi business. that is not happening elsewhere. they are exceeding their mandate. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, i am a taxi driver, and i have been robbed many times and a gun at my head. and i come to the city and thank you for letting me talk. which is i also help the senior and i work night time and i help the drunk guys

i have a better idea why that was put in place by your then colleague on the board meetings aaron peskin. it was a test in effect to see whether the project would fly. pretty much in more formal words the way harvey rose put it, i have read the fiscal feasibility study and looked at harvey rose's comments, someone i respect very much and serves very well. i did not sign the letter that went to you because do i believe you should approve this resolution today and pass it on to the full board for its action. i believe the eir has to commence that the work on the term sheet and eir will by its very process in the city answer the questions that are still before us so i urge you to move forward on the resolution. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, adrian simi, field representative with carpenter's local 22. one billion, that's got to get your attention, including 120 million for infrastructure that you tell me does san francisco have that. we have a privately funded developer that is willing to take a risk and spend that money. now what is that for local 22. we can broad en it to what is in it

i have a better idea why that was put in place by your then colleague on the board meetings aaron peskin. it was a test in effect to see whether the project would fly. pretty much in more formal words the way harvey rose put it, i have read the fiscal feasibility study and looked at harvey rose's comments, someone i respect very much and serves very well. i did not sign the letter that went to you because do i believe you should approve this resolution today and pass it on to the full board for its action. i believe the eir has to commence that the work on the term sheet and eir will by its very process in the city answer the questions that are still before us so i urge you to move forward on the resolution. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, ri

commissioner katdz or sue hester can correct me but i believe it was put in place by then supervisor aaron peskin as a baseline so the city on large projects can say this can pencil out or can't. it should stop some fly by night stuff people tried to propose and it serves that purpose. it's vetted by harvey rose and says yeah it can fly if all of these things come into play. they come into place at the time of the term sheet and the last negotiations. they're sort of in my opinion the fiscal fiscallablity study is like an eir and takes the big box and study everything in the box and see whether it's possible, what are the mitigations, and then guild within that box. the same thing with the fiscal feasibility study it's to look at it and come down to the actual terms. i know it's a very aggressive plan. the concept to play in arena in 2017 blew everyone's mind and still does. i don't know if it can be done. i really don't in this city but i think there is a responsibility of the cac, of the commission and certainly the board of supervisors to see whether it's possible and i look forward to the pro

this is i letter from the city attorney -- drafted by the mayor and mayor new sum and peskin was being drafted and has them to draft legislation that respects the will of the voters on taxi issues. please keep our desire not to tamper with the intent of proposition k in mind as you draft the legislation. there was only one principle in prop k and that was that permits go to cab drivers, not to cab companies, not to anybody else, and those senior cab drivers earned the permits by working years as a driver. this was defended -- talking about the will of the voters, from the people from the sf mta keep reminding

this is i letter from the city attorney -- drafted by the mayor and mayor new sum and peskin was being drafted and has them to draft legislation that respects the will of the voters on taxi issues. please keep our desire not to tamper with the intent of proposition k in mind as you draft the legislation. there was only one principle in prop k and that was that permits go to cab drivers, not to cab companies, not to anybody else, and those senior cab drivers earned the permits by working years as a driver. this was defended -- talking about the will of the voters, from the people from the sf mta keep reminding us about. the voters went eight times to the polls to knock aside challenges to prop k which said permits to cab drivers and which this prop k went through in 2007 it was in the dead of night figuratively speaking, and i would like to point out one thing -- i looked at it again today and 10,000 words long and many pages in the pamphlet and 67 words were relevant to this. they hit it in the middle in the tiny print but it does say had should a transfer to the sf mta occur it should

this is i letter from the city attorney -- drafted by the mayor and mayor new sum and peskin was in

supervisor peskin says he can't understand what the problem is. he says tens of thousands of c-e-q-a determinations are being made every year and only a couple dozens are appealed. that's a small price to pay to try to save our environment, our quality of life. it's far more important than developers or speculators getting their profits. thank you. >>> good afternoon. my name is genie kwok. the proposed changes to san francisco's c-e-q-a procedures have many problems such as incomprehensible appeals deadlines and a five-acre exemption [speaker not understood]. it is on a 20-acre campus. the focus of my talking to you today would be to ask you to please protect the people's input and not allow the proposed changes that decrease opportunities for san franciscans to provide input and influence on projects prior to construction. the proposed shortened time period for appeals and in put provide insufficient time for neighbors to help each other think through the issues and regulations and respond accordingly. while complicated, san franciscans are will

whee was peskin' assess amount conclusion now at odds with the general assessment of the intelligencety? >> chris: charles from miami, of all the things that you heard from the panel, but clapper did give suzep rice cover. he said that their initial impression was that this was a video. >> but that doesn't make what he said true or plausible. clearly, the tripoli station chief said the terror attack, that contradicts what clapper said. i understand what clapper said afterwards is gospel. yet, what we know is happening at the time. on september 11, # 2, 13 and 14 is ignored. we know that there was a lot of information that it was a terror attack. and we know that susan rice unequivocally said -- it wasn't as if she equivocated. it could be this or that. the evidence was conflicting. her story was the same. i got even stronger and less embellished with each one of the shows that she went on. she said there is no evidence otherwise. which was not true. that is the question. tomorrow is the real event when petraeus will testify. he has to explain how he could have shaded what he said at t