joining me today are tanya schoenherr, lisa gibson, environmental review officer, matthew chandler and bridge. additionally i'm joined by staff from public utilities commission, the san francisco department of public health. the item before you is for the proposed change of use of 2100 square foot industrial building which is currently vacant and was previously used as a towing facility. the proposed use would be operated by saaba live poultry, a slaughtering facility. the space would include a retail component. which applies to minor alterations. on november 30, 2017, the project received conditional use authorization from the san francisco planning commission, which unanimously approved the project. please note that the conditional use authorization decision was not appealed to the board, this means that the merits of the project are not relevant at today's proceedings. the decision before the board today is whether to uphold the department's decision to issue a cal gore cal exemption and deny the appeal or return it to the department for additional environmental review. if their app

. >> i'm lisa gibson, environmental review officer, and this is julie moore. she's a senior planner, and she has roughly prior 20 years of experience prior to joining the planning department conducting environmental review under the california environmental quality act, and she has a degree in geology and a masters in psychology, and we're very pleased to have her working in our department, and again this is her first time before the commission and her first appeal of a project, so she's been very fortunate. >> good afternoon, members of the commission and president hillis. as you know i'm julie moore. joining me is wade griffith. the item before you is an appeal of the preliminary my gated negative declaration, which i will review to as the ceqa document prepared for the proposed alcatraz ferry embarkation project. the park service will provide more details in its presentation. describe the principle appeals concerns5cje.Ïgsirlçnç+mçç% [ please stand by ]. >>-gsh and(ue dnu ceqa +bdocument. 31 on ç as part of the the park"t serviceswq selected concessione

. >> lisa gibson, environmental review officer. if you could hold, we're consulting with the city colleagues about the matter. my understanding is that, if there were a notable violation of any sort, that would have to be addressed, but we're not aware of any, so we're not prepared for the question. and the project wouldn't result in soil disturbance, so we wouldn't anticipate if there was any soil ground water contamination that it would be disturbed by the project. >> supervisor cohen: i guess the final question has to do with odors. you heard comments in the planning hearing. and you heard public comment here this afternoon. how will odors be mitigated? >> so as part of the condition use authorization, we do have a kind of standard conditional approval for installation of odor control unit to make sure that any odors are prevented from escaping the premises. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i have no other questions, madame president, happy to turn it over to you. >> president breed: seeing no other names on the roster, we will a

gibson, ii, of texas to be chief management officer. department of energy, lisa gordon-hagerty of virginia to be under secretary for nuclear security. department of defense, kevin fahey of massachusetts to be an assistant secretary. thomas e.ayres of pennsylvania to be general counsel of the department of the air force. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening actions or debate, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that no statements be in order, and any statements principled in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of the following nomination -- executive calendar 663. the presiding officer: is there objection? without