if not, it will be put on a future agenda. does that answer your question? >> commissioner mazzucco: it's a very exact science. >> commissioner dejesus: it's whatever the chief says -- >> commissioner hamasaki: no. the question was can somebody ask a question about somebody that the chief doesn't speak about. i can't see why if commissioner dejesus has a question about current events, she shouldn't be allowed to ask that. >> she can ask that. what i'm saying is that item should be agendaized property where we're having full-on discussions. those items should be placed on the agenda more specifically. >> commissioner dejesus: so i guess your interpretation of a full-on agenda, i just asked him what our wellness policy is. i don't know that that would take 30 minutes to discuss. i think he's picking and choosing on what we discuss, so i'm really we can discuss. >> commissioner, i'm trying to follow the rules. >> commissioner dejesus: i understand the rule. the rule says major trending crimes. >> if i may, things happen all the time, and i try and bring them to

seeing none, this agenda item is closed. next up on the agenda, item 2, approval of minutes for both the full august 7, 2018 meeting, and the retreat meeting, which was september 7, 2018. do any commissioners have any changes or corrections to the minutes? >> i move approval of the minutes of both meetings. >> second. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> before we do that, we need it do public comment on that. >> commissioner bleiman: is there any public comments on the minutes from august 7, 2018, or september 7, 2018. seeing none, we can move to -- >> clerk: [roll call vote] motion passes. >> commissioner bleiman: excellent. the next item on the agenda is a report from our executive director. >> thank you. hello, commissioners. good evening. i just wanted to say thank you in advance to everyone that's here for your patience tonight because we have a packed agenda. i want to begin tonight -- we always have a standing item for legislative and policy updates. so i just added to the agenda ab-2020 and sb-905, just in case governor br

agenda. >> gosh. i was -- >> sorry. >> charlie marstellar for the record, i was hoping we'd see commissioner kopp. is he coming? >> clerk: i wasn't heard anything. >> he was celebrating his 90th, so i was hoping

agenda. >> gosh. i was -- >> sorry. >> charlie marstellar for the record, i was hoping we'd see commissioner kopp. is he coming? >> clerk: i wasn't heard anything. >> he was celebrating his 90th, so i was hoping we could celebrate. that was my hope. and today is my birthday. >> oh, happy birthday. >> yeah. i'm not as old as he is, but he's in pretty good shape. but please, go ahead. >> clerk: thank you. any other public comments? okay. agenda item number three on the consent calendar, the draft minutes for the ethics commission on july 20, 2018 meeting. >> i had no corrections. >> i'll move approval of the minutes. >> i'll second. >> all in favor? >> oh, i'm sorry. we need public comment. all in favor? [voting] >> motions are approved by unanimous vote. agenda item number four, proposed stipulation, decision, and order in the matter of quintin mecke, ethics commission complaint number 27-151015. >> thank you, commissioners. as you know, representing this not on the consent calendar because commissione

has been taken over other things of the agenda has been ta ken over by other things of the agenda hasn taken over by this. absolutely. it has been a self—inflicted wound. over 100 organisations including the metro police, the criminal prosecution service, the government all accept iha definition of anti—semitism with labour saying they did not want to do that intricate here and there. and i kicked off a whole row. —— it could do the whole row. this was an opportunity to get on the front foot of brexit and then up and able to do that. i saw a funny tweet a better earlier this evening saying "who has done a worsejob,

there is an understanding on both sides to what a meaningful change agenda —— trade agenda could meanclude agriculture. but this means we would also have included topics important to us, access to public queue and market the instance. —— procurement. if we have a more targeted agenda we may make progress faster rather than including more topics. donald trump and jean—claude younger talked about zero tariffs and zero subsidies in july, will be get to that point was make we hope we can. it will not be easy. in the past, it was difficult to make progress. but the situation has changed and i think the us does not want to have a trade war with all its partners. you mentioned china at europe is also a big trade partner. i think there is an interest in pursuing a positive agenda and having results. thank you for your time. we will keep a close eye on how negotiations ago today.. alibaba has announced its succession plan after its chairman, jack ma, announced his retirement from the firm he co—founded in 1999. let's go to our asia business hub where shara njit leyl is following the story. nic

conjunction with the controller to finalize that agenda. so you know the meeting, so if you have any specific ideas or suggestions, you are free to send them to us. >> also, may i just note, i need to be included in that 'cause i do draft agendas. and the -- if you're adding things to the agenda, it can't be added the week the packet is going out. we need to have that additional item in sync with when the chair and vice chair do their premeeting. it's a good ten days ahead of the meeting just as a general courtesy. >> that underscores my point of advance notice. >> well, you haven't agenda -- you have a date, the next five -- this is the first of our six meetings, so you have five meeting dates. so if you have an idea, you have a suggestion, you are free at any point prior to those dates to address it to the chair and vice chair and to ben as controller because he staffs us as to which to be included. >> we had to go through several iterations to make sure we were having this meeting this time. >> the only reason we had this meeting, it was

>> commissioners, do we have to vote to amend the agenda? >> yes. sorry. vote to amend the agenda? the amount increase is $10,000, not 208,286 there are. with that amendment, any comments or questions? >> i just wanted to note that the program is a phenomenal program with over 50 locations in the city. i want to thank you for your work on that. also, i want to ask in general with the program, has there been a lot of private sector support being a city that's so rich, for lack of a better term, in such robust technology, companies, employees, that could provide training and volunteer support in kind? >> yeah. initially, when we transitioned from federal funded to local funding, we did get a lot of tech companies providing support through their employees providing training. we did have initially a program at the mid market area for their employees. san desk was the other one. a lot of these support and go directly toward our community partner partners. they handle facilitation for the program, and we have tech council that's part of this program. they help bridge the private-public s

when i took a look at this agenda, full disclosure. there were seven items on this agenda, when i came in at 9:03, we were on item four, and i thought, why am i here? why are we wasting the time of everybody that's out there? we could be doing these presentations and putting them out there, informing the public if that's just our role, but that's not my only role, just to ask questions, it's to leave this department in approxima b place. i don't like calling this a retreat. it makes it sound like we are up at a spa, relaxing all day, and that's not what we are doing. we are getting something out of the meeting and direct that meeting in a way. it's a very specific role. i pooh-poohed it when i first came in the role, and came out of one of those with a sin veer appreciation of the role of those people. that being said, we owe it to this new administration to take a look at the issues that came up in these policy summits and to put some ideas around it. this time last year, we had no idea that homelessness had anything to do with this f

we're not seeing any, so we'll move along to the next agenda item. next agenda item is number 7, hearing and possible action regarding the application for permits under the jurisdiction of the entertainment consent calendar. i will ask director to walk us through consent. >> thank you, president bleiman. on the consent agenda, we have two permit applications for limited live performance permits. one for mystic room & tavern, 417 stockton street, next to the stockton tunnel there. and this previously had a per t permit. it's inside of a hotel. we received support letters. we also have speakeasy ales & lagers. i think their closest neighbor is over 250 feet away from them. bayview station also signed off. let me know if you have any questions. i do see there are representatives from both in the audience if we need to bring any of them up. >> commissioner bleiman: are there public comments on either agenda item? seeing none, public comment is closed >> i would like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> i second. >> clerk: [roll call vote]

the agenda has passed. we're going on to public comment. item number 3, items not on today's agenda, but within the jurisdiction of the mayor's disability council. we welcome the public's participation during public periods. this will provide an opportunity for the public at the beginning and the end to make any comments on today's agenda items. each comment is limited to three minutes, if you need more time please let the staff know if you need to be accommodated other than those three minutes and you can complete a speaker's card as we mentioned at the front here of the room. please approach the microphone. so do we have any public comment at this time? >> on the bridgeline. >> co-chair sehaux: on the bridgeline. please go ahead. okay. thank you. >> go ahead. >> please let me know when i can speak. >> yes, go ahead. >> hi, my name is zack karnise, a wheelchair user, a san francisco resident. and i have to say that the conditions for people, the disabled people in san francisco are just atrocious. i don't think that it's even safe to say t

back into the top of the agenda.ow imminent is assad attack on idlib do you think? >> good question. seems imminent, to occur after friday when there's a summit in tehran between russia, assad regime and turkey. what's at stake here is last rebel stronghold in the western part of the country outside of president assad's control. and with it that pending military offensive could send literally millions of refugees into neighboring turkey, substantially destabilizing this part of the outcome of the syrian civil war. >> you mentioned this tehran meeting, but what is it giving assad, if this happens, feeling that he can now do this? this is the last stronghold as we said. all forced into idlib after aleppo and others were taken back by assad. why now? >> i think that president assad is desperate to show he has wherewithal to retake his entire country. he knows neighboring countries and international community know he didn't win the syrian civil war on his own steam but military of iran, russian federation on his side and

pa rt a more substantial domestic agenda.hat is in response to kadeen corbyn in manchester last week who sketched out some very chunky policies on taking control of 10% of the sharer of companies and giving them to employees, creating 400,000 jobs in a green revolution. there's a feeling in the tory camp have got to show more in terms of what they are offering beyond brexit. but basically, brexit overs ha d ows brexit. but basically, brexit overshadows everything. boris johnson once again on the war path. we saw him at the back end of last week with this magnum opus of a work, 4500 words on why chequers should be chucked, then he did an interview with my colleague laura kuenssberg, also putting the boot in and this morning, describing mrs may's plans as deranged and entirely preposterous. that was put to the party chairman brandon lewis, did he think it was acceptable to describe the plans in that way? boris has his own style of using language. the party is focused around being behind the prime minister to deliver a good deal

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the next order of business is the regular agenda. approving to pursuant to the transbthe -- [agenda item read] >> clerk: madam director? >> good afternoon, commissioners, through the chair, this is -- these two transactions. the transbay related project, unlike the mission bay and the shipyard where we have a master developer, in transbay, we do not, so the agency is required to do infrastructure improvement as well as open space. so what you have before you are two agreements. one's the fourth amendment with c.m.g., and they have representations here today, and the is an m.o.u. between the agency and the department of public works that we've engaged for project management services. so with that -- and this is all related to one project, it's the under ramp project park. with that, i'll call on benjamin brandon to present on this item. thank you. >> good afternoon vice chair bustos, commissioners, and executive director. i'm here today to seek the approval of two contracts related to the under ramp park project. the first is a reques

agenda item number 12. additional opportunities for public comments on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. bylaws, article 7, section 2. >> move we adjourn. >> don't we want to -- >> last call for public comment. >> my name is antonio. i had a question in regards to are you guys going to be going through with any of the hiring for the committee that was mentioned earlier today? in regards to -- i know there's stuff going on with the sunshine ordinance. i know there were people needed to do research on some of the things regarding the -- how do you say, there was a thing yesterday on the -- you say the oversight, overhauling of the -- how do you say this? this is the proposal for sf open source voting. will there be any people doing research on this that are going to be needed for here or as liaison. people that go to act between this and the mayor's office on technology? >> i am not familiar with this initiative. i don't know if anyone on staff is familiar with the initiative. >> if i may, if

that is the government employees -- some of them, who have their own agenda and not the agenda of the 60 million people that voted for donald trump to be the president of the united states, which is the agen agenda of putting america first. if that isn't your agenda, you should find a new job. >> much of what you say you would get agreement with democrats that there are those, and we talked to chris murphy of connecticut, who feel this is person should have put their name on it. as to the motive and the numbers here, this person claims he or she is one of many senior administration officials. i think you're trying to diminish the job this person has. i don't know who this person is, i don't know if it's an anonymous random government official, it could be a senior administration official and this person claims he or she is one of many. if it is, what does it tell you about what's going on inside this administration? >> it tells me these are individuals who don't support the president's agenda, the agenda of lower taxes, less regulation. less government bureaucracy, an agenda he put fo

to have someone who literally celebrates coming in every day to frustrate the agenda that the president and i were elected to advance, it really is an assault on our democracy and it should be universally condemned. >>chris: one of the more unusual words in the essay is lodestar. which it turns out people have looked, is a word you have used many times. >> sure. >> must again be our lodestar. with vigilance and - - as our lodestar. >>chris: do you think someone purposely put that in the essay to set you up? >> i wouldn't know. i wouldn't know. i really do believe that whether it's the book, the anonymous editorial, president obama's speech this week. it's on effort to distract attention to reelect this republican congress so we can continue to build on the momentum that's putting americans back to work. >>chris: what did you think of the confirmation hearings for judge brett kavanaugh? what did you think of some democrats who decided to break rules and release what were committee confidential documents and how confident are you that kavanaugh will be on the supreme court? >> judge brett

the agenda. i was worried about it and i walked by like minded people who were there from the very beginning were still worried about it. >> it really depends who it is but i also think that's not particularly relevant. meaning, who it is. but what i want to say is -- >> laura: it could be someone in the west wing. >> it could be. >> laura: that's a problem. >> that would be a huge problem. but here's what i want to say about all that. the president said something today that really rang true. "the new york times" apologized to its readers because they got the election so wrong. he's got a good point. it's still not clear that many who cover him every day and criticize him thusly, understand how he got here and what he's done since he got here and what it all means to people. and that's incredibly important because look at the history from capitol hill yesterday, look at that difference between people trying to protest and it disrupted look at the hearing or a qualified individual who today school

i just saw the agenda this evening. i've been involved as a merchant in san francisco for many years now. just want to point out that a lot of our contractors are also small businesses, and make also along with recommendation, some consideration for l.b.e.s under chapter 14, i believe it is. and san francisco tends to be a bit punitive when they get extra powers on, you know, mitigation costs and things like that, so i just wanted to bring that up along with your guys's recommendations, okay? thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, again, carlos gomez. hispanic chambers of commerce san francisco. i would more like to reiterate what steven and scott are saying in terms of participation. when we aren't on the menu, we aren't at the table. the most important is we have all representation from businesses and organization in anything that has to do with the creation or the support or the development for small businesses because the fact is that when it comes down to have people that may or may not have the expertise in writing co