president trump tweeting last night, quote, who changed the longstanding whistleblower rules just before submittal of the fake whistleblower report. drain the swamp. other republicans say this allows second hand or hearsay information that it says the ukraine complaint relies on. >> i can't believe we're talking about impeaching the president on hearsay. what about the changing of the rule of using hearsay. >> he had no firsthand knowledge. he heard something from someone that may have heard something. >> his sources were firsthand knowledge. you don't need firsthand knowledge to be a whistleblower. >> used to. but they changed the form. >> in a statement issued yesterday, michael atkinson said the complainant had direct and access knowledge. and the a.g. found other information supported the complainant's allegations. meantime, president trump made clear he still wants to know the whistleblower's identity. >> mr. president, do you now know who the whistleblower is, sir? >> we're trying to find out about a whistleblower. when you have a whistleblower that reports things that are incorrect. >> the

president trump tweeting last night, quote, who changed the longstanding whistleblower rules just before submittal of the fake whistleblower report. drain the swamp. other republicans say this allows second hand or hearsay information that it says the ukraine complaint relies on. >> i can't believe we're talking about impeaching the president based on an accusation based on hearsay. when did they change the rules about a whistleblower? you can use hearsay, when you could not just weeks before the complaint? >> he had no firsthand knowledge. he heard something from someone that may have heard something. >> his sources were firsthand sources. you know as well as i do, you don't need firsthand knowledge to be a whistleblower. >> you don't need to now because they changed the form. used to. but they changed the form. >> the inspector-general said none of that was true. in a statement issued yesterday, michael atkinson said the complainant had direct and access knowledge. the whistleblower had more than secondhand assertions. and the i.g. found other information supported the complainant's allegations.

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. >> our submittal which you have reviewed includes detailed background on the artist, a comprehensive budget zoning maps and information on the materials and fabrication. so today i'll present a brief overview. the company the project sponsor retained my company to retain public art requirement for 633 folsom street. this is a renovation project adding five stories onto an existing building. the project architect has completely redesigned the facade and its street level presence. construction is underway and on schedule. the building is topped out the facade is currently being installed. and the completion is scheduled for 2020. while the company has a requirement for public art the company will be investing $450,000 to realize this exciting piece of public art for the city of san francisco. i wanted to bring your attention to exactly where the site is. there was some question about where it is on this site. as you can see on this slide it's highlighted in green. as the art consultant we met with planning early on in the process for feedback about the site in particular as it pertains

and if you look at 1b and 1e under quality of design development submittal, 1b talks about performance trust objectives which includes maritime and 1e calls out this balance that commissioner makras is pointing out. i agree it doesn't talk about how they are weighted but maritime is called out. >> so how many people are going to be on the panel. >> at least four. and it's in the waterfront plan or include -- just a moment. >> i saw that. but is four a good number? don't you usually need an odd number? >> well there's scoring so i mean if there was a tie i guess having a fifth would be good. and we left it open. but at a minimum it has development expert, port advisory member and person representing city or regional interest. we thought if there was an additional need, we could add another expertise if needed. >> when is that decision going to be made? who is going to be included on the panel? >> we would -- in our schedule we were going to begin to put names out there internally, have the rfps out on the street and have a final panel. >> when are you going to let the commission know? a

. >> and just to correct the submittal dates for the record, it does have a 2018 case number. it was submitted at the very end of 2018. the case was created on january 7, 2018, and the case was heard on -- january 7, 2019, and the case was heard on january 8, 2019. >> clerk: okay, commissioners, this matter is submitted. >> i will make a motion to continue this. how much time do you think the department needs -- it's on the department rather than the permit holder. >> it's when the appellant can give us the materials including the approved plans and the photo. the review of the zoning administrator would be relatively brief. if they could do that this weekend. >> do you think you would want to make a site visit at all to inspect the unit in person or is that not necessary? >> i think the photos speak for themselves, but we can -- we would need a little bit more time to -- >> maybe would be interesting to see what's happening inside the unit. >> dangjeremy, i'd be very nic. the zoning administrator does not like to be sacked. >> clerk: november 18. >> we're going to have a tigh

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earlier in the year, they received a portal submittal. phase one on the left consisted of the parcels that lined china basin park. the phase one before you today has been reconfigured to focus on that corner between the intersection of parcels a, b, g and f. new phase one provides infrastructure and a more cohesive strategy from the developer's standpoint and we like it because it delivers more housing units. the proposed phase one includes at build-out 560 rental units, 202 of which will be affordable housing below market rates, a little bit more than 550,000 square feet of office, retail. it requires all of the commitments made in the dda and da related to local hire and lbe enterprises, as well as 5.5-acre park. really the linchpin that the community made sure we would hold our feet to the fire was that 5.5*6 5.58 park. parcel k was a smaller residential parcel. we'll talk more about the infrastructure in subsequent slides. before i get into the meat of things, i want to repeat what amy said, maybe more in layman's terms. i'm not sure

and they absolutely do have capabilities for people of the public to submitt complaints. >> okay. thank you. you will get a two-minute rebuttal after, okay? >> thank you. >> do we have anyone here who wishes to speak in support of the project sponsor? come up now please. >> good afternoon. thank you, chairman melgar and commissioners. thank you for having us. i am tracy bird. i used to live in noe valley and i've been going to sin city cafe since my son was born. this is an amazing space. it's where people go to heal. it shares an amazing energy and spirit. it's an incredible resource for the community. and we actually met about 30 years ago. she was born and raised in san francisco and i'm sure we spent a lot of time in cafe floor together in our youth because we came out together and we came out together in the castro. so it felt very appropriate that we came right after cafe floor. so i think in the interest of supporting small business, san francisco local businesses, supporting this amazing space for children and there are always children there. my son stopped by this morning

we conducted site visits out there together, and we reviewed what was being proposed for submittal and comparedcompared those documents. work will be scheduled for review and getting directions to the contractor or stakeholder and i'm going to suggest that we will conduct weekly inspections until we see that the stakeholder and the contractor are back on track and we eliminate the possibility of anything going sideways moving forward with the project. that's my presentation. i'm available for any questions. >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. normally i'm not one to take a case like this because i'm not a big fan of the demolition issue. but it highlighted one of my concerns it's the means and methods of how we do these jobs. it's really nice to draw something up. but trying to build it is a lot harder. there were really two issues that caused problems here on this job. issue number one was this wall being shifted about four feet to the south. so the floor joints between here and here which were supposed to be left in place were now three to four feet too short. the joint do

including the submittal to the debt allocation committee in order to secure an allocation of bonds. the proposed bond issuance will not require the city to pledge any of its funds to repay the bonds. a little more about the project. the project consists of a renovation of a complex, of the 104 units, 84 earn no more tha 50% than 50%. and five are affordable to households earning above 80% a.m. i. it includes significant work, including replacement of roofs, siding, and structural and dry rot repair, and replacement of electrical heating and plumbing systems. no residents will be displaced, but temporary relocation may be required in order to facilitate this significant scope. as for timeline, we plan to return to the board for bond issuance approvals in february of next year, and i behalf of the project sponsors, and third baptist gardens, thank you for your consideration here today. i'm also joined by the sponsor, representative peggy lipitor. and we would like to include the staff report and answer any questions. >> chairwoman: any questions or comments? seeing none, let's open th

the 100 points relate to quality of the design, development submittal, the strength of the financial proposal the financial capacity of the respondent experience, organization and quality of the respondent team and up to an additional 30 points based on the quality design development experience and team organization. and then for the port commission review and selection process first we'll bring those respondents that meet the minimum qualifications to the commission so that will be after we go through the process to make sure they've met those minimum qualifications outlined in the staff report. then we'll bring on a third party to do review of the financial feasibility the historic preservation approach and an engineering review for code and occupancy compliance to make sure the proposals can meet the necessary requirements for those projects. we'll bring that third party review to a scoring panel who will take that information and apply it to the scoring criteria in their written review. and then they'll interview the candidates. and then finally we'll tabulate the scores and brin