mta takes actions, puc takes actions. some of those are discretionary, some are not. all that are discretionary subject to c-e-q-a. >> and did we look at -- in our recommendation, you know, i think there is a lot to be said about having a window of appeal. but why didn't we limit it to planning or building related discretionary permit? i think by far we have the biggest notice requirement of other agencies. it's a c-e-q-a appeal, i think it would be related to planning or building permits. did we think about that when you were reviewing the legislation in terms of if you're going to choose a discretionary action as the trigger that it would be a planning or building permit only as opposed to, you know, kind of these ancillary permits? >> well, i don't think that the other permits are ancillary. in fact, maybe the concerns have been voiced here about those permits that are issued by other agencies where the notice is lesser bust. one of the things that's not really come out explicitly in this discussion is, and i think it's unlikely that the notice provisions will adve

and how one discretionary action, do people game the system and get a discretionary action, a place where they're left notice, no one is paying attention so they can get -- have an easier time in other places. i think that is problematic. i also think the appeals window the 10 days, 20 days, 30 days, 30 days with no notice, 20 days with some notice, is also somewhat problematic. those seem to be the two biggest issues that everybody is touching on. there is another thing about the fair argument which i don't see -- i can't find that language in the legislation because i'm not going to address it. it sounds like there's legal ramifications for even trying to change that wouldn't even -- beyond our concerns. but i think that there are real concerns about looking at what you would describe as the first discretionary action or what you would describe as discretionary actions. i also think that there is, you know, looking at what is an appropriate appeal window based upon those actions make sense. there is an issue, ms. hester acknowledged there is an issue with c-e-q-a. i think that's b

at the board for the administrative action. and if he does not choose to do that, then we certainly would ask him to take into consideration our comments from today to give him direction because, as you know, he does not have to do that. but what we want him to do, and that would be the motion, we're asking him to produce a third draft. and ideally, if he could have it back to us by -- what's our last hearing date, the 13th of december? well, maybe the first hearing in january probably. we would have a hearing before the board of supervisors. >> the point of it is for the more outreach to the public. you want to give that time. >> give him as much time -- >> january is as much time as he's going to allow, but let's say mid january or something like that. what's our second hearing in january? >> for him to get a draft, i don't want to put pressure on him. [multiple voices] >> i don't think he set a date. >> all right, we don't need a date. that would be it. >> the only other thing i would say, though, don't we want to spell out

to take fun getting actions and. do those things would seem that there's room on the internet for a p.d.p. social networking platform that's dedicated exclusively just scaling up activism to do battle with corporations i want to ask you we have about thirty seconds left i noticed that some of the old world order guys like bridge and ski has come out recently. with a statement saying that the grassroots activists out there are becoming a huge threat to the status quo so bells are ringing in the. polls of the old world order and the new world order as some call it. proof of success or how far we need to actually defeating these guys will grassroots activism has been extremely important for a very long time it's what's always defeated the bad guys and made good things happen for hundreds of years and you can point to civil rights struggle the new deal in america that created the social welfare state and the things we hold as basic tenets of civilization all of that is due to progressive activism people taking that the s

only apply to the action if that's the only action that we had in place -- [multiple voices] >> if the information that we acted on was incomplete and there was a change to the project or further development of the project that changed those conditions, go back to go here. essentially the c-e-q-a clearance is on what we know and what we address. if we didn't address an aspect of the project because it wasn't put before us, then that becomes a new discretionary action subject to new environmental review subject to new appeals. i guess, i would imagine people would give the whole project -- i do think we're shortening the window. i guess the question is, then, what is the process currently? like how someone related a story about trying to get to the planner and the planner was on vacation. is the only way that you can file an appeal is to reach the planner for the project? is there a website, can you go to the department? i don't know because i've never filed an appeal. maybe you could eliminate -- >> appeals for exemptions are solely to the board of supervisors. i was the person on vaca

action based on the second. we thought the first one was already rescinded and that is why we didn't pursue that. >> so for clarification, mr. bushman, so there was no rescission -- she didn't rescind her initial november 7th resignation? >> she did not and, in fact her actions were that of someone who was planning to leave, told the school through written email, which i have, that she was going to leave. and she indicated at that point it would be the 30th, but there was no action taken either written or otherwise, that we can determine. but the bottom line is the requirement is within three working days that it be submitted in writing. >> so basically what happened is she put in a resignation on november 7th. she put in another resignation november 14th, but did not rescind the original one on november 7th, is that correct? >> she submitted a second resignation requesting to change the date. >> okay. thank you. >> from the 17th to the 30th. whether you can do that or can't do that, i will have to ask my lawyer

we can actually see actions in the brain. we can see you deciding and choosing between actions in the brain. we can see the flexibility of choice that you maintain. now this difference between law and theory as to freedom of action versus freedom of choice, i think it it actually is quite compatible across both if we simply separate what it is we're talking about, a difference between your preferences and desires over which you may not have control versus action choices and in law, we punish you for bad actions, not for bad preferences and desires. so then the question is, how do we take account for preferences and desires that may be outside of your control? that may be things like gray matter lighten kent showed us that showed us that people like psychopaths have decreased gray matter in particular regions of their brain. it could be something like the guy who he was talking about out of virginia who had the large tumor in his brain and chose to act on but didn't have control over having the tumor in his brain. how do we ta

this will provide when c-e-q-a appeal is filed, actions can continue to occur. for example, the hpc can continue to consider a landmarking or similar kinds of process, but no physical change can be made to the property. and, of course, the c-e-q-a determination is overturned, those decisions will be invalidated, but nothing irreversible will have happened. there are also improvements to noticing in the legislation and there are also changes around the board's rules. for example, requiring that there will always be a court reporter when the board holds c-e-q-a hearing. now it's optional. it's inconsistent. it gives the board more flexibility to adopt our own procedural rules around c-e-q-a. and then finally, the environmental review officer of the planning department will be able to make determinations around what is a historic resource that would require that noticing occur. and that will be a topic of discussion today as well. now, i know that this is complicated legislation and it's an important subject, but everyone's view on the matter is. and, so, we have b

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report of closed session actions. this is a closed session action of december 12th, 2012 the board of education approved by a vote of six ayes and one absent y yes, the program of one program administrator and one supervisor. in the matter of bs versus sfusd. [ laughter ] sorry. the board of education by a vote of 6 ayes and one absent, yee, who didn't deal with bs, [ laughter ] authorized the district to attempt to negotiate a settlement of specified term. board of education approved by a vote of six ayes and one absent yee a settlement agreement and certified discipline case in which the district dismisses the accusation and the employee agreed to specified discipline. other u, other informational items? no other staff reports and in adjournment tonight -- . one more information -- i can't end yet. >> sorry president yee, we just want to extend your last meeting. [ laughter ] i just want to -- i would be remiss if we didn't mention that this thursday december 13th, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at city hall, we will be cel

in the case of negative declarations exemptions, the triggering action is an action on the discretionary permit. . e-i-rs are not going to change. this is filling a big gap in state law in terms of administering an appeals process and in terms of noticing. there is quite a bit of commentary which, i'll restrain from going too much into in term of where it's coming from, that suggests that somehow this proposal is being consistent with state law. it is restating state law in a couple instances. but since this is essentially gap-filling legislation, it is not going beyond or inconsistent with state law. * i think the issue that you are most likely to get confused about, whether by confusion of the speakers or by deliberate representation -- misrepresentations by the speakers, is this issue of substantial evidence. and without going into a long legal treatise, there's two ways in which the term substantial evidence is used in c-e-q-a. one is an evidencery standard. one is an appellate standard. * the way in which this is introduced in this legislation has to do with evidence and very simply

okay. >> i believe there is action authority, wasn't listed that way, but it is an action item. >> so we'll take public comment first, then. >> is there public comment on item 7? seeing none, is there a motion to approve the administrative bulletin ab-007? >> if there's no objection. >> someone --. >> i move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion and a second and i'll do the roll call vote. the motion carries. >> item no. 7, discussion on progress of recruitment for executive search firm regarding hiring of a permanent director for the department. >> okay, commissioners, thank you. we have a short presentation to hear ted yamagaki was supposed to be here but unfortunately couldn't make it so we as per your directions at the last meeting, we went back with ted and also deputy director pam levin and started vetting the vendors that were proposed last week or last commission meeting last month and from that we short listed it and we're down to two and if i may i'd like to ask pam to come to the mic and kind of give you a little road map briefly on how we got there and then open up f

>> i think once you start collecting contributions, as a public action. so if they are at this private dinner and you start collecting contributions for a run at an elective office, i think it's a public action. or it could translate into this. because state law says once you raise $1,000 or more, you effectively become a committee. >> you just have to function in public. >> well, i do feel like the way this reads right now, that if i collected $1,000 from five friends, which i was told to use to try to convince somebody to run for elective office, and i spent that money by taking them out to -- entertaining them for an evening, that this would not be covered. that would not be covered about i this. i don't know if we're intending to know about that kind of of activity nort. but i don't think we're intending to cover that. . >> in that situation you are not spending money to convince the voters. >> true. >> so i think leaving out the word "public" is okay. >> okay. any other comments from commissioners on decision point 1? public comment? >> david pillpa.

or permitting action and take it to the board directly. so, under this legislation it would be that you would have to take it to the commission first and then there would be a triggering action associated with the appeal. the permit that would then go to the board. >> okay, thank you. >> commissioner sugaya. >> thanks. i have a bunch of disjointed comments here. first of all, i'd like to thank ann marie for responding to some questions that i had with respect to the table we have here -- i asked you first. i know we're going to get additional information with respect to this in terms of some more timelines is what i'm looking for. i also like to thank staff for providing some responses to all of the letters, the fine questions that were previously submitted and it's also in the matrix in our documents. that said, i think in just quickly looking over the number of why i asked ann marie how many exemptions, e-i-rs, negative declarations have been processed by the department within the last three, five, eight years or whatever, and left it up

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words from poetess on shooting tragedy but how about some bold leadership action despite all this fox news one of murdoch's companies apparently mandated that their employees refrain from talking about gun control altogether new york magazine reports that the executive producer producer in charge of weekend coverage said quote this network isn't going there and we were expressly forbid it about talking about gun control over the country embroiled in debate over the role of guns in our culture how can you ignore it to discuss this and more i was joined earlier by christopher chambers he is the journalism professor at georgetown university i asked him if you think fox has done a disservice to the public. yes. in a nutshell i mean this is policy that come down from above from you not from michael clemente the editorial director but from roger ailes and you know you have to understand there's a couple of themes at work here ailes and rupert murdoch don't see eye to eye on everything as a matter of fact ailes is probably seen murdoch drift a little bit even he's facetiously even blame that

an unexpected and forceful call to action and a standing ovation at the end. i'm joined now by nbc's kristen welker here outside newtown high school where many of the people had to stand outside and they actually put the president's words on loud speaker, stood out in the cold and rain to hear this. this is not what we were expecting to hear from the president. >> it wasn't what we were expecting to hear. we did hear him talk about those who had lost their lives but we also heard a call to action to some extent. president obama saying that the nation has to do more to protect its children. >> we are not doing enough he said, to keep our children from harm. this may not be an exact quote. it's what i wrote down. we can't tolerate this anymore. these tragedies must end and to do that, we must change. and he posed a question, are we prepared to say that such violence, visited on our children year after year is somehow the price of freedom? >> powerful words coming from the president. >> we are told, again, inside that auditorium, a lot of people were nodding as t

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. >> is this an action item? >> this is an action item, yes. i think we have public comment first, though. madam secretary there. >> is there any public comment on item no. 5? >> good morning, commissioners, my name is josh vining, i'm an organizor with the mission street collaborative. i wanted to say thanks for taking the time to talk about these issues. they sound like very commonsense issues but once we get into the issues it becomes more complicated. i wanted to step back and talk about the survey we conducted in 2011 and some of the responses we got from that. we surveyed 151 seniors or people with disabilities who lived in sro's city-wide and 68 percent of them were tenants who lived in nonprofit sro's, which are more likely to have these grab bars already installed than their private counterparts but even with that, we found less than 40 percent of tenants indicated they currently have grab bars, which is not nearly enough considering that many of the private buildings we had issues with barriers and even getting in. we expect that numb

just a clarification on the action item before us if there is one or for the later meet something. >> the sfpuc commission agenda provides for them to discuss and take action, so our understanding is that the commission secretary would call the roll for the sfpuc so that they could vote on this agenda item for lafco it was just a discussion item. >> thank you. commissioner vietor. >> yes and i appreciate all the public comments that have been made and the comments too from this body and all of the work that the puc has done. i have been on the public utilities commission for four years plus and i know this cleanpower sf issue -- i think it's been eight years, nine years in the coming, and when i came on there was really this sort of sense that the puc wasn't stepping up, that the city didn't care that we weren't moving quickly enough and he we are at this opportunity to really move things forward. i think it's really remarkable and i think we all now recognize with hurricane sandy, with the inclement weather and the winter we're having now that climate change and renewable power and l