and i just thought about something and since i am here, and i am coming to tell you, because there is something that i want to share with you. because it was appropriate. and i, in my years, 30 or 40 years in business and government and the city, now, icon included that as when i shared that viewpoint, that it can be obtained by everybody immigrants, all, and everybody, except the african americans and the native indians of america, only. and now, i have a discussion about this with the... and we argued and we did not think that was okay. (inaudible). >> are there any other members of the public that would like to make the comment at this time? >> seeing none, the public comment is closed and i just want to make a few comments, and i grew up in this city, and i have been actively engaged, and trying to help, support members of the community, and change lives, and yes, i represent district five, and i do it, but i do take offense that i am not someone who is thinking about members of the african american community, all over the city. a couple of weeks ago a friend that i grew up in the

i am leah and i am a third generation from district 10. what tom and the laborers is doing is an community asset for the community. they're taking six year old under served children and giving lessons. the the percentage of children of color that play is less than 5% and they're exposing them to the area and the community and taking the idle time they had and giving them jobs and will lead to careers and changing the perception of the community and realizing they're hard workers that they're part of the community. this course is in the community and allowing them to work together and i am completely supportive of it. i believe they're hard working people and bringing people together and help the youth and the community to succeed and have a long thriving career. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning commissioners. i am rodney hampton and i want to say i am definitely in support of glen eagles. born and raised -- i am a product of the san francisco housing authority and i am 41 years of age and i remember being in the ar

like, i am in. i have got to have this job. >> what was it about that small description that made you in? >> what is not to love? i mean, she is, first of all, vice president, not president, so immediately there is sort of, you know, with all due respect, yes there is a conflict there, there is a problem. she -- >> rose: second is second and wants to be number one. >> who wants to be number two, ultimately if you run a race do you want t to come in second? >> no. >> no. and so she is not happy about it, so -- it sounded very right to me for comedy and ripe for comedy and it proven to be the case. >> rose: you have a certain familiarity with washington and grew up between washington and new york? >> i did, yes. i mean -- >> rose: as a politician -- >> never, never. but. >> rose: what would you have whe been if you weren't a comedian or actress? >> i think the only thing i could have been -- i don't know if this job exists but if somebody could give me money to buy things for myself, is that job avail

and i am not having it. and my main lace, you all. and i am on this case. >> thank you, mr. washington. >> you forgot your phone. >> are there any other members of the public that would like to speak on this item at this time? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues, i just want to make a few comments, thank you, mayor for not only addressing this issue, of the commissary but also addressing the issue around reducing the phone rates, and i would like to see those in the jails and be free. and completely, and hopefully we can continue to move in the positive direction and reduce these cost but this is in the right direction and these are some major reforms that need to be done. and we appreciate your leadership on this. so with that, colleagues, is there a motion to send this to the full board of the committee report, with positive recommendation? >> yes. i just want to say that it is a no-brainer for us to be cutting the cost permits for the families and bringing the money to the family and so i want to make a motion to move forward with the recommendation to

so that is what i am looking for. what i want to get out of the hearing today. >> the last two items, at the end of october i am due to present the interdepartment report on what the different departments that i am working with will do for the agenda and that is something that i would like to work privately or publicly with your office to get your views on if we are on the right track. not a legislative but a leadership oversight because you are in the issues as well. but the second thing that is more concrete is the issue, and we are late in the process to think about these things, but the working group has looked very intentionally at the transient tax and the ways that you might link it to the revenue generating activities for these franchised communities and this is something that the supervisors and the partnership, >> and that will be explored and developed. >> correct. >> thank you. >> i think that we are all looking for things that we can do and obviously the mayor's office proposes a budget and while this yea

and i just thought about something and since i am here, and i am coming to tell you, because there is something that i want to share with you. because it was appropriate. and i, in my years, 30 or 40 years in business and government and the city, now, icon included that as when i shared that viewpoint, that it can be obtained by everybody immigrants, all, and everybody, except the african americans and the native indians of america, only. and now, i have a discussion about this with the... and we argued and we did not think that was okay. (inaudible).

i do not have that same experience, so i am not saying i am always comfortable watching it, but i lovei will say that the originality, there is nothing like it on television, and originality is truly i think the most important thing. it is why the people who love my show love it, because they are not finding that in any other show, and whatever you will say about her, no one is doing it, and only she can do it. >> did you realize that about yourself at an early age? i have defined what is unique and original about me and write to that? >> i don't know if i looked for it. there was someone on the show, and you are talking about the essence of funny, and he said, he did not qualify it by saying that, but there are people who are funny, and i have felt in my life that when people are drawn to me and my opinions, it has always been the things that are less effortful, which i always thought was very lucky. you know, kind of a new money child of immigrants, and i am patriotic, and i have this strange mix of qualities, love comedy, loves glitz, all of those things, i am blessed with them. i a

am i good? we have started a new fiscal year so let me -- july 1 and let me give you where we are after one month. july as you can see we are ahead of projections by nearly 3,000 visitors so we're starting the fiscal year off on a great foot and we know we have one free day a month and in august it was record breaking and 10,000 free visitors coming through i think august 3, so still a value i believe to our families to offer the free day. they could be crazy and i often suggest don't come on the free day. with that we also are growing in our facebook likes. we're almost at 60,000 likes and just a few years ago we had no social media presence at all so thank you. we are also getting ready for accreditation and take a sense of our plants and gardens and who knew we have over 8,000 species at the zoo and our name is the san francisco zoological society gardens and i didn't realize we had so many and thousands of species of trees and we have nature connects and that will highlight some of the plant

when i am in a hotel on the road i am not at my best.ou know the night nurses for the elderly and a guy is talking about stamps and it may be like, i am going to put him out of his misery. ambassador, which is scarier to you, a future of robots or a future of isis? >> a future of nuclear weapons , none of the above. i vaguely recall from my days reading science fiction about the three laws of robotics. the first law of robotics is do not harm to humans. can't we teach them that and get it over with? >> >> we didn't realize the intelligence part of a robot is accelerating so fast they will go, that first rule, let's go back in time and rewrite it. >> that means the liberals are making the robots. they think they are smarter than people. >> i like how he did that. >> i know i will be a nerd now, but it is a serious point. they had to re-do the laws to say humans or humanity. there were times when doing harm to a human is humanity and that's where you get into the problems. >> it must have taken place after i did science fiction. >> you sta

i can tribute out to the sheriff, and the department, and i am very happy and pleased and i am sure that most of our people are happy that ross is the boss, i mean that he is the sheriff. and that is the boss. and i am very much appreciative, that he comes from our district as you may know, supervisors and he has done a wonderful job in the eight years, back in the years we had the most, highest crime rate, homicide, rate, and to have a man like that that knows exactly, sincerety of the community and in the sheriff department is an outstanding thing, but one thing that i want to say is you know i am very much ashamed of this administration, i am ashamed at ed lee, he was with me and we worked together with the hrc and it is no mystery, and all that you got to do is check your history. a lot of conspiracy and that is why i am here today. and i walked through the down stairs, and the first thing that they say is that i feel that the... (inaudible) the building and am i really that important now? i guess that i have been around for 25 years. and i sheded some tears and i am here to tell you

my name is luke gordon and i am the executive director of recovery survival, and i am here in full support of the electronic monitoring and home detention. and because i work with this population every day. and what i have come to realize is that the taxpayer i have something here and as a taxpayer, i don't think that it is cost effective to leave a person for a low level crime in jail at 140 dollars and upwards a day as opposed to putting them on the electronic monitoring at 16 dollars a day or something in that vicinity and the point is that we know that that person is every day, every second of every day. and it is absolute positive way to keep complete transparency, for that client, is and it makes a community, a whole lot safer, to be able to identify where that person is and i am mot talking about a murderer, i am talking about a guy who did petty theft or something like that. and so i think that they don't have the economic resources to bail themselves out and as a pretrial, too, i think that electronic monitoring is the best way to go and 100 percent support it as a taxpayer and as

it and i would assume that i know that this is i am talking to the choir. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> thank you, very much. i react to say that the enterprise zone started in the 70s. and it started under the agency. and for the fillmore, and the bay view hunters point. and when is it still available, on the infrainstruct stur, committed that you all have, and the man have set up the city, and i would say like to say, and we will amount to seeing the celebration and, 52 years ago. and the human rights. and it was 52 years ago. and they celebrated 50 years. there was never, never, anything started and some people to start with the unfinished agenda, and have to finish when nothing that he started, and now we are the ones, that got the human rights going. in 1962, and became a commission in 1964. >> and i would like to say that, i would listen to the people talking, and i said, let me put this down. and there are moneys that you are hidden in this city, and under the other names, and the other names of what they are set up for and if

i am up for it. andy, my concern here is that we have these legitimate cases of assault that have to be dealt with, but we don't want to make the good kids scared to open up to girls and act like humans out of fear somebody will say you are harassing someone or assaulting someone. i am afraid for the kids with no ill intent. >> it is just less competition for me. >> that's a good way to look at it. >> i think visions of the school's december palestinianary board get -- disciplinary head getting in your head just makes you last longer. >> that's a win-win for everybody. >> you mean in the competition? >> yes because it is a competition. >> i feel bad. i do, i feel bad for these rich entitled guys that a are just used to taking whatever they want, and suddenly now they are forced to slow down, think about it before they give somebody the date rape drug. when somebody is pass -- passed out it is so hard to tell if they are enjoying it or not. these guys are going through too much. >> thinking is very ha

just grateful to be here and i am 15 years healthy to be with the company and so i am totally grateful and i am going to continue to do it and i enjoy. and thank you. >> thank you, we appreciate your outstanding work, on behalf of the board and all of the people of the city, thank you very much. >> thank you, the only thing that i will add is they both have to leave because they have pieces of work to fill. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay and just for members of the public because the fire codes, anyone standing find a seat there are a few scattered seats and i know that a few people will leave after this. but if you could find a seat we will appreciate it. thank you. >> okay. director? >> i would like to ask the director robins to come forward to present the next special recognition award. >> good afternoon, chairman, and directors and mr. riskin, it is my privilege introduce adam, he is with all of the traffic calming programs, and expert in solving problems that arise from constituents from other agencies and resolving in the construction issues and one of the most recent projec

>>i am repeat i am speaking as an individual and not representing the task force at this time. the order of determination they reviewed found the department committed a violation. i'm not sure if that's the best way to proceed. i'm not sure that departments in that way violate the ordinance. i think it's individuals who either produce records or don't. i'm not sure how we expect -- or how that can be fixed at this point. this really does resemble in my mind the [inaudible] versus rec park hearing a few months ago. you could certainly find a violation. maybe that sends a message but i'm not sure if the point is to send a message or to achieve compliance and i'm not sure if other than the person to whom a records request is directed if someone else is held responsible for their conduct if that actually sendies the right message with compliance. i wanted to address the commissioner's question about training. we held a number of hearings about departments and their policies and procedures regarding records requests. i was intended to invite mr. ionin to talk about the planning depa

jay am i -- >> am i the only one with children? >> they are beautiful creatures and when no one is there to take care of y'all in y'all old age remember laughing at this moment. >> if a child acts up on a plane the child doesn't know any better. adults should know better. adults who recline their seats are better than children. they should know how to behave in a a civilized society and somehow they don't. >> i pay for that seat and i want to be comfortable. >> are you ross perot? >> maybe i am. i am a maker and that entitles me to take that chair. >> i paid for my seat. >> that has a recliner as well. >> this is so first world problems right here. >> there was a french guy who freaked out. >> they are so awesomely honoree. >> you know what is great about this? because of your insidious belief we can't do your andy levey lady column. >> what? >> we will do it later. coming up, what is the most beautiful piece of art work in my apartment? his name is carlos and he is still unconscious. first, why do today's teens prefer text over cl

i am cowees jones and i am here for webcorand i am excited about this program because i recently graduated from tierra nova high school and i am going to college and i'm very excited for this program because i never thought of construction before but once i got into this internship i love it now, and i am very excited and i want to go to college for construction management now and this program has inspired me. thank you. >> hello i am vincent ham. i'm going to be a rising senior at walburke and i currently am [inaudible] of instruction. something i find interesting we work as a team together with a lot of different companies. i find that fascinating. thank you. >> good morning. i am reggie and upcoming senior at gateway high school and intern with a construction company and i am excited and i like coming to the office and i like hearing the stories that help me and give me tips for my future. thank you. >> hello. i am jordan gillis. i am interning this summer and into my third year studying civil engineering at berkeley and what is exciting is the scale and the historic value. it will be o

i am doing it again but like the judge told me, third time is the charm, i am telling him i am not doingit any more. for me as the person being locked up to go into the prison system i don't mind going back. i do at all the time. i will be speaking to the inmates at trinity state prison on september 12th which is my birthday i told him was my birthday. i will be spending my birthday in state prison talking to the inmates for the naacp to have a branch inside the prison because i believe it is such an important issue. this is it, i am not doing it anymore. i think he understands -- >> you will be there every single time. >> i used to say just don't let your children here several hits against the grounds. and under them, this is the last time it takes that sliding for you if you do it again. tell us your name and your question. let's go to questions rather than comments because we have a wonderful opportunity. >> my name is chris johnson from albany, new york. the question for tracey syphax is what role did the memoir play in your healing process from when you finally came out of hell to w

liz: i am only one that is worried about a nation of zombies. >> i am with you, i cannot come on it, it bothers me. >> legalize marijuana and tax it. >> great, and again, leave it to states this is way that states are voting. >> you collect you're tax revenue from a bunch of stoneers. >> a stoneer nation. >> do you think there is anything to do with parents that makes you more concerned about legalization? >> tracy and i are the moms here. >> but, if there is a god, you will all be moms some day. liz: and a dad. >> you know what i mean. you will be parents. >> time for our last real, real deal, a time -- this is insane, when real estate is at a premium, and the dream of homeownership is seemingly harder to achieve, for some people the price of a final resting place is out of reach, baby pwhaoplerboomers get oldere will get scarcer and pricier, there are talk about 300,000 to buy a plot. >> you can come to my family's not, there is a huge area in garfield, new jersey, for 18 of us, they had forsythe to this, i don't know where we go, we build it up to condos in the sky or cremation, w

>> good morning, jackson and i didn't come to speak on this, but i am really amazed of what i am hearing here today. because, most people don't realize, but when our young people or husbands or what have you go to jail, and we are serving time as well. and those, that go, are the ones that when we try to help our young people, you know, put things on the books, i didn't know that they were taking my money like that. and because, it used to be free. and you have young people that are in the jail and they know, and the other people and you know, in the community, contact us and i have had so many people to contact me, but they were not paying then, why is there, it is something wrong with this picture. and it needs to be investigated. because, i don't understand why people are making money off of those of us that incarcerated and living in the conditions that we are life ng and has already been stated. it already happened to those that poor, you know, and the minority communities black and brown and so why don't you all look and investigate this. why is the banks making money, whoever is m

i am just a people person. i am a social butterfly. this is how i do my time. i always have my makeup and my hair done, radiant. that's the reputation i have in here. some of them call me diva. >> i am a bit of a shopaholic. i like my things. that's why i am in here, grand theft, stealing people's stuff and shopping. >> benefield said she had convictions for theft and burglary but never served more than 90 days. this time the judge gave her five years and eight months she is eligible for release in half that time. >> what girl doesn't love to shop? i love to shop. i am just going about it the wrong way. >> benefield says her primary mo was not to steal from stores but other shoppers. >> i always wanted to look the part when i go out. i always got dressed did my makeup professionally and then i would go out there and steal. the attention wasn't drawn on me. because i am looking like an ordinary shopper. lady would put their purses in the buggy and they wouldn't watch their buggy at all. i would reach in their purse, and get the wallet and zip it back up and put

i am annoyed in new jersey that i am paying more to tan and dog s get the break.mong the people, and it is a hot button is the tax button. you need somebody with a spine, and i am elected to do this and i will be elected out by the end, but it is for the good of the country. >>> cashing in an hour ago. eric, what have you got for us? >> well, talk about a crimef of the government releasing hundreds of illegal ill a yens on to the streets and convicted of serious crimes. >>> and everybody is talking about the postal workers and the mail and the trash, and wait until you hear what the postal service is about to lay on it. >>> and robin williams' financial woes. why are we seeing that so many celebrities cashing it in. >> and the obama cadillac tax may be turping your >>> it is more than three years away, but it is more than taking a toll. a new report saying that employers are cutting health benefits and passing the costs on to employees to deal with the obama care cadillac tax. and tracy, you say that the workers can't afford it. >> you could have seen this one com

that's all i am trying to get at? >> there is a projigz in the california environmental quality act, public resources code that says the information dition closure provisions are so central to ceqa that a violation of them is to be considered a violation of ceqa even if a different outcome may not have occurred. >> so -- >> that's important to me. i wanted to come here because i believe you are the ones -- they are reluctant and eight to nine -- which is that group and over the six hearings they changed their mind and the more noncompliance they saw and the order of determination they saw and mr. rahaim has knowledge of that and it would help to have something -- they didn't comply. >> where is the planning process now that this project has been approved? i am sure you could file an appeal. i don't know. >> [inaudible] >> point of order. >> you cannot raise a point of order. you're not a member. >> i cannot? >> you cannot raise a point of order. >> i'm asking a legal question. [gavel] >> you're not allowed to ask why

tonight i say i am still a ford, but i am not a model t. i do have some old-fashioned ideas, however. i believe in the very basic decency and fairness of america. i believe in the integrity and patriotism of the congress. and while i am aware of the house rule that no one ever speaks to the galleries, i believe in the first amendment and the absolute necessity of a free press. but i also believe that over two centuries since the first continental congress was convened, the direction of our nation's movement has been forward. i am here to confess that in my first campaign for president -- of my senior class in south high school in grand rapids, michigan -- i headed the progressive party ticket, and lost. maybe that is why i became a republican. [laughter] now i ask you to join with me in getting this country revved up and moving. my instinctive judgment is that the state of the union is excellent. but the state of our economy is not so good. everywhere i have been as vice president, some 118,000 miles in 40 states and some 55 press conferenc

i am honored to work with them. [applause] >> i had quite a few questions that i will roll into one. it is about the backlash. it has been getting established and they are putting the relationships in place. >> where is ciber come sitting between authority, acquisition, capability vis-a-vis the services? i think you get that. u.s. cyber command sets the standards. skills you will have, and this is the training needed. for the services. the service are tasked with the responsibility to generate capability. terms, we do have some authority. under the current construct, u.s. cyber command does not focus on acquisition. i don't buy or generate it ability. i stayed operational requirements. i don't go out and design them. that is what services do. i say that as a guy who just finished two and a half years at the navy, component commander for cyber. thatdiscussion about, is the right long-term view to change that, is there a model we want to look at? i just sat down today and spent about an hour and a half. the question i

. >> i am sorry. actually, sense you are here, you can go ahead. >> pines, you will be next. >> okay. >> good morning, supervisors thank you supervisor cohen for calling this. and my name is kevin carroll and i am the executive director and impart of the working group that is called that is regarding this report that we are talking about today and i am also a member of the subworking group that has been put together, that includes the hotel council, and 7 of our major hotels and the hr directors and the local to kasey and pines and as well as thomas from the office of economic and workforce development and we have been leading and developing the process, right now. and the first thing that we did was finding way to attracting and having the opportunity for not oebl the community based organizations but the off can americans to learn about the hotel industries and the jobs available, and so the first thing that we did was developed a show case, that we invited, over 60 community based organizations to,

i am 5 foot 5. let me enjoy being short on a flight. >> you can be under the seat in front of me. >> i have before. i had a few too many. i will skip you. i already know what you are going to say. if a woman were -- if you were the woman trying to recline and somebody like this jackass here had this device, how would you react? >> i would be furious. i don't ever put my seat back. i understand that seats do go back and i can't control what other people do with their seats. that's why i say planes should have jails in assisted of making unscheduled stops people can go to plane jail. >> that's a great idea. that's an amazing idea. you know what, the people that are considered unruly or the person with this lock just ruined it for everybody else. if you have a plain jail -- but that's extra space. >> or maybe the punishment is you have to sit on top of each other. >> but for some that's not a punishment. >> then you have that whole thing on an airplane and the mile high club. >> you are so correct. you

am i? and part of me as a christian, i felt as if the lord was impressing upon me [spanish" these are your children. if they are going to love me with all of their mind, it's your responsibility to help make sure that they are successful. so that's the spirit and the heart of what raising the standards is all about. >> that's the initiative that we are here to talk about, and on behalf of our president, samuel rodriguez and the national hispanic christian leadership conference, we believe that it's raising those standards as part of a holistic overall initiative that can help not just those students but students that are coming today and tomorrow. see, because if we fast forward 15 years and now we are in today's classroom, this fall for the first time in u.s. history, a collective minority will be larger than the white population in classrooms today. so the first time in u.s. history. i am happy to report we have seen some progress, particularly among hispanic students in terms of high sch

and i hope that i am talking to the people not the... and put the bicycle really soon, and i think that we don't need anybody listening to us and just we put some bicycle. but i still hope that you are listening to me. >> and we had a big crisis very soon come by the taxi and i will be in this business for 25 years. and we are not going to make enough money to pay a payment, very soon by this wintertime and even though, it is summer time is very struggle for actually business. and so, you have to reset your taxi policy quickly, asap otherwise, the wintertime, the effect is coming and your driver return the medallion and the second one and then you will have 100 going back to the office and can't afford to make the payment because we are losing half of our business to the google or any other as google and they don't pay you zero, they don't pay you any money and they are making money on your own street that you put a lot of money on the street and they don't pay you anything, we pay the fee and everything, and because of you, and i don't