at&t makes an application to the city a very detailed application. once the city gets the application it can do a couple of things one thing it's allowed to do is conduct a site visit and see if it wants to approve alternative locations if it choose not do this and deny the permit saying we don't think this location is go back 80 going to plain clothes a crosswalk once they say this meets the requirements then, yes we're past the point they can later change their mind and deny the application. the point is that the way this process works is about the hearing officers role is to try and pick out what's the least impact location the city can say tat at step two we're not going to allow the process we're not suggesting the department of doesn't have that discretion but can't take 6 months or longer to react >> that's another condition. >> thank you commissioner president lazarus. >> commissioner hwang. >> good evening john from the public works. at&t has suggested in argument in noois the location has been agreed upon. what the department is suggesting

it gives the information required by the department it's a fairly detailed application. the second step in the process is that the department has discretion to conduct a site visit. the city goes out symbol fold along with a representative from at&t they go through the neighborhood and use the discretionary guidelines under the order and look to see if there's other alternative locations that might be less impact full. if the city conducts the site visit under the sf order there was been 5 days the department must invite the utility whether, if any proposed locations in the neighborhoods are acceptable and second it should show how it prioritized a choices had k choice of the locations and third, the department will inform the utility in any locations need additional information and the department will tell at&t whether a public notice will be required. as a practical matter and under the sf order at&t can't proceeded to step 3 public notice hearing without permission from the the president. once an application it submitted the utilizes are to wait until they get an e-ma

as the recommendation hearing officer was to deny the application and ordered the applicant to cooperate with the parking meter for the double parking meter for the s m f i assume on mission street. i'll point out i don't see any authority anywhere in the s m f for the hearing officer to exercise that form of discretion so we respect telling me fully request this permit application there be a reserveal and it be approved >> mr. quan. members of the board of appeals i'm john quan with the department of public works. actually this one is interesting what happened i'm sure i've received a brief or a notification from the developer locked on 1335 mission streets as suggests that mr. president of this box is in conflict. the hearing officer determined that the site was most appropriate that in order for the fit to that site the most appropriate situation was for one the parking meters to be removed and put in a double meter that's the best location available that's assessable for at&t and that's one of the reasons the hearing officer made that recommendation. if the suggestion is that we the

at&t disagrees are that the hearing officer has the discretion to disapprove applications. i have nothing more but will take questions >> why are there too boxes which appears to be right next to each other by address. >> they actually serve different neighborhood and it's a geographical way the boxes work in this particular location there's serving, you know, different parts of the neighborhood. >> so the radius in terms of relationship to an existing box didn't necessarily apply. >> those boxes have a technical capacity to serve around 3 hundred households. they don't have an infinity load capacity so my understanding is about the situation is that, you know, anyone of these utility cabinets serve happening half the block and the other one was to serve the other half of the block but there was a box walk and there were easiest locations twin 1201 and the other on york street the department came and told the hearing officer those locations meet all the box location he could have approved this or held the hearing open and asked utility to provide additional notice to get mo

and what groups that the applicants feel they can represent including the application from the past. >> and you wish that some of them and many of them have not provided. >> okay. >> and the groups like for example the young professionals that is something that that particular candidate felt that that was a group that they represent. >> okay. >> commissioner campos? >> and i see commissioner breed's point though, and i think that maybe if there is a better way to at least summarize the information that we do have on the current make-up of the body i think that would be helpful for the purposes of insurancing that every person or type of information that benefits is represented and i do want to associate myself with the comments of commissioner breed and i think that you want to make sure that there are folks from different demographics and not just senior and young professionals and i think that would be helpful and i am happy to support the recommendations that have been made but i do think that we need to and that what might be left out and the other thing that i would say to the a

top applicants for the 1,000 spots for the incoming fres freshman class. what about race? taking race into account whether deciding to admit an individual applicant. you may endorse its value, and think of mixed student body both in class and in the determines, but it has gotten nothing but harder to take race in the account of the admissions process. what is allowed now is our focus this time on "inside story." let's start with background. the high court affirmative action valuin ruling said that race should not be considered. writing this case is not about how the debate about racial preferences should be resolved. it is about who may resolve it. justice sonya so sonya soto mayor said at a does not give free rain against racial minorities and that can oppress minority groups. it's a conviction she has held for years even writing in their memoirs that she was admitted first to princeton and then yale law school through a back door. >> i think it's a basic concept of requiring equal treatment, and it's a value that i hold, and it's wrong, it's fundamentall

the appellant was asking for the predicaments application but the application was filled out in february we regret we failed to follow up on that but that's not code to deny an application. march 19 the day after the permit was continually grand it was approved name is by the entertainment commission i received a call claiming that mr. 210 west application prohibited the permit this was profane to be enaccurate and the appellant said there was many claims so following up with the police station we couldn't find any police reporting for regent then he said it was inadequate we posted in our agenda and mr. twong posted for thirty days so we posted the local application. the march 15 anticipate 16 event mr. twong had a permit was not in violation he pulled a one-day permit so it wasn't going to take a police vehicle place under after st. patrick's day that's what i wanted to say the entertainment commission acted properly and we receptorly request you deny this appeal >> in your appraisal you have a list of conditions. >> yes. >> is that the full stent of our permits. >> it's given a good n

and then also, i know that we had talked that there are a lot of incomplete applications and i would like the staff to start to take actions on those applications. >> you got it. >> could you share with the commissioners list of who those people are. >> i can't off of the top of my head, but i will have a list for you the next meeting. >> that is too bad you don't have a spread sheet in your mind. >> almost does, i think. >> dart board. >> electronic dart board. >> any public comment to the future agenda items >> come to the summit. >> and any quick announcements. >> come to our summit next monday, april 7 from one to four p.m. at the main library and we will have a lot of topics. >> and we will talk about who is going to be there. >> sure. who is... >> who is planning to go? >> i am. >> i don't have to go. >> so she specifically requested and tell her the times and hours that you going so she can tell you when. >> it is a public meeting, is it not. >> it is public. >> and so we can be there. >> okay. >> it was going to be a problem and that we could go. >> and we go. >> and so it is

that's my application. >> yes?at the inception of the trial, we were informed about prior engagements which required necessitating preferential treatment. and we then arranged our affairs accordingly at the time accepting maybe incorrectly so without your blessing that -- that that would be the situation. so we are full understanding and support for the application. we question that maybe put us the anticipated or expected duration of the defense goes, my lady, that that was -- >> that was going to be my question -- >> i anticipated that, my lady. if i can do something to stop mr. nel in cross-examination not to be that long, that's something to be more accurate. but an analysis of what we think that we believe that the time would suffice between the 5th and the 16th. >> we're talking may? >> may, my lady. should, of course, you grant the application. we also from our side, we have witnesses already on the stand like -- for the rest of this week all the available court time. >> when you're talking 15, 16, you're ta

that is true except for capital improvement hardship applications. those regulations, the ordinance was just amended in conjunction with the soft mandatory soft story retro fit and in construction with landlords getting 100 percent pass through for those capital improvements, tenants were guaranteed we would stream line and modify our tenants applications hardship and the tenants wanted us not to consider assets at all. we're use cents the bmr schedule that housing uses. we're not using at our equity principals. that took affect this last january and we have just finished those forms. for all tenant hardships for operating maintenance and water bond pass throughs, the tenant hardship application, we ask about clothing and we ask for dumb stuff just like we ask the landlords. as i said in committee, i don't think that's relevant any longer and we'll stream line that and get rid of the criteria. we went to the rent board and asked them to make the criteria the same because it's confusing to people, that they can be poor but win here, lose here depend

we only have one or two with staff doing application assistance. we would like to grow that and asking for $55,000 more in general funds to have larger contracts in that department, so really we would like your financial support with the budget request, your support with the authority and in the big picture say if you have opportunities to leverage your media and give attention to the issues, particularly we hope to focus on the misconceptions, undocumented parents with documented kids and we hope to pull a article on that so if you have ways to help getting attention that is great or host an outreach event may is the calfresh awareness month and we're organizing a lot of activities so please follow up with me or paula and we would be thrilled. thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> i am just curious in regards an outreach team versus cbos doing outreach. >> yeah. >> if you look at the cost -- have you done a cost analysis which one would be more effective? >> so when you look at this it looks like the cbos are much more effective but it's fewer people

we take applicants in based on their preferences. and over 1500 of those applicants are actually homeless, single individuals, elderly and families. very high number. our housing was built mainly between 1941 -- >> sorry, mrs. smith, in order for the public to follow along, do you have a staff member who can help move these along? >> sorry, okay, our housings was built between 1941 and 1973, very old, and has $270 million of additional needs, and $50 million of additional needs because of age accrues annually. but yet the capital money that we receive is 3.5% of the need. it would take more than $5 million of annual budget just to modernize the elevators. and that $5 million that we get is for our entire portfolio. the capital needs have continued to increase. as you can see by this chart in 1991, we received $24 million for capital improvements. and we are currently receiving, we have about $5 million for capital improvements this year. while the needs have continued to go up, the resources that we have available to address those ne

so since we're not talking about having an online application for a after school yet being a goal seems like we should talk about that at the same time especially because we want people and i want to publicly thank you for you know when we put this revolution forward and the staff worked with me and a we put that in there on line and before we printed the school application but we i mean them and put in an interest box to sign up for after-school programs eventually it seems like that's a good thing for us to have an online school application >> so commissioner wynns that's a really good suggesting suggestion we're exploring all the applications and looking at an app for enrolling in school and information. the backbone to making that happen is a robust system which we now have that's definitely in the works. i would also is whatever we do going forward as we go to an electronic environment we're looking to enter grading our functions electronically so a precursor coming attraction and that puts me in mind of one of the others things that your presentation brings up i saw in your earlie

and we have submitted our conditional use application as well as the permit application to build out just the pharmacy for the existing retail that it's already approved for. and so -- and then thirdly, as i've already stated, we do not fit the formula retail criteria. i've completed and signed an affidavit that we submitted with our conditional use application to the planning department. so the reason that i'm here is to ask that the permit be reinstated so that we can continue construction at least on the pharmacy portion of our project and allow us to stop paying rent on three spaces instead of one. >> are you finished? >> i'm finished. >> what is the square footage of the clinic? >> the clinic square footage is going to be 2100 square feet. >> you indicate in your brief that the pharmacy is around 30 something. -- 13 something. >> pharmacy is less than that. >> how many facilities do you have around? >> in the country? we have 38 healthcare centers around the country and numerous other businesses as well so we have quite a few locations throughout the countriment some of them are

to ensure that none of the applicants is a threat to the united states.says in many cases applicants have simply failed to prove their affiliation with u.s. forces has put them in danger. it's a claim that infuriates him. he says he was on a tall ban kill list for months. he hid in kaboul until he and his family were granted entry to the united states. but he says there are thousands like him that are in danger. >> they will torture them, and send parts of their body as a warning message to their family to their american and to their other friends to stop working with the americans. >> reporter: and time for his friends, he says is running out. the translators have just seven months to complete their application before the program ends next year, closing a door on those who say they were promised more for their service. >>> well a home on a river in indonesia isn't always the safest bet. we'll have that story after the break. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. here are today he'sed lines at that hour. four people are dead in a mass

there's another applicant. i'm not finished with the item yet. so miguel penn. miguel. >> chair yee, did you have it open for public comment for mr. ahn >> no, finish the item first. >> good morning, chair yee, supervisor tang, my name is miguel penn, i came to san francisco to go to school, thought i'd go back to los angeles, fell in love with our beautiful city and stayed. i was appointed to the committee two months ago and have served on the committee. we've been very active. i believe what i bring to the committee is 5-plus years of work force development experience assisting low to moderate income san francisco residents with finding work. currently we are assisting the mayor's office of housing and community development with the community outreach for their consolidated 5 year plan. and also in preparation for their rfp for community-based organizations for the myriad of services that they provide. i served on the human rights commission equity advisory committee for two years and feel that giving back to san francisco in these committees is a wonderful wa

quan. >> i think you're done aren't you. >> i'm pretty sure done as i stated an application was appliedor only waiting for the process and at&t would have gotten their preapproval and got this installed and that's my expectation. >> you said they're standing on principle the way it should have happened to open the process. >> commissioner, i can't speak to that. >> okay commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i'll move to deny the appeals based on the fact they were properly denied based on the code. >> with that motion by the vice president. commissioner fung. commissioner hwang is absent. commissioner president lazarus and the commissioner honda is reused and there's no further business. before the board this evening we are ring that someone special. welcome to corona height located in the height of the cast strow district the eye kong bay bridge and on towards the east bay. cone oi shakes park is one the city's best kept secrets on lake twin peaks it's hardly crowded on a day any day you will run into a new lolls and hop on a bus to get there without any parking worries and lolls b