mendez with an was an applicant. >> it was represented. >> i think you said applicant. there is a difference i want to know the definition >> ms. mitchell is the only applicant i added mr. mendez at the time he was the ceo of the wellness incorporated. >> macro him and but taking care of are a is the applicant she prepared to want director but she was standing with her. >> earlier today within the last 15 minutes you stated he was an applicant i want to know if there's rfrls for issuing the permit if mr. mendez was an applicant without having impact of the legitimacy of the impact. >> i assume there would be if, in fact, he has neglected to identify himself as such because if he goes through the initial documents do we provide workers' compensation insurance do we comply with agent provisions of article 3 the applicant signs all those under penalty of prejudice. >> okay. thank you. did you have further clarification on this question i'd like to have that >> this is the cds it's 17 minutes is clarifies this issue dph seems to clearly add mr. mendez as an applicant the re

. >> great, if we could begin by hearing from the applicant. and i apologize if i miss pronounce your name. vladamir. >> good morning. and i guess that i will just fry to keep it short and sweet here. i am opening up buzz works, directly across the street from the operation called butter on 11th street and i have been there for 15 years and over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry in the local bay area and san francisco from night clubs, and ownership and operations and promotions and production for special events and music festivals. the buzz works project really started off as an opportunity to create a more safe and conducive atmosphere within the 11th street area and the inception behind the plan was to integrate a business into the center of the block that will tie all of the rest of the businesses toegtd. it is a buzz works is going to be a neighborhood craft brew and sports bar, and it will also have a food program that will support all of the other restaurants in the area by serving everybody else's menus. and not compe

are there any other applicant here to present on this seat. okay. seeing none we'll move into public comment for this item. sir >> thank you. i'll be brief. i too what was really unique he was wheelchair bound i'm not saying we need someone from district 6 from a wheelchair to be representing the disabled community but at some point we really want to have someone like that to bring in a unique prospective and thank you very much >> thank you, sir. >> is is there any additional public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. i just would request to the plans and program committee to forward mr. randy smith with full recommendation it is vacated by a resident of integrity 6 our office spent time logan for someone to represent the seniors and disabled people in our district. and i appreciate raymond both in the south of market when we had the redevelopment plan for many, many years we worked on our alley master plan much of the pedestrian safety improvements in the south of market area. along with pedestrian safety and other issues like the open

. >> i'm reading our application you want to stay open until 4:00 a.m. saturday and sunday mongers. >> yes, ma'am everyday. >> oh, everyday until 4:00 a.m. and you know you can't sell beer or wine after 2:00 a.m. and yes, ma'am >> i want to make that clear. >> commissioner lee. >> so i assume it's ipod or studio music you don't have a dj or anything. >> just background. >> no karaoke. >> what's the u.s. bid. >> u.s. bid is like the union businesslike. >> so i went to them and you i have on here it says have you met with any logo neighborhood groups considering our proposed yes, of laura's diner and u.s. bid. >> yes, sir. >> do you see them. >> i just talked on the phone and got the paperwork by the m j kim. >> okay. i just wanted to remit you commissioners we're trying to bring this business into compliance there's a burden with the neighborhood outreach we'll have conversations with not being as harsh or expecting a high requirement they've been running just out of compliance >> i was trying to see that. >> totally fine. >> so why don't you have a seat

know how it was represented to them and there were no plans, and it is just the building permit application. and so i don't know how it was represented to the planner, at the time, other than that was on the building permit application and i think that the staff made a mistake and again, you know, we have to enforce, the planning laws, and that is what we are doing here. >> and i am sure that it is in your good and how did it come to your attention that this had been issued. >> i don't know if this came through the supervisor's office, but corey has listed the administrator, has with the compliance that were made to him and he informed me of this and i needed a notice and he drafted the suspension request and i signed it and issued it. >> thank you. >> i think that the permit was issued for a change of use. wasn't it? >> well, i mean this is, one of the zoning, and i think in the tracking system it is showing under the building permit occupancy as parking, as a parking lot. and under their tracking system and under the permit it does say the vacant lot and the mobile connection center. >> a

to applications based on specific campaigns. for example, i shared with your producer that we actually put incoming applications aside so we could focus on the aca related applications that came in over haste summer. that's wrong. we should treat each veteran equally and focus on applications as they come in, not because of special campaigns coming out of d.c. >> in other words, there was a priority system to what applications got attention and what did not. what's interesting here is we do have this whistleblower law to protect guys like you who discover bad stuff, but you encountered a lot of bad stuff, right? >> absolutely, neil. i will tell you something so shocking i couldn't believe it. i reached out to the white house deputy chief of staff rob neighbors to share my concerns about v.a. and give him a copy of my complaint. somehow that complaint was given to the very same management group who was harassing me. i received an e-mail from my now manager, sherry williams, saying i'm contacting you on behalf of acting secretary

we had to make an application, insecticide application to take care of it. that was made on friday night. if i had to apply for an n.p.s. permit, fill out the form, put in the management plan, submit to the state -- state, comes back, i don't know if i would have been able to spray until tuesday. the damage to the crop would have been substantial. the history that there's no cost, when this thing gets flill implemented, in practice this court decision has not been fully implemented in practice across the country. but that will be coming if we fail to enact h.r. 935. this bill removes needless and duplicate regulation that threatens public health and proposes an expensive burden on public and private entities trying to approve pesticides. this is a bipartisan bill. it passed out of this house last congress by 2/3 majority. we had partisan antics going on monday night. we had peach switch their votes under pressure for partisan reasons. that is not good government. this bill will help protect the environment and human safety, especially when you look at west n

do we have any questions of the applicant? >> supervisor yee? >> no i don't have any questions, but i really appreciate the thorough presentation. and sounds like this could be a wonderful place. >> thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> yeah, thank you, and i applaud your effort for an eco-frepdly wine bar, i know that the one letter of protest seemed to object more that you are calling it the tender loin than other issues and not acknowledging that it has been vacant, for i think that you said for decades that it is actually a big improvement in the neighborhood, even though it may be another alcohol license, but it sounds like the type of business that will help revitalize the area and i wanted to thank you also for the community out reach, too. >> thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> why don't we now hear from santos and the police department. >> thank you. >> lipton on behalf of 854 geary doing business as tender has filed an application with the california department of alcoholic beverage control seeking a type 42 license for 854 geary

. >> and the characterization on the application. >> the mobile recycling center. >> and you believe that it is a position, and it is your position that doing that, that is a change of use that does not subject itself to a 312. >> the type of use that is being proposed, does not trigger the 312 to provide neighborhood notification. and... >> why did, and why is it in your papers, is there the radius, notification? >> it was his initial understanding that he needs to do that and he brought in the application papers in with all of that documentation and was told that you don't need to do that and this is not a new use. >> okay. >> subsequent to that, three other planning department employees informed him the same thing and the reliance on that he entered into a five-year lease. >> what was the... could you give me the chronology of that reliance? >> when he went in initially. >> yes. >> and was told and then there were two other individuals who signed off on the back of the application and the person who stamped in the front. >> dates. >> i don't have. >> i don't have the dates. >> and

for 10 dwelling units or more it questions information about whether a sponsored applicant over and over their subsidy engaged in selling leasing unit we'll ask the jurisdictions do they have a policy either at a national or state level based on sexual orientation and we'll ask for a copy. the planning department will not consider a application complete nil the information is collected, however, the planning department will not prove or deny such a project. the planning department will on an unanimous basis collect the applications and the report will be sent to the human resources. the commissioner staff is in support one it represents a minor procedural change this process of collecting an application and triumphing it to the agencies is being done we don't stimulate this b will add an undue burden to anyone there's jurisdiction alleywayal issues we believe the planning department will exclusively refuse review the project the planning code will be compared with the guidelines whether to approve e.r. disapprove this will help to inform the human rights commission and we've conside

and the applicant premises is located in a high crime area. and the premises is located in census tract, 101.00. and the population for this tract is 3739. on sale license, authorized by the census track are 12 and the active on sale licenses are 71. off sale licenses authorized by the census track are three. and the active off sale licenses are 13. and the applicant premises is currently located in an undue con concentrated area. there are zero letters of protest received by the california department of alcoholic beverage control. and in respect to the letters of support, there have been none recorded with the department of alcoholic beverage control. >> the dean approved the off sale use and the regulations shall apply. you recommend the approval with the following conditions attached. number one, sales of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted only during the hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. and number two, no one shall be served with an alcoholic content greater than 15 percent by volume except for dinner lines, which have been aged two

applications. a prosecutor always lays out his or her case. to win, i think you have to be orderly. from your perspective, a comprehensive immigration reform structure, obviously it is a work of the executive and congress. but an ordering of the responsibility that you have which would then see an enhancement of staffing. it would see more resources because one of the proposals, of course, are the fines that individuals would pay to get in an orderly line. no, not in front of those who have been in line. what's your assessment on getting order to the immigration system in america? >> so of course, thank goodness we're not charging fines. we're actually charging fees because these are -- >> and i stand corrected. they are fees. there will be a multiple of fees. >> -- that individuals are paying. i think order is sort of the core business -- one of our core business objectives. >> would you add to that we can deal with the question of dealing with humanitarian crises in your whole answer? thank you.

and there is no application for the construction of a permit. and this, if you look at that permit closely, what happened was the permit was in existence for a long time and was legalized in 1966. if you read the language on the permit. and they went through and they didn't make them comply with everything that they are going to comply with now, sprinklers and fire and exiting and that sort of thing and so this was, you know, the history of these housekeeping units is that they only existed for this little snapshot in the 60s as a way to legalize moratorium on units that were already existing built after the war and this is one of them and this was probably put in the 30s when that first permit that they referenced, which they claimed legalized it first in the brief. and 1937. and so, the language of the statute i think dictates that it applies in this instance because this unit was not constructed originally constructed, and it came later. >> okay. >> thanks. >> we can take the rebuttal from the permit holder now. >> the critical issue here is

i'm here today not because any of the other applicants are not strong applicants with great track records. i'm here today because i've had the pleasure of working with mr. moshoyannis on folsom streets events under deviant after party for the past three years and have been so inspired by the way he's worked with neighbors and other folks in the community and non profits to bring everyone to the table, make sure all voices are heard and to do so in a way that i think is unique here in san francisco, sets a great example. folsom street fair brings in 400,000 visitors every year. it's our second largest street festival after pride. to me, the thing that -- the quality that mr. moshoyannis brings, the ting r thing that makes folsom street fair so special, that they use night life and use this festival to provide over $250,000 annually to non profits and i think that example of using night life to benefit community organizations outside of the folks that come to your events is one that san francisco should be setting on a larger scale and one that our entertainment commission should be setting

in developing drones for specific applications. orm ofelop platf software and hardward that power drones. one thing we don't do is actually build the drones ourselves. >> i am the founder and ceo of -- we build fully economist ground robots for collecting data. thesef our clients use robots to collected all across their job sites. my goal is to help all of these companies with logistics. help them optimize process and safety. are you i am very thankful to be here. >> first question is for chris -- where are we today with the underlying technologies that make these possible and where is it heading? >> we should define what a drone is. you will disagree about the definitions. i would define them as being aircraft capable of economy whichis the -- autonomy is they can fly by themselves. there can be pilots if you want. rge, they do jobs that are dull, dirty, or dangerous without human intervention. these are both robots but they look like they are not. the incredibly intelligent compared to where things were few decades ago. the reaso

if you have 700,000 plus people getting a daca application and there's no application fee, i'd be curious to figure out where under the circumstances those funds. >> we will provide you information on the cost of daca. >> when would you -- when do you anticipate we're going to get this? what's reasonable for us to get these documents? >> would 30 days be appropriate? >> i'm not sure if the information is immediately available, whether it's going to take it time to assemble. >> thirty days. that would be fine. >> next one is, 147 felony convictions, these are people, daca recipients, 147 referred to ice for removal, we would love to know how many of those have been removed from the united states and have they been referred to ice for removal. probably reverse order. how many referred to ice for removal and how many removed from the united states? we also need updated credible fear numbers, and we would also like to know how many work authorizations have been granted. this would be comprehensive over everything that you do. you can break it out in category, but certainly how many work autho

all about the application. companies come together and create an application development platform, that's when you see the cases take off. >> mark papermaster, chief technical officer at amd. >>> turns out amazon has a new low-cost all you can read option for the kindle, which is great, unless you're paid to write the words. what do authors, or at least one author, think of the new word buffet? we will find out when "press here" continues. >>> welcome back to "press:here." late last week, amazon launched its kindle unlimited, sort of a netflix for electronic books. you pay $9.99 a month, no more paying for each and every book. that's good news for readers. it's probably good news for amazon, but is it good for authors? bottom line, is it good for keith? keith ravel is a best-selling author of thrillers and mysteries are and we often turn to him when we have questions about the publishing industry. not only is he an author, a graduate of harvard law, former lawyer for the senate select committee on intelligence.

for student financial aid applications. personally, mr. chairman, i see no reason why american families are required to submit two exhaustive overviews of their financial situation to the federal government each year if they have a family member who is seeking a student loan. individual tax returns provide a complete picture of the taxpayer's financial situation. why should they also be forced to fill out a secondary, onerous financial aid form to the department of education as well? in the past few year the department of education has built an i.r.s. data retrieval trool into the -- retrieval tool into the application form to save time in filling out the form. i hope we can take this further. i think that using one form, already required of all income-earning americans is the best way to do it. my amendment today would simply ensure that congress has all the information that it needs in order to accomplish such a transition. i urge my colleagues to support this effort, streamline the student aid process, and i reserve the

currently we have over 600,000 pending applications. these are applications that have been applied for by a veteran, turned into va and for whatever reason we could not take the application to a final determination. this backlog has reached the number of 600,000. instead of hiring 40 people to address the affordable care act and the belief we would have this surge of people because of a buddy letter marketing campaign where the veteran was encouraged to pass on information about enrolling into va health care to a fellow veteran. well unfortunately the information for the veteran to take the action was on the second page of the let skter so got 80,000 duplicate applications. in terms of the 40,000 this was discovered in january of 2013. and this is important to the committee because i want to share something that was in a report that i forwarded to the committee from 2013. increasing online applications versus paper and improving turnaround times has a positive direct impact on providing timely access to health care. idatey reveals that

those applications are difficult. we should have one housing application. granted all the different developments have different income requirements, age requirements, etc, but we should have a common application. we should make it easier for people to apply and more funding organizations to help with housing application. it's amazing when people get affordable housing. it's amazing when a family that have been in a shelter that got housing. it was amazing to me that a young fill ipino mom got housing on 4th street. it was amazing to me, 1005 market, scared every month that his rent is going to increase every month and he's going to end up homeless. he's now in soma. a man who applied to represent district 6 in our citizen's advisory committee, he's now at eva in a bmr unit. it is true that so many folks don't get in, but there are some that get in. i know people on the street that get into affordable housing. the answer is not to not build affordable housing. that's why we want to set 30 percent. the last thing i want to say, this is not an either or, this

we continue to receive subsidized coverage for all applications including those where we didn't request any supporting documents. >> 11 out of 12 fraudulent policies totals $2,500 a buck. this is more proof obama care is rife with fraud, ripping taxpayers off. are they right? hi, everybody. i'm david asman. let's go into it with our panel. you have been warning about this for a long time. >> yeah. this is literally rolling out the welcome mat for scamsters. i love how that gao guy was testifying to an empty room. democrats and people who support obamacare treat this like a flaming cactus. this is basically the gao saying this. we have attorneys general across the country from new hampshire to california fearing obamacare is one big house of fraud, so, you know, i don't know where we go with this because with tax credits for obamacare that's literally money out the door. the federal gravy train is leaving the station. >> 11 out of 12 applicants were fraudulent. >> segments like this that can make it uncomfortable to sit in my chair. i won't defend it. that's awful. i'll point a few thing

there is one seat and three applicants. >> okay. so there are three applicants so demitri moshoyannis was not able to attend. is there somebody to speak on his behalf? okay, come on up. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is patrick and i work with demitri. i'll be reading his prepared statement today. please accept my sincerest apology for not being able to meet with you today. currently i am in london and promoting our events to prerptive tourists from the uk and edu. this work is my passion. there is nothing i love more than the unique culture and unique offering that san francisco has to offer. i mention our bars, clubs, parties, concert venues, and of course street fairs, showcasing our city to the world is both a personal and professional goal of mine and entertainment is a key part of that. i hope that you will vote in favor of my application today. i bring a unique set of skills from which the entertainment commission could benefit remarkably. in my position as exec tiff director for folsom street events i have worked ext

data reveals applications submitted in person are processed with higher emergency while online applications linger in a less visible cue. how could this happen? >> it's they linger. >> even though the it department paid licensing fees for over $40,000 for us to have a system for managing the queue. this was only put into play until after the 40,000 applications which were lingering in the queue was discovered. that is something that is shameful. >> thank you mr. davis. members, i have one more question i'd like to ask dr. head. >> you talked about the retaliation against you. i want to specifically talk about dr. wang who i read that the oig concluded that dr. wang had in fact committed time card fraud. is that correct? >> yes. the official report lay person. the information i received was that they had recommended immediate termination of her and this other individual through other chief of staff and counsel they had said that they had found significant fraud time card fraud. >> so she's been terminated. >> she has not been terminated. she's maintained in a supervisory role. >> can you exp

we request or the police requested a security guard application we're a restaurant preliminary we have a right-of-way capacity we're a bar but we anticipate this house of request for the place of entertainment request a number of people want to come to us and buy out so in the capacity of the wedding party the jp morgan they want a guitar ensemble or something like that we don't see drums or a tub by a or anything that makes enjoys the request is that was are regarded the police having the security personnel we think it's practical to keep the costs down that it be at one hundred people and it be for events over 9:30 p.m. we're looking forward to working with the commission >> thank you very much commissioner joseph. >> hi so your occupancy is 2 hundred and 14. >> yes. >> so the code requires that you have securities every one hundred patrons when entertainment is present. >> exactly. >> so one security guard won't do it's 2 hundred and 14 if i meet our occupancy you're required to have two. >> we'll welcome that that we have no issue it's the 75 was neither fish for foul we wanted one

applications. a prosecutor always lays out his or her case. to win, i think you have to be orderly. from your perspective, a comprehensive immigration reform structure, obviously it is a work of the executive and congress. but an ordering of the responsibility that you have which would then see an enhancement of staffing. it would see more resources because one of the proposals, of course, are the fines that individuals would pay to get in an orderly line. no, not in front of those who have been in line. what's your assessment on getting order to the immigration system in america? >> so of course, thank goodness we're not charging fines. we're actually charging fees because these are -- >> and i stand corrected. they are fees. there will be a multiple of fees. >> -- that individuals are paying. i think order is sort of the core business -- one of our core business objectives. >> would you add to that we can deal with the question of dealing with humanitarian crises in your whole answer? thank you.

the very notion that an application can be approved, despite fraud on the part of the applicant, and that uscis leadership will intervene if they get a call or e-mail from an outside party interested in a certain visa application is disturbing, to say the least. we know that the president has promised more administrative action to allow unlawful immigrants to remain in the united states and receive quasilegal status and the right to work. in fact, some of the different tactics he may try to take were even outlined in a set of 2010 leaked uscis memos regarding administrative alternatives to comprehensive immigration reform and immigration administrative relief options. however, let's be clear. such policies of this administration including many implemented at uscis, as well as promises about future administrative legal administrations continue to encourage unlawful immigrant parents to smuggle their children into the united states. these policies are putting money directly into the pockets of human smuggling and drug cartels. and they're undermining the fundamental principles that con

i failed to process applications. but this is the type of conversation you get when you go and talk -- >> let me put it this way. if you all could comment on this, is it -- the va -- the veterans administration is so dysfunctional right now in terms of its leadership, in terms of the culture as well so, i mean, having a new secretary come in, the culture is still there. i mean, i hope that the new secretary can make the appropriate changes but it's going to be difficult. do you all believe that there should be an entity really outside of the veterans administration for which a whistle-blower reports to. mr. davis and then let me go down to the rest -- the physicians here. >> i would absolutely say yes. it's imperative. you really want real change in a true whistle-blower environment where people will come forward, you have to take the policing power outside of va. >> dr. mitchell? >> i would agree. no one trusts the va to habitnd their own problems. >> dr. head. >> agree. >> dr. -- >> i completely agree. va doesn't ac

there are applications where -- there is a wide variety of applications. the absolute minimum size of the aircraft is two pounds or more. they are definitely regulated. one of our earlier customers operates regularly in france. they have the most mature regulations as well as probably the most mature commercial drone industry in france right now. all of it is regulated. there is a very good process in place in which the customer can submit paperwork and have it faxed. they can do that within 24 to 48 hours prior to flying the drones. >> what is the status of regulation with drones in the states? >> our number one priority is safety. everybody agrees. the faa is also focused on safety. i believe they are not equipped today to deal with this sort of challenge. obviously, we have different types of ideas -- certification, getting law enforcement involved, some sort of technology that detects these guys flying around so you know how high they are flying. it will be a very challenging thing to tackle. i think the faa will have to step back and collaborate with