younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job

in the authority and contract in england say -- the authority it is contrasting with multiple design teams. i suppose you will be seeing those soon in the next couple of months. we have very key pricing initiatives. we anticipate we will have the mobility management agency designated for treasure island, with more than 8000 residential units. that organization will be implementing the pricing and transportation programs required on the island. the core mission of the agency is expected in the spring of 2012. this will give us an opportunity to further reinforce the case for the treasure island transportation project, along with the northeast corridor project, as top performers in the original transportation assessment with the mtc. we have a seminal study on 19th avenue transit that we are going to be moving forward with after obtaining a caltrans planning grant. this is for the realignment of the m line, strengthening the connections to daly city bart from 19th avenue, as well as coordination with land development in the area. we have also been working on the balboa park station cir

it does not have that legal authority. the port commission does not have that legal authority just by virtue of the lda. that is one time pressure. the other is just the need to perform the work. the real driver here is piers 30-32. the minimum estimate for the time to complete the 30-32 improvements is about three months. walking through the timeline of the ordinance, if the board of supervisors has a first read on the ordinance, april 3, and then a second read april 10, the mayor could sign the ordinance as early as april 10. there is a 30-day window before the ordinance would become effective, bringing the dates to may 10. that is just a few days after we expect the issuance of a major permit for the piers 30-30 to work. we are still working with the regional water control board to make sure they can permit within that timeframe. and that is about the time when we expect to -- i think april 27 is the current due date for the final construction drawings. that would allow informally us to bid the work for 30-32 and potent

i am a planner with the authority. the authority has been involved in this project mostly through funding strategy and securing the grants for the project, as well as the project management and technical studies on the project. however, it is being led by department of public works. kathy simon, the design principal will be the lead and consulting firm that is here to answer any questions after the presentation. >> thank you, michael. i with the department of public works. sorry about that. i have a brief power point presentation today, to give you a brief update on the project status and the background behind the request. briefly, the goal of the project is to revitalize the market street through the embarcadero and established market street as the premier destination in san francisco. there are three rolls around mobility and economic development, which is part of the study. we have a very large project team on the city side and consultant team side to ensure that the technical studies are robust enough to inform the

we are having to deliver pier 19 to the event authority by july 1, 2012. this construction activity is necessarily going to extend beyond that timeline. we do not have a firm completion date, but part of the purpose of the ordinance is to speed up our ability to get into a contract for this work so that we have less overlap between our construction activities and the event authority occupancy of the pier. the same issue relates to the pier 23 handrail on this slide, a $700,000 project. again, related to public access and making sure that people are safe. we would like to complete those construction activities as soon as possible. they are going to overlap the event authority's occupancy somewhat, but we would like to minimize that. with both of these projects, we are exploring a potential path, and i think we have not arrived at a conclusion on this where our general contractor could secure the supply is, basically piles to rebuild the pier 23 south apron and fabricated railing. and that potentially port maintenance staff would be best qualified to actuall

we've always had the authority to close the bank. we now are requiring complimentary resolution plans, one, addressing the holding company and the affiliates, the second addressing the insured institutions, so hopefully we have a comprehensive resolution plan for the consolidated entity. these two resolution plan rule makings are designed to work in tandem and compliment each other by covering the full range of business lines, legal entities and capital structure combinations within a large financial firm. both of these resolution plan requirements will improve efficiencies, risk management, and contingency planning at the institutions themselves. they will supplement the fdic's own work that will have a solution in the event of a failure. the companies which themselves are now in the process of developing these plans, one, thus far have been quite cooperative and responsive and two, i think are actually recognizing some benefits. it's a little bit like cleaning out your attic or your basement, developing these resolution plans. you

we are on target for the resignation of the authority. i will skip over the rest of this but i would like to highlight just a couple of more things under management. we have had program manager funds for clean air and we received a notice with no findings. all of the people making and all that this was right. i would like to congratulate a few people who have had promotions, guarding with elizabeth, our new deputy director of technology services. she has been with us for several years now, 1st as principal transportation planner. she is very focused and a major force in forecasting not just the authority nationally. we are delighted to be able to have her lead at this section now where she will distinguish herself. we have also had a promotion in the planning division where we have a new principal planner. he is a key guy on all of the planning efforts including the bay shore intermodal and the planning study and it things that we have been doing. he also could spare his the plane divisions on the u.s. 101 corridor. and we're really delig

welcome to the march 6, 2012 special meeting of the transportation authority. before we begin, want to thank the members of the sfgtv staff. please call item one. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. commissioner campos: please call item to. >> item 2. revise the authority's funding commitment to the presidio parkway project to fully fund the project and make related changes including amending the authority's 2012 regional improvement program (rip) priorities; accepting an advance of $34 million in surface transportation program/congestion mitigation and air quality improvement funds from the metropolitan transportation commission; amending the prop k strategic plan to program an additional $9,680,000 in prop k funds to the project; and revising the authority's rip commitments. this is an action item. commissioner campos: colleagues, we tried to minimize the number of special meetings, but the timing of this matter was such that a special meeting was required. i will turn it over to our executive director jose moscovich to explain what we're doing and why this acti

chairman bernanke, i just want to ask about your legal authority, the fed's legal authority. so the fed can purchase sovereign debt of the united states. and has. does the fed have legal authority to purchase other countries' sovereign debt? >> it does for the purposes of reserve holdings. and we currently hold a small amount relatively small amount of debt of very high quality. i think it's french, germany, japan. but we are not engaging in purchasing debt of troubled countries. >> but that could be considered? >> we are not considering it. >> okay. >> congress made clear in earlier discussions, some decades ago when this issue came up that the purpose of this authority was to maintain foreign exchange reserves. i don't think that it was the intent of congress that we get involved in you know, sovereign debt issues and it's not our intent to do so. >> well, beyond that, does the fed accept as collateral for foreign debt sovereign debt of foreign countries? >> well, some of the debt we simply own as part of our foreign exchange reserves. in other cases, we have various kinds

- fbi has authority within the country. the problem before 9/11 is there they weren't stove piped, they weren't cooperating enough. in the same way nsa cybercommand, as you said, has the responsibility to protect america. it's a jewel. it's a national treasurer from attack along with many other, cyberattack, along with many other responses that you have. dhs has a domestic responsibility, a preventive responsibility. and in that sense it's different unless expansive and fbi and the other case. the interesting thing that you've testified to, and i think senator mccain was inhering, is that you are building exactly the kind of cooperative relationship between nsa cybercommand, dhs, and the fbi that didn't exist before 9/11 and the fact is, senator mccain and i introduced an amendment to the national defense authorization act last december that codifies in law the working agreement between nsa and dhs. so i know -- incidentally, i would say this for the record -- i've talked to admiral mcconnell, a former dni, i've heard him s

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that we now have to involuntary activation of the reserves to support civil authority. makes a tremendous sense. there's huge capacity in the reserves, distributed around the country and that was a great move that we are continuing to work on. >> i know there is an instance where there was a tornado or hurricane and the reserve unit was right there and they couldn't respond. it made really no sense whatsoever. >> i think we fixed that one, senator. thank you. >> and talking about the dual status commanders, how is that training going? so you're satisfied we're on track, it's going to be something that's viable for the future? >> senator, with the april class,e have trained at least two dual sta commanders for every state, and that's huge. so there's always one in the queue and we'll keep that training course going -- >> how long is that course? >> it's about a two-week course but it dovetails with another course, the joint task force commanders course. so it actually builds on previous no just a certified dual status commandern and north-com folks that have worked toget

we have authorities by various presidential directives. but nowhere do we have explicit authority to establish on a risk base level, on a risk base basis the protection necessary for critical infrastructure. >> finally, i think that a lot of people are unfamiliar with a lot of the work that the department has already done in the area of cyber security including the fact that there is a 24-hour seven day a week national communication integration center. i believe it's called the ncsc. could you explain how this center operates and what it does with respect tohe sector? >> the ncsc is an integrated wyber and it includes on its floor not only dhs representatives from other federal agencies from critical infrastructure sectors that coordinate with us through the nip. lots of acronyms in the cyber world and the government ld rep from state and local governments as well because a lot of the information sharing is applicable to ou. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thanks very much, senator collins. senator mccain? m co-chairman, thank you for holding

there are ballot measures where the voters have not given us that authority. the voters have kept the power to themselves through prop e. in this instance, the voters passed a ballot measure that provided a mechanism for us to make amendments without having to send it to the voters. i think it is appropriate for us to do that. if the voters disagree, we have the initiative power to change that. thank you. president chiu: is there any further discussion on this motion for this item back to committee. roll-call. >> supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor olague, aye. supervisor wiener, aye. supervisor avalos, aye. supervisor campos, aye. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, no. supervisor elsbernd. aye. president chiu: motion to refer back to committee passes. on march 20 which is the date we have sent the american cup items to three members of our board will not be here on that day. what has been proposed is that we rescind those boats and schedule the items for the 27th of march. with that information, i would like to ente

our legal authority is not limited to the battlefields of afghanistan. indeed, neither congress or our federal courts has limited the geographic scope of our ability to use force. the current conflict in afghanistan. we are at war with a stateless enemy. prone to shifting operations from country to country. over the last three years alone al qaeda and its associates have directed several attacks, fortunately unsuccessful, against us from countries other than afghanistan. our government has both a responsibility and a right to protect this nation and its people from such threats. now, this does not mean that we can use military force whenever or wherever we want. international legal principles including respect for another nation's sovereignty constrain our ability to act unilaterally. but the use of force in foreign territory would be consistent with these international legal principles if conducted, for example, with the consent of the nation involved or after a determination that the nation is unable or unwilling to deal effectively with the threat to

they provide no legal authority. the only legal authority that's required to deploy the united states military is the congress and the president and the law and the constitution. >> let me just for the record be clear again, senator, so there's no misunderstanding. when it comes to the national defense of the country, the president of the united states has the authority under the constitution to act to defend this country. and we will. if it comes to an operation where we're trying to build a coalition of nations to work together to go in and operate as we did in libya or bosnia, for that matter afghanistan, we want to do it with permissions either by nato or by the international community. >> well, i'm troubled by that. i think that it does weaken the ability of the united states to lead. if we believe something ought to be done i would think we would be going more aggressively to nato and allies, seeking every ally that we can get. but i do think ultimately you need the legal authority from the united states of ame

institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor avalos: good morning, welcome to the transportation plans and authority. please call the roll. >> item number one. roll-call. [calls roll] we have a quorum. supervisor avalos: thank you. i expect that we will be joined by commissioner kim. we have a motion to excuse commissioner calling. a motion seconded by commissioner olague. taken without objection. great. the clerk of the committee is erica chang. we want to thank sf g t v four broadcasting committee as well. please call item no. 2. >> approval of the minutes of february 14, 2012. supervisor avalos: motion to approve the minutes. seconded by commissioner olague. seeing no one come forward, bubo close public comments. on the motion second, we will approve. thank you. >> item #3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. supervisor avalos: welcome. >> good morning. my name is joseph brannigan. i am the vice chair of the citizens advisory committee. i will be providing the cac chair report today, since the chp -- cac chair, glenn davis, is unable to attend the meeting. there are f

fbi has the authority within the country. the problem before 9/11 is there were -- they were not cooperating enough. in the same way and as a cybercommand has the responsibility to protect americans. a national treasure from attack along with many other cyberattacks with many other responsibilities that you have. dhs has a domestic responsibility. preventive responsibility. that is a little different and less expensive. the interesting thing the chief testified to and senator mccain wasn't hearing it is you are building exactly the cooperative relationship, and the fbi, didn't exist before 9/11 and the fact is senator mccain and i introduced an amendment to the national defense authorization act last december that code of fires in wall the working agreement between nsa and dhs. they who will say this for the record. i talked to admiral mcconnell and heard him speak in a public setting. he thinks both bills are not strong enough but if you ask do you prefer cybersecurity act of 2012 which senator collins and senator rockefelle

so the importance of the new authority really speaks to us of.so these companies will now be required to develop the periodic planes to regulators. the plans will detail, how the top tier legal enterprises was in a subsidiary that conducts core business lines are critical operations to be resolved under the u.s. bankruptcy code. complementing this joint rule-making between the fed and the fdic, the fdic also issued a final rule requiring any fdic insured depository institution with assets under $50 billion to develop and outlining how the fdic would resolve it through the fdic is traditional resolution powers under the federal deposit insurance act. people always get confused about this. the new authority under dodd-frank for resolution goes to the holding company and affiliates. they've always had the ready to close the bank. we now are requiring complementary resolution plans. when addressing the holding company affiliates, the second addressing the insured institutions. so hopefully we have a comprehensive resolution plan for the consolidated

first of all, thank you for the opportunity to serve as the chair of the transportation authority. it has been a very busy first month and wanted to report on a number of things. first of all, we have some issues that come out -- came up in terms of the funding of the second phase for the presidio parkway. we just had a meeting with the mayor to discuss that. as you may be aware, that project will be delivered through a public-private partnership. we are very excited to see that move forward. as you know, the first phase is nearing completion. the public-private partnership provides an opportunity to demonstrate that we can deliver on time on schedule, and frankly, transfer and a majority of the risk to the private- sector while at the same time capitalizing on the benefits that they provide. we have a funding strategy for closing the budget cap that has been identified. i did not want to go into the specifics of that but i want to thank the county transportation authority staff for their work in making that happen, as well as the mayor's office, for their collaboration and assista

by a vote of 7 ayes, the board of education enacted pursuant to education code 44951 to authorize the superintendent not to notify a certain administrators and classified managers of the possible release and reassignment from their positions for the 2012- 2013 school year. item u, other informational items, posted in the agenda is the staff report on information on classified personnel transactions. before we adjourn, i would like tothank my colleagues on the board for tonight. making tough decisions and being respectful of each other's opinion. i also -- we like to say that happy birthday to someone who is 13 years old or something like that. leap year, 13 years old or 12 years old carried i know we have terrible voices, but i think it is worth singing for her birthday. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday dear esther happy birthday to you ♪ [applause] >> can i explain why she is only 13? her birthday is tomorrow, february 29. president yee: leap year girl there. i will change gears a little bit. in memory of suzanne sweeney, commissioner norton will speak to. vice president norton

supervisor elsbernd would allow car rentals in the district by conditional use authorization. the planning commission recommended approval as did the land use committee and it was passed on its first reading. i wanted to include, there was a resolution regarding the state assembly bill 1678 regarding restrictions on food trucks proximity to schools. that was a resolution sponsored by supervisors wiener, olague, and campos regarding the proximity to schools. they have proposed continuing that resolution to march 13th. there is a similar piece that has been introduced by supervisor wiener that would extend the areas where mobil facilities are permitted within san francisco city limits and that is scheduled to be considered by this commission for a recommendation to the full board do not on 19th -- full board on april 19th. it looks like despite the bill which would technically override the city proposed ordinance, this is still scheduled to be heard here april 19th. that concludes my presentation. if you have any questions, i am happy to answer them. >> i want to thank you for b

and finally, on the request for conditional use authorization with the modifications offered by staff earlier today, -- president fong: commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: i move conditional use authorization with the amendments made by staff earlier today. >> second. >> on the motion to approve the conditional use authorization with the amendments offered by staff -- [roll call] >> thank you, commissioners. it passes 4-. mr. president? president fong: that does take us into adjournment of the 10:00 a.m. joint meeting. [laughter] we're going to go right into our regular meeting. >> i just need a few minutes to shut this one down and to restart the planning commission by itself. president fong: ok. we'll stay right here. >> thank you. >> the question when i started 11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image.

without authorization, notices will be sent by certified mail on march 8. layoff hearings will be held april 3-9. once the administrative judge has made a decision, no later than may 7, you, the board, will have an opportunity to vote on that decision. final notices will be sent no later than may 9. in the implementation of the layoff process, first we will release temporary teachers. these are the teachers that accepted a limited-term assignment which they knew would expire, for instance covering stuff on maternity our medical leave. we currently have 124 temporary teachers. because these teachers are filling a position temporarily, their relief does not impact the layoff directly. as you know, we offered an early retirement incentive with a notification deadline of march 1. as of february 24, 81 certificates staff submited retirement requests by this deadline. today, we have 129 staff we know will not return. these numbers are not consistent with where we were last year at this time. at the end of last year, there were about 279 teachers who left the dist

for the national defense authorization act but a team of authors activists politicians and professors are trying to stop a wall in the tracks i'll tell you how. it's monday march twelfth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out there watching our team. well there is worldwide shock and outrage today after a weekend massacre in afghanistan a shooting rampage led by an american soldier who left his base saturday night walked more than a mile and broke into three separate homes killing sixteen civilians that includes nine children and three women and happening as the village of the punjab my district of khandahar this area actually considered to be the birthplace of the taliban where this is day after the shootings the man gathered some of the bodies and set them on fire before returning to his base and turning himself in and that man is now in custody according to u.s. officials is the staff sergeant based at a joint base lewis mccord in washington state he's married with two children and have already served three tours in iraq and have been in afghanistan since december now a

for the use of military force. [ applause ] this authorization, if enacted will assure the nation and the world that the u.s. is wounded or retreating from global responsibilitie responsibilities. the authority that i suggest will be focused to ensure that people of iran and the international community know that the disagreement is not with the population of iran or the muslim world, and the authorization will not prevent the administration from pursuing diplomatic measures, continued negotiations and consultation with our allies. on the contrary, it will strengthen. it will strengthen those efforts. this authorization will make clear that any effort by iran or its proxy forces to retaliate against the interest of the united states whether our personnel, our bases or freedom of the seas will be met by overwhelming force. [ applause ] for the u.s., this debate and the ultimate passage of an authorization for the use of military force ensures that we have a coherent unified poll i is toward iran and that we not take on another military action without bipartisan support. and the decision

congress lacks the authority. first the commerce law. >> mr. staver, even in the first couple minutes here, you have said what i per seeved to be two different things. and i want to make sure we're hearing you. is it your contention that congress lacks the authority to enact a statute? which is one way you have put it. or is it your contention that congress lacks the authority to enact a mandate? >> our challenge is to the mandate. we say congress lacks the authority to pass that. >> so you do not question in anyway, shape, or form the authority of congress to address the challenge of health care delivery and cost facing the country? >> well, we don't concede that this act, even aside from the mandate, that congress laws. for example, the guaranteed issue or the community rating system. that is a pervasive regulation that has never before been enacted. we can challenge that. our challenge is for the individual mandate. it is not for the entire other areas of this. >> you are not trying to protect that claim? >> our challenge has been this today

the mass transit authority would come in for the funding. and lastly, there are programs that are federally funded -- the federally-funded projects, because the deadline is getting close and the paperwork -- i think that this project will be fine. we will stop there. >> maybe we can hear from the mass transit authority on similar issues that were identified around staffing? >> hello, commissioners. speaking on behalf of the bicycle maintenance allocation, basically we received the funding for this project in conjunction with the bicycle plan. we have been busy employing these projects, with about six projects in a very short amount of time. and we can actually get back to that allocation. >> if i may, is this an issue of not having enough people. you are working very hard. you are doing everything you can to move these projects quickly. would it be faster with more people? >> it would be great to have more resources. i don't know if we can maintain having two or three or more people. trying to get back to the maintenance now that the bicycle

>> 8a authorization to request authorization soliciting contracts for engineering and related professional services in the amount of 1.5 million, totaling $4.5 million. request approval of policy for capital funding expenditures. item eight c, request approval of a 60 month lease, lease #l- 14819, which contains a 60 month extension option between the port, as landlord, and r. buraak storage of limited, as a tenant for approximately 274163 square feet of paid we indicated at 600 amador street of cargo way at third street, which comprises a portion of see what three of record for in such leases also said it to approval by the board of supervisors. president whoo ho: any public comment? any questions? resolutions 12.21, 22 and 23 have been approved. >> 9a, verbal information presentation on the development and it is position agreement and related actions to implement the 34th america's cup project involving use and appears nine, 19, 19.523, 27-29, and 29.5 and adjacent water areas. >> good afternoon. brad benson, working on the team representing the america's cup project. since we last spoke

she's the author of "agency, merger and bureaucratic redesign" and is the co-author of "empowering the white house, governance under nixon, ford and carter, governing the white house from hoover to lbj and governing public organization." she's co-authored essays on the white house council and staff and secretaries and the white house transition project from 2000 to 2008. she's the past president of the american political science association presidency research group and a book review editor for the presidential studies quarterly. dean cowlowski here, he's a professor of history at the university of maryland. he's the co-author of "nixon's civil rights." and he's written lots of articles and mini journals including the policy history, diplomatic history, and presidential studies quarterly. he was the paul v. mcnutt visiting professor of history at indiana university and he's currently conducting research for a biography on paul v. mcnutt. and paul charles marozzo is here as well, he's associate professor of history at ohio university and the author of "unlikely environmental congress an