what else did you glean from steve cohen?ar in that deposition was exactly what the judge said explicitly today from the bench, was that one of the reasons why he gave steinberg is stiff sentence and a $2 million fine was because he said you guys knew better. you knew what the rules were. you had compliance manuals, but you honored them only in the breach. and that's, i think, what you saw from that tape. and that is stevie cohen was, he didn't even know what the rules were, doesn't know what was in his compliance manual. and at one point when i asked him -- at one point he said i'm going to rewrite the compliance manual to say x, and i asked do you know if that's legal, and he said, i have no idea. liz: it's called the masters of the universe on wall street, fred tecce, and they sometimes believe the rules are different for them versus the retail investor like you, me and the people who are watching right now. it's straight out of the wolf of wall street. but at the end of the day, does martoma cave a little bit and give up

supervisor cohen, supervisor campos for pushing this so far. we really like the inclusion of a business plan working with the workers, disclosure and the pilot plan implementation. that's very help helpful. i had a aunt that worked at [inaudible] for many years but as you heard from speakers the demand for manufacturing space is great. san francisco only has 6.8% of the land designated for industrial and manufacturing, the least of any city. i like this legislation and how far it's coming except the small enterprise work spaces, sew, and [inaudible] latinos try to get jobs. it's great as a pathway if you don't have a degreer english proproficiency and it's active space and four blocks from our office and unfortunately in testimony from sf made and other organizations only two of the units are manufacturing so they have 20 therapy counseling offices, nine skin and hair salons, nine design offices and 4e commerce and tech offices and only two of the 43 are actually for manufacturing, so there's real data. active space has been there for years. it

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the motion is approved. [gavel] >> and on the related appeal, supervisor kim. >> thank you. on the related appeal i'd like to make a motion to approve item 28 and to table items 29 and 30. >> okay, supervisor kim has made a motion. is there a second to that? seconded by supervisor campos. colleagues, can we do that without objection? without objection that should be the case and the motion is approved. [gavel] >> colleagues, why don't we go back to item 10. >> item 10 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to reauthorize the reentry council and revise the membership, powers and duties, and sunset date. ~ to revise >> roll call vote. >> on item 10, supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? >> supervisor campos? >> campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? far

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> this is passed on first reading. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 11 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the committee on city workforce alignment, to give the committee responsibility for planning and coordinating the city's workforce development programs, and to make other changes to the procedures governing the planning and implementation of workforce development programs. >> supervisor chiu? >> thank you, madam chair. colleagues, this is an ordinance that comes out of years of work. you may remember in the last board of supervisors before any of us came here, there was an attempt through initial audit by budget analyst to rehaul workforce development program. unfortunately after a number of years that work is not done and i had last year asked for an audit of our city's workforce agencies to really understand what we are not doing and it turns out that in

to my right is supervisor kim the vice chair and to my left is supervisor cohen and we are broadcast today by sfgtv. madam clerk are there any announcements? >> please turn off any electronic devices and please turn in cards and documented part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. the items will appear on a future agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you and public comment is two minutes for public comment and this are cards in the front of the room. madam clerk will you call item one. >> item one is a resolution approving the acquisition of 28 avigation easements for the noise insulation program. >> and number one was sent to the land use and economic development committee. it's for the budget and finance committee and my motion after public comment to refer the bottom to the budget and finance committee. if there are no comments we will open it up for public comment. any public comment on item one? seeing none public comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues could i have a motion to refer this to the budget committee? >>i am happy to make the motion so this say motion we c

for her leadership. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen. >>i think we belabored the point. i'm going to offer steve a point and maybe come up and talk about enforcement. that was the issue of enforcement raised by one of the speakers in public comment. >> this raises a good point about enforcement in the city and just as personally as staff i would love to see that the planning department have more capacity. it's usually a budget issue. what she speaks to and the special restrictions and specifically about the office space that is created and ensure the office space if this space after three years the pilot goes away that the office use is not illegal so it's not about the pdr space. it's about the office space and ensuring any developer that the office space is not illegal and hard to find tenants et cetera so that's really what that provision speaks to and not the pdr space. with the enforcement of the pdr space of course that is the ongoing question and this section doesn't speak to that. generally about the other enforcement requirement

i want to thank supervisor cohen and campos for how far this legislation has developed. there was a number of issues that were programmatic and a number of issues that seemed really good. as you heard from the manufacturers a lot of clarification in the laws how pdr happens in the pdr neighborhoods is clarified in the legislation. there were three issues that we raised and two of them i think have been well dealt with in the amendments. the first was the question of kind of unintended consequences. in the section that potentially creates new pdr space and in that section potentially we could seeing at full build out 2 million square feet of tech spaces in the manufacturing areas. it might be a -- give or take and we get million space of pdr spaces. however, there's some funny math in the studies that assume the tech spaces are paying $8.50 a square foot which we know is completely different these days so i think this legislation has preceded by saying let's make it a pilot program for a few year and how well it works and next is a category that nobody has built and that

supervisor cohen? cohen no. supervisor farrell? farrell no. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang no. supervisor wiener? wiener no. there are four ayeses and 7 no's. >> motion to refer back to committee fails. [gavel] >> and unless there are any other motions, why don't we have a roll call vote on the motion in front of us on the three candidates that have been recommended out of the rules committee. madam clerk, roll call. >> on item 32, supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos no. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 10 ayes and one no. >> motion is approved. [gavel] >> and item 33, madam clerk. >> item 33 was considered by the land use and economic development committee at a regular meeting on monday, may 1, and forwarded to the board as a committee report amended with the same title. the resolut

i will keep this brief because supervisor cohen did a great job summarizing the legislation. we created the neighborhood in the bay view and created sanctuaries for these issues and banning households and office uses and this worked exactly as we intended and providing this and we have seen the pdr sector rebound and particularly the manufacturing sector and affiliated with these companies and we noticed aspects of the zoning that could be changed to help these businesses based on real cases we have seen. this legislation is our attempt to make the changes and do four things, promote the creation for more businesses, make the spaces function better, make it easier to be a priewld and controls more comprehensible and we're excited to support these changes from the planning department and support the well being of pdr businesses throughout the city and we're happy we're able to make this a collaborative effort. i am happy to answer any questions in this hearing. >> thank you. next we will hear from kate and the executive director of sf made and she will give her perspective and

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, i think we have one 2:30 special order -- i'm sorry, we have two. i'd like to first acknowledge supervisor mar from district 1. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm just seeing if our honoree is here, and she is. colleagues, later today i'll introduce items on our agenda or i'll introduce item on youth empowerment in our city government that have originated from our san francisco youth commission to increase youth [speaker not understood] in our san francisco board of supervisors. but before that, i wanted us to honor the work or continue our work every day to better support young people. and as part of that, i wanted to honor an amazing outstanding empowering individual who has really helped young people find their mission in life and helped to really give them a stronger voice in city government. her name is nyad abrohimian.

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supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye.ervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those ordinances are finally passed. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 5 is a resolution approving the award of a contract for procurement of a type ii fireboat to vigor fab, inc., in an amount not-to-exceed $11,637,660 pursuant to san francisco charter, section 9.118(b), for the term ending december 31, 2015, to commence upon board approval. ~ 11.6 million. >> colleagues, same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> next item. >> item 6 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the port of san francisco to accept and expend $2,970,000 in grant funds from the federal railroad administration for the rebuilding of the quint street lead track for the term of april 1, 2012, through july 31, 2015. >> same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. next item. [gavel] >> item 7 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the fire department to

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim no. supervisor mar? mar no. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener no. there are 6 ayes and 5 no's. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> colleagues, i think we have one 2:30 special order -- i'm sorry, we have two. i'd like to first acknowledge supervisor mar from district 1. >> thank you, president chiu. i'm just seeing if our honoree is here, and she is. colleagues, later today i'll introduce items on our agenda or i'll introduce item on youth empowerment in our

. >> supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? >> aye. >> mar aye. supervisor tang? >> aye. >> tang aye. supervisor wiener? >> aye. >> wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> those items are adopted. [gavel] >> item 38. >> item 38 is a resolution urging the department of aging and adult services to establish a 30-day home delivered meals waitlist policy, and in an emergency, within two to five days. ~ policy. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you, i'll be brief, colleagues. i think this is a key recommendation from our security task force hearings and in december we he as a full board unanimously supported putting our city on record to end hunger and food insecurity by 2020. i think this is a key part of that effort that is urging the department of aging and adult services to reduce the wait time for people who are waiting for home delivered meals and i strongly urge support. thank you. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. >> next item. >> item 39 is

and we added a couple of special conditions that were very well-expressed by supervisor cohen. we're looking for net zero and creating that slippery slope by which we are not only undermining the maintaining and growth of pdr, but we are also ignoring the direct linkage to housing affordability and how we are basically employing people who are struggling with jobs and maintaining homes in the city. i feel it is beyond anything that i could participate in approving today, because i feel we are falling right in the middle, where this area is being examined for some form of reconsideration. but from my perspective, feel i would take the first step in initiating something, which i don't even fully understand. somebody captured that by using the word "commercial gentrification." it's a very, very scary word and nice to think about higher and better use and that is what they teach you in planning school. the reality is there is say direct connection with in where we are and how to address it? i cannot do it today. i might consider it. the one thing that strikes me as an idea, but i t

cohen. to the extent that comcast is able to obtain discounts from programmers, is it likely that these programmers with the higher payments from other their distributors to compensate for lost revenue? >> so i will give a short answer to that but i yield my time to professor hemphill who may comment more knowledgeably but i think the answer to your question is no. the reason for that is in my lay terms, you can assume if we got a bigger discount that that would cause a programmer to go to a smaller cable company and try and make up the discount by getting a higher rate from the programmer. that would assume the initial us negotiation with a smaller to grammar, it left money on the table. it charged in less than what they could otherwise get and now that they got less from us they would have to go back and get more from the other programmer. and i don't think that's the way markets work and they think that economics and antitrust law is pretty well settled on that fact. >> before we go to pr

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. up

>> well, i'm going to say no to that, supervisor cohen. more so because it's actually a two-pronged approach. one is the sugar, synthetic sugar or a naturally occurring sugar, there is a slight difference. if you look at, you know, bench test in a science lab on how active the [speaker not understood] which is the main bacteria involved in tooth decay is minor. but the biggest problem is that there is also huge -- the acid content of just a cup of any type of sugar sweetened beverage because an energy drink like diet coke or regular coke is incredibly acidic. ph of 2 and ph of 4. in general it has a natural ph. 7 is a neutral ph. so, you're taking this acid-loving bacteria, giving them more acid regardless of the sugar, it become not just an additive. it is exponential in the mouth. it is particularly damaging in baby teeth because baby teeth are very, very thin. the aloe dynamically et, protective coating on baby teeth [speaker not understood]. ~ enamel children are drinking sodas. [speaker not understood]. it does speed the loss of calci

supervisor cohen? cohen no. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye.upervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tackv aye. ~ tang aye? tang aye. supervisor wiener? >> no. >> supervisor wiener no. >> the item is a doddthv. [gavel] >> i think we need to call items 23 through 30. >> item 23 is a public hearing of persons interested in the march 24, 2013 decision of public works approving a personal tent i have map for subdivision located 38 mission street. item 24 is motion approving the decision of the department of public works and approving the tentative parcel map for a 4-lot subdivision located at 738 mission street, assessor's block no. 3706, lot no. 277; making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. item 25 is a motion to disapprove the department's decision and disapprove the tentative parcel map. and item 26 is a motion to prepare findings associated with the decision to reverse the approval. item 27 is a public hearing of persons interested in the de

supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> and on 22, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? >> roll call vote. >> roll call vote. aloe >> on item 22, supervisor yee? >> aye. >> yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? >> no. >> breed no. supervisor campos? >> aye. >> he campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen no. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tackv aye. ~ tang aye? tang aye. supervisor wiener? >> no. >> supervisor wiener no. >> the item is a doddthv. [gavel] >> i think we need to call items 23 through 30. >> item 23 is a public hearing of persons interested in the march 24, 2013 decision of public works approving a personal tent i have map for subdivision located 38 mission street. item 24 is motion approving the decision of the department of public works and a

so with that cohen i'll entertain a motion to continue to the call of the chair >> thank you we'll take that without objection. >> folks if you could clear the room we have item 3 through 6 to get through. thank you >> okay. >> okay. thank you everyone madam clerk call 3, 4, 5 and 6. >> so coordinate the private property and right-of-way and item 4 is the mischievous of the technical zoning district are that item 5 is the ordinance amending the ordinance code to establish a public right-of-way and the next is the amending of the police code. >> okay cohen is the author along with the mayor on those items. >> thank you for the folks that have remained for the discussion of item number 3 through 6. >> to today, we have a couple of proposals before us. the san francisco plaza program it's an excited not upper program that aims to build communicated efforts to have for innovative and liveable solutions that engage the port of san francisco most vibrant communities. i'm happy to support this legislation i believe it will have positive benefits towards the plazas and open space. now the legis

cohen: i rise, mr. speaker, to greet my fellow tennessean and report i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. -- clerk: mr. cohen: amendment to h.r. 4660. the chair: the gentleman has two amendments. mr. cohen: i do have two amendments. the chair: which one is the gentleman offering at this time? mr. cohen: .072. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. cohen of tennessee. page 32, line 15, after the first dollar amount insert, reduce by $5 million. page 44, line 6, after the dollar amount insert, increase by $5 million. page 47, line 21, after the dollar amount insert, increase by $5 million. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes in support of his amendment. mr. cohen: thank you, sir. first i'd like to express my appreciation for the career of chairman wolf, in particular his co-chairmanship of the tom lantos human rights commission. he's done tremendous work on human rights issues that have of great im

cohen, it really is at that point where we have to call it like it is.hose lawmakers up there who were saying that this is going to create jobs, they're lying. i say they're lying. they have no factual evidence whatsoever to bring in front of the american people and say, look at this number. they don't have it. are they lying? >> they are, because the key is net jobs. so they can always point to export jobs that may increase. but the question is net jobs. just like the question is, trade deficits. there were $8 trillion in 20 years when no other nation had any sizable deficit whatsoever, net jobs. and what does it do to our pay? we have a call center worker today describe what it's like in her call center in texas when management tells us we can't raise the pay, the jobs will be moved back to the philippines. that's the reality of this. the jobs go. the pay goes down. and the deficits go up. the cities of america, whether it's low rain or cleveland get destroyed. >> larry cohen, president of communications workers of america, good to have you with us ton