i just mentioned, and except for the budget exception requests, just received by the budget and legislative analyst's office, we recommend that you approve the fiscal year 2011-2012, it -- interim annual appropriation ordnance, interim annual salary ordinance, and treasure island development authority budget, and i will be happy to respond to any questions. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> mayor's budget director. my apologies to budget and legislative analyst for not getting them the interim -- proposed interim exceptions far enough in advance. i know they had asked for them a while ago and we got them to them as he said, just a couple of days ago, but i do have a copy of our proposed interim exceptions that i will distribute to you and the clerk, and we will be working with the budget and legislative analyst to make sure they have the information that they need. supervisor chu: thank you. why don't we open these items up for public comment at this time? if there are any members of the public who wish to speak on these items, again, these are all items pertaining to the overview of

it has a couple of exceptions. one of them is where the city provides a direct financial assistance or when we provide the forms of assistance listed under the state's bonus densities statute. for a long time, we've relied on the second exception, which is to say we rely on that exception. we have listed, specifically, all of the particular provisions the city is agreeing to for why we believe we fit within the exception under the density bonus section. we also requested and obtained a letter from the developer confirming all of those forms of assistance and making clear that the project would not be achievable or financially viable without those forms of assistance the city is providing free we've also asked for and received a letter from the developer's law firm, which is a large and reputable firm in the state of california, confirming the validity of the letter. we have included, with your amendments and before your amendments, a requirement that all of these provisions that protect the tenants would go into th

people in new york and california and texas are irrelevant throughout all presidential campaigns except as fundraising sources, just the way contemporary american politics is, new york, california, are overwhelmingly democratic states, texas is a republican state. the states are ignored. and there are millions and millions of voters in these states who get no attention and it really does affect our politics, the substance of our politics as well. for decades we sub siddize products drk -- ethanol, iowa was such an important state. this has substantive impact as well as political science impact. >> would it be fair to say our senate is probably the most unrepresentative upper house of the advanced democracy with the possible exception of britain's house of lords? >> britain, ever since tony blair is more representative.

two interim exceptions that were not approved and which they are now agreeing to. in terms of our recommendation, the components -- real property auditors to look at tenant improvements -- we are recommending one of the two based on what we perceive to be their case load and the need for this new function. probably the more significant recommendation is the requested 17 new positions to work on the assessment appeals. we look at the backlog and the case -- caseload change year-to- year. we did acknowledge that there was an increase and a need for more staffing. we are recommending 15 of those positions. seven of them are positions that are working on a temporary capacity that will now become permanent. it limited to 1000 hours 2010 s 2011, but at permit physicians, they will be able to work more hours. -- permanent positions. the recommendations are based on what they were able to achieve based on workload in the prior fiscal year and what we anticipated in terms of their workload and staffing in the coming fiscal year. >> i just want to emphasize we are recommendi

two interim exceptions that were not approved and which they are now agreeing to. in terms of our recommendation, the components -- real property auditors to look at tenant improvements -- we are recommending one of the two based on what we perceive to be their case load and the need for this new function. probably the more significant recommendation is the requested 17 new positions to work on the assessment appeals.

some were hesitant to carve out the exception. others argued that parents need help to protect the kids. senator yee scheduled a news conference to react to the ruling. how is he so sure it will come today? it 's the last day of the court's session. many will be watching for this. the gaming industry brought in $18 billion last year. what do you think? visit my facebook and twitter page. let me know. live in the newsroom, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> amy, thank you. >>> 6:02 now. union city police are investigating a shooting at a home where two murders have taken place in the last year. witnesses tell officers a man walked up to the 22-year-old victim and opened fire on him at around 8:30 last night. the gunman remains at large. we're told the victim had to have surgery. it happened on a home near whiffle road near union city boarder with hayward. that is the same location someone was murdered last month. another murder took place last september. police made arrest in the september case. they don't know if the three incidents ar

as president chiu pointed out, this is an exceptional proposal, the likes of which have not been seen in san francisco before. i'm not aware of any other developments in the nation of more sustainable or environmentally considerate. many of you have had the opportunity to meet my sons. some of you have suffered their visits to your office. for that, i apologize. despite their bad behavior, it's for their futures i became involved and interested in the environmental movement. i believe that my children, your children, and all the kids in san francisco who grew up here will benefit from the project by showing all of us that sustainable and socially responsible development can be achieved. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i speak today in support of this project. the population of san francisco is growing and the land mass is not. that is a reality. we have but one option left and that's to increase the density of housing in this great city. occupancy in the city right now is approximating what it was in the dot com era, but without a bubble to sustain

and all of the major nations of the world except germany and italy i think that you're going to see that the path unfolds much as it would have before for katrina a number of analysts say that the fukushima disaster monthly and you can you clearly innocence what can the world group place nuclear energy with is there a replacement for nuclear energy today and we are progressing developing we're not there we we have an urgent environmental and human need let's just look at the this is the context in which we're talking. when i was a young student in one nine hundred sixty there were three billion people in the world today there are nearly seven billion and we're moving rapidly toward nine billion by the middle of this century as we make that continued growth and population world economies like those of japan and india are catching up and we're going to see me seeing a tripling in world energy consumption over the next forty or fifty years at the very time when our climate scientists are telling us that we must curtail carbon emissions by eighty percent triple energy consumption reduce carb

and it's not considered exceptional or extraordinary. however, if you wish to propose an option, we would -- president olague: take d.r. and propose additional materials if you would like. commissioner moore: then we would do that and make a recommendation on the proper teement of the balcony railing. >> would you propose, i believe slab set 33% visibility or no or just solid? what is your pleasure? commissioner sugaya: no, i had a totally different question. commissioner moore: since we don't have a real photograph of the building, it's a little harder to do. i suggest the architect who works for the department to fimed the proper and acceptable solution to that. president olague: commissioner, did you have something to add? commissioner borden: no. president olague: commissioner sugaya? commissioner sugaya: was there a second? second. >> hi a peripheral question. in terms of the various itself, does the var ounce really address the -- variance really address the type of materials and whatnot on the balcony and that type of thing? >> we

exception to the fourth amendment has been stated to be used in order to protect national defense but i had a hard time believing that anything on my computer or list of that person might chat contacts are somehow detrimental to national defense so if u.s. government wants to seize a lot hotter markets in the future seize cameras from sort of petard rivers or seize notes from journalists they need to get a warrant first as has been done since the inception of this country well there these days of course we hear national defense or national security being used as an excuse to go after a lot of people but if they mention activists imagine journalists if it is like say a terrorist organization do you think that the government should have the right to then seize that information without a warrant oh that's a terrorist organization hopefully the u.s. government has the capacity to investigate this organization and then to get a warrant from the courts as is required by due process of law when we start degrading due process of law when we start claiming these no you'll see exceptions there'

except items 15 and 21? >> except items 15 and 21 are ordnances adopting and implementing various amendments to the memorandum of understanding. item 37 is an ordinance fixing compensation for unrepresented employees and establishing a working schedules for methods of payment effective july 1, 2011. president chiu: roll-call vote? [roll call vote] there are 11 aye's. item 15 is adopting and implementing amendment no. 4 to the 20072013 memorandum of understanding between the city and fire fighters local unit 1. >> could we have a motion to that effect? without objection, she shall be excused. [roll call vote] there 10 aye's. item 21 is a daunting and implementing amendment no. 5 to the 20062012 memorandum of understanding between the city in the executives' association. president chiu: supervisor elsbernd needs to be excused. roll call vote, please. [rollc al call vote] there are 10 aye's. president chiu: it is passed on the first reading. >> 38 is an ordinance amending the planning cut making various technic

except for cecil county as of now. a storm or shower popping up in adams county. heading into pennsylvania, be aware of that. that will be out of here soon. it's one that popped up across the area. we are going to zoom in and you know what, we are seeing a couple scattered showers around mount airy and this might not be hitting the ground as of now. if so a couple sprinkles across the area. let's talk about the traffic so tonya can inform us about that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i can't believe you've been on the air for a hour and no majoraccidents. we are doing okay. let's look at the jfx at coldspring. no problems to report northbound on right of the screen. to the left of the screen is the southbound traffic. of course we are doing okay with the drive times because we don't have major accidents. 83 southbound five minutes and 6 minutes 95 out of white marsh to the beltway. and 795 to 70 on the outer loop 7 minutes and bel air to providence 6 minutes. keep in mind, we do have somethings going on in te

is a preexisting condition so we had no there are other option to see a doctor and get treatment except for prison so overall knocked into a bank slid in no to the. saying he was robbing them for just one dollar and here's how he explained his decision. to a logical person and that was my logic. if they really should get out of that city because i need medical care then i guess i'm going to manipulate to get medical care unfortunately there are more than fifteen million people in america who like her own don't have health insurance and those are blocked from scene doctors unless they're bleeding out in an e.r. and all across the country republicans are trying to make it even harder for americans to find health care there's republicans in congress who are trying to privatized medicare and cut health care assistance to low income families or republican governors who are dismantling their state's medicaid systems if you're poor or working class and you're sick and this country just isn't the right place to find a doctor any more so how things got in this bad luck we do about it is perhaps

to the first amendment that would apply. >> this is not an exception.ditional, strict scrutiny, first amendment test. >> they make a feint -- >> i will say i have made the argument. there you go. >> if you apply strict scrutiny, they do not come close to the showing that would be required under the first amendment. they have not shown any problem, let alone a compelling problem, requiring regulation in a world where parents are at howard to - parentse calls, -= are empowered to make these calls. in a world where parents are fully aware of what is going on in their homes and aware of the rating systems. >> why don't you make the same argument with respect to the obscenity statute? >> because it does not have strict scrutiny applied to it. >> why shouldn't violence be treated the same as obscenity? >> we do not have the same history of it, and there is a difference actually which his kids were works well because we take everything that is sexually explicit and that appeals to prurient interests, we say it is not corporate. violence would require you to dr

to the first amendment that would apply -- >> this is not an exception.al strict scrutiny first amendment test. >> well, they make a feint as trying to argue that -- >> to get you to focus on it, i will say i have made the argument. >> there you go. i think if you apply strict scrutiny here, they don't come close to the kind of showing required under the first amendment. they have not shown any problem, let alone a compelling problem requiring regulation here in a world where parents are fully empowered already to make these calls, where crime, including violent crime since the introduction has witness plummeting in this country. in a world where parents are fully aware of what is going on in their homes, aware of the rating system and can use the tools we have talked about. >> why couldn't you make the same arguments with respect to the obscenity statutes? >> because obscenity doesn't have strict scrutiny applied to it. >> why shouldn't violence be traited the same as obscenity. >> first, there is no historical pedigree to that kind of exception. as i wa

they appear on your agenda, and the only exceptions you can see on slide right now deal with state and federal office buildings, redevelopment project area buildings, port jurisdiction buildings, and also city office buildings. these are projects where we do not hold a hearing, but with the exception of city office buildings, where we do deduct the square footage out of the cap. once a project receives an allocation, there is an 18-month timeline, during which construction must commence. in each of the recent recessions, the commission has articulated policies on this time line. in 2002, you recognized the bad economy and instructed us to monitor but not revoke active projects. again in 2009, you recognized the horrific economy, and while you reaffirmed the earlier 2002 policy, you did also state that projects which were not active should in fact be revoked. the next slide is our last on the process out of the house. here is where the annual limit program stands today. we have about 1.2 million square feet available in the small cap. in the review pipeline, the small private department

now, i'm not crazy about the exceptions, either. the search and rescue, intelligence surveillance, and reconnaissance, aerial refueling, operational planning because this administration is probably going to describe everything they do as falling into those ceptions, but it's a step in the right direction. and some have said, and i know their hearts and i know they mean well, we want to support our troops and i don't like it when people say let's back out and cut funding when troops are in harm's way. i have talked to enough troops who want somebody in washington to say, this is insane. don't get us involved. because they are good soldiers and when they get their orders, they are going to salute and go follow through on the orders. we are the body that must step forward and say, enough. mr. president, we are not responble to the arab league, to nato, or to the u.n. we are responsible to the american people. so though i don't like the exceptions i will vote for this. it's taking a step in the right direction. i yield back. the speaker

he was an exception american, exceptional human being. >> rose: exactly. >> i'd include harry truman. >> rose: and an exceptional patriot. harry truman who you've written about. >> i've written about him. i'm not much at rating... >> rose: i'm just asking who's in your pantheon of deserving mentions. >> well, washington and lincoln, f.d.r., theodore roosevelt, truman. >> rose: here's what john adams said once, that his generation-- his generation-- should study war and politics so that their grandchildren could pursue fine arts. >> that' exactly what this book is about. this is pursuing the dream that adam's had for the fute generation. i'm going in saying what did they do? how have they done? and of crse one ofis descendents is in the book, henry adams, who may have been our greatest historian. >> rose: tell me the people you mealong this journey. who is it that you most want to tell us we would be part in if we had been in paris at this time. >> rose: oliver wendellwendall holmes senior. who's one of the most engaging fellows i ever sat in a cafe with. holmes was aoet and essayist.

think they're referring to you because you seem very up on the issues of the day which is very exceptional in the united states. but if i'm as making a slight joke there i apologize you know there's people who take news very seriously and ask difficult questions and don't have simple answers but that doesn't seem to make any sense right people like myself if i am constantly following the news and if i really know what's going on in the country then why would i think that things are just fine why would it be quite a sixty one percent of people like myself think that we're headed in the right direction because i don't feel that way. no i think that's the disconnect that you're pointing out i mean i think most people feel that the. the forces that govern this country have far more authority than they do so that the political class sees things i believe if i understand what rasmussen means by the political class has educated active citizens who take voting and the political process seriously they actually see things more historical contexts what i think again but rasmussen is employing with th

the exception is bans and restrictions. to pet sales to thoughts about banning the bluegrass festival in golden gate park because it supposedly interferes with the lives of ferrell cats. -- feral cats. one of the things that struck me the most about the present commission is they are much too agenda driven and not into fixing problems with practical solutions. to my knowledge, there's never been a commissioner who has really intimate knowledge of running a pet store. during the 2 -- during the 23 years of operating a store, i have learned to seek practical solutions and resolve problems. i first -- when i first had my store, one of my purposes was to rehome pet birds. i considered it a duty to my customers. it has grown no a passion which i have continued to do to this day. i found another passion, and i hope i'm given the opportunity to interview. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. yorck. is there any questions for our applicant? seeing none, we will move on to pam hemphill. >> i'm pam hemphill. i've served on the a

or was there nothing except an inxoerable deadly silence. and the next reader is rick london. >> i'm going to read a few poems by the palestinian poet mahmud darish. i have the wisdom of one condemned to die. i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. and i sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow. i dream the earth's heart is greater than its mouth, more clear than its mirrors, and i was lost in a white cloud that carried me up high as if i were a hupo and the wind itself my wings. at dawn, the call of the night guard woke me from my dream, from my language. you will live another death, so revise your last will. the hour of execution is postponed again. i asked, until when? he said, wait till you have died some more. i said, i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me, and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. this last poem has an epigraph, the cypress is the shadow of the tree and not the tree itself, and has

, including exception to height, bulk, usable open space, some light, and dwelling unit exposure, and density standard. the proposal to lump all of these exceptions in to a special use district constitutes spot zoning, granting preference to this parcel not granted to other parcels in the block. we understand the project would extend 30 feet into the required of barrier yard. this would adversely impact neighbors by relieving mid blocked open space that benefits all properties on the block and conflicts with provisions of the residential design guidelines that impact light and privacy to adjacent structures be mitigated and the structure designed to be compatible with the neighboring structures. in addition, the modern facade of the building conflicts with the older architectural character of the area and fails to comply with the requirements of the residential design guidelines that the architectural features of the building be compatible to those commonly found in the neighborhood. in the appeal to the conditional use permit, we hope you will require a landscape in the rear of the b

that a platform of business is much more open to try to find solutions which are not car- related, except for here and there. also, for the population, it is hard. they have in mind, if you are better off to have a car, and have the car in front of your door. it is still a long way to go for us. the mobility plans that local authorities are now obliged to develop, and the hearings that are organized because of that, are almost always concerning parking places. we have now a program where we are having one less car parking space. in the streets, you see, there is one car less because now bicycles can ride their bikes, but the comments are not as enthusiastic. you will have to be from the cycling movement to be happy about that. it is a hard struggle. >> you, sir? >> with health insurance, i think people are realizing it is an idea whose time has come. maybe we're trying to make the same thing with cycling. in the united states, many people, especially in big cities, are much more resistant to the idea, including individual motorists, not just businesses afraid of profit. i am wondering, i

we are an exceptional nation. you know it. i know it. president obama might not know it.laughter] but we are going to elect a president in his place that knows it. [applause] but we also know that while we are an exceptional nation, we are not exempt from limits. moral limits. that limits. limits that basically are imposed by moral discipline and folks that understand that you cannot run faith and to god out of the public square and not destroy the very basis upon which our exceptional listen -- i -- sm -- exceptionalism is based. [applause] i had an uncle. his name was d.r. hubbard. the first african-american to win an olympic gold medal in a track and field event. yes, jesse -- before jesse owens. in 1924 he was to run in the 100 yard dash. there has been a transatlantic debate as to who was the fastest human being on the face of the earth and they were going to resolve it by and paris with my great uncle. when he got to paris, the international olympic committee would not allow him to run in the 100 yard dash for the high hurdles. both that you had to qualify for. that

one thing he said to me across the country when you ask americans do believe that american exceptionalan? they say guess but if you follow what what does that mean? most of us do not know or cannot answer it. that is so liberal began and gives the elite to denigrate it to say american exceptional wasn't, it is bragging about how wonderful we are and newt gingrich makes the argument it is not about being better or talented are smarter it is about being luckier. that is really based on freedom of expression the freedom of speech to work hard and live your life with great individual liberty. >> host: for the first time in six years mark stein has a book coming out. >> guest: we have waited a long time. one of the best writers and most insightful on the political scene who wrote a book for us six years ago called america alone and was an instant best seller and a wonderful book. we have been waiting another six years for the follow-up. it comes out in august and it is as ominous as it sounds. the previous book argues america was the lone in sticking to the principles that made western civi

apartment association case, which recognized yet a third exception to the cost of hawkins' law. it is found within the ellis act. the state legislature amended the act to allow cost of hawkins to allow either, if a tenant decides it wants to continue to be in the rental business, if they do not demolish the unit, we rent it, and the city can post rent control. if they do demolish the unit on the property and we build new units within five years on the same property, under the ellis act, the city has the right to impose and require the imposition of rent control. we have the ordinance in place in san francisco already. to that ordinance and that case, as to why we believe the rent control provisions should be enforced in this case. i know you have all seen the case. it is worth pointing out some of the express language of the case, which i will read to you quickly right now. this is in the los angeles county vs. some the of los angeles. they cite that you can control rent-controlled on new units. "residential property is subject to rent control is the following conditions are sat

i think when we were doing it, there were a couple of exceptions, and they were actually an exceptionto keep city neighborhoods together, and there was one, i think. at any rate, one of the revisions we made was looking at how we can do this to a-as best as possible, so where possible, we try to do that. we just cannot guarantee, so we will do it as part of the evaluation. commissioner: commissioner norton? commissioner norton: it seems to me that we want to look at what the pools were like. >> thank you. yes. the last part of this presentation tonight is actually specifically around monitoring, and one of the questions on there is what would the board like us to review as part of the process so that we can fall back in to see what impact that has, so maybe we can maybe even go into more detail about that. commissioner norton: the composition seems to be part of it to me, too. if you can adjust a line and have a more diverse pool, that might be something we want to look at. >> that was in the original design and will continue to be as we look at suggestions, however impact, not just t

there are three exceptions to that rule. one of them is when rent control is included in a contract with a public agency. that language has banned in the development agreement for a long time. we have cited all of the reasons we believe we fall within that exemption. we have the developer a greeting in a separate letter that they are providing. it would not be possible to develop this project. it would not be financially feasible without these forms of assistance. this was created by the assistants case. and that recognizes under the ellis act the cost. that case in the exception provides that when rent- controlled agreements are demolished under the ellis act that they can be imposed within five years. that is currently within the san francisco rent ordinance. we talked about how those would apply in this instance. we have the potential strengths and weaknesses of those. in the development agreement, we have added a number of provisions for the rent control provisions including establishing the clear intent of providing whe