to not step on any feces or needles or any of the sort of i really hope this program continues and expands as well so i want to thank you you all and hope to have you fund this program thank you. >> good morning, supervisors john of san francisco travel we see the current conditions in san francisco on the streets and sidewalks having a negative impact on the quality of life and the effect on the visitor experience san francisco travel annually surveys our visitors and the number one issue they say distinguish the quality of their visit is the conditions they encounter on the streets they cite dirty streets and feces on the sidewalks and watching people relieve themselves publicly that prevents them from returning to our city this will provide those without regular assess those to types of personal services with dedicated options for those reasons we see tremendous value in continuing the program and possibly we encourage you to seek ways to expand this program into other areas so thank you very much. >> good morning i'm sorry kelly the program manager for latino i'm here on behalf of the

we could have expanded wider. we could have expanded deeper. we could have expanded taller. the proposed design however i think is best described by the residential design team quotes "the proposed addition say one-story permitted obstruction of modest size and reasonable depth and does not disrupt the mid-block open space." the seat bac is sensitive to the adjacent building in terms of mass, privacy and sight lines. the proposed deck is setback from the adjacent property to the north and addresses potentially privacy and security concerns." commissioners we don't have massive volumes of legal responses to the dr requesters partial citations and inaccurate -- but what we have is a hard-working san francisco family trying to make the most of their modest accommodations. we have a eleven letters of support and i have a map here of those letters of support, which should be included in your packages. and the design that vestained in size and sensitive to context and fully compliant to the planning code. hopefully we'll have your your support as we encourage you to dopt staff's r

so this came out of an attempt to expand the conversations we were each having or expand out of the pigeon holing that we have been put into. like represent your people. right? talk about what latinos think about immigration. and then hear about something else. this is like the second iteration of that live event one year later. but there was no conscious effort like avoid intersectionality but i think we're accepting that it is necessarily a part of the context of the discussion. but we all have race in the titles of our work and have been called upon and chosen to some degree to explore race as like a primary variable in an identity.

instead of expanding 529, the president proposed raising taxes on college savings. if implemented, his scheme would have turned back the clock on middle class savings and taken money from your savings to pay for more government. that would have discouraged families from using 529 shalls, meaning less savings, more debt, and more government dependence. it was a terribly misguided idea, but it took a public outcry for the president to realize it. just days after proposing this tax on 529's, he agreed to drop it from his budget. with hardworking families struggling abandoning his proposal is not enough. first, the president should put his full weight behind our plan to expand and strengthen 529 accounts. we can remove 0 common paperwork problems and use the money to pay for computers and make it easier for families to send their kids to the college of their choice. because we should be rewarding people who work hard and play by the rules, not punishing them. secondly, the president should reconsider his threats to veto our common sense jobs bill. when he voted to stop

you know, if you are going to stand a unit, this is unit you are going to expand, if you expand the top two units and leave this as the non-conforming unit, you are creating kind of a cave down there. what about just eliminating the stair, the internal kind of stair? i think that would? >> can i address it? >> yes. >> i think if that is the only way the commission would support it, we would do that. i would like to oasis suggest adding a stair in the future doesn't require planning approval. it would not change the designation of two units or three units and would not require a merger. it's still three units either way without the stair or was the stair. it adds convenience for my clients, but what is critical here is to get expansion pore their living space. >> okay. i think that would be any preference to take dr and remove the stair and approve the project. >> is that a motion? >> yes. >> thank you. >> second. >> commissioner moore? >> this is an extreme case and i would still like zoning administrator sanchez to come back and fill us in a little bit of where some of these oversights

>> does your expand act allow for exports over energy resources?like they get to do up there in norway and canada and saudi arabia? or is there a prohibition against exports still remain under expand? thank you. >> you know, there's a lot of talk right now about exporting our own oil or actually allowing u.s. produced oil to be put out on the global market. and i don't have a firm opinion on that yet. the free marketeer in me says that if you increase supply to meet demand then price goes down. the problem -- and i talked with jeff landry about this a little bit this morning because he's one of my go-to guys, but the refineries in this country aren't set up to refine a lot of the oil, the type of oil that's produced in the bakken, it's more set up to produce -- or to refine sweet oil or sweet crude. so we import a lot of oil that goes to our refineries and produces all the products that a barrel of oil produces. and so, we also got to address the refineries in this country and whether to build new refineries allowing the retooling of some refinerie

it here we have a course in the district where it's happening no reason why question you shouldn't expand to many students we have the opportunity in front of of us i think about for me, i'm sure everyone has a story people if they had the opportunity to take ethnic studies maybe they wrote have a different live i do believe it saves lives people that spoke your thinking about how people f that doesn't have the opportunity to have this would change their lives i don't want to see people that look like me in history books it's not the truth and not accurate and wrongs and when i went to uc berkley i mirnd no ethnic studies i wish i had if in middle school and something that is made available inform everyone we should take what we've learned tonight and what you spoke to think about our curriculum important broadly we should have classes in chicano and african-american studies we should expand that we talk about it ethnic studies and go much, much further so i hope that is not the end of the conversation and maybe a continuation of a conversation people are lead and built and san francisco

commercial real estate expanded. demand for nonfinancial services varied widely but growth was moderate. demand for business and consumer credit expanded. as for labor market conditions, labor and inflation, all important factors right now, payrolls in a variety of sectors expanded moderately. significant wage pressures were limited to workers with specialized technical's gills -- technical skills. jobs increasing, no real wage or inflation pressure reflected in the beige book. that is what janet yellen and her colleagues have been looking at. >> anything in the beige book that might move the fed's liftoff date? >> nothing i can see it here that will surprise them or alter their outlook as they continue to watch what is happening with the data and inflation expectations and of course what is happening with wages. the numbers we got this morning on retail sales were a disappointment. the anecdotal evidence suggests something else is happening out there. my guess is they will put more stock in the actual numbers they g

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. >> expanding opportunity works expanding middle class works and these policies will continue to work as long as politics don't get in the way. >> freshman senator delivered the republican response and paibted a different picture. >> many families feel they are

. >> expanding opportunity works expanding middle class works and these policies will continue to work as long as politics don't get in the way. >> freshman senator delivered the republican response and

work is understoway to expand t service. the next step will be to help people pay their electricity bills and other utilities. recently, the program teamed up with pharmaceutical companies, making it possible to purchase over the counter medicines at sari-sari stores. store owners are required to undergo training by the pharmacist's association. more than 3,000 stores across the philippines now sell over the counter medicines. this one is located in an impoverished area. it began selling pharmaceuticals two years ago. the store sells about 50 different medicines that don't require a prescription. many people are too poor to visit the doctor. the store can sell the medicine by the tablet. sari-sari stores are undergoing a transformation. these changes are helping traditional neighborhood retailers join the modern world of business. these shop owners are forming networks that could one day span the length and breadth of the philippines. >> hello. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she bree

stairway and elevator for circulating a lot of people up to the fourth verizon expansion they've expand the kitchen to the north property line but the kitchen is only increased in the area by 4 percent thank you your time is up commissioners may i ask you if you have questions. >> project sponsor you have to minutes. >> the rear yard he didn't use the proper qualifying wall a 3 inch delineate between 9 dr requesters qualifying wall and the qualifying wall to the setting this gives us the volume to expand 5 feet into that buildable area other than that i don't have anything to address there's no extraordinary or exceptional circumstances it was presented to you as a indication that staff believes the dr is without merit to please not take dr. >> with that the public hearing is closed. >> commissioner antonini the staff what's the set back in the front and rear how far are we from the street. >> from the front of the wall 15 feet and at the rear. >> it looks like it's a little bit visual from the student one of the views their sun shining if you're across the street you'd the straight on

google is growing in council bluffs again, and microsoft is expanding in west des moines. cargill and cj just opened in fort dodge and are bringing even more good jobs to the region. in sioux city, cf industries will be expanding production of nitrogen fertilizer for iowa's farmers. the iowa fertilizer plant under construction in lee county will produce both nitrogen fertilizer and def to reduce pollution and increase mileage for diesel engines. valent biosciences, kinze, kemin, sabre, brownell's, and midamerican's historic wind project are all growing right here in iowa. across our state, though farming operations still provide the lifeblood of our economy. this continued success depends on their ability to connect. not only in connecting their equipment to the ground, but in this day and age it also means connecting their equipment to the internet. connecting with the global marketplace to sell their goods. connecting to main streets across iowa. the fabric of our state is woven together by the gravel roads and interstate highways, but in this day and age it also must be

system that we should expand. it's a program we need to change. that's just what we've been doing with a healthy indiana plan. the original program crafted more than six years ago on a bipartisan basis is the basis for our new proposal, a proposal that would offer more low income hoosiers the chance to get their own health care. we've been working hard to get it done, to get washington to say, yes, i've gone to our nation's capital, engaged in discussions with federal officials, i took our case to the president on the tarmac outside air force one in evansville one day. as our discussions go forward, let me assure all of you of this i will continue to stand firm for the right to expand coverage the indiana way, empowering hoosiers to take control of their health care choices, we will not accept terms that relegate hoosiers to substandard health care or jeopardize the fiscal health of the state of indiana. [applause] >> now, the road ahead wasn't be easy but i'm confident. i'm confident because of the people we serv

we want to expand the markets and be competitive. and we recognize that competition from brazil, the eu canada, or china won't fade just because we re-enter the cuban market. over the next few months, we will work with congress to help shape the policy that makes our products competitive which will ultimately add jobs for farmers local elevators, truck drivers, port workers, financial service providers and small business and trade companies around the united states. making our products gettive requires reduceing cuban costs, by providing u.s. exporters with financial credit, export credits, direct banking and back holes which will reduce our logistic all costs. in order to have back hall haulings, we need trade, import and export. we need to export most efficiently and import what cuba produces well. in conclusion the embargo has not served the interests of the united states or cuban citizens for over a half ocentury. we believe that economic development is freedom. we look forward to working with both d.c. and havana to create more

brazil's economic activity in november expected lee expanded -- unexpectedly expanded.razil edged out a procession, the country is excited to post growth of .2% the slowest since 2009. the united states is in committing changes tomorrow to loosen the five decade old embargo with cuba. it would include easing travel restrictions and allowing americans to bring home as much as $100 in cigars. the new rules will make it easier for people to travel to cuba. those who do get to cuba will be able to use credit cards and debit cards. that is your latin america report for this thursday. nothing says paris like the eiffel tower. huge structures include more towards him. could a new wave of skyline defining icons across the u.s. have the same effect? developers from coast to coast are betting the answer is yes. in miami, they plan to erect a 1000 foot tower that would feature three observation decks and a bungee jumping like experience. in new york, staten island is said to build the biggest errors will in the world. two examples of several new and proposed projects around the co

the dimensions clinic focusing on lgbt youth at the castro youth health center and collaborated to expand balboa teen clinic and wellness center into areas of mental health and health education. and he coauthored a comprehensive program for the san francisco unified school district and the implementation of long acting reversible contraception for youth and young adults. clearly he is well deserving as being one of our outstanding employees and in absence, we will be presenting him this certificate. [ applause ] >> our next honoree is dwayne iron horn. is he here? [ applause ] in 2008, dwayne was assigned the director of the contract compliance and in a staff of 11. under his leadership he completed a corrective action practice to improve community based contractors with issues, a, an issue for our department. this project has been so effective that the entire city adopted it and the office has been redesigned to be more effective and efficient cht mr.ion horn is an outstanding employee working together to integrate and has in fact been so successful that the programs businesses offices e

verizon exploring potential with aol to expand online video offerings. verizon squashed the rumor saying it's not planning any major acquisitions. closed higher verizon rose 1%. >>> a done deal for coach and stewart wheitzman. the privately held shoe company for half a billion dollars, an effort by coach to expand high end offerings and compete with fast growing rivals like michael kors. fell to $36.30. >>> walgreens reaping the benefits of a bad flu season. the drugstore operator with a better than expected jump in september thanks to higher sales of flu meds and flu shots. prescription sales also rose. shares were a fraction higher to $74.69. >>> steelers latest oil prices with bad news. it will idle plants in ohio and texas and lay off more than 700 workers. the company is one of the first biggest industrial casualties of the recent collapse in global oil prices. used for oil and gas exploration. the shares of the company down 3% to $24.58. >>> good year for boeing. record annual commercial jet deliveryings news comes as the aerospace company gears up

, taking over the street and expanding the box and the partnership from bo decker and expanding to there and doing something similar to that park or any of the tier one parks? >> yeah let me take that one because it relates to some of the things i was going to say. we have the dollars that we have and the public funding that we have, and a playground -- i think dawn you would concur between $1 million and $2 million range for a basic playground renovation but we know some of the exceptional play play plays in the city are more expensive and not the budget at lafayette and had support from others. this will depend on leveraging the dollars with philanthropic sources or grant sources and we are working on that. lisa bransten from the team is very involved in that. this is something of passion ate interest of the parks alliance and will depend on timing and the additional funding that we have. i think we should focus -- before we grab streets and acquire land and build new parks i think we should focus on delivering the public's expectation which is a beautifully renovated playground in the

that availability of a funding source, that presumably wouldn't be targeted at market rate would expand our ability not to relay on market rate for subsidization. we want to keep the program nimble and valuable to have these resources flowed and -- deployed and the public policy goal that was illustrated by the slide a lot of work will go at the low and moderate income level and to the extent those resources become available,ti think this program is a place we want to maximize them. >> is there room on the land value that enterprise departments kind rely on fair market value? they are zoned p, you know, it's the kind of question that mr. eberling brought up about suprazoning. who gets the benefit, enterprise department or going back in this help subsidize more affordable housing units on parcels? >> that is a very legal conversation on what constitutes "fair market value?" i would argue that we make an aggressive argument that says the agency and its mission is still getting value for its asset, but this are things like sort of value of our process, and sort of bringing something forwar

this means expanding access to credit. some believe that a few years ago it was too easy to get a home loan. the fact is in 2015, it is too hard. in fact, housing market is missing out on 1.2 million loans every year because credit is so tight. just a couple months ago, then bernanke remarked even having trouble refinancing his mortgage. we've undergone a year-long effort to clarify policy cylinders could feel more confident working with a wide range of credit worthy borrowers. the soft increase the flow of credit. we are going to keep building on this address. secondly, we want to make homeownership more affordable for those who already qualify for a loan. last week president obama announced that fha will reduce premiums by the end of this month. fha premiums are at a high level. the cost of obtaining the american dream is too great for a lot of working folks. people like britney from maryland. a dental hygienist says she found her dream home after looking for two months. she planned to use a fha loan to make that dream r

unfortunately 6th street is now within our newly expanded boundaries. we convened a number of merchant meetings and also put together some really nice marketing materials for the district. 2011 there was still very little development activity in central market so we were really working hard to help fill vacant storefronts. in 2012 we continued our free noontime concerts in mint plaza. our merchant meetings expanded to include neighborhood residents and arts and culture institutions and we started working with sro hotels in the district to see how we could better partner with those operators to improve conditions in and around the hotels in the district. we worked with oewd to fa facilitate a design sherette that predated the better market street program to come up with community input for market street redesign public space activation and public art opportunities in the future. and then we began our renewal and expansion process and put together our steering committee for that endeavor. in 2013, while much of that year was taken up by the renewal and ex

this one is about expanding your brand reach. >> i'd like to know some more about how to expand our business from a state business to a regional or national business. we really have been in one area, and we'd like to grow, and see how we can constructively move in to other areas without overwhelming ourselves. >> good question. >> well, first you have to understand, you have to determine whether your business is ready to grow or not. whether your organization is ready to grow or not. just because you want to grow doesn't mean you're ready to grow. you have to have the capital. you have to have the people. you have to have the right reasons to grow. so let's say you're at that point. you've said okay we're ready for all those reasons. then you have to decide okay do i want to capitalize that growth? or do i want someone else to capitalize that growth? that's where you have the work in the road where you go and you get investors, you borrow money and when you manage all the operations, the other option is franchise. >> let's say money is not an issue they want to do it internally how do you st

in utah, for example you're not talking about expanding medicaid. you're talking about the governor's healthy utah plan. that's what you're talking about in utah. so this conversation is morphing and changing evolving. tennessee now with their plan is changing really rapidly. so from a messaging point of view, we really need to be on our toes and fluid. also something that is emerging that wasn't there before are these waiver ideas. so these plans include premiums and co-payments and healthy behaviors in these states and so how do we talk about those things? i know that we try not to have those kind of kferthsconversations when we come to medicaid. we don't really want to go down the pathway but in the focus groups we did. we wanted to see how deeply these feelings were around waiver ideas. the messengers are different. it's hard to find trustworthy messengers. there's a lot of heavy cynicism and skepticism going on. so the conversation is different, the messages are different. that's the first thing that struck me about these states. so where do th

. >> agenda item number 5 information item expanding free muni to seniors and people with disabilities and this presentation will provide an overview of a proposal under consideration by the sfmta board of directors on on january on january 20th, 2015, to expand the free muni program to include seniors and people with disabilities. presentation by by emmett nelson revenue program development manager sfmta and public comment is welcome. >> agenda item number 6 -- information item. vision zero. adopted in in february 2014 in february 2014 vision zero is the city's commitment to eliminating traffic fatalities. >> developing and implementing projects and programs to ensure we meet our goal to make to make san francisco's streets safe for for all user. tom maguire and tim timothy papandreou. >> the council will take a 10-minute break. >> item number 7 information item. update from the planning department information on on a proposed amendment to the city's planning code providing exemptions for people with disabilities to make alterations to their homes to increase capabilities presentation

with time the tree basin could be expanded slightly. right now the queen palms are on the edges of the tree basin so it would prior expanding the basin a foot or two in another direction to keep the palm base from impacting tg sidewalk. >> at full -- in your experience for the mexican palm at full growth what would the root ball width be? >> it will all be taking place below ground and would interact well with the other existing palms so i wouldn't see the root ball expansion as a primary concern. i think it's just the overall sense of house appropriate is it to have three palms tucked into a single space and i would say the department reluctantly denied this request for removal. we have property owners change hands. we heard from the property owner, they're committed to living there long time so we're sympathetic to that but what one person finds to be nice, we don't expect every property to look that way, but we're trying to balance just keeping some of this relatively healthy. we acknowledge that long term it's an unusual situation.

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right now my long-term goal would be to see us expand into other states. >> all right.ng to start to try to get some more people in. thank you, guys, for stopping by today. >> hey. >> what happened? >> definitely not well manicured -- >> we can't take something back. there's a zero return policy. >> i'll go weigh it and pull a scale -- >> the ones i looked at were not [ bleep ] hairy like that. >> i can weigh it if you don't think it's a gram. >> i understand. >> that's not cool. >> i can go weigh this and show you it's a gram. >> can we bring a scale out? >> i'll bring another one. >> he seen it -- >> give us one second. i know. just one second. >> four of them. >> [ bleep ]. >> we were buying wholesale and he wasn't happy with the quality which really does bother me. >> okay. so look at this. you see how finely manicured that is. there's no crow's feet. no extra sugar leaf on that or nothing. but the bud i got is completely covered in leaf which is harsh and -- >> i understand. >> it's not good. >> we're checking it right now. >> any money we make will be reinvested i

how do you then expand? >> how do we expand?o, i think what the main difference it provides different benefits and also, we're the only place where you can do it right now. so, when it is so unique, you have to pay a little bit of price. liz: "vogue" magazine has covered you, business insider, "new york times," everybody is jumping on your story. you need investors. are you working on that? >> yes. so it was most important for us to open the first location and show, expand the concept and show all the benefits we've done in the year and it has been a great year. now we received a lot of inquiries. we were lucky. we had a lot of national tv. so even people across the country contacting us and wanting to take the class. liz: how do you make sure bikes don't rust inside of the pool? >> they're special bikes. they don't -- that is quite amazing. absolutely no issues on that level. liz: that is fascinating. called ike waa cycle. in tribeca. >> in tribeca. liz: south of here in manhattan. let us know when you become a chain and will b