why don't you elaborate on what you mean by lack of flexibility. >> each of the governors who run it, a state run, partnership or referring to the federal government. any folks that have a state run exchange they need to realize in the end there is no flexibility in terms of final outcome, there is no substantive difference between the three option, all of them lead to a federally run exchange one way or the other. great example of that talking to my friend gary herbert, the

use controls in them with the goal of allowing the buildings to stay under operation, giving them flexibility so they can maintain and preserve them adequately since they all are historic resources. so, currently in the west soma, excuse me, this is a little technical so bear with me. all uses are permitted in buildings that are landmarks, that are contributory to article 10 historic district, and that are article 11 rated. and i just want to make a note that this is already narrower than what's allowed under the historic use controls throughout the rest of the eastern neighborhoods. but what is being proposed right now as part of the west soma plan would further narrow those classes of historic buildings that would allow these relaxed use controls. it would limit it only to landmark buildings which there are not obviously many less of those than with the three separate groups. so, this is a particularly significant problem in western soma only because the new use districts that are being proposed are particularly restrictive with respect to uses. just take for example the rcd district that r

why don't you elaborate on what you mean by lack of flexibility. >> each of the governors who run it, a state run, partnership or referring to the federal government. any folks that have a state run exchange they need to realize in the end there is no flexibility in terms of final outcome, there is no substantive difference between the three option, all of them lead to a federally run exchange one way or the other. great example of that talking to my friend gary herbert, the governor of utah, utah, and probably most of your viewers know five or six years ago set up an exchange and did it in a free market way and one of the lowest costs in the country of health care and still have quality health care, but did it through a market driven exchange. according to my friend gary herbert that doesn't qualify under the new affordable care act and they're going to have to come back and put in place something more aligns them with what the federal government wants. to me, you get the exposure without any of the flexibility, that's not a good deal and on behalf of the taxpayers in my state i said

here's what he writes.er if obama wins, he'll probably romney is more flexible than obama. he has more influence in washington. he is more likely to get big stuff done. savannah, this is a key question. >> it is. and the president has banked on the fact that the election will solve these issues, litigate the issues of whether the bush tax i breaks should be rolled back for the wealthiest of americans. when he caved on that, he said he will answer this two years later with the election. he is also banking on the fact that the republicans will want to work with him after the election. especially when you look at the makeup of congress not likely to change. we'll have the same set of circumstances potentially if obama wins, and yet he is promising that the fever will break post-election. he's got a lot riding on it. >> i think it's going to be a status quo election. and i think if romney wins, for example, he still is looking at a house of representatives that has a very considerable tea party presence in it. the tea party people are not going to go away.ra it's an insurgency.

jefferson was flexible. politicians are flexible. that is the defining characteristic of a politician. wilson is rigid at a level that goes beyond normal rigidity. its pathological rigidity so rigidity that cripples him throughout his entire life. if he had in politics for 10 years before he became president everyone would have known he was like that and he would never have gotten the presidency. all the characters you want in a president, unable to accept a victory just because your opponents name is partially attached to it is surely not one you want. >> host: you have a wonderful quote from senator from connecticut. we can always depend on mr. wilson. he never has failed on us. >> guest: that's right. only wilson could have stopped the treaty that treaty and only wilson did. >> host: of course there was no two-term limit in that day so if wilson, wilson having a stroke would mean he could not run a third time but you know, running history a million times if wilson had not have the stroke he could potential he had gotten a nominati

we need to be flexible because things change. there is not just one solution. kids might take 10 steps forward. they might make such significant progress, and then something goes down. something goes down and they take eight steps back. we need to be able to be flexible with them and be there through that process. and not to say, i am not working with you anymore because you let me down. that is really important as well, not to be rigid. collaborations are very important as well. if we are talking about bringing everybody to the table to develop solutions, youth should have the same importance as the district supervisor, as the police enforcement officer, as the executive director. through that, we build a real communities. i have respect for our brother over here and respect for my sister over there. you develop that accountability and integrity billet -- and integrity amongst one another. we are able to express ourselves and develop real solutions, especially in the time where the budgets are cut left and right. the only thing we have left is our human relati

there's certainly a trend that we see in consumer and members of wanting with flexibility whether that is the ability to buy on line and pick up in the store and buy black friday deals on sunday and pick them up or have the flexibility of having their thanksgiving meal and shop at a sears or kmart. the trend consumers wanting flexibility and wanting to buy the way they want is very strong. >> so you did see people come out on thanksgiving night to spend money there. there was a big debate. should we not open on thanksgiving. a lot of people felt they wanted to save thanksgiving and not want the stores open but you feel it was a success. >> the traffic was solid. we will have to look at the whole holiday to see how our members responded and how it looked over the holiday season. the first read was traffic was solid in the key categories of con qumer electronics, apparel, appliances and tools in sears and kmart saw a good performance for today. i will emphasize it is early in the season still. >> dana, what do you think? what do you make of the season starting earlier every year? will it

>>guest: he said he is showing "flexibility." >>neil: would you, of a conservative mind, be okay with taxes for the upper income --. >>guest: no. like norquist and senator demint have said no tax hikes, period, we node full tax reform. the rates should come down thought go up for one group over another. the group who in this country most small business owners as you know file as individuals and they are making $250,000 or more and they are employing a lot of people in the community. >>neil: the media will say, well, you need to sacrifice --. >>guest: but what about small business owners like my dad who has a dental practice, he said if the president follows through and raises taxes on me i will have to labor people off my didn'tal practice. he lives in richmond, virginia, a small pice owner and he is created jobs. >>neil: he will not cut back on the anesthesia? thank you very much. >> now is the time for the republicans to move past the happy talk of i will defined revenues and put specifics on the table. >>neil: did you just hea

all humans need flexibility.so like to go home to see their kids. going home early is the main thing that you think of when you think of women workers? >> being able to cook. >> i was like, i can't comprehend what that life is, that he is imagining this this woman is leading. i've known a lot of women in my life and this feels so alien to me, that version. >> so of my best friends are women. there are so many confusing questions

he displays skill and flexibility. >> host: think about flexibility because he is unwilling to override -- >> guest: this is a big opportunity to let the constructionist view of the government stop us from getting it. we have to get this land, and they do. siskel and flexibility are things on a whole that we would like for the president but you shouldn't be surprised someone with jefferson's record has stolen the flexibility to read think of all the things he did if he didn't have those two things. the process and that long record would have seen it and would have blocked him from getting power. the question is again being a low impact leader isn't about the lead to a bad thing. it is to fail. there are so many more ways to fail than to succeed. so, most leaders. host could you make the point not only was jefferson seeing eye to eye with livingston, monroe, his eyes and paris and the secretary of state, but major federalist enemies also. not all of them the the major ones. >> guest: john adams was on record, not publicly but privately saying he was in favor of the purchase and john quin

so this is a flexible funding. we received grant from california employment department for disability employment initiative last year. there was supplemental funding in amount of $100,000 added to the grant. flexible funding can help us provide services to our clients with disabilities served at the one-stop centers, so this grant is primarily going to be a subcontract to community vocational enterprises, as well as some travel expenses for oewd staff for mandatory national meetings for disability employment initiative. >> this is a piece adding to the existing grant? >> yes. >> in addition, no matching fund required? >> no. >> okay, thank you. why don't we go to the members of the public who would like to speak on this item. are there any members of public who wish to speak in seeing none, this is closed. send this forward. >> with recommendation. >> we will do that without objection, thank you. item 3. >> resolution authorizing office of district attorney to accept and expend grant in amount of 399,442 through th

you know hopefully they are putting out markers and beginning to show flexibility. >> we heard a number of republican governors in las vegas this week saying that republican members of congress may have to be open to tax increases for the wealthy. do you think there is a reasonable view that involves increasing taxes on the wealthy? >> they have signaled a willingness to put additional revenues on the table. while some of that discussion is focused on whether there should be an increase in the rate for so called wealthy americans, others talked more about getting traditional revenues through capping deductions and credits and the likes. so it is not clear what form called for tolerance. but i think that it is noteworthy that republicans and conservative commentators have said some additional revenues might have to be a part of the deal. >> what specifics are being discussed in the eyes of your members. limiting capital gains, morgan interest deductions. so, with the perspective of the people you are now representing where are their areas they would prefer that washington don't go? >> we

what we saw with the industry was the ability to react flexibly and be able to move assets in and read we locate areas that were not hardheaded and to utilize resources in a way that makes networks run well. i think if you look back at hurricane katrina and the recommendations, those recommendations were before the flexible framework. that is what we were pushing. we did not disagree with the goal to keep the networks running. of course we do. it is in the industry's best interest. it's how you go about doing this. for us, when you look at a storm of this magnitude, it is having the ability to react. carriers that had put in thousands of feet of power cable to drag cable up to the rooftop. so that we can have these sites work. >> host: what have carriers on to be more reliable in emergencies? >> guest: we put towers and unchurched peoples and on the side of buildings in major metropolitan areas and, you know, in closets within buildings. and it becomes difficult and areas to help that backup power. yes, they try to put in batteries were they can't put in generators. they put it in with

that is the sights and sounds of leaders beginning to show some flexibility. >> we heard a number of republican governors at the rga in last vegas this week set -- suggests that republican members of congress may have to be open to tax increases for the wealthy. there is there a reasonable deal that can be made? guest: many republicans have signaled a willingness to look at new revenues on the table. many of those have been ambiguous as to exactly what form that would take. some of that discussion has focused on whether there should be an increase in the rate for so-called wealthy americans. others have talked more about getting additional revenues through capping deduction exemptions, credits, exclusions and the like. it is not clear what form this additional revenue will take but it is noteworthy that some republicans and even some significant conservative commentators have said yes, some additional revenues have to be part of the deal. >> they talk about limiting capital gains discussions and limiting real estate deductions. these are things your membership has a stake in and woul

. >> no, i think it's better because i think it allows flexibility down the road and the problem with having a cap is the timing with the planning department whether you know there is six months worth of planning before you submit what you are going to do and it's hard to know if it's a moving target it's how many projects are a proved or built and some get approved but don't get built because of financing or because higher and better use comes on even they some get financing and so a plan to revisit the issue down the road is better and spur more competition for developing these kinds of units and give the city a better glimpse of exactly what is going to happen and it's important to know too in these microunit all of the b m i unit stay on the site and and it's something that is not done now and that affordable housing unit people are pushing for and i agree with completely. >> i don't know i offered that up as a potential other approach and we can set that number at whatever the -- we can set the number at whatever and -- it just seemed to me, that,that is another approach that we

we can see the flexibility of choice that you maintain. now this difference between law and theory as to freedom of action versus freedom of choice, i think it it actually is quite compatible across both if we simply separate what it is we're talking about, a difference between your preferences and desires over which you may not have control versus action choices and in law, we punish you for bad actions, not for bad preferences and desires. so then the question is, how do we take account for preferences and desires that may be outside of your control? that may be things like gray matter lighten kent showed us that showed us that people like psychopaths have decreased gray matter in particular regions of their brain. it could be something like the guy who he was talking about out of virginia who had the large tumor in his brain and chose to act on but didn't have control over having the tumor in his brain. how do we take account for that in law? that's, i think, the interesting struggle that neuroscience presents us with, but it doesn't ch

if barack obama is reelected how flexible would he be with his russian counterpart. or maybe another round of tension should be expected with a republican in the oval office. however it is clear russia and the u.s. will have to resolve some serious global issues in the near future regardless ideally they should work on them together. to go welcome to the cher one what was that smile you gave me where well when i read that introduction in the beginning of the chair i think it was because you felt that things got a lot better with the reset that obama and maybe out of began and i think they didn't get that much but. i don't think they really got bad that they looked better and the words you know you know what god said it went well though first there was the word sin so there was the word where where and what obama came to what well you can't deny that but al you and i are on time very very long time we'll be having words of politicians we had and we look beyond and probably the difference is if there is one between you and me is i mean he wasn't what and one on one but

so, i would hope they've got that flexibility. okay, thanks. >> commissioner hillis. >> just back to this question on value. so, the port land, the city is going to pay the port, are we going to pay out of the remainder of the impact fees? >> no. >> where is that funding going to can you have from? >> that's part of the conversation [speaker not understood] wants to speak about this. thanks. >> if i may, pam drew from the office of economic and work force development. so, just to clarify, the purpose of the park purchase is actually a mechanism under state law. it currently is subject to the public trust and in order to remove the trust under senate bill 815, we need to provide the port with fair market value. we're confident, because the appraisal instructions require the appraiser to appraise the parcel with open space. and as a park, that the value of that appraisal will come back relatively low. the port is being very flexible, agreeing to accept payment over time and other -- >> you don't expect the payment to be much. the pa

so it's a very flexible program and we provide a lot of support. and because people don't have tendency rights to those rooms, people sign agreements saying we will observe hotel rooms otherwise we will be asked to leave. it does come to that, but sometimes. we try to make provisions for them to go to a shelter situation or possibly another hotel. we try our best it keep people in as safe a situation as we can but obviously there is no perfect situation. if there is assaultive behavior we have to ask people to leave. there are times we have had to use san francisco police department for emergencies. in 8 years we have had thousands of these rooms we have had to involve the police officers 5 or 6 times, literally. people are very grateful to be in these rooms, people are very happy we are providing the support we are providing. people tend to be on their best behavior. in fact, sometimes if people have a history of eviction this is a way they can demonstrate i can do well in this environment. we get letters from hotel management says, no, no, this p

adjust because you created it doesn't mean somebody is going to occupy the space, so having the flexibility to mix and match a little bit more with the idea or probably the idea that the lower floor has to be of a higher height and doesn't necessarily have to be retail or office or other things. that's probably a good idea. when we get into the area of 11th street, and i maybe wrong. i'm not sure i get all of the classifications right but i am sort of in agreement with option 1b that has been suggested by a lot of people. there is also a 1c -- i misspoke. i said 3b which is the option that would allow office but not new housing. it would i believe allow entertainment as a right, and it would allow for entertainment that gets burned down or somehow demolished it could be put back again. maybe i could get clarification from staff the difference between 3b and c? i don't see the difference between the two of them. >> sure. 3b would basically rezone that corridor to dmo and allow office or entertainment and not residential. the difference with 3c it would also rezone the alleys adjacent to the

we wanted that flexibility and so it is laid out that way and it is not set in stone, we still have the option of changing the other. what is important, until all of these buckets are filled nothing goes back to the med it stays in city and helps to support the project. i think that what is difficult when you have a cash flow issue in the first ten years, and when you after you go passed the ten years, you are going to have surpluses so we are going to try to find a medium on how to handle that. if we were to go to market with the interest rates as low as they are. and then the negative impact goes away. and the cash flows become positive. >> there is a stablization fund and the sinking fund and prior deficits. >> the stability fund looks like you funded up to $15 million, sinking fund looks like 25 and 28. and so all of those buckets received funding from excess med assessments. >> correct. >> until they are filled and when they are filled they get put into another bucket which is for a future possibility for expansion and etc.. >> exactly. >> it terms of the areas where we believe tha

can you explain what you mean by flexibility? >> i heard it. i do not think they would have said it to this group if it was not real. i heard it not only from the team but from the president. they talk about, this deal will not get done with both sides being absolutist. it must not be a real word, because i cannot spell it right. they are going to have to be compromising on both sides. the white house really believes to its core that the revenue ought to come from the wealthy. i have not met a single wealthy person who is not willing to pay more in revenue. i have not. not one. that includes me. or even to pay higher rates in most cases. the white house wants to make sure that revenue comes in, that it is real. their belief is the only way you can make it real is to have it in the form of higher rates. it does not all have to come out in the form of higher rates. some of it could come out in the form of deductions. as an example, it is a great theory that you get rid of all of these tax expenditures. you try to get rid of the charitable product

and what we saw with our industry was the ability to react flexibly, to be able to relocate assets from areas that weren't hard hit and to utilize resources in a way that makes the networks run well. i think if you look back at the hurricane katrina recommendations before the fcc acted, those recommendations were for a voluntary, flexible framework. and so that's what we were pushing. we don't disagree with the goal of the fcc to keep the networks running, of course we don't. that's in every carrier's best interests, it's in the industry's best interests. it's just how do you go about doing this. and so for us when you look at a storm of this magnitude, it's having the ability to react, to move assets around. we had carriers that had to put in, you know, thousands of feet of power cables to drag, you know, cables up to the rooftop to power generators so that we could have cell sites working. >> host: well, let's go back to katrina in '05. what kind of investment have wireless companies done to improve their reliability during such emergencies? >> guest: sure. so you see carriers in ever