hammett said. president chiu: if i could ask you to follow up your comments, explaining what happened even if that was true. >> what is even if? president chiu: i would like you to finish your sentence. >> my sense is simple. the fact of the matter is, you represent the people of san francisco. all the people of san francisco. if at&t comes to you and asks for something, you should ask them to prove what they say. even their own expert says that the material they submitted does not prove it. there is some hidden package someplace that does. that is not the way democracy is supposed to work. thank you. president chiu: thank you. colleagues, any questions to the appellant? any questions to any of the parties that we heard from in today's hearing? ok? seeing none, this hearing has been held and closed. this matter is in the hands of the board. ladies and gentlemen, thank you for engaging in this hearing. for many members of the public and thus, we have been frustrated over the course of these issues t

hammett gave you the information on his findings. he used his own equipment on the site there.n the interest of time, i will try to be brief. you did add additional aesthetics enhancements to this property including spanish tile which would add to the betterment of the community. with the proposed amendment -- equipment that we will be using, it does comply with the city, federal, and state standards. we submit this every six months to the department of planning. it is the least intrusive means by which at&t can address a significant coverage gap. i wanted to thank planning staff for their hard work. we ask for your support to have this planning commission as we worked diligently to upgrade our facilities in san francisco. i would give the remaining amount of my time to bill, who would share the findings of the study. >> i am a registered professional engineer in the state of california. i would like to submit, bank i could, i do not know to who this should go. this is just a brief letter in reply to one of the exhibits in the material to impugn our professional integrity. i wa

my name is bill hammett. i manage a firm of 17.

my name is bill hammett. i manage a firm of 17.t and their competitors, landlords, and engineers. this is to look at what is the effect, what is the impact, what is available in a network? we do not do network design, we do not designed th the cell sit. we looked at the package as well like the other experts said. at&t nor other carriers tend to want to divulge their own performance data. unlike the other experts, we went out and took measurements to see what is going on out there. we wanted to determine, is there a service problem in that area? where we started was the same maps that you're talking about in the application materials from at&t. this one is the before condition. it is talking about service at the peak time and it also has another one for after. what we did is we overlaid this to in order to define the area where the proposed upgrade of the micro-cell, the area where that is supposed to based on at&t's material show an improvement in service. we used a telephone that includes software t

they were interested in--i don't know--existentialism or dashiell hammett and raymond chandler or martin buber and paul tillich or something--or bebop jazz--i don't know. you know, name your own. i don't get--unless i'm missing it, i don't get that sense anymore that they have those intellectual obsessions that the--that we had and that--and that they are habitual readers. on the other hand, i think they're a lot nicer than we were. they--i don't--i didn't pursue them into their dormitories and their fraternity houses and i have no idea the--the way they talk there. but in class, i would say, because it's multiethnic, they are very polite and very eager not to tread on one's--each other's toes. now the problem with that is that a certain kind of blandness creeps into conversations. conversations stop short of any kind of cultural or sociological generalization at all. they're--they hate the kind of trash talk they hear on bad ra--am radio. and that--that's the last way they want to sound. so they go to the other extreme of blanding themselves out. that--that's the ba--downside of it. c-s