judson: there we go. hello, welcome to the national press club the place where the news happens i am john jensen at the 115th resident of the national press club. -- jen jensen -- 10 judson -- i did not mention earlier, but if you have questions, fill them out. there is cars on your table. or you can email us at headliners@press.org. please put sag-aftra --fran drescher in the subject line. i'm going to take a moment to introduce our head table. starting to my right at the end of the table, we have multimedia reporter for abc news libby cathey. next we have sag-aftra local president, kathryn. please feel free to stand up. next is white house recognize editor for the l.a. times donna leinwand leger. --del wilber. we have donna leinwand leger former national press club president and cochair of our headliners team that organize the luncheon. to my left we have ian kullgren, labor reporter for bloomberg law. next is liz shuler president of the afl. mike balsamo, lee justice reporter for the associated press.

judson: there we go. hello, welcome to that wasn't loud enough. hello, welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. i'm jen judson if you have questions please fill out the cards on your table, or email us, please put fran drescher in the subject line. i will take a moment to introduce our head table. starting to my right at the end of the table we have multi media reporter for abc news -- next we have -- feel free to stand up if you like. next, white house editor for the l.a. times del wilbur. skipping over our guest of honor for a moment we have donna leisure, former national press club president, and co-chair of our headliners team that organized a luncheon. to my left we have ian colburn, is a reporter. next is liz, president of the afl, and mike ball salmon, lead justice reporter for the national plus cubs secretary. and katie benner, justice department reporter for the new york times. how about a round of applause for the head table gas? all right, with that, it has been a long two years for the u.s. entertainment indust

i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team.as talking to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm immens

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approval 277 judson avenue.ling the issuanceon june 23, 2022, to jia wei hua, of an alteration permit (add an accessory dwelling unit (adu) per ordinance #95-17; first floor adu, new bedrooms, bathroom, living room and kitchen; repair existing stairway less than 50% in kind; replace front windows with aluminum clad; wood window visible from street and vinyl window at rear side of building). permit no. 2015/0812/3993. >> we will hear from the appellant first. >> welcome. you have seven minutes. >> 277 jud son avenue. the appeal is mainly to clarify what really is happening. a little history. 2015, the 277 jud son owners built a larger extension which we didn't agree with and we went through the discretion review, and here we are now. where suddenly the permit was approved with the same, at least when i was looking at the city website, the same drawings. and i wasn't clear if extensions vertical and horizontal extensions were still in place. so i talked to owners. first of all they told me that no, it's not. at th

before i began i just want to thank our host, national press club president, jen judson, thank you somuch for your kind words i appreciate it. and the national press club board of governors as well as my friend and labor warrior, afl-cio president, liz schuller, thank you for coming and being here today. and also, our washington mid-atlantic president catherine clothes on a, little labor of solidarity here. and a shout out to the clubs, union staff who made this day possible. [applause] thank you. oh i am the president, of sag actra that's the largest entertainment union in the world. and i'm a proud member of the afl-cio. and one of the great conundrums that i face as a labor leader, is how do i stretch producers helped fund contributions, that basically increases by 3% a year across all eligible member claims, when health costs in america on average increased by six and a half percent. and the answer is, i can't. it's completely unsustainable. our trustees have a tough time dealing with the elephant in that room. and plus, the reserve that we have has to be a short term investment,

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union general judson kilpatrick, who's the head of sherman's cavalry wrote his counterpart general joseph wheeler about the murder of 18 union soldiers whose throats had been cut. and kilpatrick follows the protocol the ritual of retaliation. he follows it exactly. he specifically describes the incident the atrocity. he asked for an explanation and then he said if no explanation is forthcoming that he would shoot 18 confederate prisoners. wheeler responded as you should respond in this ritual. he said he was shocked and outraged to hear about this. he promised to investigate he promised to do justice and he said if the report was correct that he agreed that retaliation should happen, but he preferred that it will be inflicted on the guilty parties and not on innocent prisoners of war. so kilpatrick was satisfied and he said that he trusted wheeler to investigate and find the guilty parties and then kilpatrick makes an extraordinary statement in his correspondence that reflects this obsession with pillaging and civilized war that we see in both armies during the american civil war. here's

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i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team. i was talking to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm im

about the back 62nd world champ judson hayward, wisconsin where we are having our own competition rightt of competitions and things like that. one is a boomerang after run over a log most of them fall in. it's fun and interactive. we hope our own urban boom run here. we are going to demo it, go ahead ben, ben will take it away. this is our version. here we go. [laughter] get it get it. and eight that is just for fun but we are going to do is the ax chopping. so lawrence, what we want to do these cost cuts. ben is the expert at chopping. joey and lawrence you got to take in acts we will show you. >> we could probably do it either way. basically what we do is we are going to go at an angle here, and then back of this way straight downward that takes a chip out request given a couple >> the real competition is going to be the chainsaw. aren't go ahead. take it away. here we go. give it a few hits, come on. [laughter] all of these muscles. here you go, here you go, you're getting into it, all right. >> the real competition. exactly. all right, you've got to get bigger log. right hey guys qu

i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team.ng to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm immensely prou

of the usf school of law so we're happy to have him on the board of appeals and they heard at 277 judson street to construct a new adu but it was to prepare existing stairs and replace windows at the front back of the property. and back in 2015 when the permit was first filed, the applicant proposed a rear and side horizontal addition and the appellant filed a dr, siding it was incompatible with the neighborhood and the tr was heard by the commission in october of 2018 but the planning commission voted 5 to 0 to dr and require the depth of the extension to be reduced by 7 feet. while the project was approved by the planning department in january of 2019, the permit was not issued and then in 2022, it was picked back up and the owner revised the permit to eliminate all exterior expansion of the permit but there was an appeal by the same neighbor who filed the discretionary review and the neighbor expressed concerns about the revised plans but because the project no longer included physical expansion of the building and the adu is permitted under the state adu program, the board voted 3 to

i think i saw rich (inaudible) in the planning department and topea, judson true and his entire team.ng to robin a bit earlier, and it is not one thing, but it is over and over again, there is problem that if it is not going to be solved it will cause delay and cause budgets to sprirel out of control and having the city as a partner was incredibly partner. people have been asking like how did you guys do isthe at this price. we started november 2020. we had an aggressive budget, an aggressive schedule, and if nothing else it is testament when you have really smart people, you put them in a position to succeed and they work their butts off and i want to shout out to will, to nick, to sydney, to steve to lee, to clark, to everybody on the strada team. there is a huge amount of resources. i think we had more people working on this building then we dild on the 3 other buildings and it is wort it because this project is good for the city, it is great for this neighborhoods and hundreds and hundreds of peoples lives will be better because of this project. the second thing i'm immensely prou