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commissioner lazarus. commissioner lazarus:. approval of the meetings in june 10, 2010. commissioner fong: approve. >> public comment on executive session. executive session. commissioner fong: all those in favor? commissioner fong: good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i move that we reconvene in open session. >> second. commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> i move that we not discuss anything discussed in executive session. >> -- commissioner fong: any discussion? all those in favor? >> aye. >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and it similar electronic sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that a chairman or the removal from a meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing device. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make appurtenant public comment for each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter time on any item. item seven a -- a city -- i'm sorry, ele

commissioner lazarus: is their emotion? in musty feel like you need a presentation, we do not need to make one. president fong: any public comments? any opposed? >> item 11, new business. i think you have heard a lot of it. [laughter] see you on august 19. president fong: keep going. >> item 12, public comment. i think he left. president fong: paul bicharte? >> hello, commissioners. i am here to speak specifically about a port aspect, which is dry dock number one. i do not know if you are familiar with that. it is a big tin cans that is currently moored at terminal 80. i consider myself a stakeholder in the harbor. i own a barge company in the harbor and also a commercial fuel business. i really wanted to commend the port, specifically the engineering department, for thinking outside of the box. i thought i would be able to speak easily appear. i feel embarrassed. i do not know why. you were able to secure for the port a large sum of money to mediate and dispose of this drydock facility. my purpose of coming here today was

president lazarus: great. ok. >> don't be taking the tags off the trees. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. and any other commissioner comments? commissioner bonilla: in approving this item, because it is an action item, are we then supporting the recommendations that we do this 50/50 plan and we did the reforestation? what exactly are we approving? those seem like big steps. >> good question. >> the next steps are the director of operation will work with stack to develop proposed improvements -- will work with staff to develop proposed improvements to develop or achieve some of these items. there is a lot of work to get there. what you're doing is accepting the findings of the report. this is sort of the first time this has been presented to the department. when i went to urban forestry council, we all looked at these numbers and they are tough to take, but they were all very happy this report has been done. it is a document that i think will be helpful as we m

president lazarus: great. ok. >> don't be taking the tags off the trees. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. and any other commissioner comments? commissioner bonilla: in approving this item, because it is an action item, are we then supporting the recommendations that we do this 50/50 plan and we

commissioner lazarus: yes. supervisor chiu: to my right is supervisor elsbernd who has recently joined us as a member of the committee, and we have been jealous -- we have just been joined by the vice chair of our committee, supervisor mirkarimi. are there any announcement today? >> yes. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off cell phones. should you wish to submit documents to the committee, also provide a document to the clerk. if you wish to speak during public comment, please fill out a speaker card, place it in the container to your left by the rail. items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda july 27, 2010, unless otherwise stated. supervisor chiu: thank you. please call item 1. >> item 1, resolution authorizing the san francisco public defender's office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $119,034 from the state corrections standards authority for the purposes of implementing local juvenile justice accountability measures through the juvenile accou

commissioner lazarus: i would like to add my thanks to the planning department. i am not sure this was necessarily their idea. so we appreciate all the concentrated effort that went into it. i know we all hoped it would come to a conclusion sooner than it did, i expect there were reasons it took this long, to maximize opportunities for input. as someone who has no background or experience in design and planning, i appreciate the fact we have a sister agency with the professionals who can assist us in doing this kind of a process and really helping to set of contacts. this was not intended to be about a particular project, a particular development, or a particular lot, but was designed to give us principles and guidelines we can apply as a backdrop as a set of standards making decisions going forward. i believe you have provided us with that. i also want to say i find it a bit disingenuous that as of two months ago there is some second or ancillary planning process going on, because you had this process underway for a year and a half. i know you came to a prelimin

. >> commissioner brandon: i want to echo commissioner lazarus, in that this is a very exciting project, and i look forward to the design recommendation that comes back to the commission. commissioner fong: ok. a couple of commons. i think there are two different options, and it is interesting that princess cruises is trying 2011, and hopefully, they are very successful with that, which gives us more of a reason to make that investment. i know we have some monetary things to figure out as well, so it is clearly not a done deal, or we need to figure out some other things, but it is very exciting. i had the pleasure of being in shanghai, china, and took a tour of their crude ship port of call, and it was absolute state of the art. it is a beautiful building, a landmark building for that city, and it functioned very well for an event space as well as different use. this is a non-action item, but i look forward to the next steps, and remind everyone that there is a workshop on july 21, correct? a public workshop. thank you. >> item 9c, informational presentation on the department of the cit

things, but this is a great today and all my commissioners that are here with me that's part of that, lazarusison, who with the commission and we've been working hard to try to make sure that everything is going on. but you know, i was here 50 years ago. and to see it now is great history, what this looks like today and it is really fantastic and i think it is something of a greatness for everything. and i'm honored to be here, to be with this and to see it today and the most important part is, we're taking about, is the coit's tower 75ths anniversary. that is fantastic. so i'm honored to be here and so today we're also here with our, you know, our general manager now, our new general manager of the rec and park who's now doing a fantastic job and is on his way doing fantasticness for us today. it is my honor, our new general manager. right here. >> thank you,. martin. thank you speaker pelosi, mr. mayor, mark leno, aaron peskin. we are thrilled in the r.e.c. -- rec and park department to be the home of this incredible department. as you heard before, this is an inspirational symbol to the wo

but if the future can bring this lazarus of the icebox back to life what does he hope to do that my immediate goal is to fly somewhere to a star closest to us. for vadis live and. that's mean and what seems impossible today may be worthwhile and many tomorrow and. next on the program the nato military committee chairman says there. is a strong strategic partner not a threat or an enemy watch or interview with. during his visit to moscow in just a few moments. joining me today is admiral jump. who is the chairman of the nato military committee and as you may know nato was established as an alliance between countries to defend against outside threats with me today to talk about the possibilities of a future between russia and nato as well and the direction nato is taking so thank you for joining us admiral the pleasure really a pleasure the first question let's get right down to it anders fogh rasmussen has called on russia to join the new anti-ballistic missile defense project now in your opinion what could make a vis an attractive option for russia well i believe first of all that. and the al

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lazarus has risen. that happened in the president appealed to the instincts of his crew. nancy pelosi used every tool in the toolbox in the rules committee, the house. harry reid used every maneuver that he could in the name of the democratic party. they got it done. look at the discipline on the mitch mcconnell held every single vote. it is incredible. there is mystery in this for me. it is very intriguing because the greatest of capital stock we have our in our political leaders. we really have to pay attention to what is happening. that is where the strength has right now. the effectiveness of the party's right now, in governing and we need to really corral all of the unrest and political heir. whenever is out there, we need to realize that the only place that real solutions are forged are in the middle with the moderates that can reach across the party i'll and then that -- that cannot be apolitical sen the way it is these days. i know that is longer than 10 minutes, but dinkey. -- but thank you. [applause] . >> i participated in the game a different way, perhaps not