jim lazarus. we were very pleased to have participated for months and this process with the mayor and supervisor chiu's office and the controller. the city attorney is going to have to go back and start redrafting again by the middle of july when this will have occurred. we believe the tax measures you should support need to be broad- based, fair, and they need to encourage -- continue the exemptions that were in place to drive economic growth in the city and we need to have a reasonable adjustment to a business license fees, which, after all, are a form of tax. which is why in recent years they have not been amendable except by going to the voters. a neighborhood resident of parking sticker will cost you $100 and a business license fee at the low-end $25 is clearly not cost recovery. there is the business feet side of the equation -- fee side of the occasion. -- of the equation. we have to come up with our revenue neutral measure. it is not revenue neutral for everyone. there is going to be twice

jim lazarus. we were very pleased to have participated for months and this process with the mayor and supervisor chiu's office and the controller. the city attorney is going to have to go back and start redrafting again by the middle of july when this will have occurred. we believe the tax measures you should support need to be broad- based, fair,

. >> commissioner lazarus? rex this is the second longest tenured commissioner here. -- >> this is the second longest tenured commissioner here. i would reiterate what she just said. and i will save it is good enough for will travis, it is good enough for me. >> there are a number of people whose opinions i respect. when you reach an agreement, you know it is good when everyone is upset -- is the old adage. everyone has weighed in and no one is completely happy with everything, so we have come to a good point. but i know a lot of staff time has been put into this to be very creative on how to -- how the park can benefit from this project. i am pleased that we will be project. i am pleased that we will be

to my recollection, the only commissioner that has been a year from the beginning is commissioner lazarus. were you hear from the very start also? if anything, you came out afterwards because this has been going on for a long time. and i have been here from the beginning, too, talking on behalf of the project. i'm sure you have had the environmental impact report dropped on your desk and that had a chance to examine it. you know the planning commission has approved it and the board of supervisors has approved it and i asked you to approve it also appeared -- it also. you know this project is good for the city and for the port. it brings as long needed revenue. it excludes a nobody from the city. it brings affordable housing to the city. it actually provides an alternative that might prevent displacement of neighborhoods by getting rich folks to buy here -- a place to buy here on the waterfront. it is time to approve the project. thank you. >> dick gloomack. if he is not here, that we move to shea emily. and after that, cameron steel. >> good afternoon. i'm here on behalf of equity office

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. >> commissioner lazarus? rex this is the second longest tenured commissioner here. -- >> this is the second longest tenured commissioner here. i would reiterate what she just said. and i will save it is good enough for will travis, it is good enough for me. >> there are a number of people whose opinions i respect. when you reach an agreement, you know it is good when everyone is upset -- is the old adage. everyone has weighed in and no one is completely happy with everything, so we have come to a good point. but i know a lot of staff time has been put into this to be very creative on how to -- how the park can benefit from this project. i am pleased that we will be getting more open space there. we will not be having a parking lot sitting in that prime location. and the fences that have hit a lot of the open area will be coming down, so i am pleased about that. i think the people -- most of the people who are concerned have walked out, but the issue of children's wing at the pool, i have spoken with the proje

jim lazarus, chamber of commerce. we strongly urge you to approve this resolution. this is probably the most exciting product -- one of the most exciting projects that will come before this board of supervisors. back to the mid-1970's when the board of supervisors approved the development of mosconi center and yerba buena gardens, the mid-1990's when we approved the giants ballpark, and now, a potential arena, which has been in our minds but -- for decades. this is a key facility to the further development of recreation and visitor industry in san francisco, and we urge you to unanimously approved the resolution and work together in a cooperative way with the warriors and city, family, civic leaders, and community along the waterfront in developing what could be an iconic, world-class facility for the bay area. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker please. >> ♪ warriors golden state arena the city with the midas touch a golden touch the gold basketball ringer get your half-court shot give it all you got give it all you got the gold ring your

and david lazarus, the las vegas times. david, if there ever was a time when we could use a crystal ball and that would be you, tell us where are we in this and when will the court let us know what's they're deliberations have brought them to rule on? >> frs of all, there's no percentage in trying to second guess the supreme court. anything we say will remain in the realm of speculation. that said, polls that have come out and my own conversations with a number of health care experts suggest we have a sense of what could happen next week. on the one hand, what we're looking at probably the conservative wing of the supreme court striking down the so called individual mandate. at the beginning of this process, it was thought legal footing, now a lot of people are thinking, you know, bagsed on the aggressive questioning during the testimony, the individual mandate probably living on borrowed time. the question is what about the rest of the health care reform law and the con ken sus that i'm hearing the justices might leave tha

to know exactly what's in the supreme court's ruling today here to help us dissect it all is simon lazarus senior counsel with a constitutional accountability center welcome welcome thank you very glad to have you with us very pleased to be here the court struck down the mandate under the commerce clause but then supported it under the right article one section eight right to levy taxes what do you make of that distinction. well i think the bottom line is the court upheld the mandate and held congress's ability to. ensure that. all americans have access to affordable health care it's much less significant which constitutional provision technically the court upheld the mandate under so that's the bottom line and that's what really matters. the fact that it turned the mandate down under the commerce clause is really a kind of a technical point i think for lawyers i don't think that the grounds on which it limited the commerce power is going to affect many or even any other statutes because having this kind of a mandate or a requirement is very unusual and not not something congress needs to