aye, and vice-president lazarus? aye.n lazarus issel elevated to the presidency of the board. >> congratulations. and let me this you in advance for helping me and the board for the next year. i really appreciate your willing innes to serve. >> okay. we can move then to item no. 3 which is commissioner comments and questions. anything, commissioners? >> my only comment is that on march 13th is our scheduled meeting? >> the 12th. >> i have a flight out to the east coast. so i will have to leave about 9:00 p.m.. so everyone knows. any other commissioners? any other public comment? seeing none. then item four is your consideration of board minutes for january 19, 2014. any additions? a motion to submit the minutes? >> so moved. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. we have a motion from the vice-president to adopt the february 19th minutes. on that motion, commissioners fung, commissioner hwang is absent, president lazarus, and commissioner honda. the vote is 4-0. those mi

. >> lazarus? aye. the vote is 4-0. this election is rescheduled until february 19th. >> the next item is 3 comments and questions. any? seeing none, item 4 is the board consideration and adoption of the january 15, 2014, minutes. any changes to the minutes? >> no. >> motion to adopt? >> i will move to adopt. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, mr. pacheco, if you can call the roll please. >> on that motion from commissioner hurried -- hurtado to adopt the january 15, 2014, minutes. commissioner fung, lazarus, honda. the vote is 4-0. those minutes are adopted. >> thank you. before moving on i want to make sure the parties to item no. 9 are here. with the vice-president's consent i would like to suggest the board to consider whether this item 9 should be heard tonight. a demolition permit. the permit holder is requesting the matter be rescheduled. with the vice-president, we can give the parties to discuss regarding the hearing date. if the matter is heard tonight, it can be heard in a normal order. if not

aye, lazarus? aye. the vote is 4-0. this permit is upheld on that basis. >> thank you. >> the next item is a closed session item 12 and the first item is public comment on all matters related to this session. is there anyone here who would like to speak on item 12? seeing none, then we have a vote to move into closed session? >> i move to close into closed session. >> there is a motion to move into closed session. mr. pacheco, please call the roll. >> on that motion from commissioner hurtado to enter into closed session item 12, commissioner fung, president is absent, lazarus, honda. the vote is 4-0. the board is now in clos >>> >>> we are reconvening in open session and i will state that no action was taken during the closing session and the matter is whether or not to disclose information in the session. >> i will move that we not disclose the discussion based on attorney-client privilege. >> mr. pacheco, if you can take the roll on that? >> on that motion from commissioner hurtado to not disclose the content of the c

the president lazarus you indicated the number of minutes you would like? two 2 minutes and the basis for that is the size of the crowd and what is before the board this evening? >> yes. >> okay. you have 2 minutes. >> i'm cho a. i'm a neighbor. i want to let you know that there are a lot of us who live in the valencia corridor who really do feel like projects like this are necessary. i absolutely love the marsh. i think they are a great institution and they serve the area so well and that's why you have so many people here from the marsh. i feel the developer has done a really great job of lifting up to help with the sound issue. the part where the developer hasn't -- the part that concern me greatly is the affordable housing question here. we could not afford to lose more housing in san francisco and it's still very hard to build housing that i really and treat you all to look very carefully to look at any decision that causes us to lose an entire floor. the street is full. i live right besides many buildings that are taller than what is being proposed ve

the board president is joined by your commissioner lazarus commissioner lazarus and commissioner hurtado pr commission darryl will be absent and to my left is the deputy he'll provide the board with legal advice. i'm cindy that grolg gold at the scene we're represented by the cases with the representing the planning department and planning commission. we'll be joined by hanson tom with the building of inspection and norman wong with the san francisco transportation agency division of sustainable streets. typed i'm sorry we have the transportation of taxi services please go over the boards guidelines. the board requests you turn off outline pagers and cell phones. please carry on conversations implicit the halfway. appellant and department representatives each have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttal. party must conclude their comments within the 7 minutes and those who are not affiliated with the cases get 3 minutes. the public are asked but not required to give a card who coming up to the podium and pencils are on the left side of the podium. there are customer s

he lifted up his eyes and saw lazarus in his bozo only. he cried out and said, father abraham, have mercy on me and send lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for i am tormented in this flame. abraham said, son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things and likewise laze arus evil things. now he he is comfort you had and you are tormented. beside all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. ~ so that they which pass from here to you cannot. neither can they pass to us that would come from there. and then he said, i pray you therefore father that you would send in my father's house for my five brothers that he may testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment. he said, new york city they have the bible. let them hear what the bible says ~. they have moses and the prophets, let them hear them. he said, no, but if one went to them -- >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm peter war field, executive director of library users association. today i

lazarus. [laughter] >>> hello, good afternoon. my name is jesse wiletz and i have lived in san francisco for nine years and i strongly support the fair chance ordinance. thank you all for the work you're doing. >> thank you, ms. wiletz. >>> good afternoon, my name is rebecca welna i am a resident of san francisco in the mission district. i just want to formally register my support for the fair chance act. i won't repeat what's already been said in a very articulate and heart felt manner. i'll just say thank you very much for co-sponsoring and i hope that this is just the beginning of a [speaker not understood] like this. >> thank you, ms. welna. >>> good afternoon, i'm machaela davis i'm a staff attorney at the aclu in northern california. one thing we do is work on alternative to incarceration around the state. we really are focusing on counties redirecting resources to strategies that strengthen communities and make our communities safe and healthy. decreasing barriers to employment and housing as everyone knows is one of those

vice-president lazarus? aye. commissioner honda? >> aye. >> the vote is 4-0. this is rejected. >> you can contact the office and we can help you with a refund. contact mr. pacheco tomorrow if you would like. thank you. we can move on to the next item 8.88 appeal no. 13-159 ysabel navarro, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent 480 amherst street. appealing the issuance on november 05, 2013, of penalty imposition of penalty for construction work done without a permitt. application no. 2013/11/05/1183 for hearing today.1234 this is on for a hearing. navarro, please step forward. you have 7 minutes to present your case. >> hello, my name is isabelle navarro. and i went to the department of building inspection. i built a deck on the back of the house. but i fixed everything is back by november for my first time and i didn't know i had to ask for permission to build a deck. that's why i'm here to get back some money. it's too expensive to build a deck and then put back everything. so, thank you. >> ms. navarro, you have already removed the deck?

david lazarus, consumer editor at the los angeles times.avis why off the top should the post office get into banking? should it? >> the post office needs to fix itself. the woman at the previous segment was all at sixes and sevens, and the post office needs some way to bring money back in, as the volume of mail declined, thank you very much, mr. internet. this is a way to think out of the box and there is a need for it. because when we look at the short term payday lope industry, we are -- loan industry, we are looking at something that is given out with annual percentage rate topping 400 percent. which for families living at odds, and the inspector general stepping up with a plan that can offer the same short term loans at a fraction of what the consumer market is offering. >> we think that if they offer these loans they'll be done at a more reasonable rate, more reasonable cost. >> well ali, look at some of the numbers in the inspector general's report. they think there are 12 million people fetting these loans every year. they note the a

. >> her son was an honor student in high school, after becoming addicted to heroin matt lazarus died in 2012. his mother chris joins us. chris, welcome. >> thank you. >> tell me a little bit more about your son. >> matthew was an aplaysing kid. he was -- an amazing kid. he was in gifted and talented from second grade along. he received annal academic achievement award signed by george bush. he was bright, talented, musical, a gifted young man. >> not the sort you would expect to get into drugs, but he did. >> never. >> when did you find out? >> i knew he was drinking and doing some of those things in the summer of 2011. he didn't start doing heroin from what we learned his first use was september of 2011. >> how did you find out about that? >> his best friend actually came and told me. >> so you have taken on this cause for a number of reasons i'm sure. but tell us why. why are you so interested in speaking out after your son's death? >> well, i guess one of the main reasons is the stigma that seems to come with heroin use. people think that it's not the middle class, it's not the af

the presiding officer tonight is our president chris fong joined by frank fung, hurtado, and lazarus will be absent this evening. the department city attorney is here and victor pacheco and i'm the executive director. we are joined by the city of the department that have cases before the board. scott sanchez is here, the zoning administrator and representing the planning commission, and senior building inspector, mr. duffy and bureau of urban forestry and department of public works and john kwaung the manager of street use and mapping. mr. pacheco, at this time if you would please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the clerk: the board request that you turn off all phones and pagers so they do not disrupt the proceedings. please carry on conversation in the hall ways. appellant and permit holders have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals. people affiliated must include their comments within the 7-minute period. members who are not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes to address the board, but no rebuttals. to ass

. >> i think commissioner lazarus is right in the in terms of the narrowness of the permit driving by there it's a disaster but i'm in agreement in general the holding up of this permit is not necessarily goes 80 going to solve the issues of the overall master plan in the future at some point that will be part of the efforts with the planning department and the concern. >> i would have to agree that you know when faced with the permit that's before us we have unheard of very little to at least i have not been persuaded by the issue by the permitted what has happened is a lack of effort really to work with the people that are appealing the elevators permits and the various activities for something that is a very obvious and necessary thing not only a residential space but it appears that will have an impact on the public even if it's on private property. and even i think we have enough here to work with i'm going to move to deny the appeal of the special traffic permit on the grounds it was properly issues >> do you want to say they update the proper dates. >> yes. that's a great idea

. >> good afternoon jim lazarus with the san francisco chamber of commerce. i had the privilege of sitting on an advisory group. i'm sure you're aware of it's key to the economy it would hard to see that this is the growth we need and you see in san francisco now. a few of us were around during the earlier days of the construction of the moscone. this is a changing investment we went into moscone north and south and moscone west because the market demands the space that is needed to meet the requirements of the modern visitor and those programs are coming to san francisco. their keying to our economy. we made a decision a long time ago that's been described we we meeting get a beautiful place not a rectangle letter box. the moscone north expansion could have been moved to another place they decided not to do. the chamber buildings the designs that are presented here today properly balance the needs of the neighborhoods and visitors and the needs of business in the moscone and yerba buena garden area. so we urge you to work closely with the architect and the d

commissioner hurtado commissioner lazarus so the vote is 4 to zero all 3 permits are upheld open that basis >> okay. so we have one more temazepam 8 which is our discussion and possible adaptation if you could exit quietly we have one more item. the departments budget for 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. so commissioners what i wanted to do tonight was to give us a belief update on our current year in the budget process and the recommendations for the next to fiscal years we have to submit the proposal by february 21st so what we need action tonight to meet the timeline. i don't want to get into the detail i know you're familiar with the surcharges and a filing fees and well familiar with 9 way that your expenditures are generally divided among the various bucket of expenses but as per usual the majority go to personnel costs. i want to focus on the revenue we're seeing a slight increase in surcharge revenue and it will end the year with a surplus. we continue as we have been in the 640s months we'll have $12 million in surplus revenue. as far as fees we're not looking a exemplifies that line

on that motion, commissioner fung, aye, president is absent, lazarus aye, honda, aye. the vote is 4-0. the granting of this variance is upheld. >> i will call item 11. sf 11 sulpicio marino. 530-day street protesting the issuance on october 16, 2013, to martin slatary. >> geepg, -- good evening. at this point i have nothing to add to statements in my brief and there is nothing also that i wish to emphasize on those statements although i stand firm with my statements. >> sir, in reading your brief, one of the things you brought up is that you want the sky light to be fixed and not retractable? what changes do you want made in your appeal? >> that there is no access at all to the retractable skylight would allow access to the roof for the roof deck. i initially was contesting the roof deck and if the retractable sky light is to be present that would be the only way for the access to get to the roof. >> okay, we can hear from mr. santos. >> good evening, mr. santos. construction started in may of 2013. we took substantial and vertical opposition and proper notice was made

vice-president hurtado, lazarus, commissioner honda. this permit is upheld with revised findings with additional conditions. >> thank you. a >>we are back to the february 26, 2014. item no. 8 is rescheduled. we are on item no. 9. item 9: 99 appeal no. 14-008 ty bash, appellanttss vs. dept. of building inspection, respondent planning dept. approval 1100 ashbury street. protesting the issuance on december 31, 2013, to michelle meyer, alteration permit replace windows; work done in 2000; found out permit not issued at time; rectifying situation; in response to notice of violation #2013428411. application no. 2013/12/31/5419. for hearing todayrescheduled. we are on item no. 9. sf 91234 this is on for hearing tonight and we'll start with the appellant mr. bash. you have seven minutes.7 minutes.a good evening commissioners, my name is tie bash and i'm the individual pealing the window replacement i believe in error to respondent. as a 19-year resident of the city of san francisco. i have met the planning commission department. these are windo

on that motion to uphold and adopt and revised plans, president is absent, hurtado, lazarus, >>77 appeal no. 13-139 julio castillo dba "julie's hot dogs", appellanttss vs. dept. of public works bureau of street-use & mapping, respondent 4111 - 18th street. appealing the denial on october 16, 2013, of mobile food facility permit denial of permit application due to non-response by applicant; for sale of hot dogs, chips, sodas and energy drinkss. application no. 12mff-0030.>> sf 712341234 >> we'll start with the appellant. please step forward? you have 7 minutes to present your case. >> good evening. my name is julio castillo. i'm here to appeal to the permit 4-1-11, 18th street. to continue the paperwork for 4-1-11 because we get the first permit on 2012 and we get the first permit and the 41 mission. and we won't continue on 4-1-11 on 18th street because we need more money to get the papers because we buy the trailer and i don't have enough money to continue the paperwork. that's why we don't continue with the paperwork. i did not receive the letters because they stole the mail from my ho

the presiding officer this evening is our vice-president ann lazarus joined by commissioner fung and hurtado and we expect supervisor here briefly. at the control of the boards legal assistance is pacheco.

next washington journal, the debate over executive powers will be the topic of discussion with simon lazarus with the constitution accountability center. they will talk about how president obama and past presidents have used the powers and how they factor into current policy debate. after that, a look at what young voters thought about muslim obama recent state of the union address in issues they consider most important in 2014. we will also look for your calls and take your comments by e- mail, twitter, and facebook are getting live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> next, our first lady series continues with a look at the life and career of hillary clinton. i'll abide this year's south carolina tea party convention with candidates for office. then a debate over a u.s. government policy called guns in america, one year after sandy hook, hosted by stanford university. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] hello. this is hillary clinton. i want to thank you for speaking about an issue that is critical to our fight to restore the nation's economy, solving our nation's health

sitting in these seats, than in the board chambers where it killed my butt, but luckily, i have a lazarus butt and so i was able to bring it back from the dead and make it to this meeting, once again it was wonderful to see everybody there for four plus hours. but it was worth it. >> i came in with someone in my building and i was able to write out my own report so that the words would be the way that i needed to have them down and i went to the station yesterday and the officer took me very seriously and he read what i wrote and he also was very well aware of who this suspect was. and so, i want to commend and i have to spell the name because i can't pronounce it, dob rowo lski. he is polish, not russian, and star number 1 936. and so, not only did he give me a report, and follow up slip, but he also gave me the marci's card, and resources for the victims and then another little document which tells me about whom i can speak in the hall of justice for victim witness assistance programs and so i wanted to make sure that he got recognized for having provided wonderful service. and there is

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san francisco chamber of commerce in particular jim lazarus and dee-dee workman who worked so closely with our, with our advocacy to come to legislation that we could all agree on. i also want to recognize dhr, olfc and office of contract administration as well as the mayor's office of housing. what we have presented before us is legislation everyone can agree on, but more than that what it means is that as policy makesers we can some time pass policy because we have the votes but it doesn't mean it will get implemented the right way. having stakeholders such a large businesses and employers on board means they will be advocating amongst their membership to do the right thing because they truly believe in the final outcome of this legislation as well which is to give people opportunity that want to work a chance to work. so, i know that was a really long introduction. we don't actually have a presentation of this today so i was hoping that folks would give me the time to explain the history and the background of all of this. and, so, if there are no further questions from committee me

"washington journal," the debate over executive powers will be the topic of discussion from simon lazarus from the constitutional ability center and roger pilon of the cato industry -- cato institute. after that, a look at what young voters thought of present obama's recent state of the unit and address any issues they consider most important in 2014. matthew segal of the nonprofit organization ourtime will join us. we will look for your calls and take your comments by imo, twitter, and facebook beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. >> he was someone, as i say, who grew in the office. the cubanly burned by bay pig experience. he had listened to the experts, cia, might chief of staff, and -- het to see the goal went to see de gaulle in france, and de gaulle said you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people to listen to what they have to say, but at the end of the day, you have to make up your own mind, and he, kennedy another said,at the buck stops here. he wanted to hear what these experts had to say, way what they were telling him, but at the end of the day, h

ethiopia's former foreign minister of 20 years and the mediator of cpa, general lazarus lazarus -- [inaudible] from kenya. so we've been engaged with other diplomatic partners as well, the troika, the european union, china all have been engaged on the ground with their envoys in addis, in juba and throughout the region. we're working to support the cessation of hostilities agreement and the launching of needed political dialogue to address the roots of the prop. .. an additional $50 million of u.s. humanitarian assistance to address the immediate pressing needs created by the conflict and we will be doing further assessments in the coming days. i continue to be encouraged by the leadership in ending the parts i believe he began to lead negotiations offer the best hope for south sudan and the region. we will continue to support the mediators and tearing out their mandate as instructed by the content of the 24 session of the assembly of heads of state on the 31st of january. key to this mandate is its instruction for the mediators, and i quote, develop a framework for the next phase of negotiat

simon rogerpilon and lazarus. your is more of what the speaker of the house this past week said as he reacted to the president's announcement that if congress fails to act, he will. [video clip] >> we will continue to look closely at whether the president is faithfully executing the laws. he took an oath to do this. dealing with federal contracts and the minimum wage, he probably has the authority to do that but we will watch very closely. there is a constitution that we all take an oath to including him. following that constitution is the basis for our republic and we should not put them in jeopardy. host: will go to richard joining us from pawtucket, rhode island. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. all in all, i think what the president said was pretty blurred -- was pretty belligerent to congress. i think what he did was pretty successful in the way that he was able to derail the public from having to the main topic of the things that are concerning americans the most right now which is the eco

jim lazarus of the san francisco chamber of commerce makes another point, tech is a job multiplier, he says, meaning that every well-paid engineer is supporting restaurants, retailers and personal services. big tech will tell you they try to be a friend to the community. google, for example, will point out that millions of dollars it has donated to nonprofits and says it looks forward to doing more. sue, back to you. >> josh, thank you very much. we'll watch that story because it's obviously going to continue to develop. >>> diggers finding a time capsule 30 years after it was planted by former apple ceo steve jobs. more on what's a fascinating discovery from kcnn's editor in chief. thanks for being here. nice to have you. we understand mr. jobs was speaking at a conference in aspen and they put together this time capsule and buried it somewhere in a field in aspen. how did they find it? >> they buried it in 1993 with every intention of digging it up in 2000, then they lost it. the national geographic show "diggers" went after it. they will reveal the content later this month. cnn got

. >> and simon lazarus, who is with the constitutional accountability center. thanks for being with us. this is how the christian science monitor poses the question. as the president taps powers to bypass a gridlocked congress, is that dangerous overreach or effective governing? how do you answer that? >> i expect that it's both. to my mind, however, it is very much overreach. to be sure the president has a certain discretion with respect to his authority to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, but he is pressing that discretion right to the limit. and we're talking here not so much about executive orders, because most of what he's done, especially lately, hasn't been through executive order, but it's been through rules and regulations, through his agencies and in that capacity, he has, in the case of the affordable care act, obamacare, for example, been on a tear to essentially rewrite the law in many respects. it is as if congress issued a statute that said this is advisory, now you fill in the blanks. and that's what's got so many people upset tod

simon rogerpilon and lazarus. more of what the speaker of the house this past week said as he reacted to the president's announcement that if congress fails to act, he will. [video clip] >> we will continue to look closely at whether the president is faithfully executing the laws. he took an oath to do this. dealing with federal contracts and the minimum wage, he probably has the authority to do that but we will watch very closely. there is a constitution that we all take an oath to including him. following that constitution is the basis for our republic and we should not put them in jeopardy. host: will go to richard joining us from pawtucket, rhode island. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. all in all, i think what the president said was pretty blurred -- was pretty belligerent to congress. i think what he did was pretty successful in the way that he was able to derail the public from having to the main topic of the things that are concerning americans the most right now which is the economy. wi