m. cohen: thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the september 18th, 2018 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thank you for being here with us today. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, ms. president. brown present. cohen present. fewer present kim present mandelman present peskin present ronan not present safai present stefani present tang present yee present madam president, you have a quorum. >> president m. cohen: thank you. ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: none to report, madam president. >> president m. cohen: please call the consent agenda. >> clerk: items 1-3 are on consent. these items are considered to be routine unless a member objects, an item may be removed and c

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>> when michael cohen arrived outside federal court in m manhatt manhattan, reporters took notice to e greeting he gave fbi agents on hand. he did not have the demeanor of pleading guilty to several federal laws. >> michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. >> the michael cohen case shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. he devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president's attorney and go-to fixer. he once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. >> last august, i sat with michael for the first time in an interview. he told me that he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad to have spent a decade together working side by side. >> less than two years into the president's term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. >> things have completely shifted. i think he probably couldn't walk by trump tower now because he would get to seethingly angry. >> this followed months of controversy. the media reported extensively on cohen's alleged hush money payments to a porn star and playboy model wh

. >> president cohen: thank you, m madam clerk. so what we have before us today are four appeals for the final impact report for the proposed soma project in district 6. our consideration of the appeals involve our analysis of the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency, and completeness of the final environmental impact report. we will proceed as follows. given there are four appellants, up to five minutes for each appellant to describe the grounds of their appeal, up to two minutes for public commenters to speak in support or against the appeal, and up to ten minutes for representatives of the planning department to present its analysis for certifying the feir. up to ten minutes for real property in interests to present their project, and again, another up to two minutes for public commentary in support of the affirmation of the environmental impact report. so, finally, each appellant will have up to two minutes for a rebuttal argument. seeing there are no objections, i will gavel down. we will begin this hearing, and i'd like to acknowl

goldstein and miss veronaic sanchez and the motion made by president cohen on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late dr. price m. cobbs. >> thank you very much. at this time i'd thank our friends at sfgov-tv and matthew ignow for assisting with today's broadcast. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. (♪) >> we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an historic building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor ping-pong table and you have got the art commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. and so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. >> it is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. >> it is kind of nice. >> all of the people that are here. here. ♪ - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront

goldstein and miss veronaic sanchez and the motion made by president cohen on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late dr. price m. cobbs. >> thank you very much. at this time i'd thank our friends at sfgov-tv and matthew ignow for assisting with today's broadcast. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. (♪) >> good afternoon everyone. on the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: i'm really excited to be here with some of our city's most incredible leaders. members of the board of supervisors, and including the person who has led the efforts for each and every one of us that brought us here to this day thank you so much. [applause] for farm too loan, survivors of sexual harassment and assault of how to navigate through tangled web of city departments and resources as they fight for justice and accountability. but thanks to the leadership of everyone here, we are helping those survivors receive the help and the support that they truly need. recent surveys have shown that more than 80% of women and 40% of men and have experienced some form of sexual harassment. nearly

goldstein and miss veronaic sanchez and the motion made by president cohen on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late dr. price m. cobbs. >> thank you very much. at this time i'd thank our friends at sfgov-tv and matthew ignow for assisting with today's broadcast. ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. (♪) >> i strive not to be a success but more of being a valued person to the community. the day and day operations here at treasure island truth in family is pretty hectic. the island is comprised of approximately 500 acres, approximately 40 miles of sanitary sewer, not including the collection system. also monitor the sanitary sewer and collection system for maintenance purposes, and also respond to a sanitary sewer overflows, as well as blockages, odor complaints. we work in an industry that the public looks at us, and they look at us hard in time. so we try to do our best, we try to cut down on incidents, the loss of power, cut down on the complaints, provide a vital service to the community, and we try to uphold that at all times. >> going above and beyond is default mode. he knows his duties, and he doesn't

against him and he decided to fly to san cle m e nte and he decided to fly to san clemente rather than face a trial in the senate. i can see how the business of cohentice case that appears to be building, this could put intolerable pressure on trump. i wouldn't be surprised if he climbed on a helicopter. you think he could... one thing you can't doubt is that he has a pretty large ego. he won't admit criticism, this would be the most serious criticism he would face. wouldn't that make him a martyr? it right if he was uncertain of surviving an impeachment process in the senate that he would be better to leave and build a martyr‘s legend. it reminds me of a quote around the time when margaret thatcher was being challenged before she was deposed, the quote from one of her party members who said you can't hand margaret thatcher a gun, she will shoot you with it. she was supposed to go away quietly, and all she did was turn against her own, and donald trump will do that. if you hand him a gun, he will shoot his own people. if he sees the potential for impeachment, there's i'io potential for impeachment, there's no way he won't run straight into it and t

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. >> after graduating in 1988, cohen dabbled in politics, volunteering on the presidential campaign of democrat michael dukakis. and attended law school at thomas m. cooley in michigan where classmates noted his big ambitions. >> michael could handle stress, he was a bright guy and he had a good sense of humor and i liked that. >> you talk to a lot of people. very personable. >> i would say he was very motivated. he had his eye on the ball. no question about that. >> he was a talker and he was going to be a lawyer. he was going to go back and do big deals and be successful in new york city. >> cohen's legal career began in new york city, working for personal injury lawyer. >> in 1994, he married his childhood sweetheart, laura schusterman at the swanky pierre hotel. the marriage opened doors for cohen. >> michael got involved in business and personal dealings with people who his wife's family associated with. >> but some business associates skirted and broke the law, including his own father in law. >> he was convicted of tax fraud in the early '90s and he got probation. >> following in his father in law's footsteps, cohen got involved with the t

prosecutors in new york will be sitting down with cohen and spending days and days debriefing him and then following up. remember also, they have also imun i m immunized the cfo of the trump organization. you have his former cfo, a former lawyer, former campaign chair. it is starting to line up where the mueller team is no longer hitting singles, they are hitting triples and home runs. and you will see more charges coming out of this case right after the elections shortly. >> all right. thanks to you all. still ahead, florence beginning to fizzle, but the flood fears remain as the storm dumps torrential rains on north and south carolina. residents still fleeing for their lives trying to get to dry ground. live coverage next. >> it's gotten deeper. we're trying to get the hell out of here and getting people out. i've never been flooded out of a house during a hurricane and i've lived here all my life. here we go. discover. i like your card, but i'm absolutely not paying an annual fee. discover has no annual fees. really? yeah. we just don't believe in them. oh nice. you would not believe how long i've been rehearsing that. no annual fee on an

. >> after graduating in 1988, cohen dabbled in politics, volunteering on the presidential campaign of democrat michael dukakis. and attended law school at thomas m. cooley in michigan where classmates noted his big ambitions. >> michael could handle stress, he was a bright guy and he had a good sense of humor and i liked that. >> you talk to a lot of people. very personable. >> i would say he was very motivated. he had his eye on the ball. no question about that. >> he was a talker and he was going to be a lawyer. he was going to go back and do big deals and be successful in new york city. >> cohen's legal career began in new york city, working for personal injury lawyer. >> in 1994, he married his childhood sweetheart, laura schusterman at the swanky pierre hotel. the marriage opened doors for cohen. >> michael got involved in business and personal dealings with people who his wife's family associated with. >> but some business associates skirted and broke the law, including his own father in law. >> he was convicted of tax fraud in the early '90s and he got probation. >> following in his father in law's footsteps, cohen got involved with the t

m same house, same call. without objection it passes. madam clerk, call item 44 and 45. >> clerk: items 44 and 45, are two motions to approve president cohen's reapipement of dennis richards and kathrin moore to the planning commission for four-year terms ending july 1, 2022. >> all right, supervisor kim? >> i just want to thank both commissioner moore and richards for their service on the planning kim and i appreciate they're willing to continue to serve. this is commissioner moore's fourth term which is extraordinary. the planning commission is certainly not just a volunteer commission. it is a ton of work and many hours. and watching many planning commission meetings i just want to extend my appreciation to our two board appointees for all of their work and rigor and also for continuing on and i'm happy to be supporting these two appointees today. >> thank you. supervisor presidency kin. >> thank you, supervisor cohen and i want to thank you, madam president, for seeing fit to reappoint those two individuals that give voice to those who need to be heard before that important body. thank you. >> absolutely. all right, seeing that there are