madame chair, i yield back. >> thank you ms. adams. ms. handle, you're recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, madame chairman. good morning. thank you, secretary, for being here. just a quick question on the work force innovation and opportunity act which as you know in july of 2016 instituted a new accountability program with measurable defined performance indicators. do you have a sense a year plus later about how this is working? has it been effective? if so, are there other programs within department of labor to which this type of approach could be applied? >> congresswoman, thank you for the question. i believe that it was as you mentioned instituted a year ago. and that states were responsible for submitting the outcomes i believe about two to three weeks ago it was at some point in october. i don't remember the exact date. we're in the process of revealing that data. once that data is reviewed i'm happy to provide further thoughts on what that data shows. i'd also like to say that while most states did submit the data, i believe

. >> madam chair we have two speakers cards. oscar dreams. >> oscar james those steps coming from the rear kind of look like i'm racing a race trying to get up here. anyway, the certificate purpose cards i brought mine they do send them out and i have four that comes to my house four of my illegal tenants i call them received the certificate also so they are doing a good job. i seen this thing on tv about people living in these units and i know you see it on the news and i want to make sure the director of certificate of preference makes sure she keeps her job because she's doing a good job. when something comes up and they say the records of a project are the first one to go they are doing a good job, they're reach ing out to the community but i have a problem and i want to bring it to the senior sitting up there, commissioner singh, when they had the re development commission we were trying to get grandkids of certificate holders put on these gift certificates and i would like for you guys to work on that to try and get the gr

madam chair, i'm out of time. you've been very generous. thank you. >> senator. >> thank you, madam chairman. thanks for holding the hearing. i introduced legislation, reforms blm permitting process for permit to drills aps for oil wells where blm owns no surface acres, no surface acres but owns minerals under that area, we'd like to go ahead and permit if without going through their process if they own less than 50% of the mineral because we go through other approval processes. in essence minority with no acres is holding up the majority owner on the minerals. so that's essentially how the legislation works. we actually moved a version of it through here, i think it was last year. and it didn't get across the floor, but we're continuing to work, and again, it's just about trying to have a commonsense way to expedite apds. so i would like your reaction and whether you're willing to support that type of effort. >> we're always happy to have any flexibility to move our processes along more efficiently than they are right now. so we would be ha

. >> thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> we are missing a few commission members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the democrat national party so we are really glad to be here. >> good morning everyone. thank you. i want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. this was a very important exercise it was labor-intensive and came to it with an open mind and with a remarkable set of ideas so i want to say thank you to all of you but i want to say particular things tour cochair. we have been meeting regularly rainstorm and regularly and i can't say enough wonderful things about both of you. you have entered this enterprise with a spirit of old passion and a spirit of ingenuity in the spirit that understands this is the most serious test on our nation's democracy perhaps in our history and the work of this co

>> madam chair? >> yes. >> i move to amendment number seven. the amendment to page 4, line 13, which the people already have. this is another amendment that expresses the diversity of view with respect to the role of elected officials. the unofficial role of elected officials in the primary process. there was some discussion inside and outside the commission about what that role should be and whether folks should be encouraged to voluntarily bind themselves to whatever electorate elected them. there was some discussion about whether that was an appropriate thing to do to try to get elected officials to binds themselves to their constituents, some felt that it was appropriate, some felt it was not and then some felt that -- i put myself in that category that it would be impractical or impossible to force a gag rule on elected officials. this just mirrors the diversity view on this topic. i'm happy -- i'm happy to read the amendment or someone else can read it. >> we'd like them on paper please. >> i'm

. >> thank you, madam chair. i certainly welcome this infrastructure permitting oversight hearing, but i do think it's interesting the "wall street journal" reported this last week and that president trump will roll out and infrastructure plan in january, proposing to undergoing a spending offset by cutting other federal programs. so before we start victory veri just want to remind my colleagues that the tax proposal before us is trying to be jammed through when we could be having this discussion right now about infrastructure investment. we started the year with a lot of conversation between our colleagues, our leader, senator schumer, and speaker ryan, about doing an infrastructure built they got set aside. i just want to make sure that people understand we've been more than willing to talk about our crumbling infrastructure for a long time. so this morning we going to hear about permitting reform which is a good discussion, but we need and infrastructure built that is about funding. i'm proud over the last two

bustos is absent. >> yes. >> madam chair, we have throw ayes and one absent. >> thank you, motion carried. >> thank you very much for the presentation. >> congratulations. >> so madam secretary let's call the next item. >> the next order of business agenda item 5c work shop on fiscal year 2016-2017 annual affordable housing production report discussion. madam director. >> thank you. this item is interesting one and it's exciting and this is the third year where the agency has issued an annual affordable housing production report. jeff white will present on this item and i think the take away from the presentation is that this was a good year for us and most of the data said fourth had improved and he will talk us through what that is and the take aways we touched over 2,800 homes which is impressive so it's a strong year for us so with that jeff. >> great, thank you. good afternoon. jeff white houseing program manager. and welcome to the annual housing report. i've got a lot of material to cover so i may go briskly and we ca

senator turner. >> thank you, madam chair. and just on the those points even though it significantly reduces the number of super delegates, it is still my opinion that this party needs to work to abolish a two-tier system that this sets up between the grass roots and the party faithfuls and those who have titles, fancy titles, to make those titles more important than the grass roots. so respecting those titled folks because i'm one of them, but i don't think the democratic party should be in the business of setting up a two-tier system. all of those super delegates should be treated exactly the same. it does reduce the number, but it does create a two-tier system. and most of the grass roots are a diverse group in terms of ethnicity and gender, more diverse, the group that's bound than the group that is not bound. [ applause ] >> additional discussion? >> i just have a clarifying question. if there is a democratic member of congress, governor or distinguished party leader that is also a state chair or one of these other bound

thank you madam chair. i want to thank everyone for protecting ng and population.ble tampa bay res residents to finish no more pascoe on facebook or twitter to learn about what the community is doing to combat the predators. thank you very much. takingk my community for back. i yield back. >> mr rush, you are recognised minutes.e >> i want to thank madam courage in r your terms of having this hearing i want to commend you. exploitation and for this nation, . see from a if we different perspective. job, marriage, play in this crime. seems there is another aspect really crime that hasn't been discussed at all. and that is for child marriages to occur. speak to this issue at all. i'm interested. respect i have some issues that addressing. so ding to child marriages, many different centers, state by state. to create a g common standard. have anything at all, anybody. >> i'm sorry and getting older and hard of hearing. i may have missed some parts of that. you were asking about child marriage. >> i'm asking abou

so i want to thank congresswoman -- madam chair of the hispanic caucus -- congressional hispanic caucus and her members. i want to thank judy chu, the chair of the congressional asian pacific american caucus. congresswoman yvette clarke who, working with the congressional black caucus has been a champion in that caucus, and all other members on both sides of the aisle who are striving to find a path and one path that we have open to us is to allow to defeat this rule, to allow the dream act to come up, and to put that in the mix as we go -- as we go forward. again this isn't an issue, this isn't a bill, it's a value. it's a value. that's the conversation we had with president trump this isn't an issue. this is a value.

>> yes, madam chair, we have two speaker cards.scar james and ace washington. >> good afternoon commissioners, oscar james, residents and glad to see all of you here after thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> you were able to shake off your turkey. this is a happy day for me. for a couple of reasons, one, having young community developers partake in this particular project that was one of the programs we started in the model cities project the young community developers and number two, i would like first of all, i'm in support of this project, i guess you guys already know that but one of the things i'm really looking forward to is making sure certificate holders both residents of baby hunters point and what's in addition and any other project that rel development agency went in to and tore down and rebuilt for the certificate holders to have pref in moving in to these houses it's a lot of our young brothers and sisters in these areas who have been incarcerated and who are homeless, some who have been to vietnam and what have yo

[roll call] madame chair director, you have a quorum. please be advised that director torres will be absent from today's meeting. please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phone, pagers and other similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. so, please turn your phones off and not to vibrate because when it is on vibrate mode, it causes microphone interference. thank you very much. item four's approval of the minutes. do i have any public comment on the minutes? >> madame chair, we have not received a a speaker card and it doesn't look like anybody is addressing you. >> seeing none, do i have a motion to approve the minutes of november 21? >> to move. >> second? >> second. >> all if favor? aye? none opposed. approved. >> item five, communications. madame chair, directors, an item on your consent calendar, item 10.2 with regard to establishing a towaway, no stopping anytime except for san francisco police department vehicles has b

thank you, madam chair. mr. goldman, in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress can achieve a balanced mr. goldman in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress wan reach a balanced solution, first, websites and secondly by targeting a website's intent to facilitate illegal activities. have you seen mr. goodlatte's amendment to targeting with a specific intent standard? would such a proposal serve that purpose of balance? >> i have seen the proposed legislation. i do think the effort to focus on prostitution i consider superior than the alternatives i've seen. >> i want to again applaud the good work of the senate permanent subcommittee on this investigation because they're bringing details of this in focus. after reading their staff report, it's clear they not only profited from online sex traffic, but backpage.com helped develop content for online traffickers. it's my understanding section 230 does not protect when it develops this way. can you explain for us where the co

e we'll move on. >> thank you, madame chair.n your regular calendar is item 11, making environmental review findings and approving various parking and traffic modifications along the muni transit corridor. ly not read every single modification. >> thank you. so how i'd like to handle this is i'd like to have the staff presentation. i know we have a lot of people here for public comment. so, directly after the staff presentation, i'd like to move into public comment and there will be a two-minute limit and remember when you are up there giving your public comment, let us know succinctly what your issue is. that two minutes can go quickly. the first so far tone is a 30-second warning and the second louder tone is your final two minutes. at that point, i will politely but firmly cut you off because we need to be fair to all of our public commenters. after public comment, we'll take in order to questions around the 17th street stop, the 35 -- sorry, the 17th avenue stop, 35th avenue stop and 44th avenue stop. so, if we could go ahea

>> the clerk: yes, madame chair, mr. wiener. >> director: two minutes. >> mr. wiener, san francisco state alumni. my time is running out. i like what is presented by director davis. i'd like to submit my own comment. now, you talk about equity. transportation should be accessible to everyone. it should be a right for everyone. this is not the case right now. what this board does is believes in identity politics. the groups that get up and testify before you in support of your program are the groups you support. it's a reciprocal relationship and the public is left out of it. what happens is it works in the community. like for instance, in outer richmond there were many non-english speaking foreign immigrants denied service. the same thing applies to the parking spaces in the bay view. what happens is when you do trade-offs you're trading off one group of individuals against other individuals. that's basically what it is. unfortunately the definition of politics for this board is the politics of compromise is the art of comprising people. so i really believe in

thank you, madam chair. mr. goldman, in your testimony you mentioned two ways you believe congress can achieve a balanced solution. first by avoiding a patchwork of state laws, which websites would have to comply. and then secondly, by targeting a website's intent to facilitate illegal activities. i wonder if you've seen mr. goodlatte proposed amendment to mrs. wagner's legislation that involves targeting the facilitation of prostitution with a specific intent standard and carving out state criminal laws that would do the same thing? would such a proposal, serve that purpose of balance? mr. goldman: i have seen that proposed legislation and i think the effort to focus on specific intent to facilitate prostitution is a productive way of approaching the issue. i consider it to be superior than the alternatives i have seen. mr. doyle: you know, i want to again applaud the good work of the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, because they're bringing the details of this issue into focus. after readin

>> madam chair, yes, for number . page 4, line 32 so it reads right now, the commission recommends the d.n.c. work to ensure that all party first who have a role in the execution of the actual primary caucus process in their state st be scrupeously neutral in reality and perception in their administration in electoral activities and i move that to amend to say will. they will ensure. >> second the amendment. >> any discussion. hose in favor say aye. unanimous. the amendment is adopted. >> another amendment, page 4, i want to add to the end -- hat paragraph that any number 10, page 4, line 35. adding to the end of the paragraph, any person who violates this important commitment to impartiality could be subject to loss of delegate status or any other privilege hey may hold at the d.n.c. so we're adding at the end of this higher paragraph so everyone -- >> i second the amendment. >> seeing no discussion. ll those in favor. unanimous. t's adopted. any additional amendments? we are going to putting up the recommendations s

. >> thank you madam chair and for your report. director gordon i understand our policy is we as fare-paying customers need to be sure we have a proof of payment. if you're card isn't tagging, it's your responsibility to make sure that maybe you go to a different much. what i've noticed is often times a machine will be broken on one end of the car and you as a fare-paying customer should probably find another machine to tag it to demonstrate proof of payment. from about what i understand the proof of payment policy has demonstrated reduced and fare evasion and we're winning in terms of saving time and saving money and it's going to require cooperation and with respect to the presentation, i thought it was interesting you went after cash-paying customers versus those playing with clipper. i'm wondering if there's a way we may be able to check on what your response rates were to that question and what we actually get like in our books and test the accuracy of either one. >> yeah, there would be. i know there are other studies done on

those opposed, no. 4-a. >> madam chair. i am abstaining on the votes on four and five because since this comes to the rules and bylaws committee, and as five acknowledges, the rules and bylaws committee may come to a different conclusion, which will come back to this unity reform commission. i'm going to abstain so i can conduct a full an open discussion there. i'm not expressing opposition to it. >> this is an issue that i'm going to raise later. but i have a sense that there are a number of issues here that are going to come before the rules and bylaws committee. in the interest of fairness, my sense is that i'm not opposed to members of this body who will be on the rules and bylaws committee voting in this body. but i do think they should be -- they should recuse themselves from the discussion that -- when it occurs before the rules and bylaws committee. it's a fundamental issue of fairness and i think the optics are also problematic. when there would be debates here and people would fall on different sides of it, but th

thank you, madam chair. i want to thank the witnesses for participating and protecting our nation's vulnerable population. i and currents -- encourage tampa residents to investigate on facebook or twitter to learn more about what th trinity is doing to combat these predators. -- what the community is doing to combat these predators. you for yourank courage in terms of having this hearing and i want to commend initiative onour this matter. [indiscernible] .o this nation when we see from a different , [indiscernible] in this crime. it seems as though there is [indiscernible] there is child marriage. can you speak to this issue? i have some legislation [indiscernible] that relates to child marriages. so many different standards state-by-state. it is hard to find a common standard for this legislation. can you respond, anybody? >> i am getting older and hard of hearing so i may have missed some parts of that. you were asking about child marriage. >> i am asking about child marriage. >> and trafficking. we have h

we are going to move immediately to -- >> madam chair? i want to take this opportunity to thank the outstanding work of the cochair of the caucus section, and the outstanding chairwoman from nebraska. we reached agreement on all of our issues, except the last one. i want to take this opportunity for the general public to also see that we are able to work together as a team. we had both clinton and sanders people on the team. we agreed on 19 of 20 issues. >> thank you. well said. thank you. we are now going to move to the amendments that were tabled yesterday and we will go through those. we will take a 10 minute break.

so i want to thank congresswoman -- madam chair of the hispanic caucus -- congressional hispanic caucus and her members. i want to thank judy chu, the chair of the congressional asian pacific american caucus. congresswoman yvette clarke who, working with the congressional black caucus has been a champion in that caucus, and all other members on both sides of the aisle who are striving to find a path and one path that we have open to us is to allow to defeat this rule, to allow the dream act to come up, and to put that in the mix as we go -- as we go forward. again this isn't an issue, this isn't a bill, it's a value. it's a value. that's the conversation we had with president trump this isn't an issue. this is a value. this is about who we are as a nation and how we respect who we are as a nation. and that's why i believe that president trump will be receptive to signing a bill. he does want concerns for border security and we'll work with him on that. but let's start by putting on the record the support of this house for recognition that we are by and large, unless some of you are nati

premature, if a change occurt you would send just an alert, tn fyi to the chair. >> very good, we'll do that. >> thank you. madam clerk, item four. >> clerk: item four, the interim administrative officer's report. >> through the chair to the memf the commission angela calvillo. the budget of lafco is currentlg for the duties you're pursuing currently. i do not have a report. we've been working to get to the workshop and the detail around e workshop, otherwise, to be brieo not have a report at this time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you y much. now, are there any public speakt would like to comment on this i? >> jason [inaudible] private ci. i apologize for making this quik comment. i realize that february of next, wore public seats come up. you might want to give instructn totion the administrative offico start the process for noticing d putting out notifications if thc seat. the clerk as office has the pros down. i'm looking at how this commisss made up could become an issue oo figure you can work with legal l because two commissioners cannot approve. in it body, you need three commissioners. there is discussion

. >> well, thank you very much, madam chair. this truly is an exciting and distort day for our country. for many of us that the vote wt today is the principal reason we came here to serve, to get our economy going, to put americans back to work, and put more money in their paychecks. for those across the country who still doubt that this legislation will help the middle class, all you have to do is read. i direct your attention to fair and simple gop. it really well cut the taxes and help hard-working families make ends meet. what you think all of my colleagues who worked so hard on this bill to make this dream a reality. but most especially i want to thank chairman kevin brady and speaker paul ryan who bore the largest part of this challenge. this is good medicine for america. thank you very much. >> doctor said it's good medicine. you don't need a second opinion on that. if this is really an exciting day for hard-working families, who have called on congress for years to simplify the tax codes so they can have money in the poc

thank you, madame chair. >> supervisor breed: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, i riseo offer support to the measure before us. and i want to say let us not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. supervisor yee referenced the segway ban and this legislation started with the meeting at the transportation authority at the vision zero committee i believe of the transition authority. i expressed i think our sidewalks i think are sacred spaces for people, for pedestrians. i don't think it's a place for robots. and i think the segway ban the previous board decide to enact has proven right over time. having said that, supervisor yee has compromised quite a bit working with the teamsters and others to work with a permitting scheme that is not unique and we teamed up for stationless bicycles. wouldn't it be nice if we can do this comprehensive as emerging, sometimes disrupting technologies are upon us but thus far we have not found that piece of legislation. albeit, earlier today at the transportation authority our executive director, ms. chang, was talking about how they're

>> yes, madam chair we have two speaker cards, oscar. >> oscar james. >> it was for the next item. with the certificate of preference. that was my card so i'm sorry for putting it in for that. >> oh, ok. you can call me on the next item please. >> ok. >> aish washington -- ace washington. >> listen, this is quite interesting and i'm going to try to do this all in three minutes and make it a para sell so when i get to speak on what i speak i don't have to just hammer down hoping we can have a common ground on record to say well this could be the first of its kind and speaking on the issue, affordable housing, which is one of your obligations that you've had with the governor brown but you don't hear nothing, i keep repeating myself because that's the way it is. you have nothing indicating nothing about the west edition and the housing. your obligation from 1948 when justin herman came and wiped himself clean. but then here we are in 2017, what does this mean? you all skipping all over town. you regained a new identity. ocii. but that's a big lie, you are still that same agency and p

. >> thank you, madam chair. caucuses are communal. they do bring people together. if we only look at it in the light of the like fo electorally -- we need to flip that and look at the best interest of the people in those states. i don't come from a caucus state. horror, but i also saw people coming together and talking to the neighbors and friends. or the complement we are making to try to make the caucus fairer -- they do stand in long lines. we are trying to correct that. it's not fair to the caucus states to take this away. i don't think it is right to say to our sisters and brothers in smaller states that you don't really count. because that had been the pattern of the democratic party. we should not leave them behind. in terms of voter suppression -- it is correct that most of the voter suppression bills that have been passed throughout this country since the election of president obama have been vicious and bile at the hands of the gop -- at the same time, democrats don't have clean hands in states like new york. we have to about it across the board. i agree

[applause] [laughter] >> madam, chair. i felt almost as if when i sign up for something on my phone, the little tiny print that goes on for pages and pages, there is a little agree button in the corner right now. that was amazing. >> we wanted to ensure that it was not tiny print, but loudly spoken print. ok. so that is the amended language before us. is there any discussion? >> ok. say no discussion, we are going to vote. , pleasee in favor signify by raising your hand. unanimous with inattention. ok, that passes. thank you. ok. we are now moving to our next tabled amendment on the ombudsman council which is on page 14. is -- it is in the party reform section. ok. one.is the old the any objections are taking this off the table -- are there any objections for taking this off the table? see no objections, i will read the updated version. addition, this is an substitution to the current one, which is now c. is that correct? ok. the commission recommends that the rbc develop a process to address violations of the charter and

so that's the outline of the process, madam chair, i'd be happy to take any questions if you would like to direct any. >> thank thank you, jim. let's open it up to the commission members for question. we're going to start with jim zogby. >> thanks to all of our colleagues. we made much more progress that i think all of us would agree in some of us may have assumed early on. but i do want to bring up the issue that i raised before about the potential for conflict of interest on some issues we found consensus. and clearly on issues we find consensus we would expect the rules and bylaws committee to adopt as we recommend. on issues where there was a division in the house, i think it's important to ask that those members of this body who are sitting on the rules and bylaws committee to simply agree to recuse themselves from consideration of those issues. it's a question of fairness. it's a question of optics. it's a question of democracy. it simply doesn't work when there are issues that we are divided on that you get another bite at the b apple when we go before the rules and bylaws commit

>>supervisor safai: madam chair? >>president breed: supervisor peskin, are you done? supervisor safai? >>supervisor safai: just to oversimplify, we already updated the police code. this is to do the land use. >>supervisor peskin: correct. >>supervisor safai: to allow for everything that we've talked about. >>president breed: anyone else on the amendment? >>supervisor cohen: yes, thank you. >>president breed: supervisor cohen. >>supervisor cohen: thank you very much. i'd like to direct my question to the city attorney's office. i'm just wondering how does this complement or not complement the work that we've established the last six hours? >> so none of the other amendments that we've discussed today created a land use authorization for the temporary uses, which have been amended into the operational ordinance, so in order for a -- for a medical cannabis dispensary to operate as a cannabis adult use sales establishment next year, they will need both an operational permit under the other -- item number 8 ordinance as well as a land use approval, so this amendment is int

also, madam chair, this committee has tasked the g.a.o. with reviewing the n.r.c. cost estimating practices in the wake of concerns that the n.r.c. significantly underestimated the cost of implementing its filtered vents proposal. in december of 2014, the g.a.o. released a report that was fairly critical of the n.r.c.'s development of cost estimates stating the n.r.c.'s procedures, quote, do not adequately support the creation of reliable cost estimates and that the cost estimate did not fully or substantially meet any of the four characteristics of a reliable cost estimate, end quote. the g.a.o. recommended that the n.r.c. alignment cost estimating procedures with relevant cost estimating best practices identified in the report. . miss fischer: there are no objectives in place to look at the analysis. my question would be what basis does the n.r.c. have for assessing whether the cost benefit analysis used by the commission for decisionmaking re, in fact, reliable? the g.a.o. thank recommendations. and i don't dispute your description of the intervening time period

. >> clerk: for clarity, madam chair, to the january 17th meeting or the call of the chair? >> in my meetings it says the january 17th meeting but i'm not sure who will chair the committee so i'll leave that flexible. so i'm changing the motion to continue to the call of the chair. >> clerk: thank you. >> so we have a motion and a second and we can do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you call item number 1. >> clerk: resolution receiving and approving the annual reports for the north of market/tenderloin community benefit district for fiscal years 2015-2016. >> we have chris corgas here, the senior director of the office of economic and workforce development and i see that we have steve gibson, executive director of the north of market tenderloin community benefit district who will present. mr. corgas. >> good morning, i'm part of the team that oversees the community benefits district program. today we're reviewing the annual report for the north of market tenderloin c.b.d. from 2015 to 2016. the c.b.d. assesses approximately 677 parcels and is a property-based distri