black: i am, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. cohen: thank you madam speaker. i think if anybody listened to this debate, they would see one thing clearly. that there's a difference on the two sides. a difference in perspective and a difference on the facts. some say that clearly the fetus feels pain. and my data shows the majority of medical opinions says the fetus does not. and doctor anan, who they cite, mine research shows has retracted his position and doesn't want to be in this debate and he's an outliar. the bottom line is there are differences. differences to the facts as well as the opinions. and what that should say to anybody madam speaker, who watches this debate is this issue shouldn't be decided by politicians but it should be decided by medical experts and by women with the people they trust. medical experts not politicians. and by women with the people they trust. and the truth of this debate came down to a lady from north c

with that, madam president i yield the floor. mr. wyden: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president first let me thank chairman hatch for our partnership over these many months and be clear at the outset that i agree with much of what chairman hatch has said. and, madam president what i'd like to start with is what i think the bedrock principle of this debate about trade and putting it all straightforward and up front. and that is, this is about trade done right. this is not the trade policy of the 1990's. this is not the nafta playbook. and it is not even the 2002 t.p.a. package, madam president. i realize the president wasn't in the senate at that time, but after my opening remarks i'm going to start outlining the 30 progressive changes in the 2015 t.p.a. package that were not in the 2002 program again to show how different this trade policy would be. but the point of what i have started with, madam president this focus on trade done right is to drive home the potential for more good-paying jobs for our wor

madam speaker. i thank the gentlewoman for yielding, the distinguished dell fwat from the district of columbia. i -- delegate with the district of columbia. i thank her for her relentless, persistent effective leadership and representation of the district of columbia. i come to the floor, madam speaker, ask several questions. i think they have to be addressed to you. how many times have our republican colleagues come to this floor to express their belief in reducing the role of government, of the federal government? how many times have they come to the floor to preach their deference to states' rights and local government? and how many times have these house republicans thrown all of that out the window when it comes to meddling, government meddling in the reproductive choices of america's families? here we are with republicans who disapprove, a duly passed d.c. law in order to enable -- to enable businesses to fire their employees for the reproductive health decisions that they make. and by the --

black: i am, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. cohen: thank you madam speaker. i think if anybody listened to this debate, they would see one thing clearly. that there's a difference on the two sides. a difference in perspective and a difference on the facts. some say that clearly the fetus feels pain. and my data shows the majority of medical opinions says the fetus does not. and doctor anan, who they cite, mine research shows has retracted his position and doesn't want to be in this debate and he's an outliar. the bottom line is there are differences. differences to the facts as well as the opinions. and what that should say to anybody madam speaker, who watches this debate is this issue shouldn't be decided by politicians but it should be decided by medical experts and by women with the people they trust. medical experts not politicians. and by women with the people they trust. and the truth of this debate came down to a lady from north c

investment & infrastructure the successor agency to the san francisco development agency for tuesday madam secretary. >> thank you, madam chair the order of business is item one role commissioners commissioner mondejar commissioner singh commissioner bustos madam chair rosales all members of the commission are present. >> the the next order of business is item 2 announcements a the next regularly scheduled meeting of may 19th will be one p.m. american people city hall room 416 and the announcements of prohibition please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. c announcement of time allocate for time minutes public has 3 minutes it is strongly recommended the must be who wish to address the commission submit a card to the commission secretary the the next order of bus

madam president you have a quaurm. ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us 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. madam clerk are there any communications? >> yes, we rin receipt of a muneication from the oufs of supervisorgeny kim dated may 18, stating the supervisor will be out of town and request the members exz koos her from the meeting today >> is there a motion to exkoos supervisor kim. without objection supervisor kim is excused. colleagues are there changes to the april 15 minutes? seeing none. those minutes will be approved unanimously after public comment. madam clerk can you please read the consent agenda >> item 1-7 are considered routine. if a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately >> madam clerk can you please call the roll >> items 1-7 farrell, aye. kim is excused. marb, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. ava

tenants. >> thank you madam president. i'm removing this item to make one technical amendment. on page 10 line 19 i'm adding the word service of. i make a motion to amend a along those technical lines. >> supervisor campos made a motion. is there a second? seconded by supervisor mar. those amendments pass. on the under lying item can we take that without objection? without objection, item 10 pass as a first reading as amended. unanimously. madam clerk please call the next item. >> item 13 is an ordinance to establish the membership of our children our family council. >> can we take that item? without objection, this ordinance finally passes unanimously. next item please. >> item 14 is a resolution to manage preschool of all the program to approximately $47.4 million. >> same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> item 15 is a resolution to authorize the issuance and delivery of a multifamily revenue note. for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and construction of 200 unit mu

madam president you have a quaurm. can you join me in the pledge ofa liege ance 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 very much ladies and gentlemen. okay colleagues are any communication snz >> i have no communications madam president >> call oogs are there changes to the march 31 board meeting minutes? seeing none is there a motion to aprove the minutes after public comment? motioned by supervisor mar and second by supervisor kim. those meeting can be aproveed without objection after public comment. madam clerk can you read the consent ajebda jrfxz since there flow items i'll read item one which is a ordinance to settle the lawsuit filed by kimberley [inaudible] 1 twiv thousand in california superior court >> can you please call the roll >> supervisor christensen, aye. cohone t aye. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. tank, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, ay

now madam clerk at this time we'll rern to public comment. those members of the public who have not yet provided public comment, please come forwards. you have up to 2 minutes >> please come forward. >> my name is lary ed-mind and i would like to talk aboutilately we had a black gay man stabbed to death in district 6 and i have been told that black gay-if you are black or gay that your life doesn't count as black lives matter and we need to know why this man was murdered in the tl. he was stab today det because i have something to read to you here. it is called is gay the new black. bennett and mar leana interviewed gay african american activist blauger [inaudible] an attorney [inaudible] about the [inaudible] race and sexalty. [inaudible] both [inaudible] opinioned out the they find gay as the new black is over simplicity and divisive. they also noticed the [inaudible] lgbt african american people from the conversation when they are the most likely to serve between african american and lgbt community. we want people to [inaudible] we see a r

. >> here's what i want to recommend madam chair we send the vote and we'll resend it and i'll make a motion reduplication of the foil and move to continue the duplicate file to the call of the chair and then proceed with the original version. >> okay. so all right. may i have a motion to resend the vote all right. motion by supervisor wiener and sect by commissioner chan motion passes amazing is there a motion i can entertain on the floor supervisor wiener. >> so requesting the duplicate the foils for 1235e and duplicate the files to the call of the chair. >> okay. that it didn't need a vote. >> to the call of the chair requires a vote. >> so motion to move it passed unanimously by this body thank you very much okay now. >> supervisor tang's amendment we can make to the. >> supervisor tang could you. >> resate our motion. >> i previously stated the technical amendment and make a motion 80 motion to amend that to the full board. >> can we accept this unanimously. >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, that will democracy in action. >> a motion to recommend- >> we'll pull this ou

now madam clerk we will return to roll call. >> again, i pass it back to you madam president to introduce your roll call. >> okay, colleagues today i have one in memoriam. it's about wayne sochi who passed away surrounded by his loving wife and friends and children. one day after his 57th wedding anniversary. he was born in charlesburg along the delta near sacramento california in his early year. he was forced attend segregated schools until high school where he attended clarksberg high. during world war ii he and his family were uprooted and forced into concentration camp near the oregon california border along with 120,000 japanese-american during that time. he was released in 1946 and reunited with his family who was living in san francisco. upon his return, he went to san francisco city college while serving in the u.s. marine corp. reserve. in 1948 he enrolled in the school of architecture while working as a farm labor in the summer to pay his tuition. his true was designing churches and in his career, he designed 69 churches including the allen temple baptist church and many other p

madam clerk let's return to roll call for introduction >> thank you madam president. supervisor mar is next up to introduce new business >> colleagues i'm proud proud to join sfr visor kim and comp osin the just cause 2.0 eviction. oo i was proud to be there are w the tenet organizations and hear the stories as supervisor kim laid out a few mements ago of seniors and disabled people and immigrants and working families being evicted from their homes for harmless mistakes and gauch yatripe eviction. we'll look at vacancy control cod fiu fuication to assist people facing increased speculation jz flipping and evictions. i also want to say the story told by the san francisco tenet union activist sieveia smith was moving and the spirit of many of the tenets and communities trying to protect the character of neighborhoods and the push out of working families and seniors and others from neighborhoods was inspiring. i'm looking forward as that measure goes forward. i also want to say i'll plake my comments and asking to be reruferred after supervisor avalos talks about sustain

madam clerk can you call iletal fwo >> ordinance 92 amend the building administrative planning to prese codes to [inaudible] exterior noise for new structures acoustical analysis and field testing [inaudible] near a place of entertainment and require the project sponsor to participate and authorize the commission to measure conditions and provide comments and recommendation to the planning department and department of bilgding inspection and require the disclose urof lezees and purchasers [inaudible] to consider nysissues when reviewing residential project squz specify factors concerning the nysof entertainment [inaudible] and making the required findings >> madam clerk can you please call the roll rr >> on item fwo supervisor cohen. >> aye. farrell, aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. tang, aye. wiener aye. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, aye. comp osaye. christensen, aye. >> this item passing unanimously. without objection i would like to skip overitem 3 now and go to item for >> item 4 is deprogeserate 9.6 million from [inaudible] power for resale and appropriate 9.6 million to over time in the s

madam clerk, can you please call the roll.

thank you very much, madam president. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: before i speak on the trade legislation the distinguished chairman of the committee is here as well, i would just like to note that the finance committee under the leadership of chairman hatch has already passed a version of this important legislation. now we have taken up the house companion legislation. i want to congratulate both before my colleagues, senator shaheen has talked to me about this a number of times i snow senator ayotte is very -- know senator ayotte is very interested in this as well. i congratulate both of them and with that, madam president if i other could make my remarks about trade chairman hatch has graciously allowed me to make a few comments at this time. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. machine wyden: madam president with the votes that have been cast today in the united states senate the senate has begun to develop a powerful and bipartisan message that the trade policy of the 1990's

questions madam chair questions madam chair please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. are prohibited at this meeting. use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. item one the staffing levels avoidance at the san francisco general in relationship to the affordable health care act and the opening of san francisco general and requesting the duplicate to report. >> thank you madam clerk supervisor avalos. >> thank you supervisor farrell and colleagues for hearing this having this hearing in the biscuit thank you to the members of the public and the department of public health and the human services department to put together the presentation this hearing is kind of like the second part of a hearing i'll called last year about the cannabis conditions of san francisco general and the concerns the length of time to hire people especially nurses within the department of public health over at the judgemental hospital we want to get a progress report how thi

i yield back, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 2297. those in favor say aye. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative -- the gentleman from california. mr. royce: madam speaker, if i might, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 further proceedings on this question will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? mr. byrne: madam speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 260 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolu

. >> before we oh, madam clerk, any announcements? >> yes. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the june 2nd board of supervisors board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much okay. so before we begin we call before today's items i want to outline for the members of the public what you're process will be here in hearing those items all three of those items will be can you do together and public comment will be taken once all 3 items once we hear all the items please file obvious our speaker cards blue cardio's located on the railing please return to the clerk before tang public comment we'll hear from each the sponsors and the planning department and hear from the budget analyst and finally, the office of economic analyst madam clerk calls 1, 2, 3 together. >> item one an owners to rise the short-term rentals to no more than 60 days per calendar year the second item is the short-term rental no more than hundred and 20 are dlau

. >> thank you madam chair i'll call 3 speakersspeakers at a time (calling names). >> commissioners all i'll say like when you travel broad you can too brendon black men or van in a or florence you go to any of the places were there recent culture you need something like the moscone center that has a variety of things and what is happening in our city is as much as we are buildings high rises we fail to build open spaces even though a transbay we are talking about a garden yes or no or whatever they have building with a garden on top of that is meant for the public but nobody know about it so as i told us i have used the yerba buena gardens a lot for my artistic creativity and what we need to do as a city is innovative more creative architects to create more yerba buenas all over the city open space and in doing so we have to be careful that wherever ever wherever we have open spaces less traffic not people going to the open spaces and bringing in all the police cars but bye we i'm the director of the vial justice i write about this stuff but the city we'll talk about the conscious foot

>> excuse me, supervisor, madame chair, would you like to take a roll call on the item instead? >> correct. >> point of information, i believe that if there was no second, so it failed for lack of a second. >> >> deputy city attorney, in a 3-member committee, the motion does not require a second. >> thank you, for the clarification, let's do a roll call vote. >> point of information, the first motion was the motion that i made, which was to move it forward with positive recommendation and i don't know about the rule which order you vote. >> the board rules don't specify the order. traditionally the board acts on motions in the order that they are made, but it's in the discretion of the chair, the order in which to take the vote. >> actually i heard supervisor kim make her statement, i interpreted as a motion she was making and i asked her to reiterate it. so i believe she made the motion before you. >> to the chair, i would ask rather than have a vote on supervisor kim's, if i could perhaps -- the chair could state her views. >> so i believe that we at city need to honor the pro

clerk madam clerk, any announcements? completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the may 19th board of supervisors board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated excellent thank you very much call item one. >> item one is the ordinance amending the planning code to siren used for the conditional use authorization in the 24th and he 2012 the upper market and market street in the nc t district and this item is sponsored by supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam chair colleagues this zoning legislation employees to the upper market are castro street and 24th electricity mcds neighborhood commercial districts that is designed to insure our ground floor retail space is utilized and televises as opposed to to office spaces we've seen situations where we're really extraly loeshth ground floor spaces instead of being occupied by retail or food and r or other active uses or optimist night e.r. on the weekend occupied by office spaces they're inc

. >> madam chair i'm defer to the colleagues for further comments. >> first, i want to thank supervisor tang for the two items and acknowledging the with work work that dein an did and the hearty thank you to the stakeholders it is informative and also cut close to home i particular want to thank the folks would own their businesses and work or working in the industry coming out and sharing with us their experiences and more or less their fears about what a cu about do to their business and acknowledge that i've heard clearly that there is a distinction of language between anyone else parlor and others i want to recognize i believe this is the first time that seethe of the industry has been organized or organizing themselves around an issue i want to prelude u applaud you one of the things i've heard in public comment you would like to change the distinction or make the definition dishing our business from massage parlors this is a matter of keating the general public comment i've heard compelling argument from both sides and can appreciate the trail legislation that supervisor wiener i

madam clerk can you read the adoption without committee reference? >> item 28-33 are considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. a single roll call vote [inaudible] >> madam clerk can you please call the roll >> on item 28-33 supervisor farrell, aye. mar, aye. tang, aye. wiener, aye. yee, aye. avalos, aye. breed, aye. compose aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. there are 10 aye's. jrblshz those itemerize adopted unanimously. okay colleagues we are pretty much done with our agenda, but we are not at a point where we can call the 3 p.m. specialeredero 330 comidation so at this time i'll resess the meeting until 3 p.m. s are adopted unanimously. okay colleagues we are pretty much done with our agenda, but we are not at a point where we can call the 3 p.m. special order or 3:30 commendation so at this time i'll recess the meeting until 3 p.m. >> okay, colleagues, we are back from resess. it is now 3 o'clock p.m. time for

madam director. >> before you start i think you should packing take public comment on item c although we're continuing. >> any speaker cards on 5 c an item that was noticed. >> i did not. >> thank you running to 5 d it's been called. >> thank you mr. secretary and good afternoon commissioners and members of the public thank you for joining us commissioners that is the proposed golden state warriors event center a mixed use project you saw in january a so-called major phase proposal height and mass and bulk circulation over the course the last year the tome tea team working with our staff and mission bay stakeholders have made the refinements including the paroling proposals for transportation and event management today that is the subject of our hearing today it is just a workshop we have to present that no further action will be taken today but in the fall we expect won the eir is out it the certified by you under ceqa you may take the approval action to approve the schematic skyline and other paradoxes is the design as it is progressed and the transportation plan water department i'