mr. allen could not make it today apparently but i do want to speak in support of him. casey has been on the bac longer than any other member, handling roberts rules of order. also has an incredible knowledge of the city. he has bicycle for a long time and is highly unusual in the fact that his profession as a local landscape architect in gardner with specialty of the native plants of san francisco. works exclusively in returning front yards to its original health, huge volunteer effort. what is most important about that is he doesn't entirely with his bicycle. we want more people who do the business on a bicycle, especially landscape design and architecture. he lives what he walks. he is a wonderful community member i would like to support his nomination, and urges appointment. think is so much. >> thank you so much. seeing none public comment is closed. (gavel) colleagues, we typically ask for appointments to the present. but it is as a reappointment. is there a motion? >> i move the nominee to come on board. >> we have a nomination, mr. allen to the full board. was r

mr. dick allen. if you can take a seat on the front row. mr. tim colin. and mr. jerry (inaudible). mr. allen, welcome. >> good afternoon commissioners, dick allen. lake merced, i am out there four or six times a week rowing in the morning. there are other issues at lake merced you may not be aware of. and today i will comment on them. first i would like to quote a statement from the january 2011 watershed report referring to the boat house. the downstairs no longer adequate for the space. and it's unanimous for the need of

mr. allen? >>> welcome. >> hi good afternoon commissioners i have a few questions that i would like to ask, the first question is to the chair through the city attorney at the december 11 commission meet commission torres asked us to report back to see if p uc can used the two millions million dollars in park bound money allocated to lake -- last june an e-mail was sent to the city attorney asking if that opinion has been given and so far he has not received a response. to get an answer from the city attorney from this very important issue. for your information, commissioners, at the january 8 meeting of the park recreation and open space advisory committee, reckon park gave a 20 minute progresses report on capital planning for the year 2013. lake -- was not mentioned. reckon's park answer to my question about of the status of 2 million-dollar park bound money for lake merced, was that the park will not get around to looking at lake merced until sometime in august of this year eight months from

for instance, the 47 that mr. allen brought up is something that we will go out and see. are they serving food at the bar or restaurant? generally, the license belongs to abc, however, i agree with the director of apple smith. it goes along with our input. we work really well hand in hand. with most of the speakers today, i feel i have worked very well with them. very flexible. in that case by case situation, personally i do not agree with the 50/50 rule. a $400 bottle of wine is in excess. we do go out with enforcement. one of the gentleman here that works with the entertainment commission will go out every weekend. myself, i do go out with another officer and an individual from the community to make sure that these rules are applied i welcome all of you who have licenses. it is a case by case situation. we are very open-minded in the police department. we do here with the mayor says, it is a big business. do not be afraid to contact our particular office. i could go in with more modifications, but if you deny one, the whole thing is done for a whole year. we will work w

. >> i agree with mr. allen thicke. i think it is true. we are at the top of the lotto list, yes there are a lot of haters out there. i can't understand why we keep giving these countries money. we keep giving them resource dashes dash not resources, but money. why? if they hate us so much. >> it used to be foreign aid would be given to influence and motivate countries to align with our interests. >> that is music fans being -- they get a monthly check from kenny g all the time. >> i would like kenny g. >> what say you on the whole thing? were you surprised you were singled out by the pakistanis as a primary source of hatred. >> i don't care about polls like this. give me something i can work with. let me know which foreign country my accent might most likely get me laid. that's something i can get help with. and as one who used to live in australia, i can tell you that place ain't it. six months of nothing. >> barely got lucky. not australia. >> i am thinking nigeria. they loved us. >> see how we cut them off. >> she compared the right to

mr. tim allen to share this award. >> thank you, and good evening board of education and ladies and gentlemen. it is my honor to be here tonight. i get the opportunity to travel throughout california and make presentations at board meetings. and as you can imagine, some of them are quite interesting. but tonight i have a very good feeling about what is going on in this district. and congratulations to you, and what you have done. just seeing these students and the quality of the work they have learned is a testament to what you are doing in this district. i would like to share with you briefly the history of this award. i think it brings more meaning to what we are doing for teac r teache teachers. the carlson family began a company in the late 70s. and they took 5% of their profits and encouraged their employees to go out and work for not-for-profit in the bay area. and they could come back and ask for grants in support of their charity of choice. in the 90s. the company became a product of a hostile take-over but did not lose the endowment. and the family got together and said what do we do

." >>> chief white house correspondent, mr. allen.l take us inside the chuck hagel war room, calling the chuck hagel confirmation war room. where is he? i know he's on the house talking to old colleagues ensuring republicans and democrats of his commitment to close relationship to israel. where is he in the process? >> willie, there's been a real turn and things are now running senator hagel's and people around the table will be encouraged by this choice. senator barbara boxer of california, a democrat who withheld her support from senator hagel announced last night, she's now for him following long conversations she had with him by the phone and most importantly, senator hagel sent her a letter outlining fairly hawkish positions on iran and hezbollah designed to set aside a lot of people's worries about his past positions. also the administration is behind him and pentagon and white house working to schedule these visits you mentioned to senator schumer and others. also, he's reaching out to veteran's organizations as a key constitue

allen grace is showing up. come on. you know the secret mr. mr. fugelsang. >> allen west. >>. >> to be honest he is hilarious.is thorazine flushes itself down the toilet. >> i don't know if there are more tickets available but this is at the warner theater saturday saturday night? >> it is. >> we go online where to find out? >> sexyliberal.com. we began the tour in response to scott walker almost two years ago in madison and sentence then, the first year we hadbum, the first that was to hit number one of on am zone and we have been joined from lily tomlin to rob reiner to congressman grayson. it's exciting. it's the last show we have on schedule now. we hope you will get to come, bill. it's interesting. conservatives don't like to see liberals dog well at capitalism. they tried to bribe our tour booker $10,000 to quit the tour. they hacked our website twice, our football. the fireman arm was pulled 10 minutes before curtain. question going to keep on going. >> do they realize we are as greedy as anybody else? right? >> exactly. exactly. some may have realized that in the last month or so. >> i think bill clin

mr. mike allen with a look at the "playbook.". >> good morning, guys. >> you've got a piece up on the site headlined "bloomberg's washington footprint explodes," talking about the mayor's influence down in d.c. on issues like immigration, gay marriage, infrastructure. tell us a little more about what he's doing down there. >> very quietly the mayor is building a big organization down here. "politico" connected the dots, talked to the mayor at his bull pen offices in city hall where he sits there in the middle of the other workers. and he said he's doing two things. one, he's using lobbyists. amazingly, the bloomberg organizations have 26 lobbyists from seven firms working washington at this moment. but also building grass-roots pressure through his group of other mayors on gun control. so the mayor is being very intentional about using the platform that he has as mayor of new york but also the personal fortune that he has to put these issues on the radar. and he jokingly told maggie that when he calls washington, they don't alway

mr. mike allen with a look at the "playbook." good morning, mike. >> good morning, willie. have insight into that fascinating meeting today at the white house between vice president biden and the nra. what can the vice president, what can the white house reasonably expect to get out of the nra today? >> the nra is going to go in there with a conciliatory face. they're being smart. they're sending not their top lobbyist but an official who has worked with biden over the years, worked with him in the '90s in the senate, is actually friends with him from the delaware beach, jim baker, the nra's number two, but he's coming with a very hard message. the nra told me that in the past 18 days, their paid memberships have gone up 100,000. they've gone from 4.1 million to 4.2 million. and they tell me that before this debate is over, they want to get to 5 million. so the nra sees this fight as a growth opportunity. willie, it's $25 a year, you get a free camo duffel bag with that. and we're told that jim baker, the nra lobbyist, is going to tell vice president biden we're willing to

allen. in case you missed it, the president and mrs. obama attended two inaugural balls last night.at the commander in chief ball, they danced to al green's "let's stay together." you may remember the president singing a bit of that last year. the first lady's ruby red gown was designed by jason wu. he also designed her inaugural gown four years ago. beyonce's performance of the national anthem at the inauguration got rave reviews but today questions were raised about whether she was actually singing or lip synching. sources telling us that beyonce was singing live. but over a prerecorded track. she recorded that track earlier in case something went wrong. and the musical accompaniment by the marine band, that was a recording. there is one state in america where the glass ceiling has been obliterated, at least in politics. that story is next. why they're being targeted to pay for sa >>> the bay area getting a new rail line, and it will cost some property owners. why they're being targeted to pay for the safety grade. next on cbs 5. >> pelley: finally tonight, you may remember a phot

mr. hagel was george allen of virginia.or whatever reason something was different about the way that chuck hagel ran his senate office than the way that the colleagues did. one of the interesting things about the turnovers rates is it provides a hard number. as mr. hagel is seeking to be the head of defense department that has some 2 million service members it is a worthy line of questioning perhaps for the senators who are going to be confirming him about why he couldn't keep a staff of 50 running in 2005. 20 of the 50 staffers walked out the door, left for whatever reason. which is a lot of turnover and whether you are in the public or private sector you don't want to see a lot of turnover. >> shannon: george allen and chuck hagel on the top of the list. who is the hardest to work for in the house. >> sheila jackson-lee is a might mare. you hear the craziest stories. once threw a cell pope at a staffer's head. had a staffer's parent coming to visit from a small up to and cursed out the staffer in front of them. my favorit