mr. bartlett. i don't know if you have any further presentations on your rebuttal. >> i don't. >> so you're the owner of one of the properties on that street? >> 940 grove. >> i saw a different address it says here, -- are you ted bartlett? >> yes. >> 954 ashbury street. >> that's where i live. >> are you a developer? >> developer. 940 grove. the previous three owners. it was an ack tech tur school from the 1940's, the french-american school. >> i just heard you reference the berkeley project and wanted to get that clarified. >> i live at 838 steiner and i'm one of the apell ants and i want the commissioners to understand that there may be a real estate developer. he is also the person very interested in this community who has worked carefully to have someone to pull us together to hope we could accomplish this project. we don't anybody to have some notion that this is just all ted's. >> the matter is submitted. >> real estate developer in this room at least is not necessarily the majority. i think

mr. bartlett, he would be responsible for all 14 trees? the adjacent property owner -- commissioner garcia: that's what i'm suggesting but not that we are going to impose this on them as much as they make that offer and it might sway some of the members of this board knowing they are going to relieve the city of that financial burden. they are offering to relieve the city of that financial burden. >> who's they? >> the people severely involved in this appeal. commissioner fung: it's up to them to make a proposal. >> i think your concern is the they needs to include every single property owner on that block. commissioner garcia: we have suggested they come back with a proposal something of their choosing and not something we impose upon them. and i think it's pretty clear at least what i would hope they would do is that they decide among themselves and the legality of it can easily be worked out if we find out that all of them are willing and part of their proposal is that we will go through the processes necessary for us to take over these

mr. bartlett. >> good evening. i'm ted bartlett. thank you for reviewing our permit request to remove nine trees. i stand here with my neighbors and co-applicants, mike khoi, 812 steiner, and others. it has been a pleasure to become part of the neighborhood and to get to know my neighbors. we are proud of the plan. we prepared it in consultation with chris buck and karla short . we will complement the 700 block of steiner by reviewing the san francisco homes with a new species of trees approved by the department of public works. we have contracted with a contractor to be sure we do this right. the double decker buses will have another beautiful-only in san francisco scene to admire. in these difficult times with every city budget in the red, we will complete this project at no cost to our city. i turn our presentation over to barry. >> my name is barry lemieux. we live at 818 steiner street in a queen anne built in 1899. there it is. that's 818 steiner street. i suppose my wife and i should be grateful to the d.p.w. [inaudible] >> t

mr. bruce bartlett, federal taxes are lower by every measure since obama became president. $787 billion stimulus bill enacted with no republican support reduced federal taxes by almost $100 billion in 2009 and $222 billion in 2010. mr. garamendi: if you might yield for a moment, dr. kagen. the stimulus bill was actually a tax cut bill? mr. kagen: biggest tax cut in american history. we were in such a decline economically, no one felt it. we did it economically. we didn't mail people a check. we made sure they got the tax cut on the other end. it was more economical. never before has such a tax cut been enacted and it was the democrats without the republican support that guaranteed middle-class families would pay less in taxes. mr. garamendi: if i might, you and i were talking earlier about a program you have been doing in your district for the last couple of weeks and you have been going to communities. and along the way, you reached out and said, we need to make it in america. you were talking about the paper industry. i suppose you have a paper industry in your district? mr. kagen: i live in p

mr. pacheco, could you please call that item? secretary pacheco: calling item number seven, 10-082. ted bartlettof steiner street and 940 grove street, c1 placed on a tree removal permit on one tree, order number 178, 772. ms. short, we'll start with you again. you have seven minutes. >> thank you, department of public works, bureau of urban foffers try. we received an application to remove nine trees from the 800 block of steiner with replacement of 14 trees. these actually are d.p.w. maintained trees. so the city has the maintainance responsibility for the trees. a group of neighbors got together and they were proposing to remove the trees and replace them at their cost. but the city would continue to bear the responsibility for the sidewalk repairs society wd these trees. i want to start by saying i think there has been an admirable neighborhood cooperation in this case. we have seen quite a few neighbors come together in support of this proposal. and -- but i would note we did have -- we had two people who objected to the proposal, not from the immediate group of neighbors, but from other bl

mr. pacheco, could you please call that item? secretary pacheco: calling item number seven, 10-082. ted bartlettof steiner street and 940

mr. bartlett is capable of explaining it to the people who are not here. commissioner hwang: so, commissioners, would you like to set a limit, or will it be an oral presentation? vice president goh: i think what we're asking for mostly are the exhibits. so we have heard that what we would like to see from ms. short, the benefits from the trees, given their trunks, or whatever your language is for that, and we have the will we would like to see from mr. bartlett is about the trees, and then i would like to see a drawing of what the streetscape is. was there anything else? ok. does someone want to move for a continuance? commissioner hwang: we need to set the page limits. vice president goh: 3 pages. vice president goh: why 3? -- commissioner garcia: why 3? vice president goh: i made it up. you can change it. commissioner hwang: unlimited exhibits. i am sorry. i interrupted you, commissioner garcia. vice president goh: -- commissioner garcia: i move that we continue this for all of the reasons previously stated. commissioner hwang: and i would add that it be