[gavel] mr. evans please call the next item. >> item number two is a resolution supporting gerawan farm workers their right to be represented by the united farm workers and urging gerawan farming to implement the terms of the contract. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and let me say that on a very personal note i am very proud to be introduced this resolution today. one of the highlights of my life was when in the early 90's as a young stanford student i got to meet cesar chavez and that was sort of a life changing experience, and what we have here today is a resolution that follows and supports the legacy of cesar chavez because we're dealing with something that began and was in fact the last major organizing effort under cesar chavez's leadership at the united farm workers. i want to thank supervisor john avalos who has cosponsored this resolution and note that tim paulson the executive director of the library council he was trying to be here in his schedule but it became imp

mr. derek evans. mr. evans are there any announcements? >> yes, please make sure to silent cell phones and devices and speaker cards somebody submitted to the clerk. items will be on the march 15, 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. please call item number one. >> item number one is a hearing to consider the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general license from from 5801 geary boulevard to 225 bush street for beth aboulafia doing business as target corporation, dba target express. >> i believe we have a report. welcome back. >> good morning. i am a lieutenant from the san francisco police department. we have an application from taret corporation for a type 21 off site. if approved it would allow the premises to sell off sale beer wine and distilled spirits. this is not the conventional target we're familiar with. this is new in san francisco. target is looking at a smaller more contained model that is going to be similar to other pharmaceutical larger chain retails that we have throughout the city so this

mr. evans please call the next item. >> >> item 3 is transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises license on 635 8th street to 115 sansome street treasury r & b holdings, llc dba the treasury. >> lieutenant. >> before you is a type 48 license and will allow the sale of beer and wine and distilled spirits and operated in the mission of san francisco and now creating a new location at the said location. i would point out there are no letters of protest. we're not aware of any letters of support. i would add it's in an area of high crime and area of undue concentration of licenses. we are recommending this for approval with the following conditions. condition number one the front door shall be kept closed at all times of operation of the premises except in cases of emergency and permit deliveries. said doors not to consist sole leave a screen or ventilating security door. number two, no noise should be audible under the control of the licensee as declined by the diagram. number 3. the sal

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mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]. >> welcome everybody i'm going to start the program well, to 1915 yeah. >> yeah. >> and if you look around you might see charlie chaplin and laura is here and if you look really closely that devil art smith that here so i'd like to start the show with first of all, how many were you at the palace of the fine arts did you have fun and go to the ugly this one my friend jan is here who originated it did light were breathing taking did you love them so let's people e keep that time travel going with one of the hit tuned from 95 performed by the duplicative of ragtime and gibson accompanied by the fabulous greg and they're going to perform hello fresco. >> it sideline i ought to let the power hello, san francisco hello. >> are all of you about ready to hear a little bit of ragtime let's do it mississippi to please. >> hello fresco hello hello fresco hello. >> hello. >> done don't keep me waiting it is aggravating why can't you hurry you're too slow hello now y

mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]back to the san francisco historic preservation commission meeting for wednesday march 18, 2015, >> i would like to remind members of the audience to silence any mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. >> i would like to take roll. commissioner hasz, hyland, wolfram, john's, commissioner matsuda and commissioner pearlman. we expect commissioner johnck to be absent. >> public comment. public >> tomorrow we are conducting in the tenderloin, we are focusing on two national registered districts than the nationally located district for broader outreach to communities where neighborhoods are eligible. meeting will be held tomorrow from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. many it will be a workshop format where property owners can come to ask question and we focused a pretty large notification to property owners. >> depending on the workshop, we will keep you up to date. >> item 2. requesting of staff to report back on a matter. >> i have nothing to report.

mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]. >> all right. good morning, everyone. welcome to the san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee want to wish everyone a happy st. patrick's day we have supervisor breed and supervisor farrell today and i guess we don't have supervisor yee with that mr. clerk any announcements. >> no one roll call. >> supervisor breed supervisor christensen supervisor farrell supervisor tang supervisor yee absent we have quorum. >> thank you very much and now item 2. >> item 2 citizens advisory committee report an informational item. >> all right. chris the cac chair for presentation. >> good morning commissioner two items 5 and 6 we dealt with this past month the allocation of $51 million for the prop k this was passed the cac unanimously and the dedication classes on tenderloin four not part of this moss month i said you ask that to be continued to next month most of the discussion is around the specific obtain projects a grateful was on the projec

mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]sf. >> good evening, everybody tutor coming i'm patrick the chief director of earthquake for the city of san francisco this is an information been the private school ownerships we'll be talking about what is required and walk you through some of the steps we'll have time to do q and a there's a microphone we'll be happy to talk about any issuance restrooms with right around the corner we have coffee and cookies not back feel free to help yours which of you sought report that was the product of almost 3 years of work that was put into looking at our cities private schools we've known nor a long-term the state has treated public and private schools different this is a no one at acquisition they've been regulated differently in the past private schools are essential inform san francisco one in 3 or 24 thousand kids are educated in san francisco's private schools we know that not only is this an important part of the children's safety but we know that after a m

mr. evans can you call the next item. >> item 6 is a resolution recognizing the inauguration of the san francisco children's outdoor bill of rights of the resolution on october 18, 2014. >> thank you. the sponsor is mr. mark farrell and from his office is catherine stephanie. >> good afternoon. i am appearing on on behalf of supervisor farrell today. this was brought to our attention by the presidio trust who is here today and they were going to celebrate the inauguration of the san francisco children's outdoor bill of rights back in october in 2014. this resolution had been endorsed by the san francisco parks and rec commission and in 2007 the state of california adopted the nation's first state wide childrens' outdoor bill of rights to acknowledge the importance of nature to a child's physical and emotional well being. the presidio trust asked if supervisor farrell if he would put the same resolution in front of the board of supervisors it to recognize the initiative to promote these outdoor

. >> mr. evans let's see i am trying to remember so we have a hearing coming up and we don't need to call three and four together but we will do them separately. call item 3. >> this is a hearing to review procedures for department of public health protocol for fire and building code and requesting the department of building inspection building and fire and department of public health to report. >> was called by the supervisor. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you colleagues for the support on the prior item. i have called this hearing to discuss some of what has been happening in the district that i represent, specifically in the mission. i want to thank the san francisco fire department. i know that our fire chief is on her way to this hearing. i also want to thank our department of building inspection and we have tom huey here, the director. both the chief and the director have been working with my department, with my staff to make sure that we hold this hearing that we're doing everything we

mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel] >> [gavel] i call this meeting to order. -- oh i see. sorry about that. i call this meeting of the transbay joint powers authority board of directors for thursday march 12 to order. would you call the roll. >> sure. i will note for the record that director sartipi will not be present and director kim is on her way. >> director. >> present. >> director. >> present. >> director. >> present. >> mr. chair you have a quorum. >> next item. >> item 3 is communications and i wanted to note that the board will meet on 10:00 a.m. on april 9 versus the normal start time and we will send an official notice later this week. >> thank you. go ahead. >> just an announcement from the san mateo transit district. some press went out yesterday. some of you know we were in search for a new general manager for our district and jim harnet is our new general manager and hired by the board, and his responsibility will not -- only be on managing that business, but also executive di

mr. evans please call the next item. >> item four say hearing to explore the potential short and long-term strategies to alleviate flooding along folsom street in the mission district one of the most impacted areas in the city with storms and requesting the ethics comm . >> >> public utilities commission to report. >> thank you. supervisor campos. >> thank you for joining us and mr. cruz from the public utilities commission. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and i apologize to the residents who have been waiting to have this item heard. as you know there is a lot going on in the neighborhood and the district but i called this hearing along with the san francisco public utilities commission on the issue of flooding in my district because flooding and the 17th and folsom area which by the way is the lowest point geographically in the city has been a persistent problem for year after year, and at time its feels that the situation is just getting worse instead of getting better, and i know that t

. >> mr. evans coming out today saying is in favor of raising rates in 2016. melissa: sigh. go ahead, john. >> futures contract, by end of this year the fed funds rate will between one-half and .57 of a percent. >> almost nothing. i really think rates are not going up anytime soon. melissa: i don't think so. supreme court justices are split as they 10er into the boxing ring for round two over the battle for the president's health care law. a victory for the plaintiff's could blow a hole big enough in obamacare to fit nearly 10 million people. the fight is over four words in the law. that is what it comes down to. it says people who can't afford insurance can get subsidies, on an exchange quote, established by the state. in 34 states it is the federal government runs the exchange. james freeman, how big of a deal is this? >> you put it on the screen. it is very clear. subsidies can not go to 30 plus states. it is a big deal t would not just knock out be subsidies, but individual mandate and employer mandate if this challenge succeeds. >> the left in this country, where the le

evans. >> all the way from california mr. s. >> he walked on to the stage at a conference on the east coast to deliver a ted talk on the liberating power of robotics. >> this technology allows me to remain engaged mentally active and feel like i am part of the world. i shaved myself for the first time in ten years. >> he is trapped in his body. so the biggest question came how do you live your life with what you're given. >> he communicates with his wife jane by moves his eyes. >> i t. it's. a, r e m a -- remarkable. s, t t test. a, m testament to l k j a to jane. no no, no, i don't put it off all on me, buddy. it's both of us. >> technology is giving him more ways to keep busy. a drone has brought him an even higher level of freedom. >> with a little practice, i became good enough with this interface to drive around my home on my own. i could look around our garden and see the grapes we are growing. i inspected the solar panels on our roof. >> evans desire to share the liberating power of robotics led him to the deyoung which

. >> well my answer to that would be i think i'd pay more attention to what mr. evans many other fed speakers say if they could give me some documented hermetically sealed envelopes, including some of the things they've called right before they've happened. which in my opinion after watching the market firsthand since '79, that envelope is going to be quite light and probably mail it with a 2 cent stamp. in terms of what i think is important, i think that the headline by mario draghi is the most important, honest thing i have read in a long time. he basically, and i'm paraphasing, said today that the qe that we're going to be bringing to market isn't going to be enough for growth in the eurozone area. i think that pretty much speaks volumes, and i don't think in this case he was being a keynesian larry summers type when he said not enough. i think what he was doing, like many have tried to do around the globe, is incite the people that are elected to office to go serve countries and get something done but believe me after watching both parties in this country, i wouldn

mrs. bush congressman lewis, congressman e on sewell mayor evans.s an honor for me to be on ple to this stage with you today and to become all of these people to this great state of alabama. it's a personal honor for me to join in today's historic occasion on the edmund pettus bridge that has become a monument in itself to the ridge struggle for civil rights over the past 50 years.stre this bridge represents the strength of the determination, c the loss and the pain that have come to define the civil rights a movement in america.mo and it's an honor for me to stand here among you today on behalf of the state of alabama. acros 50 years ago, approximately 600 people marched across this very bridge on their way to montgomery to demand the right to vote. those marchers, many who were nameless, had a bold vision to change the culture of america. selma stood poised center stage as a series of historical events unfolded around us as the fight for civil rights met one of its hardest struggles right here on this bridge. bloody sunday was a difficult day in o

mrs. bush, congress and lewis, congress and sewall, mayor evans.t is an honor for me to be on the stage with you today, and to welcome all of these people to this great state of alabama. it's a personal honor for me to join in today's historic occasion on the edmund pettus bridge that has become a monument itself to the struggle for civil rights over the past 50 years. this bridge represents the strength and determination, the loss and pain that have come to define the civil rights movement in america. it's an honor for me to stand here among you today on behalf of the state of alabama. 50 years ago, approximately 600 people marched across this very bridge on their way to montgomery to demand the right to vote. those marchers, many who were nameless, had a bold vision to change the culture of america. selma stood poised, center stage, as a series of historical events unfolded around us, as the fight for civil day in our nation's history as the route to montgomery was met with violence. we have all seen the images and heard the stories of those men

mr. spivak: dr. king, the columnists evans and novak recently charged that the moderate negro leaders including you, have feared to point out the degree of communist infiltration in the civil rights movement. have communists infiltrated the movement? dr. king: i certainly don't think so, mr. spivak, and i would like to vigorously deny that. i have no evidence for such an accusation. and i might say that in our bylaws, certainly in sclc and naacp, and core, and sncc and the urban league and in all the civil rights organizations, we make it clear that communists cannot be in official positions and cannot be in the membership. beyond this, i think i could say that the philosophical undergirdings of our movement would make communism impossible and would have communists on alien territory. for our movement has been based and is still based on a philosophy of non-violence. mr. spivak: dr. king, the a.p. reported the other day that a picture of you taken in 1957 at a tennessee inter-racial school is being plastered all over alabama billboards with the caption, martin luther king at a communist training sch

mrs. bush, governor bentley, mayor evans, congre congre congresswoman, reverend strong, members of congress, elected officials, foot soldiers, friends, fellow americans. places and moments in america and this nation's destiny has been decided. many are sights of war. concord and lexington, gettysburg. others are sights that symbolize the daring of america's character. independence hall and seneca falls, kitty hawk and cape canaveral. selma is such a place. so much our turbulent history. the anguish of civil war. the yoke of segregation and tyranny of jim crowe. the death of four little girls in birmingham. and the dream of a baptist preacher. all that history met on this bridge. it was not a clash of armies, but a clash of wills. a contest to determine the true meaning of america. and because of men and women like john lewis, joseph lowery, jose williams, amelia bunten, diane nash, ralph abernathy, c.t. vivian, andrew young, fred shuttlesworth, dr. martin luther king jr., so many others, the idea of a just america and a fair america, an inclusive america and a generous america. that idea ul

mrs. bush, governor bentley, mayor evans congresswoman sewell reverend strong, members of congress, elected, foot soldiers, friends fellow americans americans, as john noted there are places and moments in america where this nation's destiny has been decided. many are sites of war. concord and lexington. appomattox. gettysburg. others are sites that symbolize the daring of america's character. independence hall and seneca falls. kitty hawk and cape canaveral. selma is such a place. one afternoon 50 years ago so much of our turbulent history. the state of slavery and anguish of civil war. the yoke of segregation and tyranny of jim crow. the death of four little girls in birmingham and the dream of a baptist preacher. all that history met on this bridge. it was not a clash of armies but a clash of wills. a contest to determine the true meaning of america. and because of men and women like john lewis joseph flowers, jose williams, amelia boynton diane nash, ralph abernathy andrew young fred shuttlesworth. dr. plant martin -- dr. martin luther king jr. the idea of a just america and fair americ

mrs. bush, congressman lewis congressman sewall mayor evans -- it is an honor for me to be on the stage with you today and welcome all of these people to this great state of alabama. it's a personal honor for me to join in today's historic occasion on the edmund pettus bridge that has become a monument itself to the struggle for civil rights over the past 50 years. this bridge represents the strength and determination, the loss and pain that have come to define the civil rights movement in america. it's an honor for me to stand here among you today on behalf of the state of alabama. 50 years ago, approximately 600 people marched across this very bridge on their way to montgomery to demand the right to vote. those marchers, many who were nameless, had a bold vision to change the culture of america. selma stood poised, center stage, as a series of historical events unfolded around us, as the fight for civil day in our nation's history as the route to montgomery was met with violence. we have all seen the images and heard the stories of those men and women who desired the right to vote. this na

mrs. bush governor bentley mayor evans congresswoman sewell, reverend strong members of congress elected officialssoldiers, friends fell he americans. as john noted, there are places and moments in america where this nation's destiny has been decided. many are sites of war. concord and lexington, ap poe mat tax, gettysburg they are sites of america's character. independent falls and seneca falls, kitty hawk and cape canaveral. selma is such a place. in one afternoon 50 years ago so much of our turbulent history history the state of slavery and anguish of civil war the yoke of segregation and tyranny of jim crow, the deaths of four little girls in birmingham and the dream of a baptist breecher. all that history met on this bridge. it was not a clash of armies but a clash of wills. a contest to determine the true meaning of america. and because of men and women like john lewis, joseph lowery jose williams amelia buntham, diane nash, ralph abernathy, c.t. vivian, andrew young fred shuttlesworth dr. martin luther king jr., so many others, the idea of a just america and a fair america, an inclusive ame

mrs. michelle obama tasha and malia, the first lady of selma alabama, jeanie evans, wishes each of you warmthank you for being here, mr. president, former president george bush and his wife, we appreciate you coming to selma on this occasion equally as well. this is a very-- [applause] this is a very humbling but yet proud occasion for us all. i am happy to be here at this time and at this season. we have come a long way but we have yet a long way to go because we still have many, many bridges to cross.. selma is not still the selma of 1965. this state of alabama is still not the state of alabama of 1965. the majority of the people of this state are praying and hoping that with god's help we will eventually get it right. so that those who might follow us might have a better quality of life. the very powerful movie "selma" is rebuilding those bridges of life. i want to thank oprah winfrey and carl garness and the entire cast and paramount movies for making it happen here in selma. [applause] and as i close there is a little girl here in selma alabama by the name of kendall sue murphy. kendal

mrs. bush governor bentley, mayor evans, congresswoman sue, reverend strong members of congress elected officials, foot soldiers friends, fellow americans, as john noted, there are places and moments in america where this nation's destiny has been decided. many are sites of war, conquered in lexington, gettysburg. others are sites that symbolize the daring of america's character. independence hall seneca falls. kitty hawk, and cape canaveral. selma is such a place. in one afternoon, 50 years ago, so much of our toururbulent history, the anguish of civil war, the yolk of segregation and tyranny of jim crow the death of four little girls in birmingham the dream of a baptist preacher all that history meant on that bridge. it was not a clash of armies but a clash of wills. a contest to determine the true meaning of america. and because of men and women like john lewis, joseph lowry, jose williams ameilia, diane nash ct vif van, andrew young, fred, dr. martin luther king jr. so many others the idea of a just america and a fair america, inclusive america and a generous america, that idea ultimately tri

mr. thompson, thinking that he was going to get the mayor, but the mayor hasn't been gotten. >> reporter: council member jack evans. >> the one investigation that i had hoped he would have gotten done by now and didn't is the 1 involving our former mayor vince gray. >> i talked to former mayor vince gray by text this afternoon. he has no comment. also talked to robert bennett, mayor gray's attorney by telephone a short time ago. he is mayor gray has done nothing wrong and has suffered enough and it's two weeks until ronald machien steps down. >> -- machen steps down. >> why is he leaving? >> for personal reasons, family reasons. he's been in this office five years longer than any recent u.s. attorney. >>> secretary of state john kerry spent nearly five hours with iran's foreign minister in switzerland today working to hash out a deal to keep iran from developing nuclear weapons. kerry said the main obstacle blocking an agreement is persuading iran to give united nations inspectors full access to all of iran's nuclear facilities. >> they have an interest to live up to this agreement because if they don't, sanctions

mr. evans anymore items? no more items. >> thank you very much. >> thank you mr. cruz and your staff. [gavel]@p