. >> commissioner hyland: a question for you, mr. frye, this is in response to the gao not approving these contracts. so we're making some adjustments to our program with anticipation that is going to facilitate easier approval, is that correct? >> that is correct. it's also to address -- the past year they did not approve all contracts. the questions they've raised, they've raised every year. we've done our best to answer them. it finally got to a critical point where the board and committee are asking, what is the real benefit here for the city? and we need to demonstrate that we're really giving money for the right reasons. >> so the notion -- i just don't agree that the notion that because someone chose to go ahead and do the restorations on their own, they didn't need the money. it's an incentive for people to do that. and if they can get it done and then take advantage of the incentive, i don't know why they would have to wait for the approval to get the work done. >> just as a matter of clarification, if you've done work in the pre

. >> yes, i just had a comment and asked mr. frye if he could confirm.hether these buildings are in the district or not, they're still resources under sequa and would need to have similar evaluations and assessments to any changes that occur. having them as part of the district provides other benefits that you wouldn't have otherwise. the t.d.r.s for this district are an immense benefit that other historic properties in our city may or may not have. that's a really a great benefit. >> that's correct. >> we have a motion and a second. >> i did not hear that, thank you. >> very good commissioners. there's a motion that has been second today' to adopt resolutio initiate. commission black. >> jonck. >> yes, highland,. >> so moved, commissioners, that passes 7-0. places us on item 7 for case number 17. 011-5755 at 1942 sutter street. this is a se certificate of appropriateness. >> good afternoon. the item before you is a request for certificate of appropriateness or horizontal addition and sod altercation at 1942 sutter street. contributor to the bush street

starr and mr. frye. >> clerk: commissioners, that'll place us on general public comment. at this time, the members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. i do have several speaker cards. >> good afternoon. all four of you. yesterday paper, in addition to the wonderful paper of stephen curry coming back to play in that wonderful game the other night was the thing about the report states housing growing, and i thought the numbers were interesting, but i'll leave it for commissioner richards to bring it up when he returns. what i wanted to mention was a year ago on may 4th, actually, you had a d.r. hearing for a project on 24th street up the hill just below market. and that, you took d.r., and you reduced the deck that was off the upper level. it was a horizontal and vertical two story vertical addition turning a two story s

mr. speaker. the chairman of the human resources committee, joel frye, did master work on it as well as the floor manager in the iowa house, shannon lundgren. shannon, i believe, is in her first term, and i haven't gotten to know her personally. here's the narrative that i get from the way she managed that debate in the house. it's a lot longer in the house. it went on for hours. five to seven hours, something like that. the bill passed around 11:30 that night. and shannon, when she brought the bill up, this is the critique that came to me is that she started out slow and you might start to wonder if she was going to be able to hold her own through that very, very grueling trial that had been assigned to her that she was i think eager and proud to take on and she should be proud because she got stronger as the night wore on. so did a number of the other members of the iowa house. and so they stepped up to defend their positions and to advocate their narratives. one of them would be steve holt who is -- he and also sandy salmon who introduced her own bill, own pro-life legislation, they strong and