mr. ginsburg has proclaimed we contest that. we just don't see it, so at the bottom of the hill if i may point out a couple of privacy and security type of things. we have a street, beacon street, where there has been enormous amount of work done to accommodate speeding traffic, and there is considerable traffic on the street, so from across the street

mr. ginsburg has proclaimed we contest that. we just don't see it, so at the bottom of the hill if i may point out a couple of privacy and security type of things. we have a street, beacon street, where there has been enormous amount of work done to accommodate speeding traffic, and there is considerable traffic on the street, so from across the street billy goat hill to there you're going to have problems. at the top of the hill we have a sanctuary for children and it would be an intrusion for a trail to come into that area and the sairchtity of those children would be interrupted. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra. >> my name is sandra larew. my husband and i have lived on beacon street for over 40 years. we bought our lot from the redevelopment agency. we purchased permits before building our home. this is about permit or soils engineer. what concerns us is that the hill side -- what concerns us is the hill side is that the hill side is very steep and we are afraid that any removal of trees and sclushes will result in land s

mr. ginsburg. >> a point of clarification the waiver has been signed by the human rights commission this morning. >> thank you. >> i wanted to add my comment to congratulate the parents, the teachers, the administrators and particularly the students of town school. it is a vibrant, educational community and it's been a pleasure to have you before us. rarely do we have testimony that doesn't have someone who opposes what we are doing and i think that is a reflection on the work that the staff did. so i want to congratulate nick and the rest of the staff because i think the proper outreach was done to make it a reality and with that, it's been moved and seconded. all of those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> we are now on item 9. the golden gate park phase ii tree removal contract no. 3033v. >> good morning commissioners, jeffries & companying, melinda stockmann assistant project manager capital improvements division, san francisco recreation and park department. i am here for 13-001 in amount of $435,000 to arborwell professional tree management. i just want too clarify that i did prese

ginsburg. >> both the complainant and the respondent present? >> complainant? okay. >> mr. wooding. you have up to ten minutes. >> may i shut this? >> yes. >> good evening president hur and commissioners. thank you for listens my name is george wooding. i will start by saying this hearing would have been completely unnecessary had the recreation and parks secretary gong simply reviewed the back up or it or contacted the department of technology and had them review rpd records when they were sunshine requested. within days of sunshine ordinance task force ordering her to do so. my recollection is that they finally provided the e-mails which rpd had previously claimed she had been deleted. i would like to read what miss gong sent, 141 days after my request. >> dear mr. wooding. attached are the documents in response to mr. wooding's request for records. the records were not withheld, they were deleted by staff, before mr. wooding's request was made. the staff received hundreds of e-mails a day and are not able to... all of them. the records to the city department of technology from ba

promote parks. i will let him tell the story, phil ginsburg. [ applause ] >> thank you, luis. his alter ego, what we call each other, he is before mr. books and i am mr. park and this gentleman is mr. clean. [ laughter ] >> it's such a joy to be here and such a celebrate tory week. there has been a lot of talk this week about team and putting team before self and that is not just happening on the ballfield at at&t park, but it's happening in your city and we're so incredibly blessed to have the leadership that we have in mayor lee, board president chiu and supervisor wiener. in no time that i have been involved in the city has both the mayor and board worked together to focus on helping families thrive, through better parks, through better streets, through better libraries and our city leadership deserves such a big round of applause fortaking these steps [ applause ] i also really want to single out our partnership with mr. parks and the library. this is how cities are supposed to be. i don't know if many of you had the opportunity to come and join us at the west sunset ribbon-cutting, when we jointly opened the ortega public libr

going to appoint to the commission, mitt romney's campaign lawyer ben ginsburg, he is, in fact, going along with it. the order asks mrand his democratic counterpart bob bauer to come up with a variety of methods to make voting more efficient and directs the commission to submit a report to the president within six months. that is what is happening at the executive level. an order from the president look for solutions to our country's miserable voting problems. >>> meanwhile, in the states, republicans are still doing everything they can to make the problems worse. new requirements banning people from voting if they do not show documentation that they never had to show before in order to vote. new rules to that effect are on the move in arkansas over the veto of the democratic governor there. republican governor bob mcdonnell in virginia, governor ultrasound, he just signed one of those bills for virginia, as well, this week. north carolina republican legislators there filing two bills to cut north carolina's early voting window in half and to eliminate same-day voter registration. and that's just this week. so far th

ginsburg -- i apologize. >> i suppose the sea change has a lot to do with the political force and effectiveness of people representing, supporting your side of the case? >> i disagree with that, mr. chief justice, i think the sea change has to do, just as discussed was bowers and lawrence, was an understanding that there is no difference -- there was fundamental difference that could justify this kind of categorical discrimination between gay couples and straight couples. >> you don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? >> with respect to that category, that categorization of the term for purposes of heightened scrutiny, i would, your honor. i don't -- >> really? >> yes. >> as far as i can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case. >> the fact of the matter is, mr. chief justice, is that no other group in recent history has been subjected to popular referenda to take away rights that have already been given or exclude those rights, the way gay people have. and only two of those referenda have ever lost. one was in arizona -- it then passed a couple

ginsburg; i apologize. >> i suppose the sea change has a lot to do with the political force and effectiveness of people representing, supporting your side of the case? >> i disagree with that, mr chief justice, i think the sea change has to do, just as discussed was bowers and lawrence, was an understanding that there is no difference -- there was fundamental difference that could justify this kind of categorical discrimination between gay couples and straight couples. >> you don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? >> with respect to that category, that categorization of the term for purposes of heightened scrutiny, i would, your honor. i don't >> really? >> yes. >> as far as i can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case. >> the fact of the matter is, mr. chief justice, is that no other group in recent history has been subjected to popular referenda to take away rights that have already been given or exclude those rights, the way gay people have. and only two of those referenda have ever lost. one was in arizona; it then passed a couple years

ginsburg; i apologize. >> i suppose the sea change has a lot to do with the political force and effectiveness of people representing, supporting your side of the case? >> i disagree with that, mr. chief justice, i think the sea change has to do, just as discussed was bowers and lawrence, was an understanding that there is no difference -- there was fundamental difference that could justify this kind of categorical discrimination between gay couples and straight couples. >> you don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you? >> with respect to that category, that categorization of the term for purposes of heightened scrutiny, i would, your honor. i don't >> really? >> yes. >> as far as i can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case. >> the fact of the matter is, mr. chief justice, is that no other group in recent history has been subjected to popular referenda to take away rights that have already been given or exclude those rights, the way gay people have. and only two of those referenda have ever lost. one was in arizona; it then passed a couple years