mr. johnson. we want to congratulate you on the special award. your heroic actions took a lot of courage to go into a burning building in be saved many lives. i want to commend you for your work. >> on behalf of the board of directors, thank you for the outstanding work that you have had for many years in the agency. >> i want to thank god for giving me this courage -- the strength and the courage to do it. i have to recognize the citizens. when i know that a fire is out of control, they are waiting for the bus, they came down and assisted me. thank you for this, have a nice day. [applause] >> in the next award goes to maggie. please step to the podium. she has been a hearing officer for 11 years. she conducts a hearing for protests, parking citations, and burglar alarm penalties. she is in charge of administering and conducting coordination with federal and city agencies. penalties, she was instrumental in facilitating that. she is a diligent individual. for example, in 2009, she worked with the information technology subdivision to streamline t

mr. lazard to read the spirits of officer suguitan. >> on saturday generate 23, 2010 at 1721 hours, ms. johnson phoned the police to report that her roommate, mr. smith, was suffering from psychological problems, had been drinking, and was taking medication. in her request for the police, this johnson indicated mr. smith was not known to carry weapons and that she wanted vice from officers on how to deal with mr. smith. she needed assistance based on his behavior. officers brodericks suguitan and samuel fung arrived at the scene within four minutes. officer suguitan and fung were met by the woman outside of her porch. officer suguitan observed at the front door of the residence was open and stepped inside. officer suguitan noticed mr. smith and mr. rios, an additional roommate, were standing face to face having a conversation. both men were approximately 7 feet in front of officer suguitan. officer suguitan looked at both men and stated, how are you doing, we are here to help. mr. smith and mr. rios both faced officer suguitan. immediately, officer suguitan realized mr. smith's and were behind

mr. johnson knocked on the door. you may have figured it out by now. to us, he was still the great dark man. a mythical man or object to desire. it was probably why we jumped to attention. jesus. tucking the incriminating evidence. wait. let this go down first. >> why? i don't know. seems rude. ben widened his eyes at me. did you learn that from miss manners. i hid myself. this probably made me look grand. that somehow seemed preferable. men opened the door. he was standing there. i'm sorry fellows. come on in. our visitor shot a quick glance. can we get you something to drink? remaining seated. there's a soda machine. no thanks. did you have a hard time finding us. i'm michael i said. finally standing. this is ben. he shook our hands. i'm patrees. i am worried that it might make me squirm. i found it hospitable. that it put he more at easy. we're glad you came. patrice smiled. ben caught my guy. he began to rearrange the forskin. it seemed to swell. when he removed it, he said, i open it's okay. i'm sort of a kiss pig. no problem. as i caught my breat

mrs. johnson's mortgage, i swear to you we own that loan.o robo signings of affidavits became a way for banks to move forward with foreclosures without the required proof. foul was cried when this was blown up in the press and every state attorney general, republican and democrat, opened up an investigation of foreclosures, including robo signing. i love saying attorneys general plural, justice department and hud have been working on a negotiation with the banks that would make the banks pay out money to home owners saying our bad and wipe their hands of the whole mess and they are this close right now, as i speak, to getting away with it. the terms would be a $20 million payment split between five big banks, a sum roughly equal to the second quarter profit this year in exchange for total immunity of prosecution. let me say that again, total immunity of prosecution. not a bad deal considering no one knows the extent of this alleged systemic fraud and if a settlement is reached, we'll probably never know. so three attorneys general have said

mr. johnson has written a guide on how to hire an inspector. it has a good list of recommendations. live translated it to the six different languages that we have been transmitting material. america's cup. we are reaching out to the business organizations to get a meeting on the books scheduled in late september or early october to begin to talk to small businesses in terms of what they can do to engage with the event authority or with america's cup. that is being worked on and the plan for the types of businesses, what is going to be needed, by that time, should be fairly well-defined, probably at the 500 foot level. but that we can start beginning to have the conversations about how they can become engaged with doing business. because the timing will be pretty quick once is done, trying to consolidate the number of presentations so that we maximize the number of businesses attending a meeting with getting this information out. i will be providing you with a list of the presentations as they get scheduled so that you are aware of that. if you know of any business organizations that

mr. johnson. earlier this month, president obama said that failing to extend the payroll tax break and unemployment benefits could mean a million fewer jobs and .5% less growth. is that true in your opinion? was he accurate when he said that? >> well, it certainly can have negative economic consequences. and on top of that, let's keep in mind that deficits were running, the portion of them attributable to tax cuts for the very best off among us are also damaging our economic growth. couny and supporters of economic growth. so, of course, republicans, they're against it. and, remember, this is the same republican party in which every single candidate for president is against tax hikes even if it meant ten time the amount of spending cuts. you can't get around it. let's bring in pulser prize winning journalist david k. johnson. he's the author of "free lunch: how the wealthiest americans enrich themselves at the government expense and stick with you the bill." and he's also a columnist for "reuters.

mr. johnson. can you share with me your announcements?> all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cell phones and pagers. if you wish to submit copies of materials to the committee, please submit final. if you wish to submit a speaker card, then turn it on to your left -- and turn it to someonine to the left. item one. on sale of beer and wine license for the expansion of the city beer store into the adjacent office space located at 1168 folsom st. will serve the convenience and necessity of the people of the city and county of san francisco. >supervisor avalos: thank you. inspector paulson. >> good morning. what is before us today is an existing business. in short, it is a privilege that allows privilege to sell on site wine and beer. this is an existing business. what they are applying for is to expand. it is a business of high crime and concentration. based on the business plan, we're recommending license for approval. it has existing conditions that would transfer to the existing space. supervisor avalos: we can