mr. johnson. >> good evening, commissioners mr. johnson for at&t i have a couple of brief remarks for the administrative native record dpw's positions the permits is properly granted under the older owners which means the department found under the subject active guidelines it didn't have access to the public right-of-way she's not offered argument that the proposed maps would either violate the guidelines under the older smf guide order and while at&t is sympathetic to her concerns about graffiti as a matter of fact, of state law that's not a basis to didn't think the evasion permits and the argument she's making that utility cabinets at&t utility cabinets shouldn't be allowed in san francisco because the tag was denied by board of supervisors filing on the facts i ask the gentleman from at&t about this cabinet i could not say that but they say in the no an at&t cabinet because at&t didn't put locks on their cabinet given that no evidence has been prepared by appellant it would imcommodity access there's no denial for the permit i

mr. johnson on your retro activity argument it sounds like there's no precouncil court opinion have those cases been looked at. >> there's several opinions i can come up back an rebuttal and give you the site locations and. >> i have a question you piloted that the first cabinet is not app so regarding the other two pictures are those at&t cabinets. >> i don't know if i have ms. raising come in come up. >> we have one opinion on one cabinet we'll need another opinion on the second cabinet. >> good point. >> commissioners, i just know our boxes does not have paddle locks on them and it's hard to tell with the photo maybe you can help me or not it could be one of our boxes it could be more than likely one of our boxes but i can't tell exactly from that photo but it doesn't look like one of our boxes except we don't use locks. >> what's the policy regarding graffiti removal. >> so at&t has several graffiti removal so the first and foremost the city has an ordinance a policy regarding graffiti removal at&t has a bond on file with the city as part of the agreement with the city so that if we h

mr. johnson. >> 6 minutes. >> thank you. i'll just start by addressing the last point and again, i just want to make claim on the record how frustrating this situations is. as the gentleman piloted at&t conducted community outreach and a box walk and identified alternative locates and came to the hearing and told the hoff we've identified multiple locations we want you to approve one what the hearing officer could have been done held the hearing open and solicited alleged contempt from the community and made a decision. instead of violation with the state law and the city's rules the hoff denied our application because we didn't apply for multiple location and the director adapted that our permanent application was denied. as we've pointed out the city has granted one hundred and 34 other applications i've read them all never once did those clients ask for multiple location. dpw they changed their policy so i understand when small business from the community says at&t met with us and will tell the hoff we'll, you know, are i

mr. johnson. >> great. thank you very much. >> i'll be back there to meet quorum as soon as possible i served in susan nasal roll as the director of the inform film commission i'm not gag to challenge the wisdom of cod fizzing something that's a best practice i get the drift of where the panel it going i wanted to say there's a streak in the city that sometimes runs through the community through the body politics and into city hall as well as a relates to filming in the city you're a little bit damned if you do and damned in you don't as a matter of public policy we support filming in san francisco but we tend to focus on real high profile things like disney movies or godzilla but frankly are not the real issue in this case they shoot for a few days and have big operations and do most of their stuff open the we understand which is quiet but we have a thriving independent film and still affirmative it is important we should support them but not only the neighbors and constituents who want to have a partially

mr. johnson. >> sorry so commissioner hurtado you asked me if in respect supreme court cases. >> i asked if the court of appeals cases you avoided that and i asked because they're not cited anywhere in the brief as an oral argument. >> i'm allowed to raise legal argument. >> i'm allowed to hear them but answer my question. >> off the top of my head i--i don't know if there's a cal decision i don't know if someone filed a written petition and the 13rush8g9 weighed it and you were going to say something about the cal supreme court case and there are cal destruct cases i'll be happy to give you the citations. >> i don't have time to read them i'll note you're filing the same brief over and over again that's not helpful if you want us to consider the authority i suggest you put it in your brief that's my suggestion i'm happy to hear about the cal supreme court case. >> the discipline is an exception and if cities pass legislation that target developers to frustrate development the cities can't apply the new legislation to the permits because the fact pattern in most of the cases the city wil

mr. johnson that 50 spots let's be clear that would have been in the works for weeks but the reality is it hadn't so from my prospective if a large or small i'm looking for consistent socy so on the time i've lived on the hills who have also there on numerous years it is inconsistent and the film commission has i think inconsistently in elapsing and direction whether or not i'm the supervisor or the director upton is the director or not there's a that is established and neighbors as well as the people in the industry will have to come to know and come to respect that means two hours of noticing i felt i threw you guys a bone i'm happy to take that anti but we can take it out but it really coming to this i'm trying to figure out the balance i understand the city is looking to increase more filming and i've been a part ever it and cast many votes of the recognition that supervisor farrell has been championship and the large industrial spaces as well as i tried to help the film commission use or a as a resources for filming and staging and all that stuff b that goes along with the industry i

mr. johnson. >> thank you. i'd like to begin by correcting a couple of statements that the appellant made. so the appellant suggested for instance, that at&t did no community outreach then he wanted to conceive is not the case at&t, in fact, connected conducted two walk-through's and wanted people to meet with at&t. we originally property the box on the other side the community opposed that. so then we remailed and noticed we sent and field person out and meet e met with the appellant by attempting a purchase an easement in the driveway and that driveway was two dangerous because it's an active driveway so it seems like it was not a good location. when we looked at the surrounding neighborhood the problem that came once we couldn't put it across the street this was the only location in the neighborhood that satisfied all of the objectives criteria that the department has. so we contacted the department in the fall of 2013 and had a conversation with jerry

mr. johnson. >> so just a couple of points i'll start with the address issue i think everybody on the board a aware at&t applies for the permits it's required to apply for a permittee finish tissues address if a person owns a property there are fictitious addresses that don't technically exist until the permit is granted. the appellant referred to a different location in a grove of trees i understand that is actually more than 3 hundred feet from the cabinet that will make if technicallyly infeasible for the cabinet we appreciate that the appellant has worked this it's rare to have a private project sponsor to offer to work with an easement if we could have placed our cabinet in the easement we certainly would have taken up the offer in this situation. i'd like to briefly address the departments argument again, i want to point out this is a different situation if there's evidence that the location actually impede the public right-of-way. that's not away why the department asked that the appeal be grant and the permit denied the departments position is that there's a series the procedural re

mr. johnson any rebuttal? >> foster johnson for at&t. so let me beginning by noting in the the process that the city issued recollections and the department found that at&t had compiled with the procedural recollections i'm sure there are other ways the city could handle the process and they're new aspects of the regulations that are going to work better in terms of soliciting community input about locations i want to state for the record at&t prepared multiple locations to the hearing officer and at&t told the hoff we're okay with the alternatives you pick the best the city selected the site at 50 one missouri we identified all the locations within the neighborhood. the next point i'm required to make for the record so simply point out that as of today, the department has not issued regulations as required to do under the enough ordinance it's more than two wookz weeks past the dates that the board of supervisors set fore dpw to issue regulations it's not accepting applications and nobody for several months has been able to install anyt

mr. johnson for a long time the rest i submit mr. clerk. >> thank you supervisor cohen supervisor farrell. >> supervisor kim >> thank you first of all, i want to wish any colleague supervisor campos a very happy birthday it happenings happened two days ago i want to introduce a modification for the transbay plan that allows the city to receive more money for affordable housing by allowing a developer to pay a significant fee i know this issue with in the august around the concerns of the protecting vs. the 34r5ur9 housing this deal is a huge precedent in the city around a discussion we've had about charging varying rates of oversight rates depending on the types of buildings like the condo or an 18 unit building you're asked to pay by the city the same amount but some units are more valuable than others this negotiation was a huge success on the part of our city to set a preept on the types of dollars when we allow luxury condo developers to oversight their units generally as a policy i prefer inclusionary units to be on site but thi

mr. johnson on the legislation he expressed this morning he wanted me to share today is his concern about gaging and the city has been dealing with gambling and there recent companies that are notorious labeling the sweepstakes and we want to see will there be a vesting process for a third party vendor to provide machines to those businesses if a bar goes into an agreement with a vendor who will be the agency that does the vetting process to make sure they're not in a criminal process the sfpd looks forward to have this updated it's antiquated this is an opportunity to make lasting changes in try and step away from gaging and try to create some guidelines to protect young people. one the others concerns are for arcades if they're in a bar like situation to not advertise for young people to be part ever it and have people on the sidewalks soliciting people on the sidewalks. there needs to be an tenant to be checking ids fittings if as the an arcade geared toward a young to make sure they have a background check because of the original scope of the legislation this is a great opportunity to

mr. johnson constructed his pond appropriately. the actions of the epa have been heavy handed.hey want to aeks panned the their -- expand their authority. >> they want to take over all jurisdiction on private property. i think they are using me as a test case. >> the epa may adjust the rules and increase the amount of landed over which it has jurisdiction. that upset one family who had ditches and dried up river beds wetland. they made this song... ♪ that's enough that's enough ♪ ♪ the epa ♪ they will try to justify ♪ but we won the back down ♪ don't need our government anyway ♪ >> you have some company out west fighting them. >> absolutely. >> this idea that they showed a canoe in a dry ditch, does this resinate? >> they want to be in charge of every drop of water that hits the earth. who knows where the end is on this. >> thank you, andy. you are not alone and you are fighting this. i wish you the best of luck. >> coming up, myths, lies and complete stupidity about america's search for energy. >> oklahoma has more than 100 earthquakes since friday. today is only monday. when

mr. sullivan and ms. johnson he know that people can get heated and i see i like both captions i see a lot of similarities both are attorneys by trade and voefltd their personal additional time to tree issues so thank you very much for that but i'll say i'm interested in having mr. sullivan return to the urban forestry council to serve i think because of his extensive background the people mentioned expertise as well as is left behind and we continue to build upon highs roll if he was able to return. >> i agree with you this is one of the situations again, we have basically too good candidates for one position a lot of times i wish scott wiener we had the authority to create more positions to meet both are equally passionate from a different perspective but passionate both are trained attorneys so they could look at both sides of the argument and both have spent time on the issue on their own time me the knowledge base they come from different perspectives but one of the things that struck me do we have a differe

mr. johnson can i label for tree maintenance in san francisco. >> tree maintenance there needed to be - are we talking about street trees or park trees or both. >> everything. >> trees need to be maintained and inspected. >> what their unhealthy they need to be treated by pruning or removal or you know other means that's i mean, i know at this point there's not adequate funding for doing that but i also know that supervisor wiener has introduced a proposal to raise the funds 0 so that can be done more and more frequently any other questions seeing none, okay michael sullivan. >> good afternoon, supervisors for listening on linking to me i've been active in urban forestry for almost 25 years in san francisco going back the 1990s when i became a friend of urban forestry a couple of years later i was on the board and chaired it and then was on this council for a couple of years in its infancy in 2003, 4 and 5 and shortly after that and, of course, learned everything and dealt with important issues including the cities first urban forestry plan and i joined the rec and park department commissio

mr. johnson to get into that position of homeland security with the department of justice? has an end to you have any idea who might be in line? >> he is now leaving. he has the best job in america for one thing the president wants him. the attorney general has a delicate position a presidential appointee and should follow the prosecutorial to emphasis and priorities and every justice department will decide its own priorities but also hast to have rule of law and richard thornburgh under president to find a delicate balance every time there is a fork in the road there is the rule of law should he leave the office of attorney general he would be subjected to all kinds of subpoenas he would have to answer as a private citizen in request for documents he could no longer stonewall and in his job title would be permanent witness. icahn almost a sure he will stay in the position. >> i don't believe so. >> national center for public policy research and "politico" imbedded with the justice department with the bush administration has said justice department then about hiring politic

mr. johnson so far working on this and departments that participated we've seen over time situations where something happens or something is perceived in a certain way to recollections are put in place and years good by and it turnout it has unintended consequences we know when it comes to small businesses whether it's entertainment or night life there's a lot of innovations happening and something that maybe back in the past that was causing a problem is now being used in a positive way. we've seen supervisor kim and i and supervisor campos have teamed up to gradually refine the muscone and the awesome restrictions in the mission there was a good reason then but fast forward now you it is a reform item so the same day is warranted so i'm happy to support this. supervisor kim >> thank you i'm going to express my thanks to confederacy and her office for working on this clean up language i mean, i'll ditto what supervisor wiener said i'll add my name it's important we continue to clean up many is of the arcade regulations 40 in our planning code i don't know free go watch but i'll be checkin

mr. johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. today is a very important day. today the house is debating on a continuing resolution and also an amendment to that resolution which would authorize the -- under title 10 -- the expenditure of $500 million to train moderate syrian opposition . this is not an authorization for the use of military force. it's just simply for the limited purpose which i just stated. ut i feel compelled to go into -- or go a little bit further as to why it's necessary that we be in favor of that amendment. to the c.r. s well as the c.r. itself. if we do nothing against the il threat, we choose to be isolationists and take a wait and see attitude, then the chances are great that the situation will get worse. when it gets worse, that means isil gets more powerful. they have been on a run lately. and they have gotten more powerful. now i know people on the other side of the aisle will say that it's the president's fault that isil got this strong. but isil would not have gotten

mr. johnson, can you please put this in to some kind of perspective for us and give us your insight on what might have happened here? >> first we need to be cautious before jumping to conclusions that it's necessarily terrorism. i mean i would be inclined, based on preliminary reports that that's the case, but there's always the possibility you may find out after the fact this was a suicide pact that for some reason had nothing to do with politics. that said, this is a first. this is a very rare event. it's unlikely to be repeated but, president bush put his finger on it, we have to fine who did this, in any any country, any nation in the world that is in any way involved or responsible, if it turns out to be terrorism, will require a response from the united states. the united states has got to be willing to pay that price. >> mr. johnson obviously we were completely stunned when about 25 minutes after the first explosion, after the first plane crashed into one of the twin towers, another very large plane did the same thing. we've been talking with our correspondents all morning about, if

mr. johnson kugd what dpw could have been done is to hold the hearing open and allow for the time to review the additional sites at&t could have submitted more than one site at the outset there was nothing in the process that prevented at&t from submitting more than one and it - the language used the plural in addition the sites that were identified as the box walk if at&t would have allowed the populations the time to review what was being proposed we might not feel ourselves obligated to deny but as argued the state law does allow us to look for a site that is at least butch on the population so we have the populations weigh in on it the hearing officer is left to deny those applications. the applications were properly denied. and again, because our new ordinance requires that any permit that is not final in the effective date of the ordinance should be subject to the new ordinance. i will once again explain we were flu on target to meet the 60 day deadline we give them a chance to talk about this and we gave them an opportunity to weigh in as we were still crafting the order and had a mo

mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. tonight i rise to urge the house to adopt h.r. 4119, the west hunter street baptist church study act. mr. speaker, this is a noncontroversial and bipartisan piece of legislation. i was proud to introduce this bill in partnership with my colleague and fellow georgian, congressman scott. the bill has the support of georgia's -- of both of georgia's republican u.s. senators and 77 bipartisan members of the house of representatives. this is an important piece of legislation for the people of georgia's fourth congressional district who i represent. but also for the thousands of heroes who fought tirelessly during the civil rights movement for equality in the south and throughout the country. the west hunter street baptist church study act authorizes the department of the interior to conduct a study of the west hunter street baptist church in atlanta, georgia, to determine if it meets the requirements to become part of our nation's park system. according to the national park service, the si

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mr. johnson: i thank the gentleman from new york. mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 4, the so-called jobs for america act. it brings to mind occasions where as a youth my sister and i would go to my uncle's house in cleveland. and my uncle's wife would prepare a lot of food. and we would sit down and eat. and the food would taste terrible. and we had a couple more days to be there and we hoped for the best, and -- so the next day, sat down at dinner, and we had leftovers. this is what this bill reminds me of. it's a package of anti-consumer, anti-safety, anti-environment bills that the house has already passed. this omnibus legislation is emblematic of a republican party that lacks vision or direction for americans that demand cooperation and leadership. this bill smacks of a new republican leadership that is still on training wheels, unable to work across the aisle to deliver real solutions, to grow the economy, and create jobs. but what's new from a republican party that voted dozens and dozens of times to defund and def

mr. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. identity the stop theft act has laudable goals of addressing the problem of tax return identity theft. unfortunately, in seeking to address one problem, the bill creates another one. last congress, the crime subcommittee held a hearing at which we learned how individuals are victimized by those who file false returns using the names and social security numbers of the victims. when someone has filed a false return -- when someone has had -- excuse me -- when someone has had a false return filed in their name, they often have to engage in an arduous process of setting the record straight with the i.r.s. and obtaining a refund they may be due. in other instances, perpetrators sometimes benefit by falsely claiming that a deceased child of another is a dependent on their own forms. parents of the deceased children are then subjected to additional grief and burden of clearing things up with the i.r.s. as a long-standing advocate for -- of personal privacy and personal privacy rights, i am p

mr. johnson, i would ask -- secretary johnson, i would ask a follow-up question on my colleague, mr. thompson, coming from texas, do you feel that you have sufficient federal resources on the border to, if there was such an intrusion, that your staffing between i.c.e., which is on the inner side, between the border patrol intelligence, working with your colleagues, do you believe you have the right and necessary resources? >> we have more resources today than we have had at any time previously. over the last several years we have put at the border, particularly the southwest border, an unprecedented level of resources in terms of people, technology, vehicles, and other equipment. as you know i'm sure congresswoman, apprehensions over the last 14 years have gone down. they have gone up this year because of the spike in the rio grande valley sector, but we could use more. the bill passed by the senate last year, s. 744, would have gone a long way to providing additional resources, additional personnel, for the southwest border. >> thank you. >> toward border security. >> thank you. i w

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