mr. robins so return back. >> it's my pleasure to introduce zeer, street construction within the streets division who is responsible from the safe path of travel program. a little bit of background. when a contractor need to work on the street or the sidewalk, he has to go through a permit process, and construction routing group provides him with criteria on where he can block traffic, where he can block the sidewalk, so that traffic, bicycles, transit and those with disabilities and pedestrian can travel through the work zone safely. that requires a lot of enforcement. his role is to visit these construction cites and insure that safe work zones and adequate pass of travel are available for all users. he enforces contractor compliance with a traffic control requirement to provide -- to ensure public safety. he has been working with the city for 23 years and he has experience with difficult situations and revolving conflicts. he responds promptly from complaints from the city staff or from the public due to -- he takes appropriation action to rectify the situation. he inspires and mainta

mr. robins can tell you more about that. that particular block face does not meet our standards or criteria for residential permit. there is a very tall boyding and those spaces would not likely be designated rpp. so as someone that we could agree on, to expert using those spaces as car share pods. >> okay. last question. why four, opposed to two? >> oh, that was effectee effectively a windfall. that we weren't permit more than two spaces per block and in it this case we have four on the block because there was this rather unusual circumstance and there was interest from the residents on that block face to actually convert all four of those spaces. we won't do that as a matter of routine. it was really a windfall. that curb had some movement afoot that we were taken advantage of. >> director heinicke. >> the only comment that we had from one of the spots that is on the list was the sanchez street comment. sir, thank you for coming down and my understanding is that just one parking spot on sanchez street, and correct me if i

mrs. robinson raet than robins. i'll make that correction. >> we're prepared for the vote and all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> all opposed, the minutes are approved. >> next item -- >> next is the director's lot. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the may revision of the governor budget is out and i want to highlight some of the budget proposals. one is that an increase of $1.2 billion over the january budget is allocated to medical for 2014-15. it's to cover the cost of enrollment, it's an additional $1.2 and it stands at $11.5 million, that's why the increase in the medical as well because there's many more people taking advantage of the medical system. the state continues to expect to recover in saving from counties $900 million and 80/85 realignment funds and as we reported to this, is that they were taking back our dollars for realignment to pay for those medical increases. and $187.2 million is allocated for medical manage care plan rate increases $191.2 million is allocated for increase mental hea

i haven't seen this kind of cover-up since robin williams played "mrs. doubtfire." what does it take for the mainstream media to care that irs have to execute tea partiers or have to say i hope these bullets recyclable. the irs scandal, with the va stuff, the p.o.w., it shows every part of the obama apple is bad. used to be able to eat around the worm. now it's all worm and no apple. >> you pointed out -- maybe i heard the guy -- >> the arrogance. the smile he had going on there. >> so koskinen sits there like butter would not melt. okay. that i think also is the other thing that has really irritated people. not just the guys on the committee but people watching at home thinking how can he sit there. the thing is, greg points out something. he's a big time political donor. he was doing his public service. by public he doesn't mean working for all of us he means working for the democrats. that's what i think is amazing -- think of the position that president obama's administration has put the democrats in. in an election year where they have a tough situation with th

i haven't seen this kind of cover-up since robin williams played "mrs. doubtfire." what does it take for the mainstream media to care that irs have to execute tea partiers or have to say i hope these bullets recyclable. the irs scandal, with the va stuff, the p.o.w., it shows every part of the obama apple is bad. used to be able to eat around the worm. now it's all worm and no apple. >> you pointed out -- maybe i heard the guy -- >> the arrogance. the smile he had going on there. >> so koskinen sits there like butter would not melt. okay. that i think also is the other thing that has really irritated people. not just the guys on the committee but people watching at home thinking how can he sit there. the thing is, greg points out something. he's a big time political donor. he was doing his public service. by public he doesn't mean working for all of us he means working for the democrats. that's what i think is amazing -- think of the position that president obama's administration has put the democrats in. in an election year where they have a tough situation with th

mr. brooks for being here. is there anymore public comment on item no. 3? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, my name is robin share. i'm speaking for the trees in san francisco and speaking for the san francisco forest alliance. as part of the department of the environment and the natural areas program, i would strongly urge for the care and preservation of all san francisco trees to stop the destruction of san francisco open space trees. you are caring for the water h20 and the carbon needs to be second questered and the 400 parts per million to 350 parts per million which were always considered the absolute maximum co 2 load in the environment. i have to say that no one ever voted to remove the iconic you eucalyptus trees in san francisco. it is shocking to go by an area that is under construction by recreation and parks to see trees removed from the area. people i have talked to about it have misconceptions. there are all kinds of things written and said about you can leadership -- eucalyptus trees that are not true. we are waiting to talk to the professors in order to get it together. i really think the

mr. brooks for being here. is there anymore public comment on item no. 3? >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, my name is robin share. i'm speaking for the trees in san francisco and speaking for the san francisco forest alliance. as part of the department of the environment and the natural areas program, i would strongly urge for the care and preservation of all san francisco trees to stop the destruction of san francisco open space trees. you are caring for the water h20 and the carbon needs to be second questered and the 400 parts per million to

mr. speaker, at yesterday's hearing we also heard from the former american ambassador to nigeria, robin renee sanders, an experienced and very distinguished diplomat, who told my committee, and i quote her here, nigeria is at the beginning of a long war and they have to realize this. this is no longer a localized conflict or insurgency. there is no easy fix and every attack or response to boko haram cannot be viewed as a blow to it. a long range security framework to the terrorist threat is what is needed. ambassador sand remembers said, the security services need to regroup, reapproach and readdress it as such in order to beginning to get off their heels on the defensive and get on an aggressive offense. this has not happened yet, she said, and boko haram has not only succeeded in terrorizing 60,000 square miles of territory but also with the late april, 2014 attacks that they have the ability to reach locations just 15 kilometers outside of one city, either with sleeper cells or with bombs getting past checkpoints. current nigerian security services have never experienced anything like this