ms. crumb? >> i don't have any. >> okay. >> i would invite the three of you to go and schedule a visit in our shelter so that you get a firsthand view of the report when it comes before you so you can know the lay of the land. as a matter of fact, our largest shelter is just three blocks away from here at 1 001 polk street. so, if you're so inclined, let me know and i'll make sure we schedule some site visits. >> can you contact my staff to schedule something? >> yes, i will do that. >> it's been several years since i've been in a shelter. >> all right, thank you. >> thank you very much. are there any public comments at this point? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk, item 3, please. >> mr. chair, would you like to continue item number 3 to the call of the chair? >> this is item 4. >> item 4 is to take an action for item number 3. >> okay. is there a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> so moved. >> okay. so moved. no objection? >> no objecti

ms. pham, she's been in this country for four and a half year, she lives in east bay, ms. pham is sitting back here today. ms. pham has two children, she would like to start her own business to help support her family but he's been unable to to, she filed this application in may last year and since then, she's been unable to start her because because the permit was not yet approved. to get into the two reasons why it was denied and those reasons were incorrect, the first is the department of public works found there were too many businesses serving like foods in the area and we submit that was incorrect. first, mixed greens was listed as one of the businesses that served vietnamese food in the area, specifically vietnamese sandwiches, if you look at exhibit e to our brief which we filed, exhibit e is a copy of mixed greens menu, there is simply no vietnamese sandwiches on that menu, there are other sandwiches on that menu but they are not vietnamese sandwich, exhibit f to our brief contai

ms. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not >> good evening and welcome to april 24th, 2013 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the presiding officer is board president chris the wang, she's joiner tonight by an lazarus, commissioner frank fung, damper honda and arcelia hurtado, to my left is mr. brian, he will be here for legal advice tonight and at the controls is victor pa chico, i'm gloria, we're joined by representatives that have cases before the board, scott sanchez is there, he's representing the planning department, roger duffy is here representing the building inspection and john quan is here, he's the manager of public works, bureau street and mapping. at this time, mr. pa check koe, if you could go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> the board request you turn off all cell phones and pagers, please carry on conversation ins the hallway, the board rule of presentation are as follows, appell

ms. freeman, good to see you. good afternoon. >>> good afternoon. >> i see, too, you have a residency waiver requirement. what city do you live in? >>> i live in the city of vallejo currently. i have been a resident of san francisco for over 30-year. i recently moved out of the city. >> okay. and you said you've been working in social service here for 15 years, worked with the homeless population. can you talk to me a little bit about the work you've done in the homeless population? >>> yes. so, i've worked in the field of corrections. also i was a social worker within the corrections department. i also worked with probation. i worked with mental health and substance abuse, substance users. also within the shelter system of placing clients directly into treatment. i've done primarily mental health and then the last few years direct services with the homeless population for housing, treatment of all natures. >> and are you currently sitting on this body? >>> no. >> okay. tell me why you're

ms. sewell: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished leader of the democratic party, the gentlelady from california, s. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california, the minority leader, vked for -- is recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank our distinguished colleague, congresswoman sewell, for yielding. as you can see our distinguished democratic whip, mr. hoyer, and i have had the privilege, he more than i, to travel to alabama with john lewis. thank you this morning for informing the members that that was -- that's a transformative experience. anybody who travels there and sees what happened in the lifetime of many of us here, certainly in the lifetime of everyone's parents here in our very own country cannot help but be moved. i'm pleased to join you, congresswoman sewell, thank you, mr. chairman. mr. bachus, and mr. hoyer, and other colleagues in coming to the floor. mr. bishop. mr. speaker, as we are all acknowledging,

ms. erica cheng. ms. cheng, could you please dot roll call? >> roll call, commissioner breed? commissioner breed absent. commissioner campos? >> present. >> commissioner kim? kim absent. commissioner mar? >> present. >> yee? present. we have a quorum. >> i'd like to thank nona melkonian and jesse larsen for televising us today. we have 8 items on the agenda this morning. could you please call item number 1? item 2. >> right. item number 2, approve the minutes of the march 19, 2013 meeting. this is an action item. >> seeing no comments, colleagues, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? >> so moved. >> thank you. [gavel] >> please call the next aye tim, ms. cheng. >> item 3 is citizens advisory committee report. this is a information item. >> thank you. i don't see mr. flanagan here -- oh. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning.

ms. scott. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. back again. listen, i'm urging you to really pass thises as it currently is. ~ i spent a good bit of this weekend thinking about it. i think sometimes we tend to beat thing to death. i think this one has been beat to death quite enough. i don't see why we can't have deadlines. and while i understand the cpmc because i have a serious interest in that, and i'm glad that the ceqa process made that much better, i think [speaker not understood] the booker t. project as well, i think the ceqa process serves us well, except that because of the timelines and because there's no clarity about those timelines, there's just no way that you can really figure on doing affordable housing, supportive housing, projects that benefit this community without it costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars more dealing with an honorable ceqa process. and i know you have no control over the state process, which i intend to weigh on as well. but for this one, an admini

ms. jackson lee, is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, we have faced enormous tragedies this week with the horrific tragedy of boston and now today the tragedy of explosions in west, texas. i rise today to salute minister yolanda adams, who has taken her music to a step where she is ministering and given comfort to those who need comfort. as reflected in her prayer and through her music, yolanda adams has taught us to embrace god's grace and mercy and for those who will listen to stand in the sunlight of joy as one looks toward the hopelessness of their future or of their lives. yolanda adams is a native born american, native born houstonian and in fact someone who grew up in the public schools of houston and began her life in music after she began her life as a teacher. she graduated from sterling high school in 1979 in the oldest of

ms. and we think it's important that we get some codification immediately for those two kinds of decisions. and i appreciate the fact that the 20 days we complained about initially and i appreciate and thank you for making that 30 days, that make a lot more sense. but we still have a problem with the issue of the notification. just knowing when the decision is made and knowing that it's related to ceqa is not going to cut it totally. what you have to know is also and the public needs to know is the details of either the exemption what the reasoning is why it was done, or in the case of a negative declaration, what mitigations are being proposed. those need to be followed. so, you were talking earlier in your meeting about advance notification of a ceqa decision. i think the clock starts running after that decision has been made and you get that follow-up information as an integral part of the notice. that's what we'd like to see, okay, thank you. >> thank you very much. commissioner. >>>

ms. shabba. >>> [inaudible]. >> okay, why don't we show that to the public. >> can we turn on the overhead? >> okay. >>> there >>> there it is, park merced, and cpmc. >> great, thank you, mr. showed en. ms. shabba. >>> hi, pilar shabba, california nurses association. we want to echo many of the comments that have been said today. we want to be able to take a look at supervisor kim's legislation at the same time as looking at the legislation that supervisor wiener has brought forward. we do have, you know, concerns, as everybody knows, we along with coalition members who have spoken and will speak today have been involved in an eight year fight around the cpmc development. and actually, many of the delays that happened in that development had nothing to do with ceqa or our coalition putting up roadblocks or anything like that. it had to do with the developer in kind of a start stop, start stop delay mode doing whatever they were doing, did not move forward the project. and that's one of th

ms. norton, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. issa: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. issa: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. issa: mr. speaker, as chairman on the committee with oversight and responsibility over the district of columbia, from time to time it comes to our attention that the home rule act and other legislation that has governed the federal city needs to be updated. in this case, because of the work of delegate holmes norton, we became aware of a potentially dangerous flaw within existing law. on february 1, dr. ghandi, the longstanding district of columbia's chief financial officer, announced that he will retire on june 1.

thanks for your patience, ms. hillson. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is judy irving and i'm the executive director of a nonprofit called pelican media. and i'd like to talk about good government. i would like to ask that you continue the vote and actually consider two variations of this legislation. it seems to me that supervisor wiener's legislation is -- does an attempt to ram it down our throats. it's an attempt to bypass the kind of discussion that we could have if we had two side by side views on how to improve this kind of permit appeal process. i'm just a regular ordinary citizen and a lot of this is extremely confusing to me. but my impression is that the appeal notification is going to be almost hidden. we don't know exactly when the first approval is. we don't know what organization makes the first approval. and we don't have a chance to appeal the process or the project after that first approval. it just doesn't make sense to me and i think that we deserve to have a full discussion of two alternative ways of

on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late ms. catherine campbell. and ms. levine stuben. on behalf of supervisor chiu, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener for the late ms. mabel sue. >> madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> are we ready for prime time? call the roll please. >> chair recognizes the quorum. approval of march 12, 25 and 26 minutes. move and seconded to move approval of minutes of march 12, 25, 26. public comment? just want to say thank you to our secretary for the tedious task for drafting our minutes and be able to correct the misunderstanding that were created by some people that didn't understand what was going on. so thank you miss hood for that. public comments? we have no public comments today. this is unheard of. all right. we'll move on to item number five -- communications. no comments whatsoever? no public comments on communications. we'll move on to other commission business. is there any? yes, mr. /phor moran.

ms. delauro: -- 30 seconds. ms. delauro: let's bring equal pay law into line with other civil rights laws. i urge my colleagues to defeat the previous question, support the paycheck fairness act, end unequal pay for good. 50 years after the equal pay acts, it is finally time to give women the tools they need to ensure that they are paid what they deserve for the same day's work. what are we waiting for in this body? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from colorado. the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. this is a typical liberal habit. do as i say, not as i do. i think, mr. speaker, that our colleague from connecticut should direct her comments to the white house. there's absolutely nothing to stop the white house from correcting the egregious pay differentials that exist there among the most liberal group in the country. ms. delauro: would the gentlewoman yield? ms. foxx: with that i reserve

ms. kos and ms.sso, i want to take a moment to say thank you for your leadership and stepping up. sometimes people can become encumbered with titles of leadership and you ladies seem to embody leadership and actually how it manifests in everyday life, how you carry your self-, how you conduct your own personal business. so, i have come to know ms. brasso pretty well in the last couple years. ms. kos, look forward to seeing you around a little bit more and working with you as well. thank you. >> supervisor breed? >> thank you. i noticed that over the past few years that as bicycle rider ship has increased in san francisco, serious concerns around pedestrian safety have been brought to the forefront, especially with folks that have been, sadly, hit by either motorists or bicyclists over maybe their struggle on the streets. and i want to make sure that we are looking at an issue around pedestrian safety as a public safety issue just like we want to protect bicyclists who want to protect the people walki

vincent: dad, this is ms. casey. she's our new softball coach. ms. casey...job yet. well, good luck to you. go get your books, vincent, we have to go. how are you doing today, alex? uh, o.k.... vincent, wait for me! excuse me, mr. wang. i have to return these bats. i hope we get to see you here again. me, too. rebecca's finding the school awfully tough. so we've dropped it down 1 octave. she will have to work very hard i she wants to pass. i'm going to have to do a lot of reading before i even start the assignment. by the way, i'm bill ellis. she meets bill. bill's a very passionate character. i think he wants to be a rock star. rebecca applies for a job at an after-school program. i'm here about the job. i spoke with you yesterday. mr. mendoza, alex's father recommended i come and see you... emma washington is the director of the after-school program. speaker: alex, ramon's son, and alex's best friend vincent... ms. casey, this is alex mendoza, this is vincent wang. they're best friends. they're practically glued together. vincent is a chinese boy. he is ale

on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late ms. catherine campbell. and ms. levine stuben. on behalf of supervisor chiu, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener for the late ms. mabel sue. >> madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel]

please answer, ms. young. he told me that if i said a word to anyone that i'd be as dead as those three people. mccoy: thank you. you said mr. dressler accused you of sleeping with another man and threatened to kill him. does he always behave this way? he's very possessive. but when he's drunk his jealousy's out of control isn't it? it gets worse. he rants and raves he imagines things? yes. because you've never been unfaithful to him, have you? no. so that morning when he screamed and threatened he did so because he was drunk, right? objection. gentlemen. your honor i'm establishing a pattern of behavior. when my client's drunk he's insanely jealous and delusional. so, conversely, when he's insanely jealous and delusional he's drunk. ms. young is an account supervisor. she's not a behavioral psychologist. my client's state of mind is the crux of my case. then get an expert. your line of questioning's inappropriate. now step back. the jury will disregard the witness' responses to mr. billings in their entirety.

ms. meanwhile they have sought elusive russian and now chinese approval of the right of the united states to defend itself. most recently the administration has abandoned its own missile defense strategy known as the phase adapive approach in favor of a stop-gap measure of finally placing the additional ground-base missiles in alaska they had previously canceled. i welcome the administration finally completing the missile field which it has attempted to close. although this reveals that they have no plan to reasonably respond to the real and foreseeable threats from north korea and iran. this announcement leaves the united states without an articulated missile defense strategy. this deficiency is compounded by the effects of the administration's clumsy handling of our relationship with our nato allies. the abrupt cancellation of the bush administration missile defense commitments, coupled with the announcement of the abandonment of the president phase adaptive approach, have left our alli

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ms. our children, grandchildren, after a generation, two or throol three going without any right to bear arms, point this this document and say there is a right to keep and bear arms. you cannot re-establish these rights that are in the constitution if we once stop exercising them. we exercise freedom of speech and exercise freedom of religion and freedom of the press. all these rights are rights we have to utilize. and they are rights that define for us and this constitution has within it, the supreme law of the land. there is another component of american exceptionalism as well, aside from these rights that are in the constitution and the free enterprise piece of this which gives our economy most vigor and i would advise people that are preparing to take the nationalization test, that's a choice by the educational foundation to understand our history and language, one of the questions that will be there, what is the economic system of the united states? the answer to that is free enterp

thanks for your patience, ms. hillson. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is judy irving and i'm the executive director of a

ms. saks from the cac. >>> one thing this item was brought up at the last cac meeting and one item -- one thing that i brought -- one point that i brought up was with the conversion of eddy and ellis being two way streets, whether that would interfere with the way the buses are running now. with the overheads and this sort of thing, you have to take that into the station. the buses are running now and the overhead wiring, you have to take that into consideration as well. but thank you very much. >> thank you, ms. saks. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? >> so moved. >> [gavel] >> thank you. ms. cheng, please call the next item. >> item number 6, recommend approval of the designation of lead agencies for the 2013 prop k 5-year prioritization program updates, allocation of $193,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, to the san francisco municipal transportatio

thanks for your patience, ms. hillson. next speaker. >>> hello, my name is judy irving and i'm the executive director of a nonprofit called pelican media. and i'd like to talk about good government. i would like to ask that you continue the vote and actually consider two variations of this legislation. it seems to me that supervisor wiener's legislation is -- does an attempt to ram it down our throats. it's an attempt to bypass the kind of discussion that we could have if we had

. >> ms. devine from the department of public works. ~ 101 >> good afternoon. this resolution would authorize the department of public works to enter into a freeway agreement with caltrans. there we go. in yellow is shown how we get on route 101 now and in pink is shown how we get off of 101. prior to the earthquake, the central freeway was designated 101 and as part of the central freeway replacement project this is to adopt the route designation between the caltrans right-of-way and the city streets. so, it's pretty straightforward. maintenance has already been taken care of in a separate agreement and i'd be pleased to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you, ms. devine. colleagues, any questions? supervisor kim. >> [inaudible], i just had a hard time. ~ seeing the street names. >> okay. >> so, where is the route exactly, the the black line? it looks like it's going through a parcel. that's why. >> it doesn't actually go through a parcel. if you're coming northbound on 101, you get off on mission street shown in pink here. and then you continue up s

ms. jackson lee, for five minutes. ms. jackson lee: i ask unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. . jackson lee: today the bodies of this congress have an opportunity to save lives. in fact, they have a historic moment. they actually have the ability to act for once after a tragedy of the proportions of newtown, having not acted over the years. after conlum wine, theater in aurora, horrific tragedy of virginia tech. and many, many others, including that of our colleague in arizona . i am hoping as we stand here today that the right consciouses of those who have the opportunity in the other body to pass sensible gun legislation will do so. and in order to aid them, to listen to the voices of the people, 50 members of the united states house of representatives have asked for those in the other body not to filibuster any gun legislation, but to have an up or down vote. the reason we say that is because the massive numbers of oss of children, 80-som

. >> thank you, ms. torres. president be board of commissioners we're got folks here that are being awarded a special ward. those california administrators association will have their awards presented them to at an award subtraction an april 29th and one of our students will be honored for their achievement in public organization. we'd like to okay. one by one and start with our principle ms. erica. invite her to say a few words >> so i'm going to listen to the 3 ss and make this short. i want to thank you all. i'm very he humbled to receive this award. everyone constantly channels me by bringing me fun and interesting challenges daily. i don't know if it's - you have a good woman has a good man and he's a wonderful husband who's at the giants game tonight working, working, working. i want to thank him together and say you can't believe what happened to 80 today. but i also want to thank all the superintendents to work under and to lead and guide me arrest each day is fun and interesting for the students. i do i