. >> thank you, ms. clark. any additional general public comments? seeing none, commissioner richards? >> ms. clark, if you could spend 20 or 30 seconds telling us about bay lands, please. >> sure. do we want it? >> go ahead. >> sorry. so there is talk about doing a statewide piece of legislation that would take the entire decision away from the city of brisbane and i think that makes a lot of sense. the current, as commissioner moore brought up, the current economic difference that they're looking at, they ran a feasibility test on a project that was purely just commercial. they would make $7 million a year. the one that's mixed use office in housing, they would only make $1 million a year. and so all of the talk about every other way to look at that, they are looking at a difference of $6 million. i do not believe that the city council will be capable of saying no to $6 million and that is the way these decisions end up being made all down to south bay where we see this jobs-housing imbalance so i do believe that we're going to require a specific p

. >> first of all, i would like to thank ms. clark for giving us a moment of levity and also a comment. i don't believe that paris is affordable with all those homes. i'd like to specifically request for two line items to be added to the bucket that is called project. and under the tenants issued, the department has put down a series of statements regarding the values. and here's -- overhead, please. te nanls focused issues. so i would like to bring it to your attention that in the past four or five months and the cases before you, you did side with the tenants and what was impacting their departments. and those were addition of a floor. it required the owner, the landlord to empty the building. we do need some sort of a work project. to study various permits. how far could somebody claim that retrofiting requires emptying the building? what kind of permit would require the residents to leave the building? the impact of the a.d.u.s. so i really would like the request that you specifically add that to the 2018 budget. you will have the

. >> thank you, ms. clark. next speaker, please. >> commissioners, mary gallagher. i wrote you an e-mail last week on the work programme and budget. thaulz to the director for his quick reply. when i read it, i realised i'm not effectively communicating the point i want to make so i'm here today in person to do that. so, you know, the grants work programme is set by the time the money is award. you can, however, identify work programmes for future funding cycles for which grant money might be sought. there is a lot of transportation money out there which could be solicited to support the second part of a study is on your idea to prohibltz parking. for fee, it is important to nose that they can be expended on things like procedures and computer systems. but these things absolutely need explicit goals and deadlines. if goals aren't exmy -- explicit and no one is held attainable they won't be met. for fee, i think it is also important to have the metrics the director mentioned in front of you. it's important to nose that around the beginning of the newsome administrati

. >> thank you, ms. clark. marie villanvuara. >> hi. can you hear me? >> yes. >> ok. hi. i want to say that i had a dream last year in august and i'm not m.l.k., but my dream is pouch i saw the pioneer statue toppling and falling down and at the time the country was looking at all of its racist confederate statues and when i woke up, i said i think it's time. i think it's time that san francisco gets to look at its own racist statues and its own history of colonizization. at that same time, i was introduced to patrick flanagan who let me know about some of the meetings that were happening and out of that started to take down the pioneer statue movement. we made facebook events and literally were on the pulse of what the city wants. what the pulse of what this nation wants and the pulse of what this world wants. i'm told so many times that if you take down the statue, people will forget the history of the genocide of native americans. well i'll tell you right now i'm a proud native american. i'll make sure no one forgets about the genocide that happened on this stoenl land

. >> ms. clark he recognized for five minutes. >> i think i think our panelists with excellent testimony of this morning. i've had the honor of introducing and establishing the congressional smart city caucus along with my colleague and congressman. as cochair of this caucus i know deploying broadband in her city is critical. we in congress must more to make sure deployment is ubiquitous and address the 10 million americans in urban areas that don't have access to broadband as defined by the fcc. of course be answered the connecting broadband doesn't 2018 with bobby rush. the fcc will be tasked with reviewing the state of deployment and broadband deserts and will be required to take action. if it's not recurring at a reasonable pace. what type of issues -- we've heard about this the question was asked by -- what issue to be currently assumed that every part of the city is already connected. what can we do to help address these issues? >> it's an excellent question. i talked about the homework cap th

ms. clark, you're recognized for five minutes. >> i thank you very much, madam chairman, and i thank our panelists for their expert testimony here this morning. this congress i've had the honor of introducing and establishing the congressional smart cities caucus along with my colleague, congressman darrell issa. as cochair ofy this bipartisan smart cities caucus, i know deploying broadband in our cities is critical. we in congress must do more to makeke sure that, first of all, the can deployment is ubiquitous, but to address the ten million americans in urban areas whoad to not have access o broadband as defined by the if fcc. and that's -- by the fcc. and that's why i've cosponsored the connecting deserts of 2018 withth my colleague, congressman bobby rush. under this legislation the fcc will be tasked with reviewing the state of deployment in urban broadband deserts and will be required to take action to help speed deployment if it is not occurring at a reasonable pace. so, ms. katz, what t

. >> ms. clark, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, madam chair and i thank our expert panelists for their testimony here this morning. this congress, i've had the honor of producing and establishing the congressional smart cities caucus along with my colleague, congressman darrell isa. as co-chair of this bipartisan smart cities caucus, i know deploying brond baord band is critical. that's why i co-sponsored the connecti connecting broadband deserts of 2018. under the legislation the fcc will be tasked with reviewing the state of deploying urban broadband deserts and will be required to take action to help speed deployment if it is not occurring at a reasonable pace. so, ms. katz, what types of issues -- we heard a little bit about this when the question was asked, i believe it was by ms. eschew. what issues do we currently allow when we assume that every part of a city is connected and what can we do to help address these issues? >> thank you for the question. it's an excel

clark, abc news new york. >> president trump took to twitter for a message on immigration. he took aim at a legal loophole exploited by drug gangs. >> this loophole is easily exploited by ms-13 operating in 40 states. in addition, many other gangs are breaking into our country routinely because our laws are weak, sad, pathetic. >> in the video the president recalled a round table in which he calleddeedded for an ending o the visa lottery. >> iranian targets wer targets d and a drone shot down in israeli territory. an israeli jet was shot down as well. both pilots ejected from the f-16 before it crashed in northern israel. one pilot was critically injured. >> a team of forensic experts is exploring a site near syria where the remains of u.s. hostages beheaded by jihadi john might be located. the prisoners are no one associates of jihadi john killed in an air strike two year ago. >> two people were injured in the motorcade crash involving justin trudeau. an suv pulled out in front of the motorcade on the way to the reagen library in valley. >> huge crowds turned up today in new orleans for the mardi gras parade. across the city, there was partying continuing until midnight tue

clark, president and c.e.o. of the national center for missing and exploited children. i ask unanimous consent to place that into the record. the chair: request will be covered under general leave. ms. jackson lee: a letter from enough is enough, unanimous consent, place it into the record. the chair: covered under general leave. ms. jackson lee: and the national anti-trafficking coalition with many, many signatures. the chair: the request will be covered under general leave. ms. jackson lee: thank you. what was it like before this legislation and simply j.s., who is documented in the film "jane doe," will tell you -- a bright young lady, 15 years old, ran on the track team here in this area and for her own enthusiasm went to seattle, washington. when she went to seattle, washington, it would have been nice if a kind soul had found her, but that was not the case. within 15 days she met a man twice her age who seduced her with gifts and convinced her to stay with him. once she trusted the 32-year-old he quickly turned on her and raped her and he would post explicit pictures of her in an ad on backpage.com, and she was forced to continue to have sex for money. one would think there w