. >> vice president neumann here. >> commissioner alexander-tut here. >> commissioner meng here. >> commissioner shaddix and commissioner williams is excused we have a quorum and next we have a quorum and next land unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. territory. territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> okay. thank you. >> next for any members of the public maybe listening in public maybe listening in the public public public public public code: 2663 240 9391. to raise your hand for public comment on a specific agenda item press *3 when prompted by the meeting moderator. okay. next item next item >> 2. approval of minutes: discussion and

and vice president neumann thank you, the motion carries unanimously. and item 5. >> 5a. director's report: director's update [director o'riordan]. >> commission i'm director o'riordan and as this is our initial meeting of 2025 how we plan to further improve the services this year. >> first, i want recognize that 2024 starred with the biggest changes at dbi and the partners to the process in the years including requiring planning department approval before filing a building permit. >> we imagining to check the check in tandem with other departments and mandating electronic plan review for the in house review projects, and enabling simultaneous reviews by all city departments, creating a single comprehensive web pages for the documents and information needed to obtain the building permit and have a timeline. and that was just what we launched in january of 2024 we continued to make improvements to make it easier to build in san francisco including reorganizing the services division and hiring new permit services supervisors. hire a new director for services and creating a

james park is owned by a group with connections to we work cofounder adam neumann and his new real estateled flow. if approved, it would be the second office-to-home conversion in the city's downtown joining the historic bank of italy building at first and santa clara. the bid to convert to housing comes at a pivotal moment with office vacancies at a 20-year high. >> it makes the park safer with more eyes on the park coming and going. >> reporter: as for glenn and the sandwich shop, they're hopeful and a little concerned about what the changeover could mean for business. >> i've heard rumors they're going to change over to apartments. they're going to let us know. every month i get an email where's the rent. that's all i ask. >> reporter: he has seven years left on his lease and plans to stay here at least that long. >>> it was another day of mild temperatures at least by january standards with most of us in the 60s, upper 50s along the coast, but a return to near normal january temperatures is in store. any near normal january rainfall? we'll answer that coming up in the first alert fore

neumann, who's asking me to keep his bio short. it's quite impressive.laughter] he's formerly a deputy assistant secretary of state. he served three times as a u.s. ambassador. he was in algeria and bahrain, and then was in afghanistan from july 2005 to april 2007. i will say, if you've ever worked on afghanistan, if you continue to care about this country, you know ambassador neumann. he continues to stay engaged, and we're very grateful for your service. he's a career member of the senior foreign service, served in baghdad as well with the coalition provisional authority. you really want me to shorten this, i can tell. [laughter] all right. well, i think one thing that's fitting in your bio is that you also served as an infantry officer in vietnam, and it was your experience of the war in vietnam and afghanistan that compelled us to bring you here today. you're very thoughtful on these topics. so thank you for joining us, ambassador. i would like to recognize dr. alexis albion, who has been a very generous and sage advisor to our commission since the v

but what we got and a lot the pioneers, john von neumann on the american side was, hungarian-americanathematician and, in fact, the architecture of our computers is is erroneously named after him. it really turing came up with it, but he acknowledged that. and and he appears to have always felt that we would find better ways to compute that. this was just a temporary thing we've been doing it for a while until we got better materials and better ideas. and he would be astonished to find up to now, up to quite seeing we haven't we're still doing it the way we did and actually the properties computers. i think one of the reasons i wanted to get inside is what are the properties of computing that actually transfer into the world and they do they really do inform the way we do things the the fundamental structure, the computer both and enables us in ways that most of the time we're not aware of. and one of the things i want to do with this book was try and get in and sit through those and you know what what we like about that and what do we not like about that? and how can we mediate the t

well, first of all, it's got be adam neumann, right. the founder of we work because he looks the most like doesn't he and by the way that is how you get soft billions like you have the more you look and seem like whatever jesus should be to the founders of softbank the more billions shall get. and is that not accurate? it seems accurate. all right. so, so but really the answer then would it depends. jesus, you're talking about. okay, because what there's a couple billion christians the world. right. but they don't all have same definition of jesus. they don't all have the same vision of jesus. they certainly don't have the whole the all same theology of jesus. right. some people you may have noticed from previous remarks a minute ago that i am not a christian, but, you know, some people are christian in ways that really terrify me and make me angry. but some people are christian ways that inspire me and, make me want to be a better human myself. and some people are kind of in between, which is where a lot of us are. i and so, you know,

neumann: that is a. as you drive and then he lined one year is summer lending on an auto von bismarck's comment that the two things people should never see is making a policy or a sausage because they are disgusting. a lot of different influences come to bear on policy decisions. extracting responsibility will be very different. will be very different. ultimately you need to look very closely at not just decisions presidents made, but asked. there are some problems in our structure. we don't have a way of having one person responsible on the ground. when i am talking to clients sometimes we are the first place where the responsibility for action on the ground comes together. that is the president of the united states. there is no earlier place where the lines of communication process. we have actually mentioned that in my writtenthe lines of commun process. we have actually mentioned that in my written testimony. an experience where we did have a unified chain of command a lower down in the courts. the q

was arrested just a week ago, and evan neumann, who is charged with assaulting officers, is currently in belarus. on the phone with abc seven news last night, he says he regrets being at the capitol on january 6th and is not yet sure what his next legal steps are. local lawmakers who investigated the attack are sharing shock and disgust. east bay representative eric swalwell compared trump to the joker. south bay representative zoe lofgren said, quote, that trump's january 6th pardons extend to some of the worst, most violent criminals that day is truly horrible. lofgren was one of the people from the committee that investigated the january 6th riot that now former president biden issued a preemptive pardon to. yesterday morning, biden said he did this so the trump administration could not target them. reggie. gloria. >> thank you. if you're watching yesterday, then you saw something that we haven't really seen at an inauguration. the tech world on display. right on the stage. we saw people like mark zuckerberg from meta, sundar pichai from alphabet, apple's tim cook, amazon founder j