>> supervisor peskin: there is widespread agreement on this, we heard from public, public appeal shall mean request for payment when such request is made by television, billboard, public message on, online platform, the addition of 200 or more printed material, e-mail to 200 more or recipients or speech to 20 or more individuals. and in subsection b, is a non-substantial issue with regard to where at the behest of city elected officer sits within that subsection b and there is a subsection 4 added exception for public appeals, no committee shall be required to make disclosures for any contribution if the contribution was made solely in response to to public appeal. i would like to move amendment number 2. >> president breed: supervisor peskin has made a motion to amend according to his amendment item number 2. is there a second? seconded by supervisor tang. safai? >> supervisor safai: point of clarification. so on page 6 of your amendment, says disclosure requirements for contributions to ballot measure committee and committees on ie is it the intent of what you're asking here that the

months and this section shall not prohibit any solicitations or requests made solely through a public appeal. i will repeat that mayor disclosure, and mayor disclosure of an amount which is a tremendous amount of money for a donation has the promise of no effect whatsoever for members of the public. and i will reiterate that the only people who will note that disclosure besides those making it 10,000 or more will be political junkies, campaign managers, administrative assistants in campaigns and maybe, maybe, the media. which there is less and less of in san francisco. entities are given almost $1 billion out of the city budget in the fiscal year 2017-2018 and has been noted in public testimony before this commission a great percentage of those recipients do not render direct services to beneficiaries but -- may render direct services to beneficiaries in the city and county of san francisco and elsewhere, as a matter of fact. anyway, that's the reason for the amendment which is consistent with what we started with in 2017, namely the restoration of the so-called proposition j from the year 2

in term of amendment number two, the public appeal, that is i think a fine amendment to make. i don't think we want to harm any smaller organizations that circula circulate a smaller number of materials to the public. regarding donors, if commissioner chu's amendment doesn't pass i support supervisor peskin's amendment and i appreciate the amendment to your current version. amendment four regarding disclaimers. this is where i spoke about state law and guidance with the 80249. i'm not sure if all of us are aware in terms of state law what is required and have you television ads you need to display a black box that displays a third of the television screen. first, i think disclosure's important but i want you to imagine an add way black box with all the disclosure information taking up a third of a television screen. i do appreciate the change so the disclosure is at the end versus the beginning. thank you for that change one additional thing with the black box and for ads 60 seconds or less it would show for 10 seconds and in the amendment it just says 10 seconds across the boa

we'll open up to public comment for those in support of the appeal. if you're here to provide public comment in support of the appeal, now is your time to speak. you will have up to two minutes. if anyone else is interested in speaking, please line up to your right. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is pat. i was born here. my dad was a steel worker. he lived in apartments, it wasn't great housing but i could live here. in 84 when i got married to my wife, we took every penny and we could buy a house barely today, my kids can't afford to buy or rent in the city. what did we do that we priced our children? it's a form of weird cannibalism that we're taking affordable housing, tearing it down and building the biggest thing you can imagine, 5, 6 bedrooms, 3, 4 studios, makes no sense. why are we taking affordable housing and tearing it down? the most affordable we have is this. i'm a neighbor, live on diamond street, next block over. i did all the permit research. found the original permit saying there is a unit there. there is a unit there. it is s

we support supervisor peskin's public appeal commission to allow smaller organizations to benefit and support supervisor peskin's to the repeated recusal provisions which will make it easier for all commissioners to appropria appropriately recuse themselves when they face conflict of interest and support supervisor fewer's amendment to not disclose the amount under 1.126 disclosures to protect the integrity of the bidding process. within continue to oppose we continue to it creates a trap for unwary donors who just want to give to a charity. we do prefer supervisor fewer's amendment to increase the threshold to $10,000 and we would like to see a safe harbor that ensures if the public official forgets to tell the donor they're supposed to file a report with the ethics commission, the donor will not get penalties until they do get an official notice and then have another 30 days to file. we don't want to see donors punished for an unintentional non compliance. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm a north american activist and recipient of the non-housi

are there any other members of the public who'd like to speak in opposition of the appeal? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president breed: and the appellant will have up to three minutes for rebuttal. >> first, i'd like to just say that there's a lot of miss informati -- misinformation being presented here today. first off, the planning commission has previously indicated that ellis act conversions would not cause eviction. the terms eviction and tenancy have legal means and they don't apply here because miss canada had a life estate, and she had a vested ownership in that life estate, which was revoekd ked the superior court. i will say the idea that she was unrepresented at court was absolutely ludicrous. she had no less than five, and i think somewhere closer to ten lawyers that took her case and subsequently, all but one draped that cadra dropped the case after getting the facts of the case. no affidavits from her family, no bills that were presented. in fact, we have presented an exhibit h where we have prove that her meals on wheels which was star

are there any other members of the public wishing to speak in opposition of the appeal? seeing none, public comment is closed. all right. the appellant will have up to three minutes for rebuttal. >> i had a speech prepared here, but what has been said is really outrageous. first off, in terms of the plants, we had dr. michael vasey from state college come out and he discovered the plants in the first place, and then we have naturalists from rec and park who discovered them in the first place, and when esa came out to do their study, they -- they didn't find anything. we had to take them there and show them where the plants were. but that's not even the issue now. the issue is about whether this is in-fill space or not. when we were in a supervisor's office the other day, planning told us that the site is called 590. it's one single site. we were looking at it, either way, you have to look at the perimeter of the site. if it's less than 75% with the boundaries surrounded by housing or buildings, then that's considered -- it's not considered to be in-fill. if you look at it

a definition of public appeal and extends to section 3.207. and the effect of it is simple. to do what started about 15, 16 months ago at the ethics commission with this legislation. >> commissioner kopp, i'm going to ask you to pause because no members of the board of supervisors have a copy of your amendment. >> that's what i asked. >> we have a commissioner chu, but we don't have commissioner kopp. >> the only amendment i know i have from any commissioners is from commissioner chu only. and then from members of the board. >> i believe, brent, do you have those amendments in your hand? they are being distributed now, madam president. >> okay. and are there any other commission amendments that need to be distributed at this time? it will help us follow the discussion. >> yes, for the purpose of setting the table, there's also a set proposed by commissioner lee. >> i don't think we have sufficient copies. so if we can take a two-minute break in order to get the copies, that would be great. two-minute break.

what he's trying to do is play the court of public appeal particularly among his base. the court of public opinion in real courts are not always the same thing and unless there's an ig report, this is not a great fact pattern for james comey, but giving that he had the power to classify, giving the fact that memoirs are standing operating procedures for folks that draw on their personal experiences and memories, it is far from clear that the president has a legal argument as much as he's trying to appeal to the base with a new narrative. >> comey, plenty of things to criticize him for, but in this instance, he's transparent about what he was trying to do. he's trying to get an independent counsel named because of how tainted he thought the justice department was at the highest levels and there's plenty of evidence for that in the book including the fact that jeff sessions is attorney general didn't protect the fbi director at all from a meddling president, and so he knew that if he could leave a trail here it would lead to an independent counsel. by the way, you have rod

are there any other members of the public who'd like to speak in support of the appeal, now is your time. seeing none, public comments is closed. [ gavel ]. >> president breed: and now, we will have up to ten minutes for presentation from our city departments, the department of public works and the planning department. >> good afternoon. bruce stores, city and county surveyor. i'll keep this brief so we can turn it over to the planning department. this is a six unit condominium that we received the application in september of 2017, and it was disapproved by the planning department on march 19, 2018, and we sent out -- we terminated the project, sent out a notice of disapproval on the 28th of march after we received the determination from the planning department. >> president breed: do you want to say specifically why other than the receiving the information from the planning department? >> that's the process. >> president breed: okay. >> if planning rejects it -- >> president breed: got it. >> -- it's the end. >> president breed: mr. starr? >> thank you, president breed. i'm joined here

appeal number san francisco public works bureau of street use and mapping, respondent 2990 24th street. appealing the issuance on december 29, 2017, to red table management dba "son's addition," of a sidewalk table and chairs permit (for five tables and ten chairs occupying approximately 224sf in the public right-of-way at the subject property on sunday through saturday between the hours of 11am and 10:00 p.m. you have seven minutes to present your case. >> thank you. i'm the founder and current president of the latino cultural district. we're asking to hold up the organization. it was designated as a latino cultural district in collaboration with mayor ed lee and the san francisco heritage. we have been active since the late '90s and designated as the latino cultural district by the state of california. the goals forms by the communities to enhance the community from continued displacement and gentrification and communities of color continue to call the l.c.d. home and the average latino family of four runs from $35,000 to $38,000 a year. we're working towards create brand of a latino

i just wrote an op-ed carried by , number of publications appealing to the president and the incoming secretary of state. i met with secretary tillerson but we could not get him to say, let's do it. it is congressionally mandated. i hope the critical position will be filled and filled quickly. hr 390, the iraq and syria genocide emergency accountability act, which i worked on it for four years, christians were not getting any help from the previous administration despite promises to look at it. i met a number of the christians over there and i know the vice president and the head of u.s. aid, looking at this. those people need help. ofit wasn't for the knights columbus and others providing $60 million of private aid, we would have dead children and very sick adults and elderly, the christians who escaped isis. needs to pass.n it also has an accountability piece so that we can bring charges with fact against those that have committed these crimes. i just looked at some recent, compelling testimony about anti-semitism and anti-americanism contained in textbooks. we are going to do a hea

they are appealing to the public and the governor and asking him to deny parole. they were friendly to everyone. >> reporter: she is talking about her three nieces. the three sisters were found dead in their daly city home on march -- in march 1998. their mother megan hogue was convicted of killing them. >> the payment we feel. the pain that we felt 20 years ago. the payment we carry with us. these 20 years this pain is unimaginable. >> reporter: earlier this month she was eligible for parole. the family is fighting to keep her behind bars. they say what she did to her children was premeditated and vicious. >> she taped their mouths, hands and feet. she smothered them one by one i one. >> reporter: at the time of the trial in 1999, her defense attorney said she was taking drug including prozac for depression. she may have had a psychotic episode. relatives say she also suffered a head injury before the killings. she received 25 years to life. so far she has served about 20 years. >> we thought she would never get out again. now she is out. that is a wrong. we are

the appellant appealed saying the commission decision was improper due to its failure to fully consider the facts of the case and the applicable law. the during public comment, there was only one speaker in favor of the appeal but his comments were not really relevant to the case at hand, there were about 20 speaker nz opposition to the appeal, including the relatives of i kiss canada, the woman who had been removed from -- iris canada, the woman who had been removed from her unit. supervisor tang expressed frustration on the he said, she said nature of the case, and pointed to evidence in the court brief that cases that miss iris did not live in the unit for several years. supervisor kim asked the appellant if he had any hard evidence that miss iris did not live in the unit. the respondent r appellant responded to some court evidence as well as living next door to the miss canada. in the end the supervisors voted 10-1 to deny the appeal and uphold the deny of the condo conversion. supervisor tapping be was the one disenting vote. and then finally at this week's board hearing, our own commissioner moore was recognized by supervisor kim and presented

appeals ordinance was that it posed a threat to that independence. and if adopted it would slow down the delivery of crucial transportation projects across our city. we agree with the removal of the public petition threshold for appeal as it would consume endless hours of this body's time in hearing appeals based on -- not time -- but parking spots, you name it. we agree that the threshold number of supervisors necessary to hear an appeal should be increased to five in line with conditional use appeals. we thank the authors for considering amendments that amet strengthen the exemptions to include specific bike lane exemptions and transit projects and hopefully other vision zero projects as well. the goal of having the sfmta to be more responsive is a noble one and we want to see an appeals process that has safe and affordable housing choices so we hope that this legislation can be amended to do that. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is glen teksara and i run the largest linen and uniform company in california. i am in the dog patch area of san francisco. i would like to talk today for a moment about my experience with the m.t.a. it was a very positive experience

i want to appeal to the public and reassure them it is an isolated incident, albeit in daytime. and reassureeit in daytime. i am horrified an incident like this could happen in bangor. it is shocking. it is totally not welcomed. police say they have identified those involved. the victim has been treated in hospital. her injuries are believed to be so severe staff were unable to x—ray herface. look a ahead to what the papers will bring tomorrow shortly but first, the weather. sunday evening storms across east anglia moves the crop of warm air out of the way. the week ahead, big changes with the jet stream firing across the atlantic. making us on the colder side of the jet stream, so we are back to more typical weather. when the sun is out, nice enough, but when the showers come, it will feel rather cool. monday morning, a fresher commute. the best of the bright weather to the south and east. compensated with sunshine first thing. clouding over in the west. sunny spells continuing in the east. northern ireland will have rain. spreading to western scotland and around the irish sea. the big drop

forensic teams are carrying out investigations this morning — and police are appealing to the publiccontinuing to investigate after a car ploughed into a group of pedestrians in essex. one person remains in a critical condition in hospital, and another has potentially life—changing injuries, after the incident in canvey island yesterday afternoon. ben ando reports crash investigators at the scene, marking down the track of a car that veered off the road and struck six people on the pavementjust yards north of the seafront at ca nvey island. it is not clear what happened or why, but five of those hit were hurt, one critically, another with life—changing injuries, and a major incident was declared. three helicopters and four land ambulances were scrambled to the scene. it is quite quiet along the seafront and, yeah, i've not seen anything round here at all like this. i was quite shocked when i saw it. as soon as i saw the helicopters fly over, and i thought something has been serious. in a tweet, essex police urged people to avoid the area, but so far have not commented on suggestions

i also want to appeal to the public and reassure them, this is an isolated incident, albeit in the daytimethis is an isolated incident, albeit in the daytime. i am absolutely horrified and none that an incident can happen like this in bangor. it is completely shocking, i have never seen anything like it, it is totally not welcomed. the police say they have now identified all of those involved. the young victim has been treated in hospital. her injuries are believed to be so severe that medical staff were unable to x—ray her face. working—class students in england face significant financial barriers wherever they choose to learn, according to a report to be published tomorrow by the national union of students. it's told the bbc the current finance system is unfair, and doesn't recognise the real cost of studying. here's our education editor, branwen jeffreys. selena anderson wants a degree, but it's been really hard for the single mum. the cost of childcare in her first year was crippling. many times i've thought about giving up, on many occasions. i bought my books for myself, but other th

still in the country they don't know who they are yet they don't have any names so they are appealing for the publicto come forward with more information now he refused to be drawn into who could possibly have carried out the killing and what motive could have been behind them but he did say that it was very it was professionally carried out there refused to be drawn into who could possibly have trained these killers and it's worth remembering that his family members as well as hamas to which he belongs have blamed israeli intelligence agency mossad for the killing of florence what do we expect to happen at the mosque service for saudi elbows i beg your pardon daryn could you just repeat that question what do we expect them to happen in florence that the mosque service for saudi oil buch well this is part of the persons of taking his body back to gaza where he's going to be buried now the body has been lying at the hospital since saturday when he was gunned down because the family was waiting for approval from egyptian authorities to bring his body back to gaza by egypt they finally got that approva

case is what really leander english in fact the court heard the case this week it's on appeal where an amicus public citizen as an amicus a former public citizen attorney is leander english is. and i would say the judges ask critical questions this director has to be independent that means he or she can't take orders from the president as the o.m.b. director essentially everything that can be vetted can be overturned by the president because he can just draw him back and the judges were critical of that situation. knowledge that they weren't necessarily sympathetic to english as casey that's the person that cordray had had put in place but nor were they sympathetic that this to this is a truly independent situation there are lots of things in government don't work and it is a swamp in many regards i'll give the president that having independent financial folks like i was once your confirmed by the senate you can do and say what you want you can't be fired and i know because it does give you the freedom to say what you want even if people don't want to hear it that's also the case with great consumer

well, the police public protection branch had issued an appeal for information about these two men, theyhad also given details of a car which was seen in the south armagh area. south armagh is a particularly closely knit rural community. last night, police were called there to the village of mullaghbawn, and they found these two men tied to a bench, their hands bound with cable ties and paint poured over their heads in what was apparently a vigilante attack. a local councillor says that this incident was unfortunate but understandable, given that tensions have been running high in the area. the police say it is completely unacceptable, the two men had to be treated in hospital and they are now investigating an assault. an 18—year—old man has been arrested after four people were taken to hospital — two with potentially ‘life changing' injuries — following a collision in newport. a police cordon has been set up in the city centre — after the incident at about 5.30 this morning. a car was found burned out in a nearby street, a short time afterwards. our correspondent nicola smith has more t

well, the police public protection branch had issued an appeal for information about these two men, theypictures, they had also given details of a car which was seen in the south armagh area. south armagh is a particular closely knit rural community. last night, police were called there to the village of mullaghbawn, and they found these two men tied to a bench, their hands bound with cable ties and paint poured over their heads in what was apparently a vigilante attack. a local councillor says that this incident was unfortunate but understandable, given that tensions have been running high in the area. the police say it is completely unacceptable, the two men had to be treated in hospital and they are now investigating an assault. rohingya refugees in bangladesh have been appealing to visiting un ambassadors to help them safely return home. a delegation from the un security council is visiting refugee camps in cox's bazar, home to nearly 700,000 rohingyas, who've fled violence in myanmar. their tour comes amid warnings that the coming monsoon season could worsen conditions in the camps.

they are appealing to the public and the governor and asking him to deny parole.y were friendly to everyone. >> reporter: she is talking about her three nieces. the three sisters were found dead in their daly city home on marc

public life. i served on the board appeals. i then became a member of the san francisco public utilities commission where i served for 6 years. after the public utilities commission i served as member of the san francisco police commission and then the san francisco fire commission apoipointed by mayor n newsom. i'm on the retirement board and manage the pension fund. i served on this board since 2010, appointed by mayor newsom and later mayor ed lee. in my personal life i'm a real estate broker. i have a small really estate office where i prosi proside -- provide sales and property management. i have a wife of 19 years, i have a son 17 and i have a son 16 and i have a daughter who is 14 who thinks that she's older than her two brothers. i have son who is also 32 and will make me a grandfather this year. the san francisco port is a very valuable asset planning a 7 and a half mile water front piece of real estate. actually, neglected over the years particularly due to its transition from maritime use to developments and recreatio

police are appealing for information from the public a man has died, and a woman is in a critical conditionere in, collided with a car during a police pursuit, on the outskirts of stoke—on—trent. the pair were being followed by officers on the a50 near longton after their vehicle failed to stop. they collided with a car on the eastbound carriageway at around 6.15 this morning. staffordshire police have referred the incident to the independent office for police conduct, which is routine when somebody dies during an operation. two teenagers have been arrested after five people were struck by a car in essex yesterday afternoon. three people remain in hospital following the incident in canvey island. a 17—year—old boy and an 18—year—old man, both from the area , are being questioned by essex police this afternoon, on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. the founder and chief executive of the world's largest advertising group wpp, sir martin sorrell, has resigned — less than a fortnight after it announced he was being investigated for misconduct. he leaves wpp after 33 years

department of building inspection, of which we have representatives, the access appeals, small business community, sf public. we had so many people involved in crafting what i thought was the most comprehensive legislation around accessibility in the nation back in 2015. since passing the legislation, we've actually amended already one time to extend the time line for compliance. and the program was modelled off the seismic safety program and has three components. one is that places of public accommodation must submit a checklist identifying where they may have accessibility issues or not. secondly, they must obtain building permit and thirdly -- sorry, secondly file for a building permit and thirdly obtain the building permit. all of this was in an attempt to make sure our businesses are available to people who have disabilities, who need accessible entrances as is required by law under state and federal law. and also, it was in response to many of the litigation that came about throughout the state of california, around what we're calling drive-by lawsuits, where people are going around literally to build

police are appealing for information from the public.y island yesterday had been stolen. two teenagers have been arrested. in australia, hundreds have fled their homes as a large bushfire threatens the outskirts of sydney. more than 500 firefighters, with support from aircraft, have been tackling the blaze. police say the fire may have been started deliberately, though south—eastern australia has seen unseasonably hot autumn weather that's turned bushland into a tinderbox. a service has been held in salisbury this afternoon with the purpose of symbolically reclaiming the city for the common good, after the nerve agent attack last month. the bishop of salisbury, nick holtam, hosted the "service of cleansing and celebration" at st thomas's church, close to where sergei skripal and his daughter were found. well, it's a service in which we want to thank the community that have really carried salisbury through this. and to have an opportunity to gather together and to reclaim the city, and so this has got a number of functions, but it's about

police are appealing for information from the public hundreds of firefighters in australia are tacklinghomes in the city's southern suburbs after unseasonably hot weather in recent days. police say the fire may have been started deliberately. from sydney, phil mercer reports. strong winds have pushed the flames toward suburban streets, about 35 kilometres from the centre of sydney. as the blaze approached, many residents left, while others stayed to join a huge firefighting effort. authorities said the fast—moving outbreak was aggressive and unpredictable. while 500 firefighters confronted the inferno on the ground, they were supported in the skies by more than a dozen aircraft. very warm autumn weather and a lack of rain have turned bushland on sydney's outer fringes into a tinderbox. we have to deal with the worst that mother nature can throw at us. and the worse australians are presented with by nature, the better it brings up the australian spirit. conditions in the fire zone are reported to be easing. but crews will again be working through the night to try to contain the blaze. so

. >> sometimes the oral arguments and the weeds and the terminology doesn't appeal to the public. in a case like this we're talking about statements the president of the united states made when he was a candidate, in his official documents as the president and in his tweets, the public will probably find the oral argument interesting. the challengers say that the president has manifested a clear and unmistakable bias against muslims and his decision is based on that bias and the first amendment, which requires total neutrality in matters of religion makes this unconstitutional. the government says the congress has given the president the ability to suspend immigration from any country that he finds where the persons coming into the country are more likely than not to be dangerous and the president is exercising that authority. those are the two arguments right there. >> so where is the intersection of religion? you're looking at venezuela. you're looking at other countries that are not mostly muslim. >> correct. here's what hawaii -- the state of hawaii is the lead plaintiff. the

this is a way for his lawyers to appeal to the president as they have done in public comments before the gag order was issued. appeal to the president about the scope of this investigation. try to convince the president that ultimately their client deserve as a parten. >> because you know this would upset the president. >> yes, that's exactly right. i think his lawyers know, if you look at the weight of the evidence in the manafort case, it is damning. we found out last week in negotiations with rick gates, bob mueller's team made clear they didn't even need rick gate's testimony to convict manafort. they have a very serious, very strong case against mannaed for. so manafort doesn't have a lot of legal options. his legal options are basically to at some point cooperate and meet guilty and turn against the president or others in the president's orbit. or hope for a pardon or hope the president somehow closes down this entire investigation. >> flip, pardon, go to jail. those are not great options. all right, thanks so much. coming up, markets set to open in just a few moments. after mon

police are appealing for information from the public a man has died, and a woman is in a critical condition with a car, during a police pursuit on the outskirts of stoke—on—trent. the pair were being followed by officers on the a50, near longton, after their vehicle failed to stop. they collided with a car on the eastbound carriageway at around 6:15 this morning. staffordshire police have referred the incident to the independent office for police conduct, which is routine when somebody dies during an operation. a bushfire is burning out of control near sydney — with the flames now threatening some streets around 20 miles from the city centre. hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes, and australian police say they suspect the blaze may have been started deliberately. phil mercer reports. strong winds have pushed the flames towards suburban streets, about 35 kilometres from the centre of sydney. as the blaze approached, many residents left, while others stayed to join a huge firefighting effort. authorities said the fast—moving outbreak was aggressive and unpredictable. while