if your initial request is made orally, the employer is required to tell the employee that the request must be made in writing. the employer may, deny the request, and the legislation does mention but not limit what good faith business reasons are. and they include things like cost and impact on the ability to serve the customers insufficient work, to respond to the request that is being made. and if the request is denied, the employer does have to provide in writing that reason. an employee who is denied has the right to request a rehearing of that and if that request is made, then a meeting must be held within a certain period of time and if the employer must again state and bases state in writing, if the request is denied. >> there is an enforcement element of this, but as the supervisor indicated the scope of enforcement is less than it was in the original legislation, it is empowered to investigate the potential violations and impose the penalties, they may not find a violation on the basis of the good faith business reason, but only on whether an employee fails to comply with eit

>> sure, what we said was that you can make a requests and you can make at least two requests during the year and the idea around the two is that we know that a lot of parents deal with the school time and schedules and have to deal with a different summer schedules and so we want to give them the opportunity to make those shifts. and the major life event, is defined in the ordinance, so again, if you have a child, if someone in your family goes sick, that could be a opportunity for you to go to your employer and say hey, i know that four months ago we asked for a schedule based on the school situation of our kids, but my dad just moved in with us and he is dying of cancer and we have to be able to take care of him. >> that was the rationale behind the numbers but again, open to feedback. >> i was just kind of trying to visualize the myriad of justified reasons for somebody requesting. >> i see. >> changing the schedule. >> i thought, okay, we have a major life event, which i understand is a birth or someone dying. and then i am just thinking, okay, outside of that, could you give me

we'll start with the requester. you have three minutes. >> good evening, president hwang and members of the commission. i'm susan rembrandt es -- i would like to request a continuance. there was a 3-2 vote on the appeal when we were last here. we have a substantial new information and believe it's very important to have a full board here which we believe we respectfully request at this time. there are members of the neighborhood who are here today to testify and we would ask they be allowed to present testimony but the appellant could defer until commissioner hurtado can be here. should i proceed with the rest of my time or do i have a response about that? >> have you spoken to the permit holder? >> no. i just found out. >> your request for continuance is raised for the first time and the responder should have an opportunity to respond. >> thank you. on behalf of the permit holder. we don't believe there is any cause for a rehearing and certainly no cause to rehear this matter. we would object. thank you. >> the boa

interview requests with u.s. attorney's office breakdown, april 10th, 2013, letter also indicated mr. jones's failure to act on management issues was another area of questions to be covered in the staffing to the. interview requests on operation fearless on april 10th, 2013, letter indicating that the bosh operation fearless in milwaukee was another area of questions to be covered in the staff interview. six document request, on may 10th, 2013, i send mr. jones power request for the office of professional responsibility and security operations report on the botched milwaukee storefront operation. what has been the reply to all these requests? on june 4th, 2013, two months after my request for many of these items, i received a letter from the department of justice stating in part mr. jones looks forward to answering your questions about these matters during this nomination hearing before the senate judiciary committee. i regret that the chairman has allowed the department of justice to dictate to us how our oversi

as noted earlier in this hearing commissioners we received an e-mail request from the dr requester and they have a family emergency requesting a continuance to the he said of august. >> sorry about that the absence of alicia lamp and due to the emergency in name matters and we're trying to request the the contingency - continuance of the case. commissioner moore >> there is no end of august date it would then have to slip into september because the end of august is the time we're not available so you will have to identify a possible date. >> we could put it at the last hearing in august or a later date. >> why don't we have a little bit more discussion. >> yeah. i would assume the project sponsor is here and not in favor of the continuance. >> could you come and give a statement. >> if there are some place here to speak with the dr points. go ahead sir, >> just on the matter of continuance. >> i'm the architect for the project. regarding the continuance we just heard about this yesterday. we don't know why their requesting that. we've been very flexible in granting the questioning requ

and the experiences in other countries the have not been requests are granted if the request is denied there's an opportunity for the employer to think about the request. by simply asking for this flexible arrangements the employer shall not discriminate. now our office of labor enforcement would be in charge of enforcing this rule and the permissions states they can't have a specific appeal if there is a bitter employee they can't request the o s e to have a meeting it's in their discretion to follow up. it would be limited to making sure there's a request that goes through the process of the conversation with the employer other than discretion and there's a statute violation penalty. i want to say since we've introduced this we've made a lot of amendments and colleagues identify circulated to you a summary of many arrangements and there's the predictability ability. we initially had some requests about being able to know when the employees are supposed to show up at work we heard that employees were he needing to have some certainty to go to the doctor's appointment and frankly the p

adams gave me, i would have the opportunity under this legislation to request a meeting. that is it. that is what we are talking about. now, when employers have granted employees a more flexible working arrangement, there are good things that come out from that. as you can imagine the employees who receive these arrangements they are happier employees and they are more productive employees and more satisfied employees and more loyal employees. and what hr studies have shown in these sorts of arrangements the number of absentee rates go down and the turnover rates go down. and studies have shown that this actually positively impacts the bottom line of companies and i have a fact sheet, that lays out a summary of all of the studies by hr professionals in the united states and beyond of the positive economic impact of what we are talking about here. and now, i also want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank the many san francisco businesses that already have workplace policies of the type that i am talking about, many business leaders and my conversations in the last cou

not the unanimous consent request itself, but the remarks that follow the unanimous consent requests are in the nature of a debate. mr. watt: mr. speaker, i object o that ruling. and ask the speaker to reverse t. the speaker pro tempore: rule pending at the time, there's nothing for the gentleman to object to. mr. watt: i move that the time of the two previous speakers who asked unanimous consent not be charged to the time of the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's motion is not in order. there's no motion of such sort appropriate at this moment. mr. watt: i ask unanimous consent to restore the time to mr. mcgovern. the speaker pro tempore: there's an objection to the gentleman's unanimous consent request. mr. sessions: i am not yielding for that purpose. >> regular order! >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. the gentlelady -- >> mr. speaker, i move to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have.

the request were filed on may 29, 2013. the first permit is demolition of one story single family dwelling and project 2, permit construction of four story building with four dwelling units. looks look -- like this were issued in 2013. >> yeah. both in 2013. >> >> sorry for the delay. my name is tom church and along with my dear friend, marolyn allen. thank you for considering our request for reopening the permits for demolition and construction at 353 san jose avenue. the house we have rented for 24 years. a letter from the central permit bureau was sent to us around the time it was signed. the board of appeals posted. we honestly believed that we did not need to respond to this letter signed in the manner prescribed in order to strengthen our case for gaining a fair and realistic timeframe given our individual and special needs of a one year eviction notice, a time frame by the way that has always been promised to buy our landlord adil shaikh. by not responding to this notice, -- who in the past had successfully assisted

and so, i don't know. >> for the record, what is the time requirement for the request? >> the business day the following day. >> thank you. >> >> i appreciate that. >> i said that i will ask you the same question when or after you have presented unless you want to incorporate it. >> you can have it. >> i think that we have it. >> thank you. >> may i answer the question, because it is right here in your packet. >> you may incorporate it in your comments or answer it afterwards, it is up to you. >> all right. >> may i answer the question she asked it, it is right here in the packet. >> well, it is your turn to present. >> i don't want to spend my time on this issue. >> then i will ask you at the end. >> right now as the chair said your time is running now. >> mr. warfield. >> we are going to hear from the complainant now. >> that will be you. >> thank you for calling me madam chair. as a said in the public comment, i think that this is an out rage that you are doing here now with respect to your procedures. this is, this procedure is being won as though i personally compl

if the request is denied the employer must explain the basis in writing and the employee who's request is denied can have that reconsidered and if reiterated that has to be explained. the city's office of labors enforcement establishes rules and composed penalties and the o e.c. may not find the business only if the employer failed to apply or violates the employees rights. the economic impact unfortunately, the last survey happened about 10 years ago but it showed about thirty percent of the employees across the country i would agree it's probably a higher number in san francisco. the reason those volunteer arrangements have been worked out the reason because the benefits to the employee anti weigh the employer. and that includes a higher work production and people not he leaving because they have something that better meets their schedule and the recruiting costs >> can you explain brown were there data comes from. >> the data around the productivity. >> just what this actually doesn't where is the data come from. >> some are alluded to in the supervision presentation that have looke

, can deny such a request as long as there is a valid business reason and we defined that. and it could be that there is any increase to the bottom line of a company. it could be that there may not be a shift available. >> customer demand may not be able to be met and there may be not enough work at the time that is requested. and we specifically exempted in the first version of this legislation, any small business that had less than 10 employees. and then, as part of the legislation, we wanted to make sure that if there was retaliation around these and if there is discrimination based on the fact that someone was a care giver, that there be protects for the employees, and as we do with other local employment and labor ordinances, this is an ordinance that will be enforced by our office of labor standards enforcement. now this idea came to my office, because it has been very successfully carried out in other countries, so it can go to england or ireland or new zealand, the right to request was put into place a number of years ago and it has been extremely successful. and so

. >> the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers that they will not go off. and the boards rules of presentation are as follows, appellants and permit holders have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must include their comments in the 7 or 3-minute periods, the members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board but no rebuttals, to assist the board in accurate preparation of the minutes, the members of the public who like to speak on an item are asked but not required to submit a card when you come up.. speaker cards and men's are available on the left side. they also welcome your comments and questions and there are customer forms on the left side. if you have a request for a board rehearing, speak to the staff during the break or after a meeting or call the office tomorrow morning, it is located at 1650 mission street and room 304. this meeting is broadcast live on san francisco government television, sfgov tv cable channel 78

the homes are small as the requester has requested. having a home with habitualable area of 22 hundred square feet is not akin to other, you know, large apartments that are made for families. mr. lie and mrs. lie and the two children and the father who is 80 years old are going to live in the house. i'm not sure what the record is based on the dr record of serial housing but they've had an ambition to live in the house for seven years. the intention here is to deal the horizontal position 15 feet back and the cropping where the landslide zone is much further back from the property itself. and the rock cropping does come around as the dr suggested but i think it's a little bit exaggerated there's a slope on the property. and based on earlier sketch from the requester - can i have the overhead please - so the rock cropping isn't as represented there's more room between the back of the property. the project is not - i don't believe it's the taught u tallest house on the block it's a little bit less. this is the vertical edition here and t

and so, i don't know. >> for the record, what is the time requirement for the request? >> the business day the following day.

to determine are legally valid, we them.d to when we receive general requests what requests we feel are not valid legal requests, we push back on those. think it's fair to say that we -- as has been reported in wikileaks, we ke ould spend time and energy and money to defend our user's rights to be informed about the information that's being requested about them. that's -- that's how i would answer that question and that's say about it.ly digital first media. to got a question relating how journalists use twitter. of 2,000 a limit accounts that somebody can follow unless they've got a followers.ber of we have multiple journalists in clearly aretion who sing twitter in a nonspammy, engaging with the community kind of way who have maybe -- they the 2,000 ceiling and maybe hey've got 1600 followers and they're cut off in flowing people and engaging with your community and your public -- customer service have been unhelpful on this. that seems like an easy thing twitter to solve if twitter wants to be valuable for news organizations. >> yes. here are actually a range of related capabilit

are unable to accommodate the request. we have made a number of amendments at the request of various stake holders including city agency and working families and the business community and i want to thank the public for their tremendous feedback on this measure. colleagues. at this time i would like to note supervisor yee on his sponsor ship on this item which did not indicate on the agenda. we have a clean copy of the legislation for us to hopefully move. what i would like to do because there is still some conversations going on with the stake holders and mayor's office and colleagues about this if we can move this with full recommendation, not for today, but -- on july 30th to have a full conversation. what i suggested is we move this out of committee, not for today's consideration but for consideration of the board from a week from today to allow for additional conversations we are having on this measure. i know we've had quite a public of public comment this week and hopefully we can move this out relatively quickly. >

i request a rec vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18 further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will report. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. schiff of california, after the dollar amount insert increase by $28 million. page 28 line 10 insert reduce by $28 million. mr. schiff: i offer this amendment along with my colleague, representative woodall of georgia, and my colleague, representative polis of colorado. it would increase funding for the advanced research project for energy, arpa-e. the bill provides only $50 million of arpa-e, a reduction of 81% from fiscal year 2013. moreover the bill would reduce arpa-e by 87% compared to the 2014 budget requests. this amendment would increase the fund big $20 million, would increase offset by a reduction in the department of administration account. this is a very modest investment fo

>> therewise a request from the public. >> we should hear the request from the public. okay. >> thanks commissioners. this is from martin yale our attorney and this matter. and he reads dear commissioners, i write as an attorney and the wider neighborhood have been trying to get the planninging department to give due considerations to the concerns that the community has raised about this project. and i contacted don lewis of the planning department staff and advised him that i have not received notice of the con ans on this. >> and because i will be out of state that day, i cannot attend. i will request a continuance so that my client can have the benefit of full representation. he will inform me and pass the letter on to you and i request that this hearing be delayed for the reasonable time so that i may attend and i would like to call the attention to the failure of the staff to respond to and in many instances to reply to the concerns raised by muna and the other members of the impacted community. in fact the most instances that the planning department staff have act

adams gave me, i would have the opportunity under this legislation to request a meeting. that is it. that is what we are talking about. now, when employers have granted employees a more flexible working arrangement, there are good things that come out from that. as you can imagine the employees who receive these arrangements they are happier employees and they are more productive employees and more satisfied employees and more loyal employees. and what hr studies have shown in these sorts of arrangements the number of absentee rates go down and the turnover rates go down. and studies have shown that this actually positively impacts the bottom line of companies and i have a fact