further on our discretionary review calendar commissioners we have a request from the dr requester for the case 13 d and v on 21st street for discretionary review and germany would voices you to take up the matter, however, the opposing council is here to speak to the matter are before you now. okay. thank you. i would suggest we take up the question of the continuous separately >> there are two speaker cards. >> public comment on matter for continuance. i believe this is aaron. my name is sue hester this is for the disclosing heights area the major part of the house is in the various calendar but there's surveillance in the dir it's been a confusion for me per one is the list there's no mailing to the dr requester his attorney and the adjacent property owner that's a matter of contentious. i got the notice my client again get the notice. aaron is the dr requester and angling angus neither of them got mailed notice. when i got the nail r mail notice and the other people the police put on the thing. the cross street is diamond street because this is my old neighborhood i know it's anoth

the people, more request to handle. and although many agencies are able to increase the number of requests a process to meet the incoming command the second thing that's been happening is that the requests are more complex than they were before. and i think in some ways as agencies post more information online, what comes in as request intends to be a more complicated matter. so putting those two things together, in my opinion the best way, or one of the best ways we would have to really actually tackle that is the topic of this their hearing, tech don't you. i am very hopeful that the more advanced, sophisticated technology tools that can actually help agencies search for records and duplicate records and sort records, all the things that many times are done manually, if they can be automated to increase, to time and is that that in turn will allow the agency to get back to the requesters in a fast way. so that to me is the best approach we have to that issue. >> how long will that take the? >> as i said in my opening

so we will start with the requester. who has 9 minute to present >> one second before we get started i did watch the videotapes so i can hear this. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen thank you once again for hearing me a second time. my name is dennis martinez i'm the president of the hoa at the metropolitan adjacent from the fremont project. i'd like to start off with a story on january 28, 1926, the space challenger one minute after launch explode and we now know prior to that launch there was information that was known about a shuttle that should have been a warning sign a sufficient warning sign to tell management not to launch that day and as a result management decided to launch and 7 astronauts were lost. the moral to that story is the pressures that nasa management felt that day were felt by financial pressures they had 26 launches successful and political pressure because president reagan was going to have a press convention and close to 15 to 20 percent of america was watching it was a teacher day. prior to

okay >> move to deny the rehearing requests. >> thank you, mr. pa check. >> we have a motion from commissioner fung to deny all 3 of the requests on that motion and commissioner fung president lazarus. commissioner honda. thank you. the vote is 5 to zero and the hearing requests are denied and notice shall be released. item 4 c it's another rehearing request between thomas more drive and lake merced boulevard we got a letter requesting a letter decided ton february 19, 2014, at that time the board voted to uphold the permit it was properly issued and to recalculate the permit the permit holder is a special traffic permit authorizing the deparch for the tree removal between january 30th, 2014. you have to comments >> i did also watch the video on sfgovtv. >> good evening, commissioners thank you once again for allowing me julian and the coalition of park merced to bring more information to light when we believe are grounds for a rehearing requester. we've discovered that the park merced eir which was alexander agreed by the city we're talking abou

speaker, we've offered unanimous consent request after unanimous consent request which the gentleman from utah has not agreed to one of those and, mr. speaker, others, you've read his mind and assume he hasn't agreed although we haven't heard from him on each of those. we filed the discharge petition. i hope that soon has 218 votes, but very soon, mr. speaker, there will actually be a vote right here in this body on the previous question. and if we defeat that motion on the previous question, we will bring forward h.r. 15, the bipartisan immigration reform bill, similar version passed the senate with more than 2/3 support, and i am optimistic that bill will pass the house today. let's have some debate on immigration reform. rather than working 9 1/2 hours this week, the american people want to see a congress that tackles problems and work towards solution. they want to see a congress that creates jobs for americans, make sure we have workplace enforcement of immigration laws, secure borders. it doesn't happen by itself. absent this body taking action, the hole in our border security

what changed in your request? >> today i filed a lawsuit against the nsa, fbi, and cia due to their failure to comply with the freedom of information act. they're in violation of federal law. i am suing them to hold them accountable to federal law. what changes they failed to comply with the law, so i am suing to hold them accountable. how do we get around it. that is a great question and a tough one. the nsa has a very difficult nut to crack as far as foia is concerned. not only does the nsa invoke national defense here as well as the espionage act, he also of 1959,e nsa act though the act was passed years before the freedom of information act was passed, the nsa has succeeded in convincing the courts that the nsa act of 1959 exams the nsa entirely from the obligation to foia. so the only time the nsa complies with the freedom of information act is when it wants to, which is when the release of records would make the nsa look therefore, the ap report found the nsa failed to comply with the were denied foia reques

that puts you under 11 a and d at the 36 street a request for a discretionary review and a request for variances >> good afternoon, commissioners michael smith with planning commission staff you have a request for a discretionary review at 660021st street between church and sanchez within the delores heights neighborhood. the property contains 4 existing structures a single-family residence located on the west side and a green structure located to the east of the residence that's connected by a breezeway to remove the two structures at the front and reconstruct a grammar. the primary structure will be replaced and there's a minimal increase on the west side of the building and there's an addition to the front of the building towards the street. the promise has been determined by the department at an mount to demolition but it has a value greater than the land structure use for a single-family dwelling. it requires variances from the planning code for set back and pursuant to sections one hundred 32, 34 of the planning code. the dr is requested by the neighborhood to the west on twithd

we get the components budget requests and we react to that at the dhs level. we give it to omb and omb gives it to you. i think that -- there are certain respects in which dod cannot be a model for dhs, but i think we ought to start with define what our overall mission is with report to counterterrorism, border security, aviation security, maritime security. define your mission. at the dhs level, early on in the process, once you have defined the mission you figure out the resources you need to philadelphia a mission -- to fulfill a mission, and then you expect the components to meet the resource needs, paying attention to potential overlaps, gaps in efficiencies. so, i know from personal experience, if you plante department of defense to have the capability to fight two major conflicts at once around the world, that's done the joint staff level you. don't ask the army, navy, air force, marine corps to develop their own sense of what they need themselves and then you racket to that. so i think that we need to a more centralized mission focused budget process t

senator when we make treaty request the swiss government publishes the treaty request. the swiss government gives notice of the treaty request and this is something i wanted to put out earlier. while we can't speak there is something out there that may indicate whether there had been treaty request and we cannot comment on responses we get to the treaty request but what happens is if an account holder seeks to block the treaty request they are required by u.s. law to notify the attorney general that they have made that effort in a foreign country so what we usually see happen with the treaty request is they have the account holders don't try to block it and they see the treaty request and come into the voluntary disclosure program so a particular account holder actually attempted to block it and litigate it should not be interpreted as we got enough from the treaty request. >> we have gotten people coming into the office and they don't know -- let me just finish. the point is you were denied access to those names after making a treaty request by a swiss court. >> senato

the permit holder request denial of this jurisdiction request. improper notice was given and adequate time was given to apply for such appeal. the department of public works has a prosee cedure, and a standard protocol they follow, which includes posting directly on trees, but in a case where it is reasonably impractical or ineffective, the notices are hung in close proximity to the trees. i direct you to an exhibit, exhibit b, stating -- so here's the permit holder's property, the trees in question are here in this location. another close up view of our property in those trees that are called into question, the two trees here. as you can see there's a notice posted on this pole directly in front of the trees and another notice posted on this pole and department of public works notified us they posted this notice on the trees. this fence is over 6 feet tall and if you were to post on the actual trees you can see, as far as the line of sight goes, it would be behind the tree and out of view. that fence also does have some barbed wire across the to

additionally we received eight complaints for curb ramp request and 11 service request and one request for an accommodation. records have shown in the past that a decline in the number of contacts we received during the holiday season is pretty typical and we expect a significant increase within the next coming months. the manuality of our complaints was about non-compliant barricades, damaged curb ramps and damaged sidewalks. other complaints included power door maintenance here at city hall, service issues with sf mta and elevator maintenance at sro's. most were inquiries about people seeking information about affordable and accessible housing and service for animal information and how to request for housing. many of those services and support for animal inquiries were from tennants currently facing eviction by private landlords. this is an issue we are continuing to see. in curb ramp related news we want the public to know that the department of public works has set aside a fund dedicated to the repair of the detectable warnings on curb ramps. these are known as yellow mats with tru

the cancellation. >> it is only a request. it is up to the hearing officer to grant it. if not we don't make that determination, it is up to the hearing officer. >> is this the first time that you requested this. >> there is a history. we have several open cases. >> on this case, what is in front of us. >> i don't believe that there was a director's and they have tried to make this before and it has not worked and it has the extensive problems. >> and i guess for me, as a commissioner and we are trying to and we are trying to get to everybody. >> and but, commissioner, sure. >> and so, it is our policy, not to extend any continuance as a rule. >> it is not... >> even though we do get it back in december. >> and i, no i would not say that, the code says, that it is up to the hearing officer, somebody can make a request, and it is up to the hearing officer, whether or not they want to grant the request for cause, or not. >> and so we would have responded back to the owner saying denied? >> it would have been right. >> and in tha

it's one individual submitting a foia request and the see gets to rule on the foia request and then io sue and then a judge adjudicates the case. i'm going to quote from les aspen who was involved in the 1974 amendments of the freedom of information act, quote, surely we are familiar by now with the extent to which any document tending to embarrass any agency tends to become top secret. the managers of those classification stamps have forfeited presumptions that their actions were reasonable. >> on that note, i have to taken all of our guests because we're out of time. until next time waj and i will see you online at aljazeera.com/ajamstream. ♪ >>> good evening, everyone, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the deadline for health care coverage. the last chance to sign up brings more glitches. obamacare, what now? our special report just ahead. >>> under fire, allegations that general motors and now federal regulators repeatedly ignored safety issues. >>> after a stern new warning to the world about

. >> hearing requests. anyway it's important to hear because it's an issue before us frequently >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and the board of appeals he met with two items of terrorized their tha they held their officers elections the second is the 1050 valencia street under consideration view was passed and in december the board of appeals sought to remove the fifth store from the building and had findings to be adapted at a later date that was considered last time. prior to the hearing they convened 2, 3, 4 closed session to talk about the threats that were made by the project sponsor and changes that were made by the board and after that the board reconvened and held a hearing on the adaptation of finding they modified a few finding the,of course in regard to the fifth floor to reestablish the fifth floor but have setbacks of 10 to 12 feet at the front and rear. the number of units should not change 12 should remain and also that the ground floor use must be occupied by a use and it was adapted unanimo

i have a request, a hearing request that follows up on a motion adopted by our very own youth commission, and it will focus on the city's efforts to address the needs of young people with incarcerated parents. in 2011, a dcyf needs assessment found 17,933 youth and children in san francisco have a parent -- had a parent who has spent time in either county jail or state prison in 2010. 17,933 children. however, there is no comprehensive data available about the number of youth who have experienced parental incarceration or the support services that they may need. now, the board -- as this board recently took historic action to end discrimination against formerly incarcerated people with the passage of the fair chance ordinance, this hearing request is pretty timely. it's forced to consider the impacts of parental incarceration on the well-being and life outcomes of young people in our city. this hearing will be an opportunity to invest the following issues. i have four of them. efforts to collect data on needs and outcomes of youth with incarcerated parents, additional support services ne

they handle millions of those and those are privacy act requests care requests.handle those and they handle them more efficiently now . poorlyrformed pretty across all three areas. they have a lot of room for improvement. they have made some efforts on their website, which has to be done relatively easily. boasting more information online. -- posting more information online. they can move up the grade and the next scorecard. host: is there a standard form or does each agency have a different process? guest: each agency has their own process right now. there is some standardization in terms of the information they often provide. it is not uniform. there is no one place to go. even inside of agencies, it will be sub components of that agency that have information. the department of homeland security drive people to their component parts. you will be sent to immigration's website or fema's website rather than the dhs. that is part of the problem is inconsistency. the administration actually committed recently to trying to develop a government wide portal where you c

just as in years past there was a request for large increases without any data to back up the request. one of my top priorities as chairman is ensuring that we restore the ability that will launch astronauts. i'll commercial partners are the cube to make in a possible. times we must make sure we're doing the best we can with what we have geared it should be accompanied by a strategic action plan. additionally, this year's budget request also includes the cancellation of the sophia program. american tax payers invested on this one-of-a-kind asset the administration is posing cancellation as a gets off the ground. he you might be more helpful in answering questions we have about the proposed cancellation of sophia. i would hate to see it canceled in the same manner as we did with the xl mars project. there is no doubt that our nation space program is facing many challenges. that is on the more reason the ministration must be committed to exploration and stop using it as partisan football. the american public is counting on the president very dear counting on each of us here to have an h

>> most certainly, i think requests for information are always, always helpful. and the more information, the better. again, we will be leaving this to the impacted or subject area departments to scope that analysis and to perform it in a way that conforms with this political activities memo, not making the case one way or another, because facts can be malleable, but in fact presenting the most impartial -- presenting the most impartial case possible. >> what i would say is, you know, i appreciate that and i think i would encourage anyone who feels that there are specific issues or questions that should be looked into, that they contact the mayor's office. and i appreciate supervisor wiener withdrawing this item. i have to say that i still have questions about the item in the sense that i don't know if this is necessarily the best precedent in terms of, you know, using city resources for this purpose, whether it's for or against something. and, you know, that is not really going to be voted on so it doesn't really matter, but i do have that concern because i thin

i initially nice way requests. sure it doesn't all other federal agencies in particular the agency's doing intelligence and law enforcement work. i seem to think that they can be found in you from point a unit on what congress intended when they passed a law they could come up with a variety of different legal tricks to try to get out of their obligations. so things that it is inflating our include the very lengthy delays on extraordinary he's that you might be charged to the document. com or agencies money to do much of a search to locate the doctor didn't even accept. although now that your client nine shapiro is actually at. he is known to act as the most prolific whatever pastor to the fbi that's quite a tight on him and he could shed some light on how he claim that title even cleaning the ice bestowed upon him and not one of his other lawsuits involving the fbi surveillance of animal rights activists. mr shapiro and shoes. to get the fbi to continue processing and releasing information. and he said that they c

security and requested a move them more respect of the rights. i'm in now they're facing in that situation denise makes it all the problems in the cba can only come out said security program problems and will start up of a past affairs that we have been even in the last few years has been sated. due to the mix of different issues. it has sometimes been confusing than it into the outside night started. on campuses. who did this protest. problem is corruption and here. in europe the debate has been about chad feasible to none yes but actually it started with the students requested security team and how it works. a few days after that last week although by the second part of the opposition leaders who decide to. to capitalize on what was going on with the students and they make at home makes up for the problems that we have in the country. and it's true that the new obligation he said. it's just barely seen police use against tom and a geology and east is a legal problem but is more than that in the beginning people would not request in moderately t

i request this item be sent to committee and request it be sent and assigned to the land use and economic and development committee >> sproovisor wiener requests this go tooz committee. [inaudible] it will go to committee. >> thank you. and thank you supervisor wiener. i think that your comment [inaudible] for more information are well taken and i think that my view is a little different than what has been put out there. i think that the more information we have the better, but i think in making sure that accurate information is provided to the public we need to make sure different perspectives are taken into account and the realty is there will be some people on this board that may on one side thrf issues and others on the orelt side. i think we need to have a conver saigz to figure what those questions should be because any good lawyer knows how you frame the question impacts the question you get. one concern i have with respect to the request presented is that the jenitous of it came from one side of the this political fight and while i respect the right of individuals to present their

after numerous requests, matters and several meetings the imp still does not address these issues. we request the commission require that the applicant include [speaker not understood] prior to and condition of acceptance -- >> thank you. thank you. >>> good afternoon. my name is pamela chiuy. i live at 240 ewing terrace and have direct experience with a large student housing project directly behind my home. that's the loyola village. design can mitigate a number of our concerns, but we are seeking some assurance that those concerns will be considered seriously, not just a buyer or leave, we will do it as we want. that is why we are listing -- that is why listing potential mitigations in the i mitschtionerctiontion p is very important to us. we asked a number of times in a number of ways that our concern be articulated and we made part of the original architect's program so that we are not overlooked. we assure usf architect can design to criterion concern, but only if they know what they are. and the imp is the perfect time to list them for consideration. besides, it lets us know

request for this year of $80 billion. this funds the troops over in afghanistan, the 34,000 that are still fighting courageously to defend our country. at the end of this year, the projection is is that troop level will be brought down to, at the highest level, of 10,000, possibly even lower, combat missions for all intents and purposes will come to an end. as the congressional budget office has democrat straight over and over again, they will score savings with the o.c.o. drawdown that's going to happen at the end of this year. the ryan budget has used those o.c.o. savings to help balance its own priorities. so this is not funny money. this is not hypothetical. anyone who has been on a could he dell -- codel over to afghanistan knows we are spending money over there, and next year we'll spend less money because of our change in deployments in afghanistan. the cost of a permanent fix to s.g.r. is $135 billion over the next 10 years. you can only -- you only need a portion of the o.c.o. account to permanently fix s.g.r. ev

extradition requests? >> mr. chairman i don't know of any such extradition requests.they weren't made public, maybe there were some that we don't know. >> under our treaty, extradition of allows the swiss to deny an extradition request for person involved in the attacks of ends. is that correct? either one of you? >> yeah mr. chairman that is typically in the extradition treaties that european countries have, i don't know it the u.s. might have similar treaties. >> it does with switzerland. >> yes. >> and the question is whether or not switzerland would deny extradition if the request was made in my question to you both is the following. if the united states were to make an extradition request that by the way we believe there have not been any we as we believe is the case, if the united states were to make an extradition request would your bank object and i would ask you. >> mr. chairman we would not object. >> the last area i want to talk to you about is an area what is called net new assets and mr. cerutti one of the things we have reviewed in this investigation is

and i ninety four percent of all such requests. the numbers provided by this analysis are a far cry from the words president obama delivered back in two thousand nine as the marks on his first term in office to collect. the way to make government was possible. although the coming in a way to make government couples make it transparent so the american people can know exactly what decisions are being made made. however being made and whether their interests are being well served. the old rules said that if i was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the american people should not be the slopes that era is now open. now will my house and denying the claim that the administration is withholding more information and spokesman eric celts tells the ap poll over the past nine years federal agencies have worked aggressively to improve their responsiveness to for your plants. applying that presumption of openness and making it a priority to respond quickly the obama administration says they received more requests for sensitiv

is requesting a continuance i have several speaker cards and under our krerg review calendar at the 1110 ash bureau street request for discretionary review the project sponsor wants to continue actually april 3rd, 2014, >> okay. let's open this up for public comment i have a number of speaker cards (calling names) and the public public comment is about the matter of continuance alone. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm a homeowner adjacent to the rain tree development. i support the continuance although we're requesting it be pushed out further first there's a tree removal appraisal scheduled and board of appeals that's regarding the removal of two significant trees at the site if we prevail at that appeal there would be significant design challenges to move forward. it seems good soon may first to come before the commission again and that appeal hadn't happened. the second is the proposed height of this project we believe a new shadow study needs to be done and that's not been done the third reason would be there are some 60 legal codes depraved south facing windows on the buildi

request for discretionary review. i will remind members of the public that the project team has a five-minute presentation and the d-r team has a five-minute presentation. >> first commissioner fong. >> i actually need ask to be recused within this item as it is within 500 feet of my residence. >> move to recuse. >> second. >> on the motion to recuse, commissioner antonini? >> aye. >> commissioner borden? >> aye. >> commissioner hillis? >> aye. >> commissioner moore? >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya? >> aye. >> commissioner fong? >> aye. >> and commission president wu? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that passes unanimously 7 to 0. commissioner fong, you are here by recused. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm david lindsay of department staff. the project at 126 18th avenue includes a horizon' addition with a three-story and a one-story component at the rear of the three story single-family house as well as a one-story vertical addition which would be setback 16 feet from the existing front building wall. the secon