complex issues involving permit and process review and he's been assisted by chief building inspector ron tom and tony greek oh. congratulations to the team on its excellent work with next year's budget. the department had it's first budget and finance committee this past monday with a budget analysis recommendation of final hearing on dbi budget will be next monday on june 24th and we are currently in fiscal year. finally the fourth quarter. just a reminder in early june, all dbi and staff are asked to submit now their nomination for a colleague performing outstanding work for quarter 2013 employee of the quarter award. nominations are open so please e-mail as soon as possible. that concludes my announcements. >> any public comment on the president's announcement. seeing none. item 11. 11 a commissioners questions and matters inquiry to staff. activity, commissioners may make inquire easy to staff regarding various documents, policies, practices and procedures which are of interest to the commission. seeing none. >> next item. future meetings. agendas, at this time the commission maybe discu

and in this situation, the problem is payments to tom are off the books. ron would under normal circumstances have to disclose that on certain disclosure forms. because the money is going to tom, it's off the books and in the family. and that's where it starts to look very sketchy. >> and apparently he accepted more gifts than anybody. >> ron has a reputation for being brazen about golf trips and dinners out and taking gifts. when this raid happened, a number of people were asked is this a big surprise to you and they said no not really. this guy is cozy with lobbyists and brazen about accepting their money. we're not entirely surprised. >> he's not hiding it. what's the future of these brotr s? >> they want to have a big future. one is running for controller. one is running for secretary of state. back in 2009 where state senator was also raided by the fbi. they didn't actually find anything this state prosecute for could use, he went on to run for mayor in 2010. even without actually finding much, this can be devastating to a political career. going to depen

interesting that they need to be determined and that is you had senators over the last few years like ron wyden tom udall and jeff merkley pressuring the director of national intelligence and the n.s.a. to provide information about how many americans are under surveillance by these agencies trying to introduce legislation to bring transparency to these programs and they were all pretty much rebuffed but the question is did they already know the answers to these questions did the senators already know the extent to which these programs were being used to surveil on americans and if so were they just asking these questions to get intelligence officials on the public record to admit to what the senators already knew i think could perhaps. the reason why only forty seven of the one hundred senators out of order that's knowing now apple facebook google and some of the other tech companies have released more information dealing with what exactly they have handed over to the government what do we learn from that aspect of this of this case right up to several thousand they received several thousand reques

ron calderon. the sacramento bee says the fbi raided two businesses in april linked to him and his brother, tom. the fbi searched ron calderon's office. he's now working as a public affairs consultant. >>> a press conference was held at the old hayes valley farm. that piece of land is now occupied by posters who say they are not leaving it until the plans to develop it into housing is scrapped. some say the city needs to end the protest right now. >> reporter: it's been almost a week. as far as protesters on this piece of land are concerned, this is just the beginning. how long are you prepared to stay? >> as long as we have to in order to make it -- yeah. >> reporter: weeks? months. >> more than weeks, more than months. >> reporter: protesters say the land that used to house the hayes valley farm should remain open space. housing has been approved now. >> i think we need to preserve some type of green space in the city. it's not all about development. >> i'm not gonna want to deal with an occupy oakland. i've lived here 13 years. this is the biggest mess of all of it. >> reporter: what's next is

they said, get out of here. >> you don't have the pedigree. >> ron is going to stick around. tom there. we'll be right back after this quick break. we will have more from our guest host and ron baron. actually the dow is just turning slightly negative. flatlining for the s&p 500 and the na,. >> watch ibm, accenture, in certain points, down 8% last time i checked. i don't know what ibm is doing. that's a name to watch. >> i'll tell you real quickly, ibm is down by about $3 too. >> down by $3 bucks? >>. >> 129.33 it's indicated to open. we will cont this conversation. "squawk box" will be right back. >>> still ahead, your 2013 halftime report t. outlook for oil and gas for the rest of the year. plus the stocks and sectors that could make you money between notice and new year's eve. keep watching "squawk box" on cnbc. first in business world wide. . >> welcome back to "squawk box." let's get back to our special guest, ron baron, chairman and ceo of baron this morning. tom had a question, he was mid-way into the question when we decided to make some money with commercial breaks. i wi

we have tom forte and senior research analyst. and ronurities manager and senior internet analyst. ron, i want to ask you this quickly. we have breaking news at top of the show. i know you don't cover. oracle switching from nasdaq to the new york stock exchange. you normally don't see a technology company, we're not taking facebook but a technology just left the nasdaq and went over to the new york stock exchange. what do you make of this overall? >> that's a good question. he actually haven't given it much thought to be honest. i think a lot more and more internet companies are listings on the new york stock exchange. perhaps it may not be as rare as we may think but i don't have any many original comments. david: let's throw that to tom. the big question whether facebook really kind of soured people on nasdaq the way nasdaq rolled out the ipo is that part of what is happening? could that be one reason why what happened to oracle may be happening to other companies in the tech sector? >> i think timing of oracle's announcement suggests i

ron department of technology. thank you for your question on the african-american center. that's part of the legacy agreement that was part of the cable franchise agreement and here at tom cast we had part of the new public contract we wanted to include any other kufrl centers where they can link to different parts of the cities so they can do things currently. but this was part of the monies we received from the obamas administration. we're now at year it didn't work. i want to make sure we're doing what we need to do to provide a road map of success for each of those capabilities. but there are some that have been left in limbo without a clear understanding of access to equipment. i don't know what this looks like in terms of exhibit no. 2 it to the public but just a way to make this really an effective tool for community to use. it's important to me >> thank you. >> i'll just add something to many. you're touching a sweet spot. when i invested canning r rescinding kin street i asked it's important to manage our points the fiber but we need to manage the communication. what drives you crazy drives me crazy. we should aggressively communicate to everybody out there and you