secondly, the underlying purpose of ceqa is to provide decision-makers with adequate information about a project impact on the environment and early stage of the approval process. it is a strong public interest and confirming the adequacy of environmental documents early on in the review process. the review is more meaningful. this legislation will promote earlier certainty of the environmental review process and more accurate review by all entities throughout the process. so, for these reasons we very much support this legislation. thank you. >> thank you. before with you get to the next speaker, let me call the final batch of cards that i have here. rebecca evans, michelle meyers, lance carnes, raymond castillo, charlie z, ng, [speaker not understood], [speaker not understood], jonathan goldberg. judy berkowitz. and linda chapman. go ahead. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. ~ tom tunney, i'm a land attorney with robbins junius and rose. i want to thank the committee for holding this discussion. it is an important one. the point i'd like to make has been made already, but i think it is

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secondly, it requires eversiti department to designate a data coordinator to work with the public and the chief data officer to get this information out. and thirdly, it requires the development of consistent standards in how data is presented. i want to take a moment and thank supervisor avalos and his staff for drilling down a couple questions here that i know and trust are going to be addressed in the implementation of this legislation, but it's my hope that as we move forward save will again regain our position as a leader in the open data movement. and with that, colleagues, i ask your support. >> thank you. colleagues, any comments or questions? colleagues, can we take this same house same call? same house same call, item passes. the ordinance passes on first reading. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item 11, please? >> item 11 is an ordinance authorizing the juvenile probation department to accept and expend a grant retroactively in the amount of 461,000 for funding cubed the fiscal year 2012 second chance act juvenile defender reentry funding program and amending the annua

and secondly to manage our budget in a fiscal and responsible manner. and lastly having a budget that reflects the priorities of all san franciscans, there are so many things needed in our neighborhoods and communities. and we want to address that in the budget. thank you for being here, and i want to be this night is about hearing you. i will turn it over to supervisor cohen. >> good evening, everyone, it's good to see you. the number one thing we need to keep in mind here, that the budget is one of the most single pieces of legislation that the board of supervisors pass. our budget is $7.4 million -- excuse me, billion -- that's what i said, billion, people. clean out your ears. i would never short change san francisco and say million [laughter] so you know what, i want to thank you for having such a healthy turn-out. this audience looks look and we have a good moderator. thank you for leading this discussion. last year we made significant investments in public safety back-filling investments that were previously made by the redevelopment agency, econ

but secondly because the strong program of exercise we conducted. the exercises were not only conducted on military scenarios, but we had an extensive set of exercises involved in humanitarian response. during the time i was secretary, we had a disaster response very similar to the one they're doing here in san francisco today. we bought naval forces from the united states, from russia and japan all to honolulu where we had simulated a tsunami disaster. and these three great nations brought their fleets to honolulu exercising how to respond and alleviate that disaster. well, that was then. how about now? last year the united states released a new security strategy. most of you probably have not even heard of that, but i have to tell you this was a big deal. it was one of the fifth american security strategies that we have issued since the civil war. among the highlights of that security strategy was a strong statement that the united states had the highest economic and security interests in the asia pacific region. not in europe as has been for 100

secondly, julia wants to change the world. when she is thinking about what she wants to do next, that's what she's thinking about. we asked her, what are you thinking about computer science? she said i think about a guy typing at a computer. that is not exciting. we're teaching girls how to code and we're exposing them to entrepreneurs and we're taking you to facebook and twitter on how you can change the world. one of my young girls, cora, her father was diagnosed with cancer. she wanted to save her dad's life. she learned how technology to do that. she created an algorithm um that or ts if cancer is benign malignant. she's 16 years old. [applause] that is powerful. >> you went into college wanting to be a dance major and you came out as a double computer science math major. >> i kept my minor in dance but yes. >> what happened and how do we ensure more women understand when they get to college with one vision maybe something else could be more dynamic, particularly in the field? >> it is interesting. for me it started back i

secondly, more than 186,000 elantras from model years 2011 through 2013 to fix a flaw that could cause injury if the side air bags deploy. the deterrelails are available nbr.com. >>> the dow pulled it down after dropping further on those korea headlines. dow components bank of america and j.p. morgan each down more than 2% and citigroup and morgan stanley also lower today as you see right there. abercrombie & fitch, the teen retailer led the s&p 500 on optimism about the overseas expansion plans and the company's target of 15% growth in annual earnings. shares of abercrombie up 4% on the day. >>> facebook holding an event tomorrow to unveil its new home on android and it got a vote of confidence from a jp analyst who said we'd be buying and repeated an overweight rating. shares were up over 3%. zynga is going a new neighborhood, launching zynga plus poker and zynga plus casino. real-money betting for gamblers in great britain. investors see those as positive for springa right now and positioning for online gambling down the road. the shares changed hands at five times their average vol

secondly, with regard to the pop up store. i went down and interviewed the mer dhant chants and they all agreed that is closed at the end of february and at the put up a posting saying that a pop up store was never that was closed on january 1 and it was posted on february 28th, two months after the fact. they still occupy the building and still are in that. i think that they plan to turn it back into a oska men's store as soon as all of this blows over. they can't take away the business that ye built up in the area, this is the kind of people that we are dealing with here and the chains are ready to swallow up our small merchants. >> i have a question. you stated that they had a chance to fix if it. >> they were there from 1980 to 2012. before they moved in there was a vacantcy, i knew what the condition was because we had to do the work on the foundation. i think that they saved the money and rushed in the tenant and hoped that they do not find out how bad it was. i was a tent ant from 1978 to 88. >> thank you. >> tan, you h

secondly, i don't think europe is going to be exactly as high as japan. the ecb has put every effort in terms of housing countries on conditionality. basically, use your own job, fist your own problem, and i'm here to help. i think in europe short-term probably the pain is going to be slightly higher, but so is the reform. >> let's get a little bit -- i want to talk specifically about europe and japan. we want to remind people, there's a warning the region could be heading for a slow death if it continues on its austerity path. is it structural or do they just need more stimulus? anyway, again, he compared europe's future to japan' past. >> for 25 years, japan was dying a slow death. >> right. >> and now they woke up. and the fascinating thing is that in europe, the austerity program is actually leading the eurozone into exactly the same policy that japan is now trying to escape after 25 years. >> now, banks in cyprus were shut again yesterday this time because of the strike by bank workers. thousands of employees walked off the job for two hours. the ban

forces that is not trivial secondly i think that you have to look with the u.s. foreign policy establishment is saying richard armitage former undersecretary of state and joseph nye were recently and a trip to japan an unofficial mission but blessed by x. secretary of state hillary clinton and before that they wrote an article. i believe it was in foreign affairs i can't recall i think it was in foreign affairs. and what they were trying to do in that article is essentially go japan into confronting china you know absent. in the comments of of the other two guests here is any acknowledgement that the united states is running an empire with hundreds of military bases all around the globe second i mean what you have to say and i would say just one more thing that clearly i mean we were completely not necessarily a mistake because the policy in the united states in the middle east and i think in the world is either submit or be destroyed ok good point and we'll be watching the right head reply royd he did not submit libya destroy the rule in a little jealous to go a

secondly, you've heard a lot about this question of approval actions. that needs to be clarified. and given this, we would like to see proposals linked seen side by side and amended, we will be providing some written comments shortly with some of the proposals. thank you very much. >> sorry, [inaudible], i have a question. does -- has chu-chu taken a position on what i have introduced? >>> we have not. we are taking a look at parts of them. [speaker not understood]. i had been informed it had not taken a position on this legislation. i was surprised you would come today, say you had not taken a position, criticize key parts and say you have questions. its was one of the first organizations in that role. >>> at the time we were not asked to look at a second proposal so, we didn't have sort of two things to look at. now we have a comparison of item. and as this moves forward, i think there is a process, i think one of the things that has been spoken to quite a bit is when we have a second proposal, why not hear both at the same time. what chu-chu will be doing is looking at ways of

secondly i refer to that person who broke in and defaced the wails on the second wails. i want to know if that's the incarceration of a devil or a dead man himself. if i read the comments in the chronicles articles some of the people abused the mayor. i want to caution the people in china. some people believe they're so astute eventually they'll tells us about president obama's college day and even the stuff common people won't know. in the future i won't read comments about traitor lee. on to one other thing. one to the department of public health they'll be offering some kind of public apology. $17,000 is going to a whistle blower. sham on the mayor's office. >> i want to remind people to express their support or opposition >> good afternoon i'm john. this is about violent video games. years ago through radio i discovered super man. some stupid kids jumped off buildings thinking they could flu-like him. i am a the real superman saving it for a surprise from my mom and world. it was the radio that grabbed our imagine but today motion pictures have captured our attention

forces that is not trivial secondly i think that you have to look with the u.s. foreign policy establishment is saying richard armitage former undersecretary of state and joseph nye were recently and a trip to japan an unofficial mission but blessed by x. secretary of state hillary clinton and before that they wrote an article. i believe it was in foreign affairs i can't recall i think it was in foreign affairs. and what they were trying to do in that article is essentially go japan into confronting china you know absent. in the comments of of the other two can see here is any acknowledgement that the united states is running an empire with hundreds of military bases all around the globe second i mean what i have to say and i would say just one more thing that clearly i mean they were not necessarily a mistake because the policy in the united states in the middle east and i think in the world is either submit or be destroyed ok good point and we'll in watch an integral head reply that really did not submit libya is destroyed i mean really in a little jealous to t

secondly, i think the transparency -- the fact that you're considering hearing ceqa appeals at a smaller committee of the board of supervisors and then having the final vote in front of all of them, to me also doesn't wreak of true transparency because if individual citizens are not able to speak to the entire board and express themselves in front of the entire board, i don't think that's a really transparent situation. so, to me those are two situations where i don't believe the legislation helps with transparency. but i also wanted to share a personal story as well. i'm going to try to be fast. okay. several years ago a building in my neighborhood was with bought by a developer, it was a single-family home. he immediately turned around and set it up for demolition. i called about like is that possible to demolish an old 80 year old house. it is probably not very likely so forth and so on. a year later we get the 311 notice that says okay they've got approval to demolish it and build something new. [inaudible]. >> thank you. >>> i'll write you an e-mail and tell you the whole story. [la

secondly, the notice process for projects post c-e-q-a needs a major change. and it's a upn peter cohen talked about it. the notice of projects is how i found out about things because the c-e-q-a notice only comes to the same people who get the project notice. on a conditional use it only goes to property owners and tic owners are excluded and tenants are excluded. and until the upn process, it got to be taken out of the planning department. if you're going to sit on it, it should be done outside of the department. there is no notice of projects to tenants and to tics, period, end of the story. especially [speaker not understood] are the hardest projects. area plan notices is an additional problem. i'm going to be looking for that because we have basically said the eastern neighborhoods can tier off the e-i-r for the eastern neighborhoods and they don't have -- a lot of projects are eligible for cat ex's. there are projects that go through -- someone before the planning commission, i know we'll give you one. on valencia street, shadowing over park that has --

secondly, this chain cpi, already has a fire storm inside the democratic party against him for going after social security and medicare. so i think he put this out here. but john the real long-term problem medicare, medicaid social security eat up more and more and more of the budget. you mentioned defense and discretionary spending go down less and less and less. and i think it is, you know, this is no new deal or no new frontier or no great society. it is a timid budget, i think. and it is a grim budget for the united states. >>> the cpi is the consumer price index. make your point again about that. >> well chain cpi, what it is,. >> chained. social security is indexed. cost of living increased, in the nixon administration we did it you tie it to wage growth. republicans say it should be tied to prices. chain cpi is sort of a mixture, as i understand it, of the two. in other words the increases every year in spending for social security will not go up quite as rapidly as they did, but it is only a cut of 1% in total social security in ten years. >> is he going to leave it that way?

secondly, there is obviously a lot of interest in the explosions in boston, and i wanted to make clear, as you heard from the president yesterday, that our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and to their families who were injured. those who were injured as well as killed in this heinous and cowardly act. the full weight of the federal government is behind this investigation, which is being led by the fbi. and as the president said, we will find out who did this. we will find out why. and we will bring those responsible to justice. with that said, it is very important that we allow this investigation to run its full course and to ensure that we retain the integrity of that investigation. therefore, on matters related to the investigation, i would direct you to the fbi. as you know, the fbi is giving the press briefings on the ground in boston, and i believe they will be holding another briefing today. the president, as you know, has been briefed regularly on the incident in boston, beginning almost immediately after it took place. this morning, the president again convened a meeti

the citizens of san francisco want jobs and secondly what really it is important is local higher. there's a lot of people in this city that are hurting. i know that you go to lunches and dinners and give back to the community. and this is for commissioner murphy. this great thing we're trying to do here i'm working with the maritime we want to do a major reform from the ports of san francisco. when we were in china last month we went that to a baseball game. and golfing there's tiger woods he's up there and i can't figure out what to do. commissioner murphy one of the problems we're having is clearly we've got to have more money in infrastructure. unfortunately, our politician in d.c. can't get focused. i think we have a gold mine right here. if we could get the infrastructure money to really get focused on the port. i think that we can have a lot of maritime in iron ore and china is looking to get away from certain companies. we've got companies here to export. and we would be known in the community. i'm being a little bit bias. monique moore is one of the best directors in this

secondly, if i really thought that's all they were going to do, i wouldn't be concerned.d rupert murdoch has a track record of maintaining good journalism, which is why when he bought "the wall street journal" i didn't write the same thing. no. wait a minute, now let me -- these fellows, the koch brothers, spend millions and millions and millions of dollars every year now to try to win elections, to buy state houses to buy governorships to move the country in a direction that they think it ought to go in. and they have been very aggressive. that's different than the saltz bergers, different than the graham family, different than all of the other people that brent mentioned. these people are players. they want to win. and they will turn it in -- >> okay, okay. you've got all of the time. let me respond. number one, you hit the nail on the head. you said you think. in fact, you don't have, again, one scintilla of evidence that they're doing other than investing. in fact, you don't have a scintilla of evidence that they're doing anything different than warren buffett did. if