we can go into specification by specification vote. assistant patrol special officer ernest tachihara, at this point the commission will go through each one of the specifications and vote and have discussion perhaps on each item as to whether or not there is fault or not. do you have any questions as to how we're going to proceed at this point? thank you. as to specification #onenumber , breaking of rules and procedures for special patrol officers with regard to a solid forward facing red light. is there any discussion? is there a move? there is a motion to sustain. is there a second? there's a second. >> do you want to do all the motions at once? one at a time? on specification #one. modifying a duty vehicle by adding additional lighting. we have a motion by dr. marshall. a second by commissioner mazzucco. commissioner mazzucco? >> aye. >> dr. marshall. vice president marshal rec specification #two. that he engaged in a pursuit in violation of the interim rules and procedures for patrol special officers and their assistants. do i have

: specification number five. being evasive during an interim in violation of the procedures for special patrol officers and their assistants. is there a motion? >> sustained. commissioner kingsley: is there second? >> sustained. >> specification no. 5. president mazzucco: aye. vice president marshall: aye. commissioner chan: depending on your response style you might not enter as clearly as you should all you should have been more clear. i am concerned with the way you present yourself this evening. there should be some leeway when it comes to ensuring these questions. what you're seeing is not technically incorrect. it was evasive but not untruthful. i will have to vote now commissioner kingsley:. . commissioner kingsley: no. commissioner terman: i hear the same concerns. >> specification is not sustained. commissioner kingsley: specification six. assistant patrol special officer ernest tachihara engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the patrol special in violation of the rules and specifications. is there m

they were not specific proposals. there was not coverage at a specific proposal level but there's an acknowledgement that there would be in the future defined specific treatments in specific places and this was the best guess of that at the time. so i think this idea of conceptual level is reflecting something even beyond that in terms of lack of specificity and the core essence of sequa as you can only analyze at the level of detail of what is being proposed. and what is being proposed here long-term is nothing specific. so the level of coverage is appropriate for that level. in terms of somebody saying and making a commitment. it will be an e.i.r. i think as she said in her presentation, what kind of coverage will be dependent on what it will specifically cover, propose. but in terms of what kind of coverage you'll get in a long-term sense for a project that hasn't been defined, you're getting it at a very problematic conceptualized level. >> the question i have is the apelllan's contention is depending on how we ch

>> the department in this specific case was given a printout from the police department specifically. we did our best faith effort to extract that printout into a series of mailing addresses for this mailing. the courtesy notification. we do not believe the applicant in this case was necessarily on that list. based upon records provided by the applicant, he acquired a permit in approximate august or september of 2010 and is approximate two months prior to the change in legislation, so the public works did not know exactly what happened within the police department process. commissioner fung: how many other license holders we'll now call m.f.f.'s, failed to properly reapply and weren't wear of the new legislation and the requirements of that legislation? is that a common thing or is this extremely unusual? >> if memory serves, the department sent notifications to approximate 220 applicants, of that number, approximate 70 or so has since came to the department within that 90-day period. president garcia: there were 130 people out there who weren't wear of the new legislation and needed

they need to move on in those specific cases. and the department as it relates to like foods, specifically. i will provide that in the second briefing to the commissioners that under the department order, like foods is very specific as it relates to the ethnicity of the food. the comments from oasis of real , that is my recollection. it was not present at the directors hearing in the testimony. i have no knowledge in this case. there are many questions in this specific case. and how the department is processing. the law is very specific, it is executing that policy by the supervisors and the mayor. it will be the appropriate permits and evaluation. as it relates to these executions of the program. in the department does not believe in following the process that we provided notification to the public in an inappropriate manner. that we evaluated the objections and concerns by the various stakeholders and processed to the permit correctly. in many cases, as you can see from the decisions by the director, some of patients were appro

this is a specific slide here. the housing panel will lead to the construction of at least 190 permanently affordable rental units. this was offset the vast majority of inclusionary units that would of been required under the van ness special use district, as i mentioned earlier, and these units will target low and very low-income households in san francisco and will become part of the permanently affordable san francisco housing stock. the second component of the housing payment to the mayor's office on housing will provide at least 135 down payment loans, such as cpmc households seeking to buy a home in san francisco. this will be limited to people in the work force income category. employees cannot buy homes that and subject to an alice act in the last 10 years, -- subject to an ellis act in the last 10 years. there is also a share in appreciation, based on the split formula used by the mayor's office on housing and the current downpayment assistance loan program. these recaptured funds will then be diverted bac

some states have specific requirements for civic education classes. most have interwoven with social studies or other matter. i encourage you to look at how to strengthen those requirements in your state. especially to think about doing it before high school. most of us, at least my experience with civics education, was getting it the last semester of senior year. i suppose that's right before you go out and vote, but that's when nobody is paying attention to anything. so it's much too late to get to young people. there's a -- we specifically worked with middle school kids and if we could we worked with younger. there's this prime age where when you have teenagers know this, when kids are really, really concerned with justice and fairness, they're favorite quote is that's just not fair. it's a primary opportunity to get them to connect their personality and faemt experiences to their communities and then from the communities to the state and beyond. at a point when they're still not quite cynical about the way the word wold works and are ope all these

>> it is specifically a tax to leaseholders on port properties. it really only comes into play when there is a long-term lease. any time we take a piece of property currently in short term lease and put it into a long- term reeslease with improvement value, new taxes are generated. >> since there is no tax on these and there is to submit and there is new property tax, the entire amount has been part of this revenue? >> that is correct. >> the existing property tax would be the increased value of the property tax that would be part of the revenue? is that correct? >> that is correct, and also wanted to point out this is reforming the district on the port property. that would allow less, only in regard to where we could spend the money. creating the district would allow us when there are specific product areas later, when there are tax increments to be spend, these are the locations. these are the port properties where we could spend them. >> 8 washington is the example project, all of that would accrue? >> that is correct. >> it will accrue, but so

>> the permit holders specifically. >> work with them how? >> we had one other situation where it was a police department permits. we found out after the fact that it was authorizing a location that is not allowed under current legislation. we wound up working with the merchant in this specific case, and we wind up observing it by providing a posting whether the and a mailing -- rather than a mailing. we did a posting 300 feet informant now the residents and businesses at a smal certain location. >> the condition ofa

on energy, specifics on tax, jobs. education, i mean, he went into areas that he knows his base will argue with him on. he sandwiched it with some very specific policy things, and then he ended, again, with the military. so i think where he went to poetry, wrapped in the american flag and military uniform, and the prose was very, very specific. i think it was very well done. >> in terms of what happens next, in just a few minutes, just a couple of minutes, we're expecting to hear the republican response to the state of the union. it will be delivered tonight by two-term indiana governor mitch daniels. of course, the backstory on mitch daniels is that, number one, he has a, forgive the phrase, hell of a labor fight going on right now in indiana. today democrats in the indiana state legislature did not show up in the legislative chamber to block a quorum so that the state could not be voted into being a right to work state, stripping union rights in the state. the super bowl will be hosted in indianapolis in just a coupl

specifically. if you're not working with that organization, i would encourage that as well. >> we have had big use of these resources, also by all of our home-schoolers. so this is something that can be used basically almost anywhere. and it's available in disk form, if there's some situation where it's not really possible to access the internet directly. they're available on disk form. other questions or comments? secretary brown? no. great. well, thank you so much for coming and being with us today and sharing that. and thank you for the work that you do in helping us do our jobs. thank you so much. >> i'm matt schultz, secretary state of iowa and i thank secretary richie being a great partner this year and working on this committee. i have the pleasure of introducing our next speaker, ms. heather smith, current president of rock the vote, a national organization with the political engagement of young people. under heather's direction and leadership over the past two election cycles rock the vote

ascarrunz has in this specific case. again, the department received information from him for a renewal on november 4, 2011. ok. on our letter when we -- on the courtesy letter we provided at the various applicants we have on record from the san francisco police department stating clearly after june 7, 2011, all permits expire and you have to renew or reapply under the current public works code. this was to try to provide a certain level of fairness to future applicants and also current applicants. there is nothing currently that would prevent this applicant who had a s.f.p. permit denied by the department to apply for a new location through the new process. again, recognizing that this was one of those odd situations where according to our records the police department permit was issued september 8, 2010, it was a very short time frame and could very well be the police department wasn't able to place this information within their database or their records. i don't know specifically what happened. i'm not sure in this spe

information, specifically as it relates to this. i believe the restaurant gaylord said they lost a certain percentage of their revenue in the last year. one thing that everyone needs to recognize is this is among the most difficult times, within the last decade, for pretty much every industry out there. everyone is struggling. i am not sure, moving forward, how the department can evaluate and make these kind of adjustments if that is the request from this board. one thing to point out from the comments as it relates to sanitation and all of the other required permits and how the department is able to issue a permit, the code is very specific as it relates to this. the department would issue a permit had within 90 days from the permit issuance, the applicant needs to acquire all of the approval before they can operate a. one of the reasons is because, when you purchase a vehicle, you need to reconstruct and remodeled it in order for it to operate. at that point, you need to go back to the department of health and make sure that the v

>> the permit holders specifically. >> work with them how? >> we had one other situation where it was a police department permits. we found out after the fact that it was authorizing a location that is not allowed under current legislation. we wound up working with the merchant in this specific case, and we wind up observing it by providing a posting whether the and a mailing -- rather than a mailing. we did a posting 300 feet informant now the residents and businesses at a smal certain location. >> the condition of approval, and i am curious. we have been presented this material that was not in our materials. i am recalling that these are not permanent. at what point? but they are required to be renewed every year. if an applicant who is not who eligible, daycare anthey can ree permit. >> should we deny the appeal, and a permit can go forward, and the permit holder can commence their businesses, but they would be permitted to operate for at least a year unless weekend edition of permits for the duration? they would have to renew, and during

not on the corner specifically. but we're concerned about parents and children coming they're looking for parking. i know there is no parking requirement. we were hoping for something like that. we want to work with your office to deal with that. i think dr. burke and ms. albright understand our concerns. i think they're going to work with us to try to contain parking so that folks do not put themselves in harm's way. >> good afternoon. ruben sanchez in them. i own to thousand square feet at 34 53rd street. if it had not been for my friend, francisco da costa, i would not have known that this issue was coming up to rezone my building. , and neither do i see my address on this article, number 3. so it really concerns me that something is going to be rezoned with my 10,000 square feet without my knowledge. so i do not see this to be sunshined in any way. i would never have owned this. i do see health issues. as an owner, i know of a lot of health issues. one, starting with my friend door. there is a sewer smell coming

the unfortunate part specifically is that the department did not have mr. ascarrunz's information when we received the package of records from the police department and why he was not notified. commissioner fung: ok. i understand all that. i understand the processes that the transition required to implement. but when the appellant brought this issue up to your department, at that point in time, a glitch had happened of some type. >> that is correct. commissioner fung: and i'm just wondering what did the department then do to try to resolve the situation? >> the challenge is such that once we knew about it, had there not been another application for this specific site, the department would have had a finding that, you know what, this was an error, that as part of the correction, we would have issued a permit if this specific case to the appellant specifically in order for him to retain his rights under the peddler's permit. however, in this case, legally the permit expired and we have a new application and we have to try to figure out in terms of being fair

, what the specific requests are. we would like to be able to know what he would like to do. so i can do my due diligence with the community. his establishment has not been a problem. i look forward to working with him. rather than have a decision tonight as far as a change, we would like to have central station and the community to look into it. i can do my due diligence and come back with a recommendation. >> it sounds like what we have is everybody is in favor of your operation. you would like to have the flexibility to expand over certain restrictions you are now facing. but they have not been defined. is that correct? >> right now, -- i am not going to gift -- disagree but he is limited to entertainment until 7:30 p.m. sunday through thursday. the other conditions about how many times a month djs are allowed, i do not think that is something the government can tell him. president newlin: is their proposal? >> i did revisit to the videotape to see and you did say that but it was not added to the permanent because

these are all fictional so we are staying away from specific candidates right now. but then basically test them on are they matching the way that they value different public policies against the hypothetical candidates they would be voting for in a few years. there's another game we just released about how to run a presidential campaign that teaches about how the electoral college works. these are games about electoral engagement. the games are catching on and we have been, our games have been played over 3.5 million times since we started because they are really great in a school setting. they are playable in a single class period. they include performance results so the students and teachers can review how they are doing. they are tight woven with a broader curriculum. we offer over 50 lesson plans that you can put together and teach essentially an entire semester of this. we have worked hard with game developers to make sure they are games and not quizzes with pictures and lights and sounds to make it seem for fun. these are games that we get feedback from the ki

i have concerns around the dismissal of those to specifications. i am concerned of your understanding of the dismissal. that the way you will take it is that there was no wrongdoing and that it was the actions that you check that evening in terms of pursuing the person you are pursuing and following that person for several blocks in the wrong direction. and then stopping the vehicle and the actions that preceded in terms of turning on the light, having the people get out of the car, dropping the keys, the pat down, and so on. all those things i view, i am speaking myself as an individual commissioner, as violations of our special rules. because no harm came to anybody that evening is a blessing all round. i am sure that you have pointed out and we have heard that you attribute that to your actions. i am concerned that if things had not gone well, it could have been two people that -- yourself and the driver of the other vehicle that created an extraordinary hazard. my concern here is that you will walk away with the stipulated agreement with the be

what specifically do you do to help veterans?ets done at the federal level and what gets done at the state level. in our state we found a way to help our veterans by saying, if you're going to come back, we'll pay for your education. we give you a full ride. we also had a plan that said if you come back and you've been out of work for a year or more, we're going to put like a bonus on your back which if anyone hires you, that bonus goes to them to pay for your training. so we can encourage that. let's do it at the state level. let's not have the federal government continue to extend its tentacles into everything that goes on in this country. let's take the money that we use to help people that have real needs and instead of having it all administered by the federal government who thinks they know how to do everything, let's take that money, bundle it, south carolina's fair share, send it to them and say, you care for your people in the way you feel best. let's do that at the state level. i agree, with what senator santorum said w

we found others, the local 21 mlu says specifically i.t. staff can be assigned stand by for communications and i.t. system.s you ds. uv i.t. stand by. -- you do need i.t. stand by. we got information on what some of the calls were for, fixing a blackberry -- of the things that did not need to happen during off-hours. president chiu: how does that work? >> of lot of that is done remotely. [inaudible] >> different departments handled it differently. there are desk staff on an ardent of schedule and take the calls. -- on an alternative schedule and take the calls. stand by is provided to anyone answering questions at that time including help desk employees and senior engineers. they are able to fix many of these incrementally. the standby pay is for non-work hours. 168 hours a week, a 40-hour employee would get 128 hours of standby. president chiu: wow. thank you. >> there were engineers making more than $30,000 a year just in standby pay. >> oh, i'll go back. >> one of the of the things is the type of classification departments that tried and

specifically, one thing i want to emphasize -- this is in order of priority. the port has a good deal of certainty toon the cost -- to know based on the cost what will happen to access and what have you. i would like to specifically mention that the last one i described in detail, some sort of residual per dissipation, happens at the end of that after other remedies are exhausted. specifically, pierre -- pier 29 happens only after all other options have been exhausted. there's a similar but unrelated bucket of repayment options based on additional work the event authority might elect to do. again, these are signs that in the development division, we have not had a good solution for how to save them by a long term. historic assets contributed resources to the embarcadero national historic district -- they were put in the host and a new agreement originally released as a mutual opportunity. working on the san francisco waterfront, we would love for them to create a development site there and save these assets. our engineering division is warning us not to expect

because of public input, at least for the regular muni rider, they will look at something that was a specific amount that group. making sure that the community out -- is done before we start saying this is what we're going to do -- outreach is done before we start saying this is what ever going to do. that is an important point. commissioner avalos? commissioner avalos: you had a process with the community that led to a broadening of the scope of the project, but what were the internal decisions within the sfmta that led to a rail replacement project to a complete street project? was there a decision made by the board of directors? approval of the project outside of project management that led to the broadening of that scope? >> the project was approved by the mta board, but you are touching on something that is another fundamental opportunity at this audit helps to point out. part of what made this a complete streets project was not just the outreach to the community, but the prophecies of the mta, transit folks, talking to the streets folks. this is why the mta was put together. creating a

the board specifically made that request to the commission. it might be a good idea to schedule the hearing, have a discussion, and then see how you want to proceed. >> no. 5, i wanted to mention a housing trust fund that commissioner more attention. there was a meeting just before this meeting that the mayor sponsored was several supervisors, and scorto set up e housing trust fund. he has asked me to be on the trust fund. we will be looking at a number of alternatives for funding the affordable housing with the goal of getting something on the ballot in the fall. obviously this is especially important in light of the disillusionment of the relati tt fund. and so that is a substantial loss of funding that we're looking to see if we can make up as part of this process. we will continue to update on the trust fund as well. i did want to give you a little bit of information about the redevelopment agency situation. as you know, the california supreme court upheld a minute 26 which requires the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. they struck

i have legal counsel here for more specifics. the use for medical institutions concerned with in that building under 7000 square feet, so it does not negatively impact our project, but it meets community concern to create intensification of use in that area to ensure that future uses are compatible with the neighboring community. >> and i want to add that this compromise came from concerns from neighbors from india basin. there were concerned it was too large. i also would like to give -- matt, if you can come back up real quick. supervisor mar raised a question about the particular it s -- particulates and if this is the help the area to build such a center addressing health issues among the most vulnerable youth. could you talk about the planning department examination? >> the planning department, in our analysis under ceqa, they looked at the, sort of the land use changes generally, and found that there was no impacts under ceqa that this subject, the land uses, with impact. with the understanding that any specific project tha