if you are here to speak on those matters, wait until the appropriate time. other than that, let's hear from our first speaker. >> thank-you, supervisors. i handed in a letter that was supposed to be distributed. last week, i discussed the big fraud which was the failure to disclose the use of public resources to support public fund-raising. the bigger fraud is the fraud that works. the public-private partnerships depend upon secrecy in the act of subversion of democracy. the bigger fraud are the facts that remain hidden. 11 years of reports are required to be submitted to the state attorney general to see if the friends of the library have had an income of $40 million. we have also shown that incredible disclosures or administrative code, those 11 years, friends of the library gained $4.9 million for any purpose. when the friends of the library appeared regarding a memorandum of understanding back in 2000, the disclosures show that france acted as a fiscal agent for outside groups and the vast majority who were taking credit for grants or requests over which

the appropriations bills are not partisan in nature. if there are differences in the 302-b's, they would be worked out in conference, which is the way we did it for years. we have followed the regular order occasionally, and when we have, senators have been involved. they were relevant in the process. i'll give you five examples. the export-import bank reauthorization, trade adjustment assistance, patent reform, f.a.a. reauthorization, the highway bill, and the farm bill were all examples of when senators were made relevant by the fact that we took up bills that actually came out of committees that were worked on by members of both parties, that were brought up on the floor, amendments were offered and in the end bills passed. the core problem here is my good friend, the majority leader, as a practical matter is running the whole senate because everything is centralized in his office which diminishes the opportunity for senators of both parties to represent their constituents. we all were sent here by different americans who expected us

the honor filed a permit, paid the appropriate -- the owner filed a permit, paid the appropriate investigation fees. at this point, based on our administrative code, from our perspective, the issuance of the permit is an ministerial act. when all pertinent departments approvals are in compliance, we shall issue the permit. in this case, it was disapproved by planning. normally, for this type of alteration, we would look at the proper exiting and ensure that it meant the building code. providing the land use limitations and the zoning restrictions are complied with as well. in our case, we would wait for a determination based on planning. clearly, the interest of the department is of attaining compliance. >> does your data base show nsr's or variances or anything? >> this was one of the permits that was same day review in terms of over the counter. all of that process took place for us on that one day, the 25th, and then it went on to planning on the 29th. >> thank you. president hwang: we can take public comment now. >> i live at 79 montezuma's streets. i am here to try to persuade you not to

the appropriations bills are not partisan in nature. if there are differences in the 302-b's, they would be worked out in conference, which is the way we did it for years. we have followed the regular order occasionally, and when we have, senators have been involved. they were relevant in the process. i'll give you five examples. the export-import bank reauthorization, trade adjustment assistance, patent reform, f.a.a. reauthorization, the highway bill, and the farm bill were all examples of when senators were made relevant by the fact that we took up bills that actually came out of committees that were worked on by members of both parties, that were brought up on the floor, amendments were offered and in the end bills passed. the core problem here is my good friend, the majority leader, as a practical matter is running the whole senate because everything is centralized in his office which diminishes the opportunity for senators of both parties to represent their constituents. we all were sent here by different americans who expected us

we are well into the 2013 appropriations cycle. we do not yet have a proposal from the budgetary advisers that would increase the budget. if the house subcommittee position is enacted, we must have a real cut. that is the high end of the spectrum right now. so unless something changes, then a new position gets introduced. the school to -- fiscal year 2013 will be lower than fiscal year 2012. romney has faced that position. he did so relatively firmly as part of the primary. the primary is over and already you see language changing from within his camp about exactly how that would be implement it, how quickly that would be implemented. wings of that nature. all that has the effect of softening the position. he has to campaign on it and find a way to establish his campaign for president. this is a way to do it. he certainly seems to be emphasizing indifferently then during the primary session. the last observation is that these pressures are not going away, as steven said, irrespective of who is president. when you challenge those pre

the specifics are that are can be worked out by the appropriate agencies. i am confident it will be supported by the state, federal, local departments. i think we're probably finished. one more question? if not, thank you very much. >> if you want to get more information on mitt romney's role in the 2002 winter games in south lake -- salt lake city. you can watch this and all of our campaign programming on c- span.org/campaign2012. >> this morning, the house is in at 10:00 eastern and legislative work begins at noon which included measured by congressman ron paul but would subject the federal reserve to outside auditors. on c-span 2, the senate will begin work on a measure that would temporarily extend the bush-era tax cuts. on c-span 3, the head of the nuclear regulatory commission will testify about his safety regulations. she will be joined by her fellow commission members before a joint house energy and fed committee. coming up in about 45 minutes, maryland congressman chris van hollen is the top democrat of the budget committee to talk about finance leg

yes, we think it's imminently feasible to get started on this. >> in the proposal, in the appropriations bill, of course, any site that's chosen even as a pilot site would have to be approved by the congress. in other words, a law would have to be passed. so -- so i would guess that the law that would be passed would be the comprehensive next step forward. from your company's point of view, how would such moving ahead with such a consolidation site affect the yankee companies? >> well, as i indicated, there are any number of steps that need to take place. for example, a transportation task doesn't yet exist, for example. the department of energy would need to provide a transportation cask to move our material. all of this -- there are years of lead time to do this. and so our -- i mean, our sense is that there are things that can be done within existing authority of the department of energy to get started on this track with the hope that congress, in fact, will make the needed changes to the nuclear waste policy act to allow this to move forward. >> mr. wright, do you -- do you agree or

young: this is the defense appropriations bill for 2013. it has been drawn with the cooperation of republicans and the democrats on the subcommittee, the democrats led by norm dicks and norm and i have worked together for so many years making sure that these defense appropriations bills were strictly nonpolitical. no politics in defense appropriations. and there should not be. investment in our national defense should be based on the threat to the united states and what does it take to protect against that threat and what does it take to protect the men and women who provide for that national defense. i want to compliment mr. dicks for having worked together with each other so well regardless of who was in the majority for 35 years, mr. dicks, and i just want to recognize this will be the last bill, defense appropriations bill, that mr. dicks will preside over on the floor because he is seeking retirement at the end of the term. this committee will miss mr. dicks, the house will miss mr. dicks. the congress will miss mr. dicks. the country w

frelinghuysen, for his work and on the appropriations side. this is an important issue and this really goes to the heart of our national security. my amendment does nothing, by the way, to prohibit the implementation of new start. but the thing that's important here, there are those who talk about nonproliferation, and i think we are all wanting nuclear weapons to be restricted and to stop their growth. but there's a difference between nonproliferation, the disarmament of the united states. only the united states is reducing our nuclear weapons. in new start, russia wasn't required to reduce at all. only the united states were to reduce. you have india, you have pakistan, you have iran and north korea. north korea, already a nuclear weapons state, iran seeking nuclear weapons, and both of those nations seeking icbm technology for the purse of placing the united states at risk. secretary gates saying north korea is becoming an absolute threat to mainland united states with the nuclear weapons, the icbm technology. we can only be confident that o

nine of the 12 appropriations bills are ready for the senate to consider. in other words, they have been all the way through the process. they're ready for the senate to consider. only the majority leader can bring them to the floor. yet he said two weeks ago suddenly no appropriations bills this year. that's 38% of the budget. that's more than $1 trillion. that's our job to do. it's the way we control spending. yet we're not even going to deal with it, mr. president. so this morning we're going to talk about the consequences of that and hope that the majority leader will change his mind, bring these bills to the floor. the house is doing its job. 11 of theirs are ready for house action and the house passed six. while they may be at a different spending level than we are we have a procedure for dealing with that called the conference, which is the way we deal with tk-frpbss between -- differences between the two houses. suddenly we're saying no budget, no appropriations bills. that's why we're on the floor today. i'd like to begin by asking the senator from

it doesn't neen need to be in the appropriations bills any longer. we have no objections to the gentleman's amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. who seeks time? question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from michigan. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the ayes have it. the amendment is adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. baca of california. page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount insert the following, reduced by $10 million. page 32, line 18, after the dollar amount insert the following, increased by $10 million. the chair: is there objection to considering the amendment at this point in the reading? >> i reserve the right to object. mr. young: i will say this is a little unusual for us to agree to do this. but in this one c

we are before you today to request the approval of the appropriation of the last amount of funding/#z upgrade and improvements project. that is a really exciting thing to say to you today. i do have a brief power point. i will walk you through it one more time. of course, we are talking about the veterans building which is across the street on van ness ave. this is the home of a number of very historic of fenc events in. history. we have a number of current programs that go on this building. i importantly, the theater which has over 300 performances each year. the green room host about 200 events each year. we currently have a temporary city offices on the third and fourth floor. the building has a large number of deficiencies. there is a lack of a fire alarm system and sprinkler system on the entire first through third floors. we have an aging building system. they are dated 1917. our building systems of electrical and mechanical are an adequate for today's activities. the project that we are undertaking certainly first and foremost is the seismic earthquake and seismic damage repair

he was always in the appropriate uniform with the right patches and everything else. his identification identifies himself as a patrol special. one of the things i mentioned before, this other issue is, is see misrepresenting himself? i want to remind you of an argument i made, for some reason although it seems to be a big deal he went to a gunshot, for some reason the lieutenant went to a gun shop but never went to the specialist themselves. the rules talk about the weapons they are entitled to have. it does not say anything about on list or off list weapons. they can have a semi-automatic pistol. the evidence shows it is an anomaly in the law. it is actually unlawful for the weapon to be sold, not for him to own a weapon because that testimony is the department knows he uses the weapon. he qualifies at the range with these weapons. he is entitled to use them. the point she is making that would be evidence of official conduct, out of him misrepresenting himself by his confusion that he is not a peace officer. i do not think there is evidence of that. to revoke you wo

the appropriations bills are not partisan in nature. f there are differences in the 302-b's, they would be worked out in conference, which is the way we did it for years. we have followed the regular order occasionally, and when we have, senators have been involved. they were relevant in the process. i'll give you five examples. the export-import bk mentexport-import bk ..nce, patent reform, f.a.a. reauthorization, the highway bill, and the farm bill were all examples of when senators were made relevant by the fact that we took up bills that actually came out of committees that were worked on by members of both parties, that were brought up on the floor, amendments were offered and in the end bills passed. the core problem here is my good friend, the majority leader, as a practical matter is running the whole senate because everything is centralized in his office which diminishes the opportunity for senators of both parties to represent their constituents. we all were sent here by different americans who expected us to have a voice, to h

the fees offset appropriations and congress is not faced with the dilemma of needing to cut other programs in order to fund something that's being paid for by fees. this is really critical because i think that the community really wants to have confidence that the facility will receive adequate funding. the final element was that the office in its 30 year history never had a single director who served for more than two years. in other words, there was a lack of continuity of leadership that if you think about the process to have the leader of an organization go into local community and them knowing that that person is not likely to be around, say, in 18 months also would be a really serious problem. so this is another reason why we think some type of new organization does need to be created to take on these responsibilities to have the continuity of leadership that can give confidence to local communities that the federal government ultimately will live up to its obligations. >> okay. those are very helpful answers. thank you very much. let me yield to senator udall. a jr. senator for now

i would like to request the continuance of this item to be able to know what the appropriate hours might be. had to get a clear sense of the precautions. i think i can propose july 31 as a reasonable amount of time. the target did reach out to us. i wasn't able to take that time to get those. president chiu: a motion to continue takes precedence over motion to amend, but let me ask if there is objection. the motion to continue, is there a second? any objection to the motion to continue? this item will be continued to the thirty first of this month. and with that, why don't we skipped over the special orders. roll call. supervisor wiener: a couple things. first, today, i am introducing substitute legislation relating to student housing. it has come back from the planning commission and there has been a thorough and thoughtful public discourse about the legislation. the substantive legislation reflects a lot of that dialogue. i am also submitting an in memoriam for scott cho that memoriam for scott cho that passed away on may 3.

that was how we determined that west sunset was the appropriate location. and west sunset was identified as the environmentally superior alternative. with regard to the hybrid concept that is being proposed, that is one that we feel, is essentially, as mr. louis mansion, combines components of other alternatives that were analyzed in the eir. we did have a grass turf and reduced lights alternative, which obviously without lights would be within that period we did have that, and concluded that that would avoid a significant impact on the historic resource to do that. pulled together, these alternatives would meet the ceqa requirement of reducing or avoiding the significant impact of the project. with regard to evaluation of the alternative against the project objectives, that is information you need to provide in the eir, but the alternative was not rejected on the basis of the number of play hours that it would or would not accomplish. overall, we feel the eir adequately addressed, for the requirements of ceqa, the west sunset alternative, and in turn the hy

that was how we determined that west sunset was the appropriate location. and west sunset was identified as the environmentally superior alternative. with regard to the hybrid concept that is being proposed, that is one that we feel, is essentially, as mr. louis mansion, combines components of other alternatives that were analyzed in the eir. we did

basic to the good of appropriateness was required for the work. in appraising a proposal for certificate of appropriateness, the historic preservation commission considered the factors of architectural style, design, arrangement, texture materials, color, and other pertinent factors. section 1,006.7 of the planning code provides a relevant part as follows. the proposed work shall be appropriate for a consistent with the a fluctuation of the purposes of article 10 of the planning code. the proposed work shall be compatible with the historic structure in terms of designed materials, for, scale, and location. the project will not detract from the architectural character. for all the exterior and interior were proposed, reasonable efforts have been made to preserve and enhance or restore and not to damage or destroy the exterior architectural features of the subject property which contribute to its significance. as we typically do, for today's hearing, we will hear from the appellant to up -- have up to 10 moments in told to describe the grounds for ap

the gate open. it seemed appropriate. several months later, received another complaint to indicate what -- it was closed and locked. we went out there and we issued a notice of violation. at that point, the notice required them to acquire appropriate complete -- and complete the process. the applicant came back to us and inquired as to other similar alleyways. there was an emergency order to temporarily gate off the right of way. they approached the department and presented documentation at that point for a permit to close this alleyway. we had requested additional information from the police department and the fire department that the request would be appropriate. we did receive that notification. we continued to process the permit. in the meantime we had a director's hearing to review the notice of violation the department issued. >> in april 2012? >> that is correct. the hearing for whatever reason we cannot ascertain, the applicant did not show up to the hearing. the hearing officer to look at testimony, understood the

i believe that appraisers are fully capable of gaining necessary competence if they're given the appropriate and the necessary time to spend in a market, interview the folks necessary to gather market information, and given the time necessary to appropriately complete the appraisal report. >> but even a very competent appraiser who is given just one job in some community he doesn't know -- he's only paid a few hundred dollars, so he can't spend hours and hours studying everything that a competent appraiser -- if he's only going to do one appraisal in that neighborhood, he's probably going to miss some things. >> i agree. i think the uniform standard of professional appraisal practice provides the appraiser guidance with what to do in such circumstance and that is to decline the assignment. i believe that we have to hold appraisers to that standard. they have to know when it is appropriate for them to accept an assignment and when it is appropriate for them to decline the assignment. >> if i can squeeze in one more question. how are appraisals and valuations affecting the housing recovery or

i would like to request the continuance of this item to be able to know what the appropriate hours might be. had to get a clear sense of the precautions. i think i can propose july 31 as a reasonable amount of time. the target did reach out to us. i wasn't able to take that time to get those. president chiu: a motion to continue takes precedence over motion to amend, but let me ask if there is objection. the motion to continue, is there a second? any objection to the motion to continue? this item will be continued to the thirty first of this month. and with that, why don't we skipped over the special orders.

to find the appropriate compromise so we can get on to the next problem. >> would you like to bring us up-to-date on california? maybe give us a sneak preview of the may revise briefly. >> where selling bonds and we're not disclosing materials between now and then. we just have to wait. it will be interesting. that i promise you. the basic fact is california increased its production of wealth, the state of 38 million people and all businesses. the economy is somewhat under $2 trillion. there is dynamic wealth creation in many respects. since the time i was last governor, a lot of people and businesses have moved elsewhere or the have died, gone out of business. also, a lot of people have moved here by the millions. we have 38 million people. people thought the green was here a and we have -- and we have all kinds of businesses. twitter, google, zynga, it is pretty incredible. what has happened. a lot of things going on. our budget, we have a mess, i inherited a budget deficit of $26 billion. we have cut that substantially. from the mortgage meltdown that occurred because of the bad dec

the director believes that continued closure without providing access would not be appropriate and he decided that he directed the applicant to open the gate during daylight hours. had the department known about the accessibility issues, we would have worked with the applicant to find a way to provide the access she seeks. one thing to remember is the intent for this gate is to restrict or deny access to the general public whereas she is asking for reasonable accommodations. it appears to be somewhat of a contradiction in the intent of the permit. what the department is insuring is one is ms. utt's request for redress. a sheet asking to overturn and have the gate removed, or to hold the department and direct as to make adjustments to the permit to provide reasonable accommodation? we do not know at this point and we will seek guidance from the sport at this point. i am here to answer any questions that you may have. >> looking at the gate, except for any type of bar across the bottom and there is a limitation on the height of any threshold for ada, i'm not sure that this date is not -