the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. my name is scott wiener. i'm the chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair, and to my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee. thank you to sfgtv staff, jennifer low and [speaker not understood] for broadcasting today's meeting. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the march 12 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. and for members of the public who are wishing to speak on a particular item, there are blue cards in the front. if you would fill one out if you haven't done so already, indicating the agenda item for which you'd like to speak, that would be helpful. madam clerk, can you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance amending planning and administrative codes, to correct errors, and make language revisions and updates; revise graphics to be consistent

the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. my name is scott wiener. i am the chairman of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair, and supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee will be joining us shortly. i want to thank sfgtv and specifically nona melkonian and caroline luber for broadcasting today's committee hearing. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 2nd board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay, thank you. and we're going to pass over items 1 and 2 for the moment and start with item number 3. >> item number 3 is a resolution adopting a freeway agreement with the california department of transportation (caltrans) for a portion of state highway route 101 from south van ness avenue to golden gate avenue; and authorizing official acts related thereto. >> ms. devine from the department of public works. ~ 101 >> good afternoon. this resolut

meeting of the board of supervisors neighborhood services and safety committee, my name is david campos and i am the chair of the committee. on my left is norman yee and in route is the committee vice chair supervisor eric mar. we at 57 new montgomery street. welcome to the meeting of this committee and if i may begin by asking the applicant to come forward and i apologize if i mispronounce the name. is the applicant here. unless there is an objection let's continue this item for later in the meeting and go to item number two >> to consider the issuance of a type 42 on-sale beer and wine license to mark e. rennie for good oel ink, at the beer cafe located in 34 mason street. >> this is another application in district six, if i could ask the applicant and charles (inaudible) and so if you could come forward and welcome to the committee, if you could briefly tell us about what you are trying to do and sort of why this should be approved. >> all right. >> thanks mr. chair. supervisors my name is mark, and i am here with chuck (inaudible) who is the pry pry tore of not just 34 mason but has two world renowned beer cafes in both walnut creek and oakland. this particular location is a hi

the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. my name is scott wiener. i'm the chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair and to my left is supervisor david chiu. sfgtv staff who are recording today's meeting are jessie larson and nona markonian. thank you to sfgtv. ms. miller, are are there any announcements? >> please make sure cell phones and electronic devices are. completed cards [speaker not understood]. items acted upon today will be on the march 19th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk, will you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance approving exceptions to requirements of the seismic safety loan program under the administrative code and the sslp program regulations, regarding a $2,379,464 loan for an existing affordable housing project at the hotel isabel located at 1091 mission street. >> thank you. and supervisor kim is the author of this legislation. >> thank you, chair wiener. this is basically -- we are asking for an exception to our seismic safety loan program -- deferred extended loan program. hotelies isabel is one of

the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee committee. i am scott wiener the chairman of the committee. to my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee and vice-chairsor jane kim will be joining us momentarily. we did convene at 10:00 a.m. this morning and heard item no. 1, which we continued and then went into recess until now. so madame clerk, would you please call item no. 2. >> an ordinance amending the planning code by adding section 249.70. >> thank you. and item no. 2, the author is supervisor david chiu. supervisor chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair and i want to thank you for scheduling today's consideration of a suded is at site of the pagato palace. the pagota theater site which has been a blighted site for almost two decades. by way of a little bit of background we have come a long way since this issue was first brought to our attention late last spring when hi office got a surprising call the same day as the first community meeting to provide details about the proposed construction on columbus avenue. in 2008, the plan to extract the tunnel-boring machines in north beach was approached by the sfmta and the planning

the vice chair. i am very honored in serving as the vice chair, and now for my -- excuse me, for my second appointment i am very interested in the transportation committee, and i would like to continue as the vice chair for the san francisco transportation authority. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning commissioners. i am jackie sax. i have been on the committee since 97. i worked with mr. flanagan for the last two years. he's done an excellent job filling in when our chair could not attend the meetings, that sort of thing, and i strongly support him being repointed. he's an excellent job. he know what is he's doing. he knows what he's talking about and he's lead the meetings very well and i urge you to reappoint him. >> thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. colleagues, are there any comments? supervisor -- or commissioner kim. >> thank you. actually i was looking at the packet and i didn't see joseph flanagan's reapplication. does he need to reapply? he doesn't. great. that was my question. i wanted to respond to public comment and as you know district six gained tho

the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday march 13, 2013. my name is mark farrell, i will xw chairing this committee, joined by supervisor eric mar, the vice chair, supervisor avalos, supervisor breed and supervisor scott wiener, i will like to thank sfgtv covering this meeting, as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. do we have any announcements? >> yes, please silence all phones and electronic devices, items acted upon today will appear on the march 19, 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much, and colleagues, we have two items on today's agenda, please call item number 1. >> hear tog receive an update from the controller's office on the city's five-year financial plan. >> and we have ms. howard here, the mayor's budget director to talk to item number 1. >> hi, supervisors, thank you for having me here today to talk about the city's proposed five year plan, i have a presentation that i have distributed to you and will be walking you through that presentation, i'm happy to take questions during the presentation or at the end. what i thought i would cover today, just a quick reminder

the homeland security department. in 45 minutes, tom price, budget committee vice chair discusses the debate over

the advisory committee. >> yes. i apologize commissioners that our chair, our vice-chair couldn't make it. so you got me instead. we on our agenda have three of your action items all of this pass unanimously. we had no. 4 support our approval by county transportation study final report. we probably would have had more discussion on that had friend, still a member of our committee, but she isn't. she may yet show up here to talk about it today. we also had your item no. 5 which is a total of $960,000 in funds for 5 different projects, 3 for d p w, san francisco state and cal trans. we pass that had unanimously with minimal discussion and the last one we had was 2013 prop case strategic plan and 5 year prioritization plan and pass that had with a minimum amount of discussion, although the 5 programs funded under 5 k lrt, cal train exception the driver replacement only the glert is not. we are disappointed to hear that. the majority of our discussion was not on your agenda was an update of pedestrian strategy of mpa director for sustainable streets gave a presentation. we are a little disappointed that as a committ

the parks programs, working with parks and rec. i feel like i've really been able to make a difference and serving as a committee officer, vice-chair, and hope to continue doing so or possibly moving up to chair if my colleagues would agree to that idea. so, i regularly have conversations with the controller, controller's office staff, city departments across the city and i feel like we've been able to accomplish meaningful reforms that advance our oversight mission. one brief example, since i started on the committee, there have been a couple of people who have come and spoken at every meeting i've attended about the status of their whistleblower complaints. and this is meaningful to them because they're claiming retaliation. they say, we lost our jobs because we were whistleblowers for the city. now, the cgobot committee does not directly oversee whistleblower ethics, [speaker not understood]. we oversee the entire whistleblower program. i had a call for hearings. members of the controller's office come and speak about why is there a backlog of complaints? what is taking so long to resolve these complaints that are filed on the w

the bottom of this. marcia blackburn, vice chair of the energy and commerce committee, thanks for coming in.is this about? from what i understand, there is a special tax built into the health care law on thicks that are considered medical devices and the pump ands that make them. how could my smart phone be a medical device? >> of course, they are looking for anything that is moving that they can regulate and then tax. and medical devices have a 2.3% tax. that is written into kare-11 -- well, back in july, 2011, we got some instruction from the fda that they were looking at regulating mobile medical applications as a medical device. and they're looking at anything that is attached to a current medical device or any portable applications for diabetes or monitoring your blood pressure. they want to throw that in the mix and say, this is a medical device. therefore, we can regulate it and therefore we can tax it. it is going to drive up the cost to consumers. tell drive up the cost of your cell phone. >> shannon: i thought the whole idea was to lower the cost of health care and to provide bette

host: now joining us is representative tom price, member of the budget committee. he is vice chair a member of the ways and means tax writing committee. if you would, starts by bringing us up-to-date on where the house is when it comes to the continuing resolution and the 2014 budget. guest: the continuing resolution which funds the government was passed out of the house a couple of weeks ago. the senate has been dealing with that. they passed it last evening. it is back in the house, and we will likely pass that today, which is good news because one of the things that we included was the spending reduction, the appropriate spending reduction so we can try to get this economy back on track. excitingt is an activity that is been on the house floor these past two days. we will likely pass that out of the house of representatives today. this is a budget by paul ryan that will allow us to get to balance. that means the government will stop sending more money than it takes in by the end of the decade, which is really exciting. what that allows us to do is to get the economy rolling, job

the committee to make policy recommendations to congress. as the 37th chairman of the committee. i want to congratulation senator amy on becoming vice chair and welcome new and returning members to the committee. i would like to introduce our new members. representative of minute, of new york, senator roger of mississippi senator of connecticut. and representative john of maryland. while the united states confronts many problems our most vexing economic challenge is the growth gap and how we close it. the growth gap between this economic recovery and others is significant and intensifies our problems. the growth gap has two interrelated aspects. first by economic measures remains the weakest among recoveries since world war ii. second, our economy's potential to grow over time has slowed. if true, the average rate of growth and private job creation during this recovery of 2.1% annually and 175,000 new jobs per month are about as good as our economy will ever perform in the future and that is unacceptable. therefore, it's appropriate the first hearing the committee should address this growth gap. while i have job creation have remained wea

the republican from georgia. vice chair of the budget committee. nice to see you, sir. they call it a charm offensive. white house who said this. this is a joke, waiting the president's time in hours. i hope are you all in the media happy because we are doing it for you. the white house official is not speaking accurately. do you think it's a waste of time. the charm offensive is actually kind of disjen white houingenuo? >> there has to be trust on both sides. we will welcome the president to the capitol today, we look forward to what he has to say. this has to be more than one step this is the first step in a long process of getting together and working together to find the common ground so we can solve the incredible challenges we have in this country. >> what would you like him to say in the first step? what would you feel good about if he laid it out for you today? >> i hope it's just that. the policy differences are real and not going to be solved by one meeting. i hope what the president says is that i understand that republicans have the majority in the house. it's clear that we need to get tog

there be 90 minutes for debate with 30 minutes under the control of the chair and one hour under the control of the vice chair of the intelligence committee. with 30 minutes of the vice chair's time urn the control of senator paul -- under the control of senator paul. following the use or yielding back of that time on the nomination, the senate proceed to vote on the cloture motion. if cloture is invoked, the senate proceed to vote on confirmation of the nomination with no intervening action or debate. further, that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with to intervening action or debate, and no further motions be in order to the nomination, that president obama be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate resume legislative session. mr. president, before i hear from my friends on the consent, i have no problem if people want to talk for long times, no problem. i have done that a time or two in my days, but i think that the rest of the body needs to know if we're going to finish tonight or tomorrow or the next day. so my consent request is pretty direct. we would have 90 more minutes of deba

where the current vice president, joe biden, was chair of the senate foreign relations committee.th one of the former heads of the u.n. in iraq begging joe biden to call him as a witness to talk about the lack of wmds in iraq. they refused. so there are key members of this administration, the secretary of state, john kerry, the vice president, joe biden, who also have to answer for their role in this. people like wolfowitz, cheney, rumsfeld, should not be given any kind of honor in this society. they should be held accountable for the u.s. soldiers that were killed and i think it's many more than 100,000 iraqis that were killed. >> i'm sure. mike, former bush speechwriter david frumm has written a column in which he reveals long conversations held in 2002 with dick cheney. according to frumm, the two men talked less about promoting democracy and how iraq might become a source of oil to the united states. mike, was cheap oil really at the heart of this invasion? >> you know, i wouldn't go that far, martin, but i would say that fears that the persian gulf could be disrupted by sadda

american urban radio network, tracy blunts, the senior vice president for corporate communications and public affairs. and don larsen, the speaker committee chairsenior vice president with the msl group. thank you so much for organizing this today. todd brown, who is a guest and a speaker. is a he is a member of the national press club board of governors. and aski mohammad and john doyle, ceos of the principle number. i'm grateful that you could be here today. [applause] >> our guests today include the first billionaire, the first african-american on the new york stock exchange come in the first black majority owner of a professional sports team. robert johnson founded black entertainment television, which he sold to bet and viacom in 2001 for about $3 billion. mr. johnson has made his fortune targeting a black urban audience first-out bet, the nation's first television network to provide entertainment and music and news and sports and public affairs programming for an african-american audience. after its 1980 debut, the company went public in 1991 with bet channels reach about 90% of all black households with cable. he sold it to viacom seven

the nation. racial oswald, staff writer at global security and a vice chair of the press club press freedom committee. ram writer, editor and senior vice president of the american journalism review and columnist for "usa today." marilyn thompson, washington bureau chief. lewis clark, president of the government accountability office. skipping over the podium, alison fitzgerald a freelance journalist in the committee chair at committee chair and organizer today's event. thank you, alison. john donnelly, senior writer at congressional quarterly and chairman of the press club's freedom committee. josh rogan, a senior staff writer at foreign policy magazine. al isley, founding editor and editor at large at the hill newspaper in a press club member since 1965. charles lewis, executive editor of the investigative reporting workshop and professor at american university. [applause] two years ago, our destiny was accused by the u.s. justice department of espionage. air force veteran and longtime senior executive at the national security agency was accused of giving classified documents to a news reporter. tho

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the federal budget. we heard from house budget committee vice-chairman tom price and jerrold nadler. this is an hour. host: now joining us is representative tom price, vice chairf the budget committee. also a member of the ways and means tax writing committee. if you would, start by bringing us up to date on where the house is when it comes to the continuing resolution to the 2014 budget. guest: the budget was passed out of the house a couple of weeks ago. the senate has been dealing with that. is the pathanding that last evening. it is back in the house and people like the past that today. it is good news. one of the things we included with the approach with spending reductions. the budget is an exciting activity that is been on the house floor these past two days. we will likely pass that out of the house of representatives today. this is a budget by paul ryan that will allow us to get to balance. that means the government will stop sending more money than it takes in by the end of the decade, which is really exciting. what that allows us to do is to get the economy rolling, jobs being created and provide more certainty so young people coming out of college