tier three, tier four, tier five. tier four is the extent to which we have -- maybe in my head the way i think of it, the total extent of all the mitigation measures proposed in this e.i.r. and what the city is planning to do. and then tier five is that last piece that is unfunded at the moment. is that a fair description? >> peter albert from m.t.a. what i would actually -- i'd like to reinforce that important description of what we've done with the analysis. the m.t.a., having the opportunity to look at the area of the project, if there were no development, helped us virbleize the potential minutes if we had to develop and had to provide the service as we do. i do want to emphasize how important the congestion is on the reeblet of our service. tiers one through four looked at what what would happen with successive layers of development. looked at the development over the span of 20 years. tiers two and three said let's look at the numbers that the projects -- some of them aren't entitled. we looked at 800 brotherhoo

tier 5 is entirely schematic. no commitments have been made, and that process that peter was outlining is the more thorough, targeted, and strategic outreach. what happened is we had a sort of spontaneous neighborhood group saying, "please come talk to us. tell us about what this is." we will make every effort to reach out to all affected communities as part of the strategic process, but back to the details. to let all of you know how real this possibility is. supervisor elsbernd, at the beginning of the presentation when we were talking about are selling and selling of the original site, we had an important one that bears repeating. when those parcels were purchased, they were gone forever from our tax will -- tax roll. all of that tax base was gone forever. what is so exciting here is the ability to leverage the new tax base, again, combined with private improvements, to submit a substantial local match and to far exceed any competition we would likely have in the bay area and a track those transit dollars. the

tier two has about a layer on top of that. we layer all those numbers, but we did not put their transportation solutions in the mix. we just looked at the numbers of jobs and housing, and then we studied the quota and saw that it actually got more congested. transit slowed down more. we went to tier 3, and we, as public agencies, all have recommendations and designs on the corridor. we lay those on top. we put that in the mix and saw that it did not make that much difference in level of service. but then, which and tier four, which is all the recommendations i have described, plus the improvements that the project sponsors propose themselves. we did see some benefit there. when i talked about the new intersections opening up, what we saw was the level of service passing, meaning suddenly, those extra intersections help disperse the traffic and reduce the pressure on one interception. what i would like to make it what about here more than anything is the limits of level of service measures. it is not an indication of pedestrian

our tier three train g training. think general casey would remain with moderate risk only because we're not far enough in our training to change that. >> thank you. general amos. >> chairman, you remember the results of the survey that came back for the marine corps and it was well above the 50 percentile from our combat forces that had concerns about unit cohesion and come bat affe-- combat effectiv. i had an opportunity to report that in my testimony. i traveled around the marine corps. in fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, joh

4 and tier 5? if there is any clarifications, it is the bigger picture. supervisor mar: if there are no other questions, as i said at the beginning of the meeting, there are another important dates. the planning department will introduce a number of the development agreement and a number of ordnances amending the zoning map the general plan and planning code. there may be an additional optional hearing on may 23. on may 24, the board of supervisors -- it was continued, nihothe eir > . we will hear the first reading of the ordinances. those are key dates coming up in several weeks. if there are no other questions, can we continue this item to the call of the chair? thank you, everyone for coming in and testifying as well. are there other items before us? with no other items, the meeting is adjourned. thank you.

. >> just in california, the majority of private insurers are using these tier 4's and whatever happens in medicare happens in private insurance. when i was looking at the private plans especially in california you are seeing the majority of plans have put in tier four plans. >> the wide range of illnessesis change, cancer, arthritis, even hemophilia organ transplants. >> if you have to pay for it. why bother transplanting to begin with. >> 61% of americans put some sort of prescription medication take it a day. so it is alarming when health plans are reclassifying drugs into to a tier four category. >> assemblywoman is proposing legislation in california to prevent health insurers from moving vital medications to tier four status. >> we're trying to ensure that patients are able to afford the medication they need. so we are going to look at a system as well as a cost containment for individuals on medication. >> what the cost is for a given drug starts with the manufacturer. we ought to look there and both the health plan and the individual have roles to play in contributing to the cos

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tiering would be up to 1 million gallons over, it would be 50%. over 5 million will be traveling the rate -- tripling the rate. considering our current usage of water, it seems highly unlikely that we will ever get into this. but this contract requires us to have a rate. >> the next steps, i will provide the commission had water sale of a 4 april that will be in advance of the maid had adoption. the public hearing is scheduled for may 10. at that time, if approved, the surcharge legislation will be forwarded to the board of supervisors for adoption. this also tease us up for the investor briefings and presentation reviews in june and july for the bond sale. we look forward to another successful bond sale. president vietor: thank you. questions? comments? mr. jensen. >> art jensen, think you, commissioners. let me start by saying that this is a delicate issue to address. the agency's of a wholesale basis, there are different opinions from time to time. they have certain things in common. the also desire or require certainty. they also issue bonds.

vice president marshall: really quickly, there is one item we can take off, and that is the third tier on shooting moving vehicles. secretary lt. falvey: we did it. vice president marshall: ok. commissioner hammer? commissioner hammer: i think what commissioner slaughter said, we reviewed a large number of candidates, and we referred names to the mayor, who hopefully soon will pick somebody, and then he or she can be in their leadership. i do think some of these items -- of the commission. for instance, surveillance activities. " -- whatever the next chief things of that, we have a duty, and especially, for instance, in the muslim community in san francisco for it to feel that it is not targeted, as it has dealt in the past. looking at our top priorities in accordance with the retreat, commissioner kingsley, and perhaps when we have a chief, we can revisit it and get their input. i think we have enough were the target here and then maybe come back to this discussion. that is my suggestion. vice president marshall: commissioner dejesus? commissioner dejesus: i tend to agree with both co

conceptual plan, the top tier for child care, second for gardening and a third and fourth tier for general use and then -- president olague: thank you. we may have more questions during the deliberation. thank you. >> the president has determined that public comment will be for two minutes each. president olague: and i wanted to recognize members of the youth commission. i'm going to recognize them first. they may be in the other room. tobias serrano, naomi, accompanied by mario yadida and in the mean tomb i will call some folks' names here. brad paul. donald stroh. gary brown. >> my name is brad paul. i'm here today as an individual, as a father of an 8-year-old son, and as somebody who spent 35 years wrestling with the ideas of affordable housing in neighborhood. i have a lot of sympathy for you today. but having said that i'm here to support the project as you have seen it now in its current size. i urge you not to reduce it. not nine units, not one unit. for economic reasons, design reasons and humanitarian reasons. as jack gardner from the john stewart company said, if you reduce this

another tier has to deal with the portion of redevelopment that goes towards affordable housing. this proposes a voluntary one- year breach direction of affordable housing at 20% directly to schools. the long beach proposal gives a longer-term of the reed direction of the funds, a portion of which would go to the state to help balance the budget. another portion would go to a new statewide fund. the city of san francisco at this point has not officially gotten behind either one of those alternative proposals. i think the posture is to see if either one of those gains momentum. to see it if that will work for us. the two-tiered structure of the affordable housing component is the one that we have the most harbor around. we rely so heavily on that to produce affordable housing in the city. the real direction of those funds is a cause for pause for us. in terms of status, there has not been much action over the last couple of weeks. the reason i say there has not been that much action is that the governor has not voted to eliminate the redevelopment plan. this ended up one vote shy

one, tier two, tier three training, that will be complete.he subjective part for us will be surveys which is a formal survey. it's not a -- it's not a jump on a blog site survey. it's a real -- we bring trained people in, do a command climate survey, and then we have our earlier reteng surveys we do. those are all fixed thing we do. we'll also have input from the commander. so there are surveys. it's not a specific one to deal with this, but it will talk about marines, how they're feeling about staying on active duty in the marine corps, how is the climate in their command, which are things i'm very concerned about. to your point about retention and combat effectiveness and unit cohesion. >> congressman, i would say that we make several changes in the navy from time to time on policies and other issues. and i will tell you that at no time have i seen a continuous feedback, the continuous assessment on the part of the training that's going on to the degree that we are doing here. so i do believe that the pulse of the force is going to be monit

they indicated no issues so far in tier one and tier two training as they get ready to kick off tier three training. i think general casey would remain with moderate risk because we are not far enough in our training to change that. >> thank you. general amos? >> you remember the results of that came back from the marine corps that had concerns about unit cohesion and combat the effectiveness. i reported that in my december testimony. i have had an opportunity to visit afghanistan and travel around the marine corps. this morning, i was with our commandment -- our commander on the ground. i was looking specifically for issues that might arise come out of the tier two and tier three training. we have not seen it. there are questions about building from remains -- from marines. there has not been the anxiety over it from the forces from the field. i asked specifically this morning. i said, what are you seeing in the young marines out there? they said they are focused on the enemy. maybe they will have questions when they return to the united states of america. right now, there are focus

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six are in the top tier.hree people who admitted involvement in bout fixing were suspended for two years. >> translator: i want to apologize to the sumo association and my stable and mostly to the fans for the trouble i've caused. >> the bout-rigging scandal surfaced in february after police found text messages that show involvement of 14 wrestlers and stable masters. it forced the cancellation of the march tournament. >>> let's now take a look at the world weather forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." if you would like to help out and make a donation to the people affected by the great east earthquake, check out the red cross web site at www.jrc.or.jp/english. your contribution will be truly appreciated. "newsline" will be back with more updates soon. >>> you are watching nhk world "newsline." the operator of the fukushima daiichi power plant is stepping up the removal of the radioactive water that hinders the efforts to cool the contaminated water. the crews are trying to remove the conta

our tier three train g training. think general casey would remain with moderate risk only because we're not far enough in our training to change that. >> thank you. general amos. >> chairman, you remember the results of the survey that came back for the marine corps and it was well above the 50 percentile from our combat forces that had concerns about unit cohesion and come bat affe-- combat effectiv. i had an opportunity to report that in my testimony. i traveled around the marine corps. in fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, joh

our tier three train g training. i think general casey would remain with moderate risk only because we're not far enough in our training to change that. >> thank you. general amos. >> chairman, you remember the results of the survey that came back for the marine corps and it was well above the 50 percentile from our combat forces that had concerns about unit cohesion and come bat affe-- combat effectiv. i had an opportunity to report that in my testimony. i traveled around the marine corps. in fact this morning i was on a vtc with commander on the ground in helmand province. i'm looking specifically for issues that might arise coming out of the tier two and tier three training. to be honest with you, chairman, we've not seen it. i mean, there's questions about billeting from marines. the kinds of questions you would expect. there hasn't been the recalcitrant pushback. there's not been the anxiety over it from the forces in the field. i will tell you that i asked specifically this morning from major general, i said, j

you know, even if your station is going to cause problems with the neighbors -- >> our tier station is not amplified and therefore -- commissioner meko: they're not within our jurisdiction. >> but other than that, commissioners, i -- you know, i can't tell you in advance who's going to have a problem. but if you can eyeball the list at all. president roja: you know, it sounds reasonable to me. but yeah, commissioner perez? how are you communicating to the performing artist? to provide a rara encouragement for the runners but not necessarily to overplay themselves so that they're now disturbing the neighbors. is there some kind of orientation or message to the band so that we invite you to come here -- sometimes they're used that. but this is a different kind of event. what's your way of communication to them? >> i'm not sure if you have copies of this. if you need some, i have copies here, the commitment papers that the band has to sign before they're going to perform. do you guys need one? pass one out to you. so this year we did add a couple of items that weren't included in the past

the top tier is such a high dollar amount. >> sounds good. commissioners? any public comment on this item? >> we have no speaker cards. >> hearing none, next item. >> the next item is the presentation and discussion of the treasure island redevelopment project informational presentation. no commission action at this time. this is an informational presentation by the mayor's office of work force and economic development. >> mr. garland. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we are giving you an overview of the treasure island project. the question that arises in my mind is why do you care? you care because he will have to approve numerous documents associated with the development. they include the interagency cooperation agreements. what we will be presenting today is an overview of the project. imbedded in that, are decisions that you as the puc will make, mainly on the water and waste water side. there is also an analysis we will be performing on whether we become the power provider for treasure island. that is also in the presentation -- how power gets to the

but clearly many of our suppliers, down through tier two and tier three, get components from japan. we've been finding alternative sources. we've been using our production facilities, and moving down times around to make sure we didn't run out of parts. and so far, so good. we were able to meet our production commitments in the first quarter, and we're also increasing production in the second quarter. >> a lot of people are already talking about $5 a gallon gasoline. what impact will that have on your sales? >> i think the impact will really be be in the balance of the portfolio. we'll end up selling more small and medium-sized vehicles. susie, as we've talked in the past, we took this point of view nearly five years ago, that we all were going to pay more for energy going forward because of the demand being let out of the asian pacific economic growth. that's why we committed to a full family of vehicles, small, medium and large, and our commitment that every ford vehicle would be beflt best in class and fuel-eiciency and in design. >> when are we going to see the ford electric car

new officers will be hired at a lower wage tier than officers currently on the force. >>> tonight we're learning pg&e record keeping was called into question several years before the san bruno explosion for writing key documents in erasable ink. pg&e released the information in response to a probe of the record keeping. documents reveal authorities discovered the practice in 2007 through audits of the utility. in response, pg&e ordered all records to be written in permanent ink going forward. >>> now to a follow up, dead leopard sharks are washing ashore in redwood city. this has prompted state wildlife officials to send in an expert to determine why. a biologist from the california department of fish and game will arrive on monday. experts say leopard shark dieoffs are fairly common in the bay. causes range from water pollution to infections. there's been even speculation that redwood city's tidal gates played a role. the gates control a system of lagoons and canals and may have led to depleted oxygen levels. >>> the city council voted unanimously to close the flood-damaged pacific cov

it falls within that middle tier of san francisco neighborhoods. it is half as dense as some of the densest neighborhoods in the city, but sort of comparable to the lower haight and other middle-tier neighborhoods. taking a little bit closer look about the scale of the neighborhood and how it will be experienced once it is further built up, this is more than just about height and distribution of units. the team has taken a lot of care in drafting very specific design guidelines and standards in terms of how buildings will be articulated in used so that the buildings really feel like a residential neighborhood that has a vibrant character and the unique character we think of in terms of our best san francisco neighborhoods. there is a series of mandated building setbacks that are further articulated into a series of common landscaping setbacks and private transition zones where we would expect and enforce standards and guidelines, a series of individual stoop and townhouse entrances on all of the streets, except where there are commercial units very