yes, you need 2 exits or no you don't need 2 exits and yes, you need fire sprinklers it's good to have a preapplication meeting with fire. if you are far enough along in your space and architect and designers so you know what the questions will be. this is not a general discussion. here are the issues we would like to address. we're happy to do that and 586139 is the number to call. >> there is a cost. preapplication meetings, you know how much? >> 300. 350 dollars? something like that a few hundred dollars. >> tip 6. work with a real estate attorney and contractor when negotiating the lees or purchasing a business much this is part of developing a team. we had a talk with real estate gp development people doing the not very nice way of saying it, flipping buildings in san francisco. purchasing buildings, improving them and selling them. some ask, why does it take me 8 months and they do it in 3 months? what's the difference? the difference it turned out on lengthy discussion is they have a team, they know what they are doing. they know how to get a permit. they got the plans prepared

do you have all the resources that you need? have you collected all the material that you need if you are going to start doing a lifting exercise because someone is trapped? because you never start a rescue, you never start a lifting exercise, never start anything, unless you know you are going to be able to finish it, have enough of the resources to do it. and do you have the right equipment? you need specialized equipment? do you have access to that? maybe, maybe not. so size up, you want to establish your priorities, make your decisions. you want to come up with a plan and after you have a plan, you want to take action. remember, it's continuous fact gathering process. you want to evaluate your progress. there are 50 percent of the people can be rescued by who? this is where you come in for the next 30 percent to make it 80 percent of the people. the next 30 percent of the people can be rescued by you people. then there's another 15 percent, that's where the fire department comes in, or the sheriff's department, people who are

is there financing or -- >> do you need my help? just, you know, questions that i have in my mind about the script and whether those answers seem to jive with what i would think. >> rose: do some people come to you with projects and say, "this is great. i hope you like this. this is a great script." but they haven't gotten to the financing yet because they are in their own mind congress financing on getting you in the film and will become attached --. >> yeah. >> rose: it happens all time. >> and that's something you become reluctant to, you know, kind of just jump on board. so i'm pretty-- i'm pretty strict in terms of saying yes to something. in that regard. >> rose: this film is being seen at the tribeca film festival. >> right. >> rose: now, what made the decision to do that? is this aed any place to give some visibility to a new film? >> i think it's greet. it's an independent movie, and it has its pedigree, and this will obviously be a place where a lot of people will see the movie. and just to -- >> and get talked about. >> y

it used to say an accessible entry and now you need accessible exits as well. for new accessible for remodels red you with use the second exit. >> the lift, ironically we got a call from a client who wants to install an out door lift to get from the garage and the platform at the main level of the house. i was wondering whether wise is that allowed in san francisco. i see by the brochure of the lift manufacture they do outside lifts. i was concerned about pushing electrical butt ons on it. >> i see out door lifts in the city and they need more service but are listed and approved. >> if you want information about golden gate association can they give a call. >> 781-5348 extension one. website is ggra. org. there is hundreds of pages of data on the website. >> like to thank kevin lesly from golden gate restaurant association. thank you very much. [applause]. thank you for coming. we will see you next time.

yes, you need 2 exits or no you don't need 2 exits and yes, you need fire sprinklers it's good to have a preapplication meeting with fire. if you are far enough along in your space and architect and designers so you know what the questions will be. this is not a general discussion. here are the issues we would like to address. we're happy to do that and 586139 is the number to call. >> there is a cost. preapplication meetings, you know how much? >> 300. 350 dollars? something like that a few hundred dollars. >> tip 6. work with a real estate attorney and contractor when negotiating the lees or purchasing a business much this is part of developing a team. we had a talk with al

you need to clean a gutter out. how often? >> if you're near a pine tree, there's a lot of pines in san francisco, the needles can fill up, you -- probably twice, at least twice a year. it depends on where -- how many trees are near your house and what kind of leaves they have. >> so if the gutter fills up or even just enough to block that little down spout there, that's enough to have the water overflow into some location where you don't want it to be. either underneath in the front or under in the back or something. and cause real serious problems. >> we just had a situation off of a street in the jordan park area of san francisco where the down spout was blocked up and it just went over the lip back under the siding and it rotted out the whole quarter -- corner of the house just because a lack of maintenance, a lack of failure to clean out the gutter. >> i put this in here because the stairs and various kinds of tile work can be so beautiful and san francisco has so much lovely work. it's not impossible to maintain. all you

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, you need to find a way to fix it. if there needs to be out there more programs for these people, more resources where they can get to as soon as possible, you know, where they can speak their languages cause alcohol doesn't have any color or any face, any language. it comes in any, it can be anybody. and then problems sounds like, you just, you can deal with it if you seek for help, then addiction sounds more like you are in serious problem. i think it's the same thing, i mean i think that if you have an addiction, you have a problem. you know, if you have a problem, you could possibly have an addiction. so the same thing goes you know, they need help, they have an illness and they need support. if i told you i was in recovery, what does recovery mean to you? i, i think you're really trying to get, get back on the right track and, and i would certainly pray for you and hope that you could stay there and get better because recovery is very difficult you, first of all you have to admit that you need the recovery. and the

you really need to know that the telephone companies do not have good communication work. i think you really need to make sure that wireless and t-moblile does not give us more cell phones and chemicals. remember japan. >> thank you, next speaker. >> however she put it, but it was clear in the legislation that she talked about that it was clear that it needed to be essential. that was in black and white. i have seen this happen a couple of times. if you are going to vote in favor of the antenna, i am not challenging you guys. why would you say yes? do you feel like it is essential? if you are going to vote no on the appeal, say something about it. i have seen it happen with central subway. everybody loves central subway, but nobody knows why. i am using this to try to understand more about the process. why would you overlook what we have talked about it and vote against the appeal? do it if you can. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i actually lived in north beach. i leave my house from north beach sometimes, too. all you have to do it is crossed into chinatown. like the lady

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you need more information. what we have manifested in this record is everyone agrees there could be aesthetic impacts there could be pedestrian safety im-- impacts there could be pedestrian safety impacts. you're done at that point. supervisor campos: i wonder if you have a response to the point that they're making, that this falls under the class three exemption because it is an installation of small new equipment and facilities and small structures. >> it doesn't say -- but what it says here that they're quoting, the stals of small new equipment and if a similarities in small structures as opposed to the phrase below which says location of new structures. the second one sounds like you're putting equipment into structures that are already there. because otherwise the two aren't any -- there's no difference between the first two of these phrases. the first phrase says, construction and location of new small structures. the second one is you're putting equipment into them. supervisor campos: so this would apply

you need to keep flexible. the biggest problem i have now is people trying to solve my problems for me to invest in today to solve something 30 or 40 years from now and to make huge capitol investments today might not be the right approach and you need to all look at that in our own utilities. we need to react and not over-react and do things that don't make sense and cause our rate payer as lot of sense and are not going to contribute to solveg the problem. we're going to get a lot more information year by years we go forward. finally i would really reiterate what you really need to do is try and get control overall those things you know you can control. that up certainty that currently is there. i would try to grab that and minimize that because the climate change is so uncertain you can't have or an afford to have other uncertainty in your system. thank you. [applause] >> good morning., i'm edward campbell and planning deck tore for portland oregon and i'm here on behalf of our water bureau who sends his reg

you don't need to call somebody to come and let you in. and i tried to figure out why would they do this here? . >> well, they ought to put a key to have an attendant operate it. you do need a key to operate these for the most part or else have them set up where it's always turned on like alwa ys turned on like para lways turn ed on likethat, ring bell for access the reason is so people don't play with them, so kids don't play with them or kids don't get injured. in all the years i have been doing this i have yet to hear of a kid being injured or somebody really playing with these. they are slow, noisy, they call attention to themselves. for the most part they are going to leave them alone. they are so noisy you can't get away with anything. . >> and they are not inherently dangerous. somebody can't get caught underneath the platform. >> it won't operate until the door is closed and the little microswitch is under the platform. and they provide access. what does one of these cost; do you know? . >> they are about 20,000 last time i priced

you need to be removed from office. as i live said before, there is a lot of work in construction in san francisco rebuilding these units, for the purpose of protecting the people of san francisco and their housing. thank you. [applause] president chiu: thank you. if i could remind you that we do not have applause because it cuts into people's time. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is ben. i am a resident who does not live there, but described it greatly concerns me because i can see it impacts on the character of the entire west side as well as impacting the quality of life. let me take a minute and talk about a new resident who is 3 weeks old. how old will she be when this crowd is this? phinnaeus lee did--erin brockevich. corn is this even being considered? quite these people would been foreclosed on. thank you very much. [bell] >> wowe find this to be misleading. it leaked through. this was delivered. they seem to have memorized talking points, which would have you believe it

>> first of all, you need to go back to the previous 300. a car with a great success, and definitely, you can't avoid to notice the grill is an important part of the car, the front of the car. what happened with the old 300 with a square grill, we started developing in the after market, other opportunities, looking at the other grills valuable in the market, so even the old 300 had three additional after market grills. we sold about in excess of 15,000 grills during the life. when the new 300 in design launched, we said, okay, we need to repeat the same experience, and there were -- one car was so common to have a grill, you start thinking, what is the best one? >> finally, the brand decided to go ahead with the car you have seen in the production, car, so we said, fine. we have the opportunity to multiply the number of 300 you can have, taking the number we had previously and creating new grills. we started with the diamond grill that is a reinterpretation of the grill on the previous model. we talk always about grills. i said, they are fres

very far when you need answers to hundreds of questions a prison camp full of prisoners of war you only need to answer four questions is a useless prison camp. but there were no other rules. and leaders from countries who had citizens at one time tomorrow were worried prime minister. the first matter he brought up. was the swedish prisoner he was very forthright very frank and very concerned about. the situation seems to be out of control. to be. something. you simply cheek turkish. what nobody knew was the president had written a letter. a letter that only the president's inner circle world where of in the letter he wrote that there was a new paradigm in the world and the rules were no longer defined by the u.s. but by terrorists this new world order got him thinking and after extensive discussions he came to the simple conclusion. the geneva convention could not be applied to terrorists. and for that reason he came up with a new word for the prisoners at guantanamo. no one had heard this word before. and no one knew what the consequences were. again.

you need to crunch the numbers to make sure you pay the smallest tax bill possible. since tax rates are expected to be the same through 2012, most people will be better off putting off the tax bill. whatever decision you make, you can change your mind as late as until october 17. one final point: if you choose to postpone the tax bill, be sure you check if you need to make estimated tax payments for 2011 and 2012 to cover the tax bill on the extra income. you don't want to be slapped with an underpayment penalty at this time next year. i'm kevin mccormally. >> susie: just a reminder-- if you have questions for kevin, please send them via our website at nbr on pbs.org. but, this his last day answering your emails. so if you need answers, send your question tonight. >> tom: finally tonight, general electric has a tax problem, but not the one you might think. for weeks, the conglomerate's been embroiled in a flap over its low u.s. tax bill. today came word g.e. would send its $3 billion tax refund back to the government. but don't believe it. the official-looking news r

concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. in an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. man: we've created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterways. narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon the environment. on the front lines of protecting the beaches, are the crews that clean out the stormwa

fundamentally, you need to write well. if you can do that, you will be successful in this industry. i honestly believe that there is plenty of room for people who want to pursue careers in journalism right now. >> what skills should they be learning, at this point, if they are just going into k school -- j scjool? -- school? >> certainly, the ability to write. being able to speak to the reader, you should certainly learn and probably already know how to do so, video. basically, how to use all of the social media channels available. but i would not really focus so much on those tools because they are getting easier and easier by the day. i am sure four years from now, -- you probably get that in school anyway, but you want to focus on the basics of understand your role as a reporter in a community. and jobs are becoming available. there is more hiring going on. that will continue, going forward. >> one question would be, who is a journalist? that fundamental question. does she have to go to journalism school for four years to be considered? how can she distinguish herself from a citi

you just need to have the location open. you are set to go. >> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and for people to advocate. and the project has a structural ratin

we say in our ordinance, you need a standard or a checklist, and it has to be a lead check list or something similar. you are not allowed to say, you have to buy this product. so i really mean some equivalent standard. >> it is meaningful, so equivalent remains a hard by. >> isn't there also something in the planning code for seeing the leading goal? they were getting quicker service? >> they had a goal for quicker service doing green buildings, yes. if you are to submit a project that will achieve a gold rating, prior to 2012, if you were to submit it today, we would be prioritized to the top of the pile, in the building and the planning department and the department of public works. planning has raised the bar to what we had during a year or two ago. every single one seemed to want to be prioritized, so they were all leads. assuming we had a list of people waiting. so what the planning has done is raise the bar. plus another 20% of available points. so yes. but if you bring in a project today, with the building department, we will say you are at the front of the line, we will take you next

and you have to workforce you needed. you would need between 170-270,000 less people. you're shaking your head no. governor miller, if you go from the ground that you would need a lot less people, would you? >> you're right, mr. chairman, and you're right on the basic principle. but as i understand it, correct me if i'm wrong, but $3.8 billion testament includes the problems of diminishing the numbers. so under this contract because businesses contract, you don't realize all the benefits right away. is correct if you think about it. that is if you're going to be contracting very fast, how do you break down the number of employees as rapidly as -- >> i have two more things in a short time remaining. mr. guffey, usage of a 1600-dollar retirement. now, that's your retirement basically funner military service, right? >> no. >> that is your postal service retirement. >> yes. >> you have any other entitlement coming out in the future. >> no, that's it. >> i want to make sure we understood that. i've got a chart i want to put up

reliable builders in operators that we can absolutely trust that this mean that the problem is it you don't need. drunk drivers and frankly there's plenty of people in this country who can drink and drive and probably get in trouble you do need technology you need energy power and energy power is expensive it's difficult to develop it takes for it and specialties and expertise so how do you a get around that this is the point that you are making as i mentioned correctly is that there's so much money invested in cities power sources that it's just too expensive for them to correct any sort of wrongdoing that that profit becomes the goal how do you get around that with without i don't know turning into china and

it isn't positive about the actual character of the building you need to go to source document. however if there is a conflict between what exists in the record and the 3r, that's something city agencies and repeal bodies will examine when you present that information. >> yes, sir.? >> you mentioned the certificate of completion and occupancy and the key document. how do we obtain those? >> that is one of the records you can request when you go to the micro film and say give us all certificates of final completion. >> but again not every building has a certificate of final completion and occupancy. one is because we have ns certificates before a certain time. you may say and we take that's a gospel. >> how do we find out how the building was constructed and you have multiple sources that conflict. how do you come to the truth? >> there are source s we'll talk about. the water department jeremy, right? >> spring valley water company. >> this on page 8 item two describes what these records are and if you go to the water department offices down across unite had had nations plaza on

i want you. i need you. then she started taking off her kimono. she started to take off her - what happened next! calm down. i can't. i'm just so jealous. wow you must have had a wonderful night together. you think so? yeah. actually, no. no. just because right as i was kissing her. samurais brother suddenly came home. diver suddenly came home. what happened? well, when he saw us he was so angry and he puld out his sword and was going to kill me. oh! how exciting. it was not exciting. what happens. as he ran towards me, he slipped on the shiney floor and dropped his sword. so, i picked it up and i cut him down! you killed? that's right. at that point the wife took out 100 yellow gold coins and said, come on, let's run away together. now is our chance, let's go, let's go. and did you? no. i cut her down from behind. you killed the samurais wife? my god! why did you do such a terrible thing. because then there's no proof. no proof. ah, right. so, you killed two people and got all the gold and nobody knows about it and your still a free man. your rea

i don't know if you needed to come here and be signed, sealed and delivered. i thought you were willing to do that. the question is what is the right number. you know, what is feasible in terms of economics and maybe changing the rules and making it a requirement. the training, that goes to the training. that goes to the uniforms. that goes to the monthly reports. of course they goes to the customer list giving you protection before they have to turn it over. that is my understanding of what we were going to do and revise the rules to address a lot of the concerns. >> well, one of the things that you can save cost on this, i get approximately three calls every night from my clients. if i was not responding they would be calling sfpd. that is savings just alone. i work seven nights a week, 365 days per year. so, if you times those three calls per night over the year, this is how much money i save the city. if i wasn't there doing these calls, then regular p.d. would have to respond. most of them are c priority calls, once in a while it is a b-priority call. just

need to take the marketing into account. i think we're dealing with the prediction in this country and when you have sent in like that, you need to think of the influences that are affecting that addiction and one of them is environmental, how many times are you seeing ads for jack daniel's or other things and we need to talk in terms of the environment of the architecture of choices. one of the things that sometimes gets left out of the equation is our best friend, our customers, our retailers. how can we change the structure of the grocery environment said that can these are not in the checkout aisles, that fruit and vegetables are in the checkout aisles, maybe some things are more difficult to get to? that might require regulation. i think we should be open to it. >> as a shopper, that is happening with some retailers. >> it is annoying when there is no candy at the register. >> i want to pick up on a comment about personal choices. anyone from the industry says this is all on the parents is not an intelligent or accurate statement. for those of us who are working parents, there is a lot on the plate and if you can get your

although, in most cases, you needed to be a little bit more clear on when you had the new policy, i could needed to be a little bit more clear and where you needed to exercise some more flexibility to the golfers. i could see what the actual changes were. it was really helpful. i hope we do that. >> i will. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, commissioner. as i said, i wanted to organize things to make it clear for people to see. also, commissioner bonilla hit on this. it made it very clear who had the responsibility and authority to close the course on a daily basis pending weather problems and things like that. that rest with the city. i would like to point out that the motorized carts are pass- only and we have clearly put that in the rules. there are no off-path motorized cart uses. i would like to recommend consideration for approval of these three items as written. however, i would like to say that for the second item, i would like to read this to you. there's a slight change in the agenda wording. a couple of things we originally planned to put on here were removed. this is exact

you think? i'll take it. huh! huh! now, that's what i'm talking about. you're right. i don't need it. [music] ♪[applause] thank you. >> thank you for applauding. never know. [laughter]. so, these next few pieces are jewish art songs the jewish art song is not something that most people know about even if you are into classical music. raise your hand if you know shoemoner shoebert? these songs are actually in yiddish but they are art songs. they are beautiful. and they are not done. right. soy, i hope you enjoy the next few pieces. i will describe them. the first was written by [inaudible] a song that has almost nonsentence words but it's your time to be with god and your moment alone with whatever you need. i hope you appreciate this one. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. so the next piece, it's beautiful. this is yiddish a beautiful song that was given to me by george rosenside who is an amazing person. and this next piece was the same composer composed in paris and called the yiddish and a great -- it's so beautiful. yiddish the wealth of my treasure much the kreet urs -- from it's y

that but we think you need to have, you have a citywide exemption for environmental review. need to have an environmental review citywide to deal with all of these variances within the city. there are clutters, there are serious environmental impacts that need to be looked at and that is the process where you look at mitigation and eliminations of those environmental impacts and that's what we're asking. we're not opposing at&t's network with being installed. we support improvements that those. we think it needs to go through a process where you have an independent party, not at&t, actually moderating the process by which mitigations where they're needed are dealt with and eliminations are dealt with. ok? thank you. >> good afternoon, president chiu, and members of the board. i'm susan brant holy, i'm an attorney who has practice on ceqa and i'm representing apellants. since time is short i'm going to jump into talking about the categorical exemption process. it's been confused in this situation. categorical exemptions basically are the legislators' attempt to avoid unnecess