okay we'll take that without objection. we'll adapt those amendments item 3 and madam clerk if you could add supervisor mar as the author of item 3 and can i have a motion to table item number 4 >> okay we'll take that without objection. item 4 is tabled now we're working with the amended version of item number 3 so i just want to say a few things and make the amendments i'll briefly describe at the beginning so this amended version obviously no one got exactly what they wanted with the compromise and a number of things not everything is exactly the way i would have done it but we've made a lot of process in particular i was pleased to see the environmental review environmental review study i was concerned the original proposal in supervisor mar the environmental review environmental review study was manipulative broad and the formula retail establishments could get caught up in an environmental impact study for example the coffee shop literally around the corner to castro space they want a less tiny space they'll have to g

. >> without objection. that motion passes. [gavel] mr. clerk can you please call item 1. >> an ordinance for the campaign and governmental conduct code to update the conflict of interest code. >> i believe we have andrew sun, deputy city attorney who will be presenting on this ordinance. >> good afternoon supervisors. deputy city attorney andrew chin from the ethics team and the office and congratulations as there to supervisor tang and i want to give you some background about the government conduct code and conflict of interest code and why we do it and give amended legislation. i had a chance to contact your aids so hopefully it's not a surprise and it's a city ordinance with the employees and officers to file statements of economic interests. under state law the city is required to update the conflict of interest code every two years in even numbered years and by the end of the calendar year. generally reflects organizations of city departments, changes in job titles, new positions and out dated positions and so forth so what was inter

war is ultimately succeed or failed as whether the nations fail political objectives. we approached the war too much like a conventional war focused on killing the enemy rather than providing security in the villages which is ultimately what would determine where the people held their allegiance. >> the first gulf war was in some ways about overwhelming force. in this case overlearning the lessons of vietnam and it worked. >> it worked remarkably well. >> we had a narrow objective. >> on a political level it worked very, very well. one of the most interesting books on the first gulf war was called triumph without victory. ultimately our political objective was to prevent saddam hussein from presenting a threat. we expected the shi'a to overthrow him. they failed to do so in no small part because of the mistakes we made in the peace negotiations. so be accomplished our objectives on the battlefield but weren't able to convert them into political success and into -- i'm a big fan of st. augustine who taught us the point of war is to build a better peace. >> if you look a

tang a second second by supervisor kim any discussion with regards to them we'll take that without objection. that is adapted supervisor kim. >> thank you just want to again thank supervisor campos office but all the advocates and members of our community that are here to support this really important legislation i'm glad we're here and ready to vote when is the beginning of the process to start our equal pay ordinance here in san francisco i've mentioned that why i supported in a couple weeks ago this doesn't set the infrastructure by which we will work with an advisor committee to how to pass legislation that insures we are submitting and insuring equal pay for equal work for women that work and are paid for by are typewriter dollars here in san francisco i wanted to mention my support so far supervisor campos and supervisor tang's amendment and i certainly think they provide a little bit more clarity in terms of our exceptions for the process in addition to giving more time more thoughtfulness how to get the issues for equal pay for equal work without overwhelming our contractors and orga

colleagues, can we do that without objection? without objection is the case. madam clerk please call items 17-20. city clerk: 17.141064[public hearing - appeal of conditional use authorization - 115 telegraph hill boulevard]hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the planning commission's decision of september 11, 2014, motion no. 19232, relating to approval of a conditional use authorization case no. 2013.1375ecc, to allow the construction of three new dwelling units for a lot total of four unitss with three off-street parking spaces within the rh-3 residential house, three-familyy zoning district, telegraph hill - north beach residential special use district and a 40-x height and bulk district located at 115 telegraph hill boulevard, assessor's block no. 0105, lot no. 065. district 33 appellant; vedica puri, on behalf of telegraph hill dwellerss filed october 14, 20144. clerk of the boardd1234 items ,,. clerk of the boardd1234 items 18-20 are approving the decisions through findings. >> >>president david chiu: colleagues we would entertain a motion

again, a daunting, daunting objective. so, because of this objective, west more land, i think, necessarily has to develop an all-encompassing strategic concept that sought not only to destroy the enemy forces but to country local insurgency inside south vietnam and also, perhaps more importantly, to expand the percentage of south vietnam's population under saigon government's control. again, we might question the capacities of americans to do just that, to expand the percentage of the local population under the saigon government's control. now, june 1965 cable from westmoreland outlines his concept of operation and it notes clearly that the insurgency in south vietnam must eventually be defeated among the people in the ham let's and towns. westmoreland realizes that this is a war that is going to be fought among the population. and as he directs his commander later this year, the war in vietnam is a political as well as a military war. it is political because the ultimate goal is to regain the loyalty and cooperation of th

we'll take that without objection. this is continued to the ninth madam clerk call item 20. >> there's an item on the floor mr. president, item 19 you've approved it with an objection we're on item 20. >> if you could call it and to approve the issuance of tax exempt for college of the arts needing 2 of million dollars. >> colleagues, same house, same call? item 21. >> the city manager to exclusive an agreement with the engineers for specialized engineering services for the proposed new head works facility at water floougs pollution control plant. >> same house, same call? we'll take that without objection. this resolution is adapted. >> next item. >> mr. president, 0 would you like me to read the historic property. >> those were recommendeds mills historic contracts with the city and he was the owners of the following property on peers street 563 water street and 621 water street. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president colleagues today before us is 3 contracts under the millions act the state legislation th

. >> no objection with the motion for the amendments. then that one passes, and motion to -- for this also passes. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> mr. clerk can you please call item two. >> item number two is a motion confirming the mayor's appointment of marily mondejar to the successor agency commonly known as the community investment and infrastructure for for a four-year term ending november 3, 2018. >> thank you. good afternoon commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to provide a little short summary of my background and supporting and serving in the community investment and infrastructure. for the record i am marily mondejar and the founder and ceo of the filipino's women network and 40% of whom live in the bay area, a majority in san francisco living in districts six and 11 and with the board of bishop california a state wide organization in government and corporate and nonprofit sectors currently serve as president of the friends of the san francisco commission and the status of women and we raise funds to support the

art itself should not merely reflect this, but become the object. if the content mattered so little in comparison with the packaging, then why not use a coke bottle or a soup tin? the young generation taught that art was unheroic. it was anywhere and could be anything. robert rauschenberg's use of coke bottles, a spare tire, a goat shocked his audience. "if this is art," said one abstract expressionist, "i quit." what's very curious in the history of art is that often the moments where something really decisive happens to change that history, those moments are not terribly perceptible to their contemporaries and only become perceptible in retrospect. i think that one of these moments occurred, at least for our modern sensibilities, with the work of robert rauschenberg and jasper johns. this is a rauschenberg called trophy iii. what rauschenberg does is to insist that the surface of the canvas is no longer a window into which we look or through which we look, a window that opens onto another world as say, this little porthole that i'm looking through

colleagues, can we take that motion without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> and supervisor kim made a motion to amend. if you would like to restate that motion to amend. >> my motion to amend is to change seat 7 to be a person that works in a nonprofit organization that contracts with the city. , and you know, i'm sure the city attorney would make that a little cleaner. >> okay. and i believe that was seconded by supervisor tang. >> that's correct. >> and, colleagues, can we take that motion to amend without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> and then now on the motion to continue this item to november the 25th, colleagues, can we do that without objection or do we need a roll call? without objection -- >> as amended, mr. president. >> i'm sorry? >> as amended. >> as amended. without objection this item as amended will be continued to november the 25th. [gavel] >> and with that, why don't we go to item 28. >> item 28 is an ordinance amending the police code to repeal the prohibition on entering or remaining within a 25

>> so, can we take that without objection? >> yes. >> and then on chiu number 4, adding janitorial and security into the language, of his portion of the retail workers bill of rights could we take that without objection? >> could i make a comment about that. and the stake holders here, and i have not had a chance to delve into all of the issues and so i am putting this in as a place holder so that we can and if it is fine with everyone, we can move forward with it on in the special meeting and move it to the full board and if there are questions we have an opportunity to deal with it and it will not delay and we can put it in here so that we were puting it in a later date that will actually push back to when we can resolve it so that we can get it in so that we can get it going. >> can we take that without objection? >> thank you. on the avalos amendment that removes the 20 employees or less reing that threshold, so that it is all formula retails that are included in the legislation for both pieces. i think that we are going t

the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection all time is yielded back. mr. leahy: i withhold that request. i yield back my time on this side. the presiding officer: the senator from georgia is recognized. mr. isakson: on behalf of myself and is senator chambliss from georgia -- the presiding officer: the chamber will come to order. mr. isakson: we would like the senate to look favorably. we could appreciate your consideration and your yes vote. i yield back. the presiding officer: all time is yielded back. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of leigh martin may of georgia to be united states district judge for the northern district of georgia, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is: is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of leigh martin may of georgia to b

>> without objection. >> thank you. to get to the golf coast, it will be transmitted through areas in six states and we know how harmful this would be because of how hard it is to cleanup after the spill. and we know about the pet coke. i have shown you that. it is black dust containing some heavy metals. some heavy metals. open piles of this w ...n piles of this w as to appear at unprecedented levels in midwestern communities and it has sparked health and environmental krn concerns in my neighborhoods in detroit and chicago. now, could we show that -- let's take this down. and shoand show the chicago pice again. so in this chicago neighborhood, billowing black clouds of pet coke forced little league players off the baseball field. the children were forced to seek cover from the clouds of black dust that pelted homes and cars. according to the one newspaper, "kids that were playing ball were sent scurrying away because the stuff was getting into their the stuff was getting into their on to their faces and in their mid-m

they are very reasonable objectives so we feel like we should hold all the administrators to these objectives and consistently across all of our audits. we don't change the objectives from one at straer -- administrator to another. >> thank you, we just wanted to get that into record, there is a variation and we don't know the total impact and there needs to be some articulation and if we go forward to talk about performance guarantees with the administrator, this should be noted. >> any other comments by commissioners? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> yes? >> >> to close out the audit we had final recommendations to go over on page 13. these are going over the last meeting. >> great and we have received them if they have not changed. is that right? >> we did add one recommendation regarding a second review for claim denials over $10,000. we had one audit error over $200,000 denied in error. we are recommending a denial audit put in place. >> that was my recommendation. >> i can see why we would do that because someone was very unhappy that it was denied in error.

this is a daunting political objective. you might even question whether it was one that was possible to be achieved by westmoreland, if not by any midwestern military commander in 1964. to create a stable, independent, noncommunist vietnam, and a daunting, daunting objective. so because of this objective, so counter a local insurgency inside south vietnam, and also perhaps more importantly, to expand the percentage of south vietnam's population under saigon government's control. we might question the capacity of americans to do just that. to expand the percentage of the local population under the saigon government's control. now in june 1965 cable from westmoreland outlines his concept of operations and it notes clearly that the insurgency in south vietnam must eventually be defeated among the people in the hamlets and towns, westmoreland realizes that this is a war that's going to be fought among the population. and as he directs his commander later that year, the war in vietnam is a political as well as a military war. it

those are the objectives. the other issue is what kind of actions do we achieve those objectives. the public health actions are listed there in the next table. i will read them briefly and i'm going to the risk categories. there is active monitoring, controlled movement, exclusions from public places, psycho social support and risk communication strategy. up to no. 6, these are all guidelines published by the cdc. currently what we are doing is implementing with the cdc is recommending and we have also received quarantine orders from the state of california providing legal remedies for everything we are doing. the first risk category in column one is high risk. this is somebody who has had a high risk exposure. this is where the constraints will occur in those people that are high risk. then there is the some risk. a doctor in new york city took care of an ebola patient and he still came down with ebola. those are still going to be actively monitoring for high risk and this group we are doing direct monitoring, every single day, twice a day we are going to verify that they don't h

senator mcconnell objected. on may 12, 2014, senator reid offered a vote on keystone pipeline. senator mcconnell objected. that i believe was connected with the energy efficiency bill with senator portman. senator inhofe objected and senator mcconnell did nothing to help. on june 25, senator reid offered x.l. pipeline, senator mcconnell objected. i want to underscore this. i'm not sighing that senator rid is -- is a supporter of the pipeline. but he has asked for a vote on keystone on any number of times when senator mcconnell has objected. now, senator mcconnell will come to the floor and show a list like this when he ask has asked for votes on the keystone pipeline and senator reid has objected. and that is the truth of this congress. the saddest thing about this is, i have believed for over a year now that if we could actually get a vote, that we have the 60 votes to pass it. i have said that on any number of occasions. i believe we have the 60 votes to pass keystone. i believe that the coalition of oil and g

>> we will work with all of to do the objectives. if you look in the strategic we here are initiatives called out to address pooling, esourcing wit nato and other ideas we have. we also realize there is going to be siificant policy changes d legislative changes. so we will wor with the hill and work with t other agencies to achieve goals. we are going hat to have to get some legislative relief and policy relief. buwe wl vet that before getting started. >> is there any sense within the entire security cooperation nterprise which is vast and involves multiple arms and starts at the white house and and varieies nt agencies. thinking in nse or your discussion about how that verstructure, the overall strategic planning should be handled and where so is there with the nsc in charge of it? because this is unprecedented. goals but not have that sort of government alignment. talking k what you are about is security cooperations out there. -- again i want o make sure we focus this plan i developed is addressing the c community.eration the ente

therefore had the apparent dignity of an objective state. the american people would rightly not tolerate this concentration of power in government. is it not fair and relevant to question its concentration in the hands of a tiny enclosed fraternity of privileged men elected by no one and enjoying a monopoly unlicensed by government? they do not represent the views of america. [applause] that is why such a great gulf existed by how the nation perceived the president address and how the networks reviewed it. not only did the country received the president's address more warmly than the networks, but so also did the congress of the united states. the president was notified that 300 individual congressmen and 50 senators had endorsed his efforts for peace. [applause] as with other american institutions, perhaps it is time the networks were made more responsive to the views of the nation and more responsible to the people they serve. [applause] i want to make myself perfectly clear, i am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of c

the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from utah is now recognized for the rest of the time. . stewart: the gentleman reserves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from oregon. ms. bonamici: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for as much time as she may consume. ms. bonamici: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to h.r. 1422, the e.p.a. science advisory board reform act. mr. thank my colleagues mr. smith and mr. schweikert for improving the board. and i thank them for working with me on other legislation that passed the science committee in the house on a bipartisan basis. it's unfortunate that we could not be repeating that bipartisan collaboration today. my colleagues who support h.r. 1422 may describe this bill as an attempt to strengthen public participation in e.p.a.'s scientific review process, improve the process for selecting expert advisors, expand transpare

david brinkley states, objectivity is impossible to normal human behavior. he says we should strive for fairness. "youer anchorman contends, cannot expunge all of your private convictions just because you sit in a seat like this and a camera starts to stare at you. " less than a week before the 1968 election, the same commentator charged the president nixon's campaign commitments were no more durable than campaign balloons. he claimed that. richard nixon would be given into, and i quote him exactly, his natural instinct to smash the enemy with a club or go after him with a meat ax. had this slander been made by one political candidate about another, it would have been dismissed by most commentators as a partisan attack. this attack emanated from the privileged sanctuary of a network studio. the american people would rightly not tolerate this concentration of power in government. is it not fair and relevant to question its concentration in the hands of a tiny enclosed fraternity of privileged men elected by no one and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licens

seeing none, public comment is closed and on the motion to continue colleagues we'll take that without objection. those items are continued until the ninth of december >> items 37 through 40 for interested parties for the planning department determination that the proposed project it categorically exempt if the california quality act and the motions to reverse the determination and the preparation of finding. >> so the appeal has been withdrawn out of the need to follow process let me open up the hearing for seeing none, public comment is closed. and could i have a motion to affirm the determination. >> motion that i supervisor avalos and seconded by and their colleagues we'll take that without objection. the determination by the planning department is affirmed. >> items 44 madam clerk. >> mr. president, on the previous item we'll be tabling items 39 and 40. >> let me ask for a motion to table those supervisor farrell's and seconded by supervisor avalos we'll take that without objection. those items will be tabled. >> items 41 through 44 comprise the public comment hearing of persons interested

motion to table those supervisor farrell's and seconded by supervisor avalos we'll take that without objection. those items will be tabled. >> items 41 through 44 comprise the public comment hearing of persons interested in the 2014 of a tentative map on katrero avenue for commercial mixed use new construction condominium projects looked on katrero and 44 to approve or disapprove. >> any any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed and i'd like to entertain a motion to approve the decision of public works to approve the item 42 and to table items 43 and 44 motion that i supervisor mar and second by supervisor avalos we'll take that without objection. that motion is passed now colleagues our first 3:00 p.m. special order. >> items 29 through 32 comprise of people interested in the mravlt for a conditional use authorization to for about 20 properties on 26 of the avenue and for the conditional use and 31 to disagree the conditional use authorization and to direct the clerk to prepare finding. >> colleagues, we consider whether or not to approve the conditional use autho

colleagues, can we take that motion without objection? without objection that should be the case. [gavel] >> and supervisor kim made a motion to amend. if you would like to restate that motion to amend. >> my motion to amend is to change seat 7 to be a person that works in a nonprofit organization that contracts with the city.

we'll take that without objection. madam clerk my communication. >> none today arrest consent calendar if discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and will be considered separately. >> roll call vote and on the consent calendar supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 11 i see those measures are passed. >> item 9 to admin the codes to create certain provisions noticing and reminders as tenant buy out agreements. >> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell no supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang no supervisor wiener no supervisor yee supervisor avalos supervisor breed no supervisor campos supervisor chiu there are 7 i's and 4 notice ordinance is pass. >> to authorize the use of an additional thirty psychiatrist hold under the california welfare and institution code. >> supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar

they are very reasonable objectives so we feel like we should hold all the administrators to these objectives and consistently across all of our audits. we don't change the objectives from one at straer -- administrator to another. >> thank you, we just wanted to get that into record, there is a variation and we don't know the total impact and there needs to be some articulation and if we go forward to talk about performance guarantees with the administrator, this should be noted. >> any other comments by commissioners? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> yes? >> >> to close out the audit we had final recommendations to go over on page 13. these are going over the last meeting. >> great and we have received them if they have not changed. is that

though brancusi's sculptures are highly abstract, they still have an object at their center. the problem for many abstract painters was how to justify removing the object and to go beyond into what they saw as a higher order. many took cubism as their starting point. geometric abstraction was a logical extension of cubism, which had freed western artists from traditional representation, giving them the freedom to produce more conceptual images. in the early twenties, piet mondrian became one of the first western artists to paint in a pure abstract manner. if we look at his series of tree paintings he completed in 1908-1912 we can trace his development away from figurative work to the use of cubist grays cubist composition and to an altogether more subtle cubist image. in paris, in 1914, he turned his attention to buildings. this church on the left was one of his subjects. he analyzed the facade and finally distilled it into completely abstract compositions. by reducing the church to a series of vertical and horizontal lines and carefully worked out rectangular oppositions, th

but maybe -- but i'm not objecting to taking a look at this. >> no objection. okay. so that's also on our check list. next item, confused behavior it -- perception of behavior condition. the issue is point charging should not be based on the possession of victim's behavior. amend the statute. dean shank and colonel jackson. kyle, do you remember -- can you flesh this point out for the panel, please. unless somebody has a comment. off the top. >> oh, i'll be glad to comment on it because again, i think dean shank made a really good point. among other things she said that the statutory provision only requires the government to prove that the accused knows or reasonably should know the victim's state of consciousness, even if the victim testifies about her capacity or consent to the ability to resist, the government must prove the accused's knowledge or at least that the accused should have known. and her recommended change would look more toward the actual knowledge, the additional -- in other words, the additional element should be deleted, in her opinion. >> and wher

>> so moved. >> motion by supervisor mar if we can take that without objection. >> without objection. >> thank you very much. now, mr. clerk, if you can please call our fourth and final item. >> item no. 4 is a resolution urging the successful urge between the united supervisor to avoid a strike and an interruption of the education of san francisco students. >> great. this is an item that was introduced by supervisor mar and i was glad to be a co-sponsor. i was also co-sponsored by supervisors cohen and avalos. >> i would also like to thank our board president but also ken from united i had kators san francisco for joining us today. this is a resolution that urges a resolution to the potential labor negotiation going on with the teachers and parents within the district. i also twoopbt say as a former school board president like supervisor yee, i definitely respect the autonomy of the school district and know that the city does not make decisions for the school district if the elected board of education and the superintendent and his staff that make decisions. but when there are issues

we'll take that without objection. this is adapted. >> this is the issuance of a top beer and wine license on columbus avenue and will serve the public with necessity. >> same house, same call? this resolution is adapted item 18. >> a motion to appoint demet to the entertainment commission the term ending july 21st, 2015. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. president i'm speaking in support of the entertainment commission for this gentleman he's a xevenl well qualified for this position and particularly for the public health seats determining tree is the executive director that runs the fulsome fair up the alley and he's done it for a number of years and those two street fairs are really exemplar in terms terms of providing entertainment and community building running one stealing large and one event in a very, very responsible and well managed yet still edgy way so demetry knows how to get it done and well, he is has a long history in the entertainment community and has a long history in public health particularly