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Were ready. Good afternoon. Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday november 20, 2014. I am supervisor yee and i will be chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor katy tang. I guess interim president elect katy tang that is and the clerk today is vector young. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv, jim smith and john stalkhouse who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Are there any announcements . Yes. Please silenc...

Part of the central soma plan. We are trying to incorporator at least package more designation to work with area plans as they move forward and other large projects. Say it fits better when we are doing an area plan. If there are these Large Development sites are also interest we should have a conversation about those and which ones you are more interested in and we can see what opportunities there are. We saw at the landmarks Preservation Board a long time ago and theres the Glass Building and ...

That we considered is also where we can do core drilling. You know, the building is built on hundreds and hundreds of pilings so theres a limitation of where some of the core drillings can occur but with your comments i think we can go back and look, i think moving 4 over to 3 is a strong possibility. I think we just look at i absolutely understand your concerns about how it doesnt really match some of the symmetry thats so apparent in the ferry building, especially without the south side not ha...

Rely on money thats the people power. In this episode weve seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly were ready. Good afternoon. Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting for thursday november 20, 2014. I am supervisor yee and i will be chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor katy ta...

Why do you think a lot of those recommendations were ignored . I think the service itself has noted it has not always done what it needed to do in terms of following through on recommendations. The hope is coming out of this report, that there will be a real opportunity to focus on these specific recommendations and follow through with tracking to make sure actually get implement it. If there is a real process, and i am sure this committee will have a role in it and others will have a role in it...

The tea as a is a new creation of that but obviously there was a coast guard before that. The secret service and interaction with the coast guard and the coast guard provided, and the department of Homeland Security. My sense is the cooperation is enhanced with in the same agency. I would like to add the panels conclusion is we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform. For those issues we didnt think moving from one agency to another would address any of the issues we identif...

Law enforcement. Just for example when i was in phoenix a couple of weeks ago to inspect the security of the super bowl i met with state and local law enforcement. It was pointed out to me that all the communications equipment, all although surveillance equipment there was funded by my department. As long as we are on this er we are unable to do these very important things for Homeland Security. So we need a fully funded department of Homeland Security especially in these challenging times. So t...

Committee on Homeland Security, congressman thompson, and i quote, he stated within the next five years, the secret service will provide protection through two president ial election cycles two Democratic National conventions, two Republican National conventions, the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and other National Security special events. To his point, on top of your current responsibilities, of protecting the president and protecting your area of responsibility, and we know that there...

That question. You dont have a personal my sense is that the service has the cooperation has been enhanced by being within the same agency. I guess id like to add that i think the panels conclusion was, we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform at the service. For those issues, we didnt think moving them from one agency to another would address really any of the issues that we identified. And so while we understand that that was a serious debate, we thought that the focus r...

From its investigative force for a president ial campaign but also with these usually receiving additional appropriations every four years, in order to plan for those campaigns, because the amount of travel which is very unpredictable increases. So i want to be clear that what we saw in the report will enable us to have an expectation that you will have the resources to address all of these concerns, because if this report your ask for resources only takes you up to a certain point to cover the ...