Commission, you may comment under item 4, general Public Comment and will be continued to item 13, if you do not have the opportunity on item 4. Last, when you are making Public Comment, please address your remarks to the commission. The Commission Neither the commission, nor staff will respond to questions during Public Comment, but the commission may may ask staff to respond once Public Comment is done. So with that, we are on item 2, the president s report. Im going to defer to comments made under another item. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Were on item 3 of the oh, before we get started, commissioner buell, item no. Hold on item no. 11, the open space Fund Undesignated contingency reserve victoria Manalo Draves park. I know supervisor kim wants to address this issue and she will appear here at 10 30 and well call that item out of order when she is. Ed with, that item 3, general managers report. Good morning, commission
Richard. One Year Anniversary on the Planning Commission. I figure we can celebrate a light moment in this craseyness today but i want to talk about why 75 howard is a important project because this is a question about our values. As people who live in city and people in the bay area as whole. There are people thattled you 0. 16 production in shadow was more important that people that can live in the city. People told you that [inaudible] parking garage was more important that people that can live in the city. There are people that told you we are a violation and the 20 people that came out for housing are irviolation of neighborhoods. That is a question about values. Do you want to be a welcoming and open sit aetd that brings now people in or do you want to shut off the gate and force people to be displaced because there isnt enough housing to support them . I dont want to be aigated community, i want to be San Francisco. You mentioned somebody said that we are techies and so on, toda
Thank you madam chair. The first order of business is item no. 1 roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner man da har is absented. Commissioner singh. Yes. Commission busto. Yes. Malled m chair gonzales. Commission manned har is absent. All others present. Commissioner 2 a the next regularly scheduled meeting of september 16, 2015. Will be held at 1 p. M. City hall room 416. B announcements of prohibition of sound producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and similarly sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised the chair may order the removal from the room for persons responsible for sound producing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time allotment for Public Comment. Please be advised a member of the public has three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period
President s moving the us embassy . We will see how that affects peace efforts as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. A push for tax reform now in the final leg of congress this is a big week. The housesenate Conference Committee prepares to meet publicly on wednesday. To finalize a sweeping tax overhaul. There are several key differences between house and Senate Versions. Like for example, income Tax Deductions and family tax credits. Genuinely House Majority leader, Kevin Mccarthy. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Kane talk is about the status of this bill . You have been leaving this Conference Last Week into this week now. This is a big week for you. It is a very big week. We made great progress. Think of it. Moved house come back in. We were not supposed to start until tuesday of last week but we came in monday. Just so we can move to go to conference for the senate do the same. The way these founders create this to work. Two different bills. Structurally they
National security investigator, primarily youre familiar with criminal investigations . Yes, sir. You understand as youre aggregating evidence, youre looking to see if theres an act of a crime. Yes. You have to demonstrate the mental state if you bring a case forward, intentional, knowingly, reckless . Almost always, yes. And you would agree that short of some statement against interest, most of the time the cup payab culpable mental state i hate to generalize. Trust me, it is. Because short of someone making a statement against interest, youve got to prove that the intended not only the every element of the offense, or knowingly did that offense. That has to be proved. And off times by circumstantial evidence, which by the way, theres a jury instruction that goes forward that says theres no qualitative difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence. Dwrou you would agree with that statement . Sir, im not an attorney. Youve been in court many times, right . You sure sou