Their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibility as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you very much. Item number two, please. Item number two is the opportunity for Public Comment on any matters within the boards jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Comments specific. To the item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. Members of the public may address the board and will be limited to three minutes of speaking time per person and a total of 20 cumulative minutes for this item. We will now take inperson Public Comment members of the public who wish to provide inperson Public Comment on this
Heard your presentation, i want to comment on it. The first thing is, i completely support revocation hearings. I dont think that the fact that we can speed up everything and get it out the door and it reminds me for when i used to work for kodak and people would run in and say, i have to develop this right now. And then you see its christmas pictures. Why did it take you that long to develop this but you need it now . Those are the jokes we used to have. One of the questions we used to ask at h. P. How do we know where we want to go when we dont know where were really at. And after hearing the presentation, that really hits me. And the reason is not because any of this is bad, but i think when i looked at the page here under process improvements, product entitlements. I started to say, a, is what we want to do, b, how we want to do. And c, how we want to do. D, what we want to do and its a mish mash of thoughts, all good thoughts. Theres an organization of 300 people. Some people do t
For because clientele maybe hear about your work, so you start focusing on certain areas, Structural Engineering orgio technical and certainly in the academic field, various professors from surrounding universities especially, stanford or berkley, develop the reputation because they focus on certain aspects and theories that they work in the labs and write papers and such. So we get an idea of what their area of expertise and background are. I get it. Its a good answer, thank you. More to the director, kind of lets say we dont get a huge pool again, i think at that stage, what decision will you make . First of all, we already have that number there. And then we outreach to other organization. I believe we would be more and then at that time well i guess im just you know playing devils advocate, i think its something that needs to be decided on in the next round. You might get to 12 or 15, i think the pool we have is what we should go with. This is something we need to get in place as s
Theres been a strong desire to see improvements in the area. Sponsor has indicated that they will be responsible for maintenance and liability of the proposed improvements. Proposed improvements would consist of public works standard materials and maintenance covenant outlined as part of the encroachment permit and specific work will be established. The city is exploring a Community Facilities district to provide maintenance operations. The exact terms are being developed. If a cfd is established, funding could be generated by an annual tax agreed upon by all properties. The sponsor has committed to participating in a cfd to provide additional funding for maintenance and improvements in oak plaza the planning department, department of public works, department 7 real of real estate and City Attorneys Office has reviewed it and weve provided rounds of feedback. Placement of trees on the north sidewalk, improving loading and passenger dropoff has been improved. The plaza has been reviewed
Present. Vice chair chiu. Present. Commissioner kopp. Here. Commissioner lee. Here. All right, everyone is here, so lets go to Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Agenda. Yes. Go ahead and just in order. Hi, im [inaudible] i wanted to add something on behalf of mr. Bush for the record, he wanted me to read the editorial that appeared in the chronicle regarding the last meeting when the commission decided not to send the measure to the board of supervisors pending further work. The editorial was titled osf ethics board fays to tackle money and politics. It appeared september 27th in the conical. It chronicle. It realdz they had a chance to pass a common sense measure to curtail money and politics. It failed. It would have banned the practice of allowing political donors to contribute to the charitable causes of favorable candidates when they have a land decision in front of city officials. Such arrangements are common place and stink to high heaven. As cr