There he is right on cue, and he called to my attention that we had not appropriately thanked inspector bill kidd for his contribution to the forming and the reason that we have one of the best hostage negotiation teams in the country, to that end, bill came into the Police Department in september of 1969, he served an incredible 31 years as a negotiater and instructer and coordinator and worked his way up to a team leader and did uncountable hours of negotiations and i had the privilege to see him work. Under the direction and leadership of clap, and i am sorry that you did not think that you are going to get out of here without a mention. The they save lives, the lives that the hostage negotiater of today, thanks to the road paved, we continue to save the lives today and there is a lot more that could be said about the commander, and i want to say thank you, for all that you have done and largely responsible for where we are today. Thank you. So this certificate, of appreciation reco
[ gavel ] good evening and welcome to the december 5th, 2012 meeting of San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president chris hwang who is engined by Vice President frank fung, commissioner [aers ]ia hurtado and commissioner ann lazarus and welcome to our newest member commissioner honda. Deputy [khrfrpb ] or City Attorney will provide the board with any needed legal advice and the Legal Process clerk and im Cynthia Goldstein and were joined by departments Scott Sanchez here, the Zoning Administrator and also representing the Planning Department and planning commission. Joseph dusty representing the department of building inspection, and department of would now like to, urban foresty. The board requests that you turn off longer devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the hallway. Appellants, permitholders and Department Responds have seven presents to preponderant their case. People must include their comm
Ago at 17th and tejaro the Police Department moved into the facility there and getting that particular building up to speed, the entire infrastructure had to be replaced because all the copper and electronics had been stripped from the building. We welcome the legislation, we think it brings things in line, San Francisco in line, with what is done statewide by redefining what a junk dealer is. And like often is the case with abc violations and premises that are required to be licensed by the abc, it affords the chief of police and the department and persons like myself at the station level to suggest conditions on permits should an individual who is permitted run afoul of the existing legislation. Thank you. Thank you very much. I do want to bring one technical before you to your attention, change the date the existing permit expires from the end of this calendar year to june 30, 2013. You have in the packet that i circulated to you, in front of you, it reflects this change, this proce
The december 5th, 2012 meeting of San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer this evening is board president chris hwang who is engined by Vice President frank fung, commissioner [aers ]ia hurtado and commissioner ann lazarus and welcome to our newest member commissioner honda. Deputy [khrfrpb ] or City Attorney will provide the board with any needed legal advice and the Legal Process clerk and im Cynthia Goldstein and were joined by departments Scott Sanchez here, the Zoning Administrator and also representing the Planning Department and planning commission. Joseph dusty representing the department of building inspection, and department of would now like to, urban foresty. The board requests that you turn off longer devices so they will not disturb the proceedings. Please carry on conversations in the hallway. Appellants, permitholders and Department Responds have seven presents to preponderant their case. People must include their comments with the 7 or 3minute periods. Me
Without objection . Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor cohen. Mr. Clerk, can you call the last item . Item no. 6 is a hearing on the municipal transportation quarterly progress on increasing and improving tax service. Scott wiener. About a year ago i submitted a hearing request to request quarterly updates from the Municipal Transportation Agency about taxi service in San Francisco and efforts to reform and improve our taxi system. If we are ever to become truly a transit first system, muni, those critically important, will never be enough by itself. We also have to have in addition to great biking and ability for people to walk around safely, we need to have car sharing and very importantly we need to have a world class taxi system. We currently do not have enough taxis in San Francisco. Taxi service is not where it needs to be. People still have incredible trouble getting a cab, whether they are visiting the city, whether they are living in the city, and if we want people to