1 BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 2 450 N STREET 3 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 4 5 6 7 8 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT 9 NOVEMBER 17, 2009 10 11 12 13 14 15 FINAL ACTIONS 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 REPORTED BY: JULI PRICE JACKSON 24 CSR NO. 5214 25 26 27 28 1 1 P R E S E N T 2 3 For The Board Betty Yee of Equalization: Chairwoman 4 5 Jerome E. Horton Vice-Chair 6 Bill Leonard 7 Member 8 Michelle Steel Member 9 Marcy Jo Mandel 10 Appearing for John Chiang State Controller 11 (per Government Code Section 7.9) 12 Diane G. Olson 13 Chief, Board Proceedings Division 14 15 ---OOO--- 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 1 450 N STREET 2 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 3 NOVEMBER 17, 2009 4 ---o0o--- 5 MS. YEE: Our last item for the day is the oral 6 hearings taken under submission. 7 MS. YEE: Okay. 8 ---o0o--- 9 B2 FILTRONA INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION 10 NO. 427430 11 ---O0O--- 12 MS. OLSON: The first one is B2, Filtrona 13 Industrial Corporation. 14 MS. YEE: Okay. Let's go back to B2, Filtrona 15 Industrial Corporation. 16 Okay, is there a motion? 17 I'll move to sustain the Franchise Tax Board. 18 MS. MANDEL: Including their revision? 19 MS. YEE: Yes. Is there a second? 20 MR. HORTON: Second, with the revision. 21 MS. YEE: Okay, second by Mr. Horton. 22 Discussion? 23 Okay, hearing none, is there objection? 24 Hearing none, that motion carries. 25 ---o0o--- 26 27 28 3 1 B4 CONNIE S. RAY 2 NO. 418262 3 ---o0o--- 4 MS. OLSON: Our next item is B4, Connie S. Ray. 5 MS. YEE: Okay, item B4, Connie S. Ray. 6 Is there a motion? 7 MS. STEEL: I am going to move to grant the 8 late filing penalty, but sustain the -- the long -- the 9 -- what is it, the other -- the tax -- we're going to 10 stay on the recommendation, the staff recommendation. 11 MS. YEE: Okay. So -- 12 MR. LEONARD: It's the 200 and some dollar 13 late -- 14 MS. STEEL: $256.72. 15 MS. YEE: Okay. 16 MR. HORTON: I'll second that. 17 MS. YEE: Motion by Ms. Steel to abate the late 18 filing penalty and otherwise sustain the Franchise Tax 19 Board. Second by Mr. Horton. 20 Discussion? 21 Please call the roll. 22 MS. OLSON: Madam Chair? 23 MS. YEE: No. 24 MS. OLSON: Mr. Leonard? 25 MR. LEONARD: Aye. 26 MS. OLSON: Ms. Steel? 27 MS. STEEL: Aye. 28 MS. OLSON: Mr Horton? 4 1 MR. HORTON: Aye. 2 MS. OLSON: Ms. Mandel? 3 MS. MANDEL: No. 4 MS. OLSON: Motion carries. 5 MS. YEE: Motion carries. 6 Thank you. 7 ---o0o--- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 1 MS. YEE: Next item? 2 MS. OLSON: Our final item action for today is 3 B6, Victoria Soufflet. 4 ---o0o--- 5 B6 VICTORIA SOUFFLET 6 NO. 461166 7 ---o0o--- 8 MS. YEE: Okay. We are on item B6, Victoria 9 Soufflet. 10 Is there a motion? 11 MR. HORTON: Move to sustain. 12 MS. YEE: Okay. Motion to sustain the 13 Franchise Tax Board. 14 MS. MANDEL: Second. 15 MS. YEE: Second by Ms. Mandel -- the motion by 16 Mr. Horton, second by Ms. Mandel. 17 Without objection? 18 That motion carries. 19 MS. YEE: Okay. 20 MS. OLSON: That concludes our business for 21 today. 22 MS. YEE: Okay. Thank you very much, Members. 23 We will reconvene at 9:30 tomorrow morning. 24 Thank you. 25 ---o0o--- 26 27 28 6 1 B1 JOHN NELSON AND IVY NELSON. 2 NO. 469840 3 ---o0o--- 4 MS. OLSON: Ms. Yee? 5 MS. KELLY: I believe we had a 5-0 vote to 6 abate interest. I wasn't sure that I heard to sustain 7 FTB. 8 I think I may have assumed it. 9 Will you clarify one? 10 MS. YEE: Which item? 11 MS. KELLY: That was Nelson. 12 MS. MANDEL: That was the first one. 13 MS. YEE: Okay. 14 It was to -- yeah, it was to waive the $3.48 of 15 interest, but -- 16 MS. KELLY: Right. 17 MS. YEE: -- but otherwise sustain the 18 Franchise Tax Board. 19 MS. KELLY: But otherwise sustain, okay, thank 20 you. 21 ---o0o--- 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 7 1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE. 2 3 State of California ) 4 ) ss 5 County of Sacramento ) 6 7 I, JULI PRICE JACKSON, Hearing Reporter for the 8 California State Board of Equalization certify that on 9 NOVEMBER 17, 2009 I recorded verbatim, in shorthand, to 10 the best of my ability, the proceedings in the 11 above-entitled hearing; that I transcribed the shorthand 12 writing into typewriting; and that the preceding pages 1 13 through 7 constitute a complete and accurate 14 transcription of the shorthand writing. 15 16 Dated: December 1, 2009 17 18 19 ____________________________ 20 JULI PRICE JACKSON 21 Hearing Reporter 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 8