where we will probably end up leaving water to out that i think spoke, so we would love to see other ways for those folks to serve if it is not today. for seat 1, i was very impressed by krute. if i am announcing that right. i am really impressed and we would be glad to see you on board. i will make the motion to approve miss singa for seat one. supervisor wiener: i second. supervisor kim: without opposition. thank you, miss singa. i was also very impressed and i think you can bring a lot of expertise. i think there is only one woman on this committee, so it will be

great to get more women on this committee. we can do that without opposition. supervisor wiener: for seat two, i did confirm ahead of time with of the clerk and also with the city attorney that we have the discretion to appoint anyone to any see that they are qualified for regardless of what number of seats they listed. there are few situations where people applied for some seats but not others, but my understanding is that does not by us as long as they are qualified for the seat. for c two, this is a tough one. i don't know carmela gold very well, but i have heard positive things about her. tom owens, he approached me

about being more involved in the neighborhood and i did recommend him for the community benefit district board which he serves on now and i have gotten terrific reports. i think that we should avoid -- appointed michael simmons to se no. 2at -- to seat number two. i got to know michael originally when he was a project manager at the lgbt center. we have gone back more than a decade now, and he did a tremendous job than. in addition, as an affordable housing developer, he understands development which is going to be a key part to the future of the market octavia plan area. michael lives in the upper hayes valley western addition area and

does affordable housing work in the western addition. it is under-represented on this. i think it would be appropriate to appoint mr. simmons. i move that we appoint or recommend michael simmons for seat number two. supervisor kim: maybe we should move ahead and do a number of the seats. we have only one applicant for seat four. maybe we can do that without opposition. i think there'll be some moving parts in this. if we can do all the seats together. i would prefer to do these seats together. i know carmela gold. and now she has been serving on this committee, some of like to continue to support her.

i and appreciate that michael comes from a neighborhood that is not represented and i want to get a sense of the blend that will be having, so i prefer to do this together. let's move ken. we have krute for seat one and kenneth wingard for seat four. >> let me make one other suggestion. mr. coehen, you're in seat three. we don't have applicants for seat 3, and w. very well but we were impressed with what you had to say. i would be happy to forward you back to see three if that is ok with you. otherwise, it will be vacant. that is something i would like to do unless there is any objection.

supervisor kim: the you feel comfortable representing the low-income seat? >> thank you, supervisor. in the perspective, and understand the dynamics of community development and particularly that we have low- income members of the community. for me, the value standpoint and a prospective lybrand, sometimes with a certain level of push, i get it. if it was up to you in how appropriate it is, there are other people who are more low- income that i am. i am not a high-income, but i respect that as one option. supervisor kim: i actually would like to see low and come in the

seat because there are several -- i know that there are other appointments that the mayor's office makes. no one applied up until this point so i am happy to move forward peter cohen. we can do that without opposition. now we have seats 2, 5, and 6. i think we have one applicant for cedseat 5. >> i will make a motion to move them forward with recommendations. supervisor kim: dennis richards for seat number five. seats two and six. it seems we can move these four individuals around. we have four individuals left for two seats. any thoughts on seat six?

supervisor farrell: for supervisor wiener, i was impressed by everyone who came, in particular, mr. henderson who sits on seat 6, i am open to mr. simmons going to seat two. your work in the affordable housing community, it is very impressive. supervisor kim: i live in the market octavia plans i have a ton of interest in this as well. i know jason henderson quite well and i would support mr. henderson also moving forward. which leads us back to see to. we can take a vote on c two. for me, it is my experience working with carmela. she spoke to me about leaving

the country wanting to continue her work on this committee. supervisor wiener: for mr. henderson, i am very supportive of that. one of the lucky things is that we have to major neighborhood associations, both trying go and hayes valley that understand the importance of development and being able to accept a density hawn transit corridors and not just automatically say no and working with developers and focusing on good planning and transportation. i respect mr. henderson's work and i support his appointment to see no. 6. supervisor kim: we can do that without opposition as well. seat two, there is a motion to move forward michael simmons. >> i'll second that. supervisor kim: i think in -- i

wish i had a chance to speak with mr. simmons prior, acknowledging the diversity of neighborhoods, i will go forward and support that as well. i am sad to see carmela not on this cac. i will see if there are other appointments for her. will be moving krute singa, michael simmons, peter cohen, kennethw ingar -- kenneth wingard, dennis richards and jason henderson. i plan to be more actively involved in this since i live in the area and i have the time of interest in what we can do our route transit and development. many of you have already been

serving. are there any other announcements? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.

>> please join me in welcoming our mayor, ed lee. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. i am very happy to join all of you here today. it is an exciting day to join our high school kids, our high school, here at john o'connor. principal gomez, our deputy superintendent, our school board president, and our building trade, thank you for being here. the director of the joint power trended authority. we have the sfpuc, the school alliance, school district

personnel. we are all here because we are excited about this wonderful announcement. we are here in a very green, multipurpose use building that has just been opened. this is going to be representing something that i am quite familiar with. i know mike and others closer to my age, we had a wood shop. we had metal shop in middle school. we had exposure to how to deal with graphs. more importantly, you are talking to somebody who used to spend five years at the department of public works, as the director. we're having to pay attention to our infrastructure, one of the most important things any city can do. when we are trying to grow a new economy -- and as you know, i have gone around the city selling this idea about how the

economy is about tech jobs, but we also have an important infrastructure to take care of. if we do not take care of the infrastructure, these other jobs will not be here. jobs at the transbay terminal, which we are already building, celebrating and historic project labor agreement. we also have a commitment to our growing kids, that we are going to get them there. they are not just going to school to get bored. they have to have those jobs here, and we need them trained and ready for those jobs. so, in this new economy, when we are investing, like our city is, my commitment to the city is making sure we pay attention to infrastructure. we are going to do it right and make sure that our kids know, by

fulfilling their educational goals, being exposed to a facility like this, where you are building our labor representatives with the curriculum that the school district has offered to work with the infrastructure agencies that we have just mentioned, we have a curriculum that will train them in the jobs to come. being able to pay attention to this overt -- capital structures of the city, our high school kids can be exposed and get the experience, whether it is automotive, engineering, architectural design. they will get that exposure here in the center with all of the participants. so i am excited about this because it blends so much of what i believed in, what we have been doing in the city. all of our facilities that we are building in the city, whether you look at the mission bay, the building's at hunters

point, treasure island, a partner said, all of these projects, or the hospital's going up, they will all meet plant engineers, in infrastructure commitments. for our high school kids, as you often heard, maybe not enough, i want to welcome you to the million-dollar club. that is the difference, what our school district is trying to teach all of you, to make sure that you know there is a difference between someone who just graduated from high school, and someone who will go after their college education. it is a million-dollar difference. i want all of you to participate in that million dollar economy, because that will be the difference. and we will be working, not only through the school alliance, city colleges, local colleges to make sure we reinforce that. i am here to celebrate,

participate, and the knowledge all of a great, wonderful entities that have come together to create this tech 21 center, where this exposure and experience will happen, with your leadership, printable gomez. these kids will be able to see they have a way forward in this challenging city, but one that will be there city, when they have all the skills. thank you very much for being here. [applause] >> thank you. mr. mayor, we want to thank you on behalf of the 56,000 students in the san francisco unified school district, children of our community, for your tireless work on their behalf. we look forward to calling you a long-term partner. thank you. the mayor was gracious with his time. as you can imagine, he has a

full schedule today and asked to be part of this ceremony today to show his appreciation for the work being done here. we want this to be a celebration and i would probably take until now until 3:00 to thank all of the dignitaries here, but i wanted to recognize some of our elected officials and dignitaries. of course, you met mayor lee, and we also have with us today two commissioners of our board of education. commissioner sandra fuhr. we also have commissioner moss. [applause] we are very happy to with us also -- the mere mention her -- our transbay executive director maria ayerdi-kaplan.

thank you for being here with us. and the executive vice president for the united educators of san francisco, linda, thank you. and our president of united educators of san francisco, denis kelly. thank you as well. whenever you go down this path, you are going to miss someone. with all due respect, as i see you, i will call you out as we go through the program. thank you for being here. i serve as the separate -- deputy superintendent for social justice. what i would like to think about, as the good to this dedication ceremony, this is a tangible, real world artifacts of social justice. if we believe social justice is about kids having opportunities to explore career paths, opportunities to have jobs in

the real world, if it was not for these types of opportunities, that is social justice. we are happy to have you here to be part of the celebration of social justice. on a personal level, i will say to you, this is so important to me, because i stand before you as the son of a dirty man she metalworker. local 353 in tucson, arizona. why is that important? it is important because mayor lee mentioned, you cannot run a city, have infrastructure for a city, without these jobs. there is a connection between college and career and career and college. they are very much interconnected. as my father, who never graduated from high school, later earned a ged, the person

who taught me geometry was not my geometry teacher, who had a master's degree. she was wonderful, but i was just one of those kids. i learned geometry with my father actually doing the work. when you are cutting out sheet metal, bending the angles, you have to make it fit and you have to measure. i learned about ankles and how geometry works by actually doing it. when i say that career tech education is about college readiness, it is about utilizing all of those skills that we send kids to school every day to learn. this gives you a reason to read and write and do arithmetic, because you get to apply it. that is the duty of what is happening here today. happy to have you here. what a wonderful building. what do you think? do you like this building? [applause] this is our flexible use green

building. we call it the text 21 building. we have not named it officially yet, but there is a naming opportunity for you, if you want to take advantage of that. just kidding. before we dive into the program, i would like to talk more about all the wonderful individuals that have made this a reality. this has truly been a collaborative effort on the part of our partners, union partners, labor partners, educators, former administrators. you will hear from the former principal, dr. schultze, who was part of the original work. before we get to that, i want to introduce the current principal, martin gomez. this high school is named after one of san francisco's own labor

champions, and john o'connell. i want to introduce to you the man leading the academic work in collaboration with all the wonderful teachers here at john o'connell high school. [applause] >> it is a lot more full than it was five minutes ago. as principal, i want to welcome everyone to this event. it is important, not only for o'connell students, but all of san francisco. the district is making a push to include, improve, and pushed toward education. today, we are here to celebrate another reason of how o'connell is supporting and encouraging all students to be prepared for college and for a career. while some people are spending their time looking at what students are going to college, which are going to a career,

with this new tech 21 program, the courses will support students to be prepared for a career, and for college. that is the difference between the programs of before and now. the new tech 21 courses will require students to be able to apply tougher math concepts. the program will recruit students that are college-bound and students that want to go straight into the workforce. the whole purpose is to make sure that these students are prepared for the requirements that internships and jobs are asking for out of high school. we want to ensure all of the graduates are prepared for these requirements because we are promising them jobs and internships, which is huge for our students, and for san

francisco. i want to thank mark, david, the entire ct department, all of the stakeholders, dr. schultze, the previous administration, for making this building, and the course of the reality, which is much needed in san francisco. it is an exciting time to be a high school student in san francisco, but particularly, that john o'connell, and if you are excited about these tech 21 classis, please stay in touch with us as we figure out ways to continue supporting students. thank you for your time, thank you for coming out, and let's move this forward. [applause]

supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting to i am ross mirkarimi, a chair. i want to thank sfgtv for their

ongoing excellence. madam clerk, would you please read the roll call? >> >> supervisor avalos? present. >> supervisor campos? present. >> supervisor chiu? present. >> supervisor chu? present. >> supervisor cohen? present. >> supervisor elsbernd? present. >> supervisor farrell? present. >> supervisor kim? absent. >> supervisor mar? absent. >> supervisor mirkarimi? present. >> supervisor wiener? present. we have a quorum. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. item number two, please. >> approval of minutes of the november 15, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. roll call, please. >> item number two. >> supervisor avalos? >> supervisor campos? >> supervisor chiu? >> supervisor chu? >> supervisor cohen? >> supervisor elsbernd? >> supervisor farrell?

>> supervisor kim? >> supervisor mar? absent. >> supervisor mirkarimi? >> supervisor wiener? item passes. supervisor mirkarimi: all right. please read items number three four. >> 3 commenters report. four, executive director's report. these are information items. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, this is my last meeting as chair of the transportation authority. i want to thank you all for allowing me to serve you for two years. as i look back over the last year, but in particular the last two years, i think it is important that we can all take pride in some major milestones that we were able to achieve together, such as the completion of the environmental impact report for the van ness bus a rapid transit line. i project this is poised to move into implementation, and one that i believe will change for

the better, the way people see public transportation in san francisco. on high-speed rail, we spent a very productive year forging a unified san francisco position in the face of rapid change them in the policy environment both in washington, d.c., and in san francisco. i believe we will see caltrain electrification in high-speed rail kunduz san francisco at center than most people predict. we only realize the dream, the downtown high-speed rail terminal, but we're also known to show the way for the rest of the state. our coalition building worked in this area, and it will be a major legacy. i am proud of the work we have done on the presidio parkway. we're poised to open the first phase to traffic in early february, and our work on the public-private partnership has said legal challenges all the way back to the state supreme court. again, we are blazing new trails in project delivery. they will benefit not just the

city but the entire state. we have made significant progress in presenting a unified front in the region on san francisco's infrastructure needs related to the proposed sustainable community strategy, scs, and raising their readiness for pungent housing policies that can provide governments to make the right decisions to enable us as the region to make the most of our investments in transportation and infrastructure and do our part in addressing climate change. aside from the passage of prop k, that when the first general it -- revenue-generating measures in 2003, weaver also successful in putting forward the first ballot measure to transportation authority, and that was proposition aa, which passed last year. thank you, colleagues, for pursuing that it also, the transportation authority in providing the dollars toc