year we started permitting -- the department of water started to permit food trucks. this is the food truck and this is the commercial street. we had a situation where the permit was granted for the food truck to be in the street that is closed to traffic. we discussed it with the department of water originally this area was signed for no periods just to ensure no leftover vehicles when treasclosed to ped straps. so our officers started to site the truck for being there, even though it had a city permit. so it created a conflict. we aloud the truck to be there and coming now before you to make sure that this activity is allowed by the city for the truck to be here. we feel that the truck can be made in a safe manner of we did have a public hearing.

the main objections have been from nearby restaurants who don't like the food truck, but otherwise, we're not aware of any specific concerns other than the fact that the food truck is not thought to be consistent with the closure of the street. it is kind of an activation of that commercial street. it allows people to have something to go to. if you go there, you will see people gathering food from the food truck, which is consistent with a lot of other uses for a street of this type. >> as i read it, this would be a full block change in the restriction. so the reason why i asked the question, right? i mean, conceivably dpw could license more than just mr. wexler's truck and i guess my concern comes in, we have to balance the needs here. and thank you for the update. and i can understand why a restaurant that came to and participated in an effort to have a pedestrian right-of-way near its business would not want a food truck parked

directly in front of it. i understand in man's concern he doesn't want it on this block, but it's about a balance. so if the only concern is from the restauranteurs and, but my concern is if we do this and maybe this is an issue for dpw to balance, but it would sure seem unfair that if there were food trucks in front of the restaurants themselves. also as i support director brinkman will channel, this is a pedestrian right-of-way and then overnight it's all food truck it's not really a pedestrian right-of-way. it's a food court. so it seems to me that the one truck and if this is the one permit and it's not in front of this man's restaurant, you know, that seems like a fair balance, but i want to have some limiting principle here, because if we tell them it's one truck and lo and behold there is a food truck in front of this man's

restaurant in a couple of weeks he would be upset and have good running back to be. >> i think what we have here is the overlay of two different regulatory systems. >> do you know anything about dpw? >> i do. >> and we actually have someone from dpw here, but note there is regulatory permitting process that the food trucks go through. so this truck presumably went through that initial public process and has an opportunity for a public hearing. it has certain notice requirements. it alsos have requirements in the regulations that dpw adopted that they consider the impact on the immediate businesses. there is some provision to restrict the issuance of a permit if it's in direct feet workers' compensation the business. so if you have a mexican restaurant, you copyright have a taco truck right outside. so there are

those conditions that dpw takes into each permit and evaluates each on its own. >> this is issue. if we open this up on the entire block, have we then said pedestrians concerns aren't really that big a concern, if dpw business concerns turns it into a food court. that is my concern as mta

director standpoint. >> i understand. the dpw process is not a business-only process. they go through a full public process as did then we subsequently went through a public hearing process before bringing this proposal forward. so there are two steps of public process. i don't think anybody would suggest that by approval of this, it would be a statement of the mta board that pedestrian issues aren't of concern. i think our folks would look at this from safety and sustainable streets perspective and find it's not of concern . >> well,, okay, because it's one truck. i think the point of all of this and i'm happy to support the staff proposal in the end, but the point is assurance to our restaurant owner and his neighbors and friends and colleagues that at least one director here does not want to see this turned into a food court at the expense of pedestrian right-of-way without a lost of -- a lot of

further discussion. >> i echo that concern. i trust mr. lee's opinion that one food truck is not going to degrade the pedestrian. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, commissioners. john, department of public works. this situation, the mobile food facilities program that the department is currently running is approximately a year and a half since it was voted on by the board of supervisors. we're continually learning as given it's a new program and we're typickually continually

refining. currently the legislation itself is being reevaluated to clarify and change certain aspects to provide more clarity to the code. given that my assumption currently is that it would ask for the same type of closure from 11:00 to 2:00 to operate in the same proximate location. it is highly unlikely that the department would recommend an approval for these types of additional food trucks because again, we're starting to run into areas of what we believe to be some saturation, that the intent of the legislation was to, according to the board of

supervisors was place these food trucks into so-called food deserts where there is little foodservices in the area. and based upon that logic, we're really looking at what is appropriate and what is not specifically. >> and so this food truck, since the gentleman runs a restaurant on that street already, it's slightly a different situation? >> in this case -- >> there are four restaurants on the street, but the food truck operator is one of those restaurants, correct? >> yes. >> that is correct >> three restaurants have outdoor seating. >> thank you. in that situation i'm happy to support staff's proposal on this one. >> i think we have a little technical problem. at least two of us already voted for this. director lee and i had this as k; right? >> yes. >> and we only removed l, m and n. >> when did become such a

stickler? >> i'm a lawyer. >> you can vote on it again. that would be fine. it's just doubly endorsed. >> i will move to approve this. >> you are approving l, the commercial street? >> l. >> is there a second for that motion? >> second. >> any furndiscussion? all those in favor, say aye? >> aye. >> opposed? the ayes have it. l, m and n. jerry, director lee? >> that was the ortega street from 24th to 25th or 27th, where we're going put in speed bumps and pedestrian islands and then do strict parking. i'm familiar with that area because i grew up, around the sunset reservoir and into ortega [pw*-ubgts/] don't we run into the same problem with quintaro, reducing the speeds?

>> are you asking about certain streets that are similar? >> they are identical. our drafting group is here and i'm going ask him to speak to the issue of other adjacent streets that might be of consider to take a look at. >> okay. >> good afternoon, mike with the livable sections of mta. we responded to this particular request on ortega because an application was submitted and we haven't looked at quintaro, because we haven't received an application. our traffic-calming resolves from input from residents. quintaro is more steep that ortega but because there were no specific requests for quintaro, we haven't looked tat. >> you are talking about speed bumps and pedestrian islands?

>> speed humps are meant to control the speeding on the street and pedestrian islands are meant to improve crossing of the ortega to lead to the sunset reservoir. >> okay. what about the rationale of the restricted parking. >> the restricted parking is at the corners, to improve the sight lines of motorists and pedestrians i should add these elements were developed in conjunction with neighbors along that street. >> thank you. >> with that, director lee? >> i move to approve that. >> l, m and n? >> yes. >> their list, not ours. [ laughter ] >> i will second. >> we will have a tiny little break here. okay. can we hang on to that and come back to this one? >> okay. >> on advoice of my co-counsel. so let's go to 12. >> all right, so it's my understanding that the board is not taking action at this point

on the ortega street items? >> that is right. >> moving on to item 12, hold on, let me get down there. i hope daze it's really 12, authorizing the directors to executive a contract new flier industries, et cetera. directors no members of public have signed up. >> any questions on this one? >> i would like to clarify -- and this actually came up. it's a question i should have asked when state of good repair grant for l15 million. this is this grant what is buying these buses or is that a separate purchase?

>> hi, good afternoon, monique webster. the state of good repair grant we received was towards the purchase of replacement vehicles. we would like to expand the number of [sthra-ebgz/] we're going to be able to purchase, but at this point we don't know how many additional vehicles that will be. >> okay. so i think the last time we talked about new vehicles and i asked mr. haly, we would be receiving our first batch of new vehicles in spring? >> mr. haly and his staff with u.s. city attorney's office and finance folks has done a trespass job to accelerate this to the greatest extent possible negotiating very hard with new

flyer to [tkhr-efr/] and i believe under this purchase, which i would say that we're very excited about, we would have the first ones coming in in the spring. and we have been able to get from them a very aggressive schedule and following right behind, which i think kind of relates to the question of the other grant funds is what we're also beginning to process on some of the electric trolley buses as well. so they will be following behind this purchase. but it's a much shorter turnaround time than we would normally have in part because you authorized us to enter into the purchasing consortium and in part because we emphasized to the contractor that we would like the most aggressive schedule possible for delivery. >> and these will be replacing some of our buses that we have been remined in the past we have the oldest fleet around and it's only through the amazing work of our mechanics

that they are out there still running. so this will replace our worst? >> between in and the electric trolley procurement that we hope to bring to you soon, we'll be replace [sph-fgt/] oldest in our fleet and our biggest headaches. you will see in the next item, where we're requesting authorization to rehab in additionally some of our older vehicles in this combination of purchase and overhaul and in addition this is what have you approved in the five-year cip. that in addition to what have you done in operating budget in terms of getting -- investing in the maintenance, these two planks toweled significantly improve the reliability of the fleet overall. >> and i'm sorry, one more question. to go back to the federal grant, again this is something that i meant to ask at the time, but never did. when we got the $15 million state of good repair grant was

that something we anticipated and baked into our budget numbers for those buses? >> yes. when we developed the two-year and five-year cip and the two-year capital budget, we anticipate to the best of our abilities the federal grant program and state to the extent its relevant. the various funding sources and build our plan around that. so we did anticipate those funds and i think we actually anticipated more than we received with that $15 million, so we're certainly very grateful for the $15 million. it wasn't a surprise. it was the exact amount we were unsure of. so that was baked into our assumptions, but because we got less, we have to figure out how to close gaps and adjust accordingly. these funds and the procurement was in the capital budget. >> g i just wanted to highlight that, because i know when i did a tour of one of the divisions, the age of the buses and the fact that you want your buses -- i understand, to be

staggered at different types of year, so they don't start breaking down all at once. so buying 45 new vehicles is a great start. so i'm happy to go ahead and move this. >> is there a second? >> yes. >> further discussion? [phra-ufrp/]? >> aye. >> nays in the ayes have it. no. 13. >> 13 authorizing the director executive contract no. cpt 6 31, rehantation of neo plan buss with complete coach works in an amount not to exceed $19,105,885.60 and for a term not to exceed six years. no public has signed up. >> motion? >> motion. >> second? >> any further discussion? all those in favor, say aye? >> aye. >> opposed? the ayes have it. going back to miss freehlander with the ortega street item. >> directors, just to confirm and clarify for you and the public, the items on the

consent calendar are the same on both versions of the agenda. there is only a typo in lettering. so once you act on the commercial street item, you will have acted on the entire consent calendar. >> on the ortega street item? >> the ortega street item. [laughter] >> correct. >> so is there a motion on the l, m and n? >> on the ortega street item. >> motion. >> second. >> any further discussion? all those in favor, say aye? >> aye. >> is that it? >> mr. chairman, that concludes the business before you today. there is no closed session. >> we're adjourning in memory of our colleague that we mentioned earlier in the meeting. thank you very much.

>> good morning. i am darlene bryant, your mc for this morning. the first economic and trade seminar here in our beautiful city. city hall in san francisco. housekeeping items. you'll notice on your chair there is a little box. we're having simultaneous interpreting. you will find these. insert into the box, turn it

on, put it on your head and did not to get out of this room. if you leave, leave it on the chair, we will pick it up afterward. if you have a problem, there is a little room and they can take care of it for you. problems with their headsets, there is a little room, someone will take care of it for you. restrooms to my left. and please, turn your cell phones off. ok? thank you. i want to say this event would not be possible to do without the general sponsorship of the mayor's office. thank you, mayor ed lee. also the ministry of the commerce of china, supported by the governor's office. thank you so much. the lieutenant governor is here of course. i would like to mention that we do have some honorable mentions in here. first of all, my boss, hon. ed lee.

mayor of san francisco. i would like to add our first chinese mayor in san francisco. the vice minister of the ministry of commerce from beijing. [applause] welcome. next to my former boss, the hon. gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california. the hon. counsel general of the people's republic of china. [applause] the minister of the embassy of the people's republic of china and the united states, based in washington, d.c.. and charlotte schultz, mr. mike rossi, senior adviser on jobs

for governor brown. also officials from the delegation. the director-general of the department of foreign investment and administration. mr. wong shi. and mr. -- the commercial counselor of the department of corporation. and the director-general of the investment promotion agency of the ministry of commerce in china. we have more. the chairman of the tschida chamber of commerce -- china chamber of commerce. and from the china contractors association. and the president of the foreign

trade and economic relations commission. and the deputy director general, department of commerce of the inner mongolia, autonomous region. the director of economic and trade office of [unintelligible] province. i would like to mention that locally, we have a city council member from fremont, ms. sue chan and supervisor malia cohen is in the house. thank you for coming. i remember not long ago when vice-president -- the vice- president visited the united states and i traveled to los angeles with our mayor at the time and what an event. and now a few months later, san francisco is probably hosting the seminar with the ministry of commerce. it shows that our golden mountain continues to attract chinese. has never stopped since the 1800's and because san francisco continues to be the city of

innovation and full of peril spirit, we will continue to seek an inflow of inbound chinese businessmen and investors. may i invite our mayor, edwin lee, to the podium? [applause] >> thank you. good morning. i want to of course repeat our warm welcome, ladies and gentleman, to the vice minister and his delegation here. to the council general and his wonderful work and to our lieutenant governor, gavin newsom is here. our senior adviser, mr. rossi and those of you from fremont and san jose and around the bay area, thank you for being here on this first china-united states state and regional economic and trade discussion. as you know, san francisco has

been home to the biggest and the oldest chinatown in the united states. and so, there could not be a more appreciative place to hold this conference. i will say as i said earlier to the vice minister that it is interesting to note to and i am a student of our chinese history. in the 1800's as darlene has mentioned, many of the ancestors came over from china and whether it was for economic opportunity or search of gold, it is interesting to know that today we're of course seeing our contemporaries coming to invest and look for partnerships opportunities in the united states and in san francisco. it is a very nice twist. i am proud to say that san francisco is the innovation capital of the world. and we have been dubbed the center for clean technology in

the united states. our goal of reaching the zero waste in 20/20 -- 2020 is a real goal. . companies are popping up in our city. we recently signed a memorandum of understanding in beijing with the national energy conservation center where our leader of our economic development represented our city. in agreeing to sustain and share the best practices as it relates to energy efficiency and sustainability and of course, which my good friend and our u.s. ambassador, gary locke, had washed over. not to mention that we're the home to the california institute of regenerative madison --

medicine. mission bay is a destination for those who want to make history in by a life sciences and biotech discoveries. -- vio lifbio life scientists ad biotech discoveries. u2 -- for making that a cause for future generations and we will discover in that corridor those live science drugs that will help us end these dreadful diseases for generations to come. thank you, lieutenant governor. [applause] i wanted to welcome the delegates who come here under the leadership of the vice minister and of course in his capacity as not only the vice ministry of commerce, but also the china investment and promotion agencies and to the many companies