thereby turning the terminal into a true station in excess of 100,000 passengers a day. with only four platforms. once this is complete, should be no need for the shallow platform and the level could be turned over to commercial tenants. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> the presentation that we heard. put my time. commissioners, that was here, there and everywhere.

you kind of think when you have a presentation that's like that, it does, i don't know who is does a favor to. for sure it doesn't do a favor to constituents who are astute. there may be people who think we're badgering, but we have this diatribe that goes nowhere. we bring guests okay, visitors come and there's grid lock. complete with pictures. and here we have four agencies, one of the many people involved is the board of supervisors. you all should have a focus group. you should demand from the agencies some short term and long-term goals. don't say, we have a project

manager here. she's really nice and whatever. but if you cannot deliver, then you have on get out of the way. or maybe the head of department has to get out of the way or maybe a memo has to be sent to him. market street is a mess. we have construction, we have people that want bicycles to any to market street. we have all these tourist buses. hop on and hop off. y'all don't even care. just look at the intersection of third street and market. van ness and market. 5th and market. grid lock. i have pictures pedestrians just go any which way because they have to go somewhere. over car, in between buses. i know you have seen it with

your eyes. you don't want to speak to reality. if you want to represent, good leaders know the way, show the way and go the way. if you want to represent, do the right thing. hold people accountable. hold the mayor accountable. hold twitter accountable. hold the supervisors giving them breaks accountable. hold somebody accountable for many pedestrians that have died. hold them accountable. get the police chief here. the head of departments here and hold them thank you very much. >> thank you. sir. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon >> supervisors, garbage transportation authority. yes. i always notice one supervisor

gets and walks out and the other is eating lunch. shows the caliber of people here. absolute garbage. that's the root of the problem. president of the board of supervisors says, 10 years, nothing seems to happen. it's called progressive politics. nothing happens because you're trying to ram things down people's throats they don't want how do we move forward in this city, the city of san francisco that does not work. that's really when the board of supervisors and city is invested in. making the city not work because it's only agenda is diversity.

we want it to be more diverse. the problem with that is, the worse city. why don't you want people in these jobs that know what they're doing, instead of women and minorities. people that don't know what they're doing because just of your politics. yes, can you see that? everywhere i look, there's an idiot in the office. in the president to the board of supervisors. pelosi, what are grandmas doing running this state? >> i would ask the speaker to focus on the subject matter >> everywhere you look, there's an incompetent idiot in the office. thank you. i city that doesn't work. why? becau because -- you can get a

bathroom built in the park. yes, you're absolutely you know what. thank you. next speaker, the beauty of free speech, people can say the most hateful things but still say them. >> i thought you went through red tape through castro to get hiv testing and there's a lot of red tape here. anyway, i just wanted to speak on sixth street because i live in the tenderloin. i have lived here 15, 16 years. most of time i have been living here. i have been here 23 years. the thing is and i bring it up at the community meetings. we need bicycle signs. i am beginning to hate them.

they need, they need to hurry up and put something down at sixth and market. i'm not worrying about the cars and buses. but what's going on, the buses can get to one side or the other. that prevents the bicyclists from seeing if somebody is crossing the street when i have the right-of-way because i learned not to jay walk because of bicyclists. they don't have a sign saying stop here on red. they just keep on going even though the stop sign is up. i have been saying this over and over again. and i'm getting to point where i'm going to start kicking them. kicking the bicyclists because i can't get a license plate and report it down there or something like that. it's getting ridiculous. i know y'all are all for bicycle and lanes and spending all this money on that stuff. i don't care what you spend the

money on. just put some signs up because it's getting ridiculous. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> the san francisco bicycle coalition. i wanted to come up here and talk about one of the many projects that wasn't talked about today. including second street and want to echo concerns about the project being delayed yet again. this is a situation where we have a study within a study, which is usually not a great situation to be in. we support the work that this body is doing to try to move that project forward and thank you for your concern there. i also want to point out that the maintenance continues to be an issue for bicycle facilities. there needs to be better signage and marking many places. that's a need for better maintenance across the board.

the category in the packet you saw continues to be delayed and reduced. so we ask you to pay more attention to helping the city increase it's maintenance, budgeting and work. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak, please come forward. >> hi, good afternoon. supervisors, i just wanted to point out one thing because this is a public forum, the better market street project is holding pop ups up and down market street every friday this month. basically we have retaken over the kiosks and have public information out there on friday between 12 and 2:00 p.m. this coming friday is at market and powell. near the cable car turn around. it's been an incredibly interesting experience because we reach people that don't normally come to city with

public forums. you get the folks that live around there, work around there, tourists and really reaching different people in different sections and getting a much better understanding of how market street simple i want to point out that department of public works just repaved the bike lanes. we are doing short term improvements. lastly, i want to make sure everybody is aware of how important market street really is. next week, we need market street as the giants go up and down on the parade there. we will be able to be known nationally about market street and their celebration parade. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak that has not spoken? seeing none? public comment is closed. let me say that we ask members of the public to be respectful.

we believe in free speech. there's a way to meaningful comments without saying things about women and people of color. if you can please call the income item. >> item eight. introduction of new items. >> colleagues, any new items for future discussion? >> why don't we open up to public comment on any new items. seeing none, public comment is closed. item nine. public comment. now is an opportunity for members of public to speak on anything not on the agenda but within the jurisdiction of the authority. >> good afternoons, supervisors. members of the public. you know there's an old addage and it goes like this.

light threatens darkness. do you understand that concept? it's going to come and haunt you day after day if you keep playing the race card in this city. thank you very much. if anything needs to happen in this city, stop playing the race card. if you want to progress in market street, stop playing the race card. if you want traffic calming on market street, stop playing the race card. it's so old. nobody is hear even listening to you guys and giving public comment. normally, this chamber would be full. before you came into the city, we had good government and projects that went forward on time every time. a city that came together and if you can't see that because you're so identified with diversity, then you need to go

get your eyes checked. we're so tired of it in this city. i would get away with anything with your attitude. it's not diverse enough. you could take over any country with these type of politics because it's about victimizing its very own citizens. biting the hand that feeds you. if you think that that has any sustainability in this city or any city in the world, you're absolutely deluded. thank you very much. i grew up with a father from the middle east and brothers that were diverse as any family on earth. but i tell you what, the politics in this city is so bad, that it has to change. thank you. >> seeing no other speaker, public comment is closed. if you can call the next item. >> 10 adjournment. >> two words, go giants.

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>> okay, if we can have everybody take their seats. okay, good morning. we're going to get warm because you're all together. but we really want to welcome all of you today to the opening of our new city, new bridge hiv research facility. let's give it a hand. [cheering and applauding]

>> one of the greatest honors that i have and barbara garcia, the director of health and one of the greatest honors i have is the critical staff that i get to work with. and one of those incredible staffs is going to be susan [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] >> susan is a premiere doctor in our community, in our san francisco general hospital focused on hiv and aids. ands as importantly and sometimes even more, her importance of being a researcher in the area of hiv and aids and is a renowned world leader in this area. by the way, we have many of you who are, well, world renowned researchers also in the midst of all of us. i'm the principal investigator on this project and that means that i'm supposed to be in charge of making sure it happens. so, we're 70% done and you're seeing one of the major parts

of it today. and i want to introduce susan so we can get the show on the road. so, thank you so much. (applause) >> well, i want to welcome you all here today for the launch of our state offices aids renovation project otherwise known as soar. and i'm susan buck binder. i'm speaking on behalf of the entire aids office. we are fortunate to be a world class research organization housed within the health department which is pretty much unique globally. we have three amazing sections that we work with. the first is the surveillance epidemiology section. they really started at the very beginning of the hiv epidemic in tracking what was then known as grid and other term and became aids and then also tracking new cases of hiv

infection. and, so, there's really been leaders around the world in how to track trends in new infections and that is what helps us drive both our prevention and our treatment program. they share their data around the world. they are leaders in helping other organizations around the world set up their own surveillance group. this was led by dr. susan sheer and dr. willie mcfar land and i want to acknowledge them and their entire team. (applause) >> the hiv prevention section formerly led it now it's led by tracy packer who is here in the crowd. (applause) >> and stacey leads an amazing team of people. they not only oversee and set

the priorities for hiv prevention in the entire city and serve as really, again, one of the flagship prevention programs globally in making decisions about how to have the biggest impact on driving down new infections. but they're also a world class research organization that does research on testing, on linkage to care, community viral load, treatment of substance use as a way to prevent new hiv infections. and she, again, has a very difficult verse and very talented team and we're really excited to work with them as well. (applause) >> and then finally i want to introduce my staff. we were formally known as the hiv research section. but as you can see we have these other world class research organizations housed in our same institution. so, we've renamed ourselves bridge hiv. and i'm going to tell you a little story because i have

sitting here. we got a grant from the tap root organization, which is a group that does pro bono work for nonprofit organizations in a variety of areas. and tim led two of our projects, one of which was to help us rename ourselves because we knew that it was confusing for us to be called the hiv research section when so many of us do research. we are called bridge hiv because we're a bridge to the east bay, to our international collaboraters, from the past, the very beginning of the epidemic when there was a research study called the san francisco clinic city cohort study or the hepatitis b cohort study, that specimens from is that study were used to develop the very first hiv antibody test to where a link to the past and the future. so, we're a link to the past and the future, and more than anything we're a link to the community. and our motto is where science meets community.

our team does really cutting edge research on different kinds of prevention strategies, pre-exposure prophylaxis. and if you go to our website, join prep hiv, you'll see all of the many exciting studies that we have as well as our partnership with san francisco city clinic in launching the first demonstration project of pre-exposure prophylaxis, taking antihiv medicines to prevent new infections. we're studying topical gels, retro microbicide. the way we're going to end this epidemic is through a vaccine, we've controlled other infectious diseases through a cure. we're proud of our staff who contribute to this as well as the many study participants. and i'm just going to close with a quick word about the project. the way that this project came about was actually one of our

staff members, janey vincent who is our graphic designer, you'll see some of her beautiful work inside, noticed that there was -- she's hiding. (applause) >> she noticed that president obama had designated part of his stimulus money to nih for the national institutes of health and they were putting a billion dollars to research infrastructure, biomedical research infrastructure, something that's never happened before. she said, you know, we don't have enough space in our section. all of the three units had grown so much that we really needed more space. she said, do you think we could apply for this money? and, so, the three units came together and our goals were one, to be able to fully really advance the science that we're doing by