national sunshine week. it is no secret that open government is under attack in san francisco. someone gets a title and already he thinks he is an aristocrat who should be able to make his self-serving deals at the expense of the public without interference from democracy. there was a time when open records laws public library were both involved in serving a democratic right to know and empowering the people. that was before the library and san francisco government decided that serving the interests of the so-called aeries toe contracts could be turned into a private income stream. ~ you have become so enslaved to private money you decided right to know is a place to save money. if we want a democracy, we need open institutions of knowledge that allow access to the truth. saving money on those institutions of knowledge is like selling our children. it is no accident that the san francisco public library is the most egregious sunshine

violator in the city. once it is a private income stream, the philanthropyists want power and exclusivityity. the destruction of democracy is what they expect for the money and if corporate influence can destroy the public library, they can destroy what you care about next. the destruction of truth is the destruction of democracy itself, having me arrested did you not solve society's problems and of course the lies cost i city money. thank you. ~ cost the city money. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hi, i would like to speak on the resolution to condemn the [speaker not understood] muni ads. my name is carol sanders. i'm a member of the steering committee of the bay area chapter of jewish boys for peace. jewish boys for peace advocates the equal rights for all people in israel, palestine in

accordance with international law. we have 35 chapters across the country and here in the bay area many of our members live and work in san francisco and we have regular community meetings in san francisco. jewish boys for peace is very proud to be one of the 75 organizations that called for meaningful official response to the hateful antimuslim ads that appeared on muni. i followed closely other cities where the same ad have been placed and that includes washington, d.c., new york, fort lauderdale, and chicago. there have been many condemnationses and there's been creative counter ads, but with this resolution san francisco stand out in making

it a matter of record that the city stands against this home owe phobia, that it stands in solidarity with the targeted arab and muslim communities and very importantly that it goes beyond words to action, to mitigate the harm done. ~ thank you very much for this resolution. >> thank you very much. next speaker. good afternoon. my name is rachel roberts and i am the civil rights coordinator for the council on american islamic relations san francisco bay area office. i would first of all like to thank you on behalf of our organization for supporting this important resolution and i would especially like to acknowledge the commitment and hard work of supervisor chiu and his wonderful staff. thank you. those of us who come from marginalized communities know that in tightxv of great fear and prejudice that it is not politically easy to stand with communities that are being scapegoated.

today you have made it clear to the world that san francisco will not give in too bigtry. over the past 24 hours, we have heard from many members of the american muslim community. we are here to share their gratitude for your bravery and your commitment to diversity and inclusion. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. the greatest miscarriage of justice was when jesus was killed. and when they came to the place which is called calvary, there they crucified him and the malefactors, one on the right hand and one on the left. then said jesus, forgive them for they know not what they do. then they parted his raiment and cast lots, isaiah, 750 years before the prophet said this would happen. and the people stood beholding and the rulers also with them derided him saying, he saved

others. let him save himself if he be the christ, the chosen of god. and the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar. and saying, if god be the king of the jews, save yourself and a super description also was written over him and letters of greek, latin and hebrew. this is the king of the jews. pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was, jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews. and the super scription of the accusation was written over the king of the jews. and one of the male factors which was hanged railed on him saying if you be the christ, save yourself and us, but the other answered rebuked him saying do you fear god seeing you are in conthe same

condemnation? ~ some no worse than others, no doubt, but last week if you listened to me, we learned there are two kingdoms. there is the kingdom of satan and there is the kingdom of god. that's why jesus said the greatest sin you can commit is not to believe in him. because if you believe in him, you'll be saved. you'll be forgivenand the results of being saved is good works. he said for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of god, not of works that no man [inaudible]. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you. my name is [speaker not understood] and i lead the national security on civil rights program [speaker not understood]. i'm here today to speak with you about the muni ads. i wanted to thank the supervisors, all of you guys here today, who are supporting this resolution. in particular, supervisor chiu's office for their work in leading this work, but also supervisor kim who has been

just so wonderful to the [speaker not understood] community and has always supported our work. i also want to applaud the district attorney for the distance that he's come and what he did yesterday in organizing a press conference and standing with the community to say that this type of hate and bigotry will not be accepted in the city of san francisco. ~ arab american these ads are target today marginalize the arab american community. they marginalize other communities, everyone here in san francisco is harmed by these ads. with the city speech yesterday and what today's resolution does is to work to undo these intended effectses. it works to undo the marginalization, the isolation and the harm to these communities. so, i really applaud you guys for doing that work. there have been some who have said this is giving undue attention to [speaker not understood] and we shouldn't amplify it. the reality is that our communities are experiencing these ads and for them to

experience those ads in isolation is terrible. and the city has said you will not experience that in isolation. we will stand together with you. we will condemn those ads and we will use this as an opportunity to use the proceeds from her hate speech to have an impact study to look at what is going on in the community. i want to applaud all of you guys for your leadership. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker. thank you. my name is [speaker not understood]. i was raised here in san francisco [speaker not understood] most of my life. and proud member of the city. i attended the mosque located at [speaker not understood] and i am a student and i'm also a part-time worker, legal worker here in san francisco and i work on immigrant issues. these bus ads have a dramatic affect on the muslim arab

community here. as a son of a muni bus driver, it really -- it affects me on a very personal level. talking to my father and hearing his reaction to the bus ads and other bus drivers from other nationalities and/or engines, so much hate and violence in our city for everyone to see has a negative effect on our community as a whole. all applaud the steps san francisco has taken. these ads are part of a pattern, a nationwide pattern of hate and bigotry that goes from different cities, new york, chicago and our city to take this kind of stance, it shows the leadership and the right thinking of our city officials and leaders. and these ads have the effect on the community which is why i stand in affirmation for this resolution and hope to see the report get funded. i hope to see this

environmental report get funded because it will show the different layers and dynamics and complexities of these ads and how they result to the arab muslim community in san francisco. whether student going to the school and being bull ied by class maids, or by teachers, whether it's bus driver driving those buses, whether it's the mother going to buy groceries, this has a dramatic effect on everyone around, even the employer who wants to look [speaker not understood]. so, i applaud you for this and look forward to the next steps you take. thank you. >> thank you. let me ask, are there any other members of the public that wish to speak in general public comment? seeing none, general public comment is closed. madam clerk, could you call the adoption calendar. >> items 31 through 33 are being considered for immediate adoption. a single roll call vote is in order unless a member objects to a matter, it can be removed and considered separately. >> colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these item? roll call vote. >> on item 31 through 33, supervisor kim?

kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. there are 11 ayes. >> these resolutions are adopted. madam clerk, can you read the in memoriam? >> yes, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor campos, for pastor rance white side. on behalf of the full board of supervisors for the late geraldine gerry meister. >> and madam clerk, is there any more business in front of this body? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [adjourned] the time?

>> good morning, everyone, thanks for joining us today, welcome to the meeting, cohen, and fer ill will be on his way andals would like to recognize tang and i believe that commissioner chiu will be joining us as well. clerk of the board today is erica chang and also like to thank jessy larson and charles from sfgtv for broadcasting

this meeting. >> any announcements? >> no announcements. all right. accident, thank you for joining us. would you please call the roll? >> you have done roll call and so i will call item number two, approve the minutes. >> any issues with the minutes? are there any members of the public that would like to speak? >> no, okay? seeing that there is no people that are wishing to speak, public comment will be closed. colleagues this xanax item is there a motion to provide? . >> a motion from commissioner chiu. >> without objection, the motion passes. madam clerk, would you call item number three. >> the legislative updates and the action item. >> thank you very much. ethe staff, hello, hello. >> please, present. >> good morning, commissioners,

anaa lofport, i would like to welcome commissioner tang to the committee and to the board and we look forward to working with you. this item begins on page 9 of your packet and also give brief remarks on the federal program before welcoming mark watts, the advocate from sacramento to speak. as we all know, the sequestration cuts have gone into effect at this point. we are looking to the march 27th into the end of the current sixth month continuing resolution and looking to what will happen with another six months to fund it to the end of the federal fiscal year. the house has passed a 6 month bill, which locks in the funding levels for the sequestration cuts for the end

of this physical year. the senate, we expect them to be releasing their six-month continuing resolution within the next couple of days. we have yet to see how much discretion this will give to the various different agencies on how the cuts are implemented across the various programs. the house has given flexibility to the department of defense only, we expect the senate to be more proud in its discretion. the senate has also released the federal fiscal year, 14, budget proposal and we are likely to see these levels of funding with the sequestration cuts continuing through the next year, so we have to pay close attention to the impacts on transportation, again the highway trust funds accounts are protected from these cuts, but there is general fund support of highway trust funds activities including the new starts program, we are

monitoring to see any potential impacts to central subway, for example. and whether the federal government, will be looking to get the older, new starts projects off the books and putting funding on those projects first, or whether they will be doing across the board, cuts to all of the new starts programs. so we are looking forward to hearing what has come out of washington, from the legislative conference this week. and also, continuing to monitor the activities with mta and other partners. at this point, i will welcome mark watts to speak to the legislative matrix. >> thank you. >> and good morning, commissioners. i thought that i would cover quickly some of the additions to the matrix sense the last time that i appeared here the deadline has passed for the introduction of measures and they were close to 2,000 total bills introduced in both houses, so we spent the last couple of weeks, weeding through the bills and coming up with several that we want to

bring to your attention and ask for your approval of physicians that were recommending oppose or support for. so the matrix is substantive and most of the bills are the ones that we would choose at this bill that we watch. a lot of them have not matured into the final bill that they will be heard or the final form that will be heard in, but several bills are noteworthy. the first two that i want to notice are two bills that we already took positions on. i want to call your attention to the fact that they have been schedule and identical bills and one in each house, ab 8 and sb eleven in the senate and the karl moyer program which is important for the high speed rail here for the blended service, in the bay areas, so we are working actively to make sure that those bills keep moving forward. so those two are moving forward. the other bills i will call your attention to are the ones that we are recommending brand new positions on like your action on that at the conclusion. ab266, is a measure, it is on

page 3 of your matrix. and we are recommending oppose, it would extend the hov lane access to 2025, that is currently schedule to conclude they end of 2014. i can that the view of the reservation is that is a long time to provide an incentive program for a captive number of vehicles and that could lead to congestion on hov facility and that is the reason that, we recommend support and it is going to facilitate the movement of the high speed rail itself and allow it to go on a basis that will be caught up about the statute. and another recommendation is

another support is ab 4, 93, that say measure on page 5 of the matrix that deals with continuing operatebility of the toll collection device and recommending support because that has long been a goal and a fact in california and this continues that. the next measure is one that deals with the public private partnership and ab749 and that so page 7 of the matrix and we are recommended oppose. what this does in the p3 law that the transportation authority in conjunction with cal transfollowed for the drive project, there is in essence two state agencies that take a look at a public, private partnership application and one is the public investment, or the private investment, i forget, what it stands for, but it is a function of the transportation secretary's office. and it was a committee that was

supposed to review, proposals and make comments. secondarily, the state transportation commission is empowered to authorize a public private partnership in lease and contract. this bill, highens the ability to actually act as an initial hurtle and they have a binding, and the binding ability to reject the public, private partnership proposal before it goes to the transportation commission, we think that is not what the original framers of the particular p3 law intended and it does add an extra burden to the process and we are recommending oppose to that. ab 863 is another one that we are recommending oppose, it seems like it was a measure that we would support but page 7 details that this bill would

allow for the delegation of nepa, the national, environmental act to caltransto administer for projects but that sounds like a stream lining but we had it approved for state highway programs and local highway programs and we found that the implementation of that was very unworkable, particularly for local projects. the state seemed to spend more energy on accelerating their projects at the expense of local projects and so we recommended and oppose at this point in time, until we can see some improvement in what they plan to put in the legislation. and lastly, on the assembly side, ab842 is a measure that we have seen before, and it is on page 7 of the matrix and it would eliminate all further bond funding for the high speed rail program which will have the effect of initially

shutting down the initial construction segment as well as the funding for blended service and connectivity projects that we are dependent upon in the bay area and in san francisco. so we recommended opposed to that measure. the previous measures all failed and we think that this one is destined for the same failure but we will have to see and work on it. >> two measures on the senate side that we are recommended support, first is sb 219. and it deals with extending the double fine zones on state routes, 1 and 101 in san francisco, indefinitely. and there has been a long history of first initiating the double fine zones and then continuing them in law and this measure would permanently extend them. we recommend the support of page 12 on the matrix and we anticipate having some difficulty with the senate transportation committee, but we will be working with the author's office on this.

and finally, sb 557, which is found on page 15 of the matrix, we are recommending support. this would cotify the high speed rails for north and south for the mlu and we think that it beneficial and recommend your support for those measures. those would be the action items in the matrix and the rest are previously approved positions or positions where we justified identified the bill and want to see if there are changes before we come back to the committee with a firm recommendation. i have two other observations outside of legislation that i thought that i would just pass on at the suggestion of staff, one is you may have read about the action by the board of equalization to improve the increase in the state gas tax. and just to clarify what that action was in 2009, 10.

the state legislature adopted legislation that basically converted of what used to be proposition 42, which was funded from the sales tax on gas into a pure, based funding source. and to accomplish that, they had to develop language that directed the board of equalization, to maintain the same level of gross revenues, that the combined base excise tax and ropcysing 42 would have generated. s so the action to approve a 3.5 percent hike in the gas tax is consistent with what would have been the taxes that the motorists would have been paying without the tax swap and the board of equalization approval. in fact, in many ways, the board of equalization approval is almost ministerial in effect and nobody knows what would happen if they had would

rejected it. that has happened and the money generates 3.5 percent and the tax is an additional 3.5 cents per gallon which is 500 million a year and it is dedicated to local streets and roads and to the state, preservation program. additionally cap and trade continues to be a focus in the capitol. the cap and trade second round of options was conducted in february, and generated a goes total between the stationary source and utilities of about close to a quarter of a billion dollars and more than a quarter billion of dollars. the funds generated are returned to rate payers as rebates in the bills. and the funds derived from the stationary sources are the

subject to an ongoing car. we will have a duty to come back in april with a proposed investment plan. there is a bit of a disconnect, the governor had presumed a billion dollars annual from that resource from the stationary source options and it looks like we will be closer to a half a billion in the current budget year, we are in. one city, the resources board finishes the suggested plan, it will be submitted to the governor and the governor will adopt a final program or project to be released in the may revise. so we are close to the end game on seeing what kind of projects the governor to like to see, funded from this source. so that concludes my report and i would be glad to answer questions that you may have. >> thank you. >> colleagues do you have any questions? >> i had a question about you

mentioned a little bit the transportation bill, you said that you anticipated a little, i don't know how you, i can't remember how you described it, but, intense conversation, maybe. >> on the karl moyer legislation? >> yes. >> senate transportation committee, has been skeptical on last year's measure that almost passed that was similar to this bill. there is two levels of skepticism and two levels that are funded in this measure, one is ab118 which provides funding for a range of alternative duel transportation and the other is the karl moyer program, that is not the center of the interest of the senate transportation committee chair and staff, the other section, the ab118 there are constitutional questions have arisen about the source or the use of registration fees for some of the things that the

energy commission has later made allocations for. that is going to be on the going focus for that bill in the transportation. i believe that the karl moyer portion is in good standing, and but it is also tied into the same bills, so that is going to be the trick, if there is a fatal flaw with the ab 118 funding, issues. will that effect the ability to move karl moyer program forward? that is what i was alluding to and i should have been more clear. >> any other questions, seeing none, let's open for public comment. any public comment? >> what? no public comment? >> no. okay. all right, public comment is closed. >> and let's see, this is an informational action, item, so is there actions that anyone would like to take on this item? >> hello?