my name right, let alone what i said. if i did do public comments on agendized items, there is no public comment at all, and i am talking about -- [speaker not understood] i had submitted a complaint to the mayor's office on disability about the access for 48-wide. i keep doing that, 48" wide clear path of travel mandated for the sidewalks. and about the port-a-potties being on the sidewalks and us not being able to get down the sidewalks because of everything, but people walking on the side of the road that is why it's called a "sidewalk." all of these things. went through the mayor's office on disability, and carla and joanna, and heather, you tried. you tried. i am looking here at this

absolutely wonderful letter over carla's signature and everybody else, her crew and it has it right there. what did cindy shamban not see and i'm talking about the first paragraph that has maybe four sentences in it. of course, she, meaning carla, acknowledges the folsom street fair accessibility fair and the folsom street event, so we're real clear about the transparency of doing it on tv. i am writing -- cindy had 30 days to respond to me, an illness befell her and she missed her deadline. next thing i know, mayor's office on disability is supposed to respond, which is kind of, sort of, liability, not a good thing. but we'll overlook that for now.

this is just amazing. so it's in regards -- it's 4/17/2013 complaint regarding path of travel obstructions that you have observed during the folsom street fair. i spelled folsom street and up your alley, over the past eight years, you got that right. thank you. that is the good news. in your complaint, you report that portable toilets were placed on sidewalk and a clear 48" path of travel was not maintained during the day's festivities. that is really only four sentences and not very big words. what did they need? large-typed print to read this? carla, the way that that got translated into terms of the permit issued to folsom street

events, i love "how i met your mother." wait for it. wait for it a 48" path of travel must be maintained throughout the street closure from the front door of 75 street to howard street. uh-uh, that is all sidewalks throughout the area in which the festivities are taking place, like you said in your letter. the fire department has a 14' emergency access lane throughout the entire street closure and i did go and chastise the fire department to make sure that their 14' emergency-wide lane -- put those words in any order that you like -- that is in the permit. because it wouldn't be there. i also asked cindy for a copy of the 2012 permit and she -- i guess she got sick before she

could find it, because i was not presented with a copy of that. i was able, however, to have in the permit for "up your alley" that they are not going to be barbecuing in the streets and i had complained about the secondhand smoke in the area. so here i am again, carla somehow you are going to need to get back to cindy and tell her that they need to amend the permit for folsom street events, so that there is the 48" wide clear path of travel for the sidewalks throughout the entire street closure, just like for the fire department. and another footnote, that for disabled parking areas i don't

know what that means. i really don't know what that means. does that mean one blue meter per block, four total in one block? it's not clear. but you tried. but i ain't giving up. rising sign aires and capricorn and berkeley native, not giving up. >> thank you miss bison. is there any more public comment? otherwise, we did correspondence? staff? ? >> we hadn't gotten to it co-chair wong. we had correspondence and it's out of date and i apologize part of the reason for it being out of date is our recent move to market street and so some of the senders hadn't updated

their address list, but i will distribute them. they are invitations and communications from some different groups, including the bicycle coalition, and the ihss public authority. i will just distribute the hard copies. >> thank you. the next item is council member comments and announcements. no? x i want to say thank you to everyone for coming out to our meeting and please come out every month, every third friday at 1:00 p.m. and please come with your comments and come willing to share what is going

on in san francisco and how we can help you. thank you. >> thank you for that. >> thank you very much. and now we can adjourn the meeting. thank you again for coming. [ gavel ]

>> good morning. thank you for being here. i'm here this morning with the mayor of south san francisco, mayor pedro gonzalez. i'm here with supervisor scott

wiener, with our treasurer jose cisneros, our city administrator naomi kelly, representatives of mayor kwan in oakland, from our sfnta john haley, members of our work force and economic development teams and our assessor recorder carmen chu, along with our department of human resources mickey callahan. also to my immediate left here is california state secretary of labor, marty morgan stern. this morning we have come together to talk about the need to reach an agreement on our bart system. the whole week, and certainly weeks in the past, i have engaged people working in our hotels, in our coffee shops, in

our restaurants, small businesses the like. i couldn't even get a burrito without confronting somebody who asked that we take our stand object behalf of the public. that we need an agreement and not a is strike in our bart system. and that the public rider ship, the 400,000 people who use bart, need a voice at this table. we need to make sure that both management and labor have as their objective when they are meeting to negotiate out an agreement that they need to know it is no longer a matter of inconvenience to the ridership. it is hardship. it is hardship for people trying to get to work. in many cases people trying to get to two places of work. it is hardship.

for parents who need to get from work to their child care centers, to make sure that they make it on time. it is hardship for people and working class families who are screaming by -- screeching by to make sure ends meet, and yet are subject to have to pay high prices for parking a car that they would not have had to use if the system was working for them. and, so, on behalf of the rider ship, working families, parents and others, we together today standing solidly to give them a voice. this weekend, bart management and bart labor negotiators have to negotiate to an agreement, not to a stand still. we've already seen the negative impacts that a strike has, and it is hardship. it is hardship for everybody. i feel it.

that's why i'm here today with all the bay area -- as representatives that could make it here today, they needed a voice at this table and they need to remind people very strongly that it is not about inconvenience any longer, it is about their hardship and we need to focus on their dependency of a very serious investment that we've all made for years and years, and that is investment in our bart system. and, so, that is one point that we need to make. and i want to put a face on the ridership for all of us that we care about, the working families, the people that are every day struggling with their lives to make sure that they know we are representing them, to insist as strong as we can, negotiations should not be about presenting to the public the differences that they have so much as using that time to reach an agreement by this

weekend. this is the opportunity we have. we cannot waste that time. we have to get an agreement by everybody. that is the objective that we want to represent. it is incredible that we have to spend so much of our time these days planning for the impacts of what a strike will do. all of us are working overtime to prevent the hardships that are going to happen, that they have happened for the 4-1/2 days last month. to the tune of over $70 million of cost to all the bay area. all of us have also been in communications with the secretary's office and the governor's office so that we want to continue to make sure that every opportunity of

communication is open, but also that everybody do their job, which is get an agreement. and i want to then turn this over to present the secretary of labor for the state of california, marty morgan stern. marty. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i'll be very brief. governor brown shares the concern of mayor lee and the other public officials that we do not need yet another bart strike, that this is a great hardship for the people of the bay area and the economy of the bay area, for everybody who works here, lives here, goes to school here, travels here, and that the negotiators on both sides should be making every possible effort that -- we don't expect them to leave the bargaining table without an agreement. i asked and they agreed to a

30-day extension of the contract. they've had another 28 days so far. we expect that the next couple of days that they will succeed. failure to reach an agreement will be a serious failure, one that leadership should not -- should not abide. the governor has set this as a top priority. we've had two of our best mediators in there for the entire time. we've had the head of the public employment relations board, our highest public official in this area, working daily on this situation. we've done everything possible. i've stayed in touch with them. the governor has been apprised of the situation. we have done everything possible to help these bodies reach an agreement. now it is up to them to see to it that they find a way to

reach a contract that's fair to workers, fair to management, and fair to the people of the bay area and the state of california by not closing down this vital transportation needs of the area. thank you. >> we'll take whatever questions people have. >> [inaudible]. >> [speaker not understood] will consider all the options. >> [speaker not understood]. >> i didn't hear the question. was that a question for me? >> yeah. my understanding is that bart is looking at possibly trying to get managers formally trained -- >> you'll have to address that to bart management. >> [speaker not understood].

i was hearing yesterday 45% of the 22,000 city employees use some form of public transportation [speaker not understood]. what would be the impact on city operations? >> that is correct, and john haley is here from our mta to talk about the details of how we're preparing for it. but i'll tell you, it is a use of time that we shouldn't have to do, but we have to do it. and this is part of the burden that all of our cities, whether it's oakland or san francisco are facing, is that we've got to help our ridership get around the city for very necessary transportation needs that they have. and, so, john, if you're here, you can talk a little bit about the preparations that we're doing to get people around here. i know scott wiener is also engaged with public -- his ridership and the small businesses in his district as well. john. >> thank you, mayor. as the mayor said, we are prepared to do everything we

can. in particular, our plan includes beefing up transit service in key corridors, in particular the balboa park area which means extra trains on the j line, extra service along the mission corridor which we saw last time was heavy. we're also -- some of the things that we learned from our first experience, we will in the afternoons, for example, increase the hours that we have, parking control officers to help with traffic flow to and from the bridge and along the key downtown streets. we will also expand the casual car pooling areas down there to help people get around. and our work force did an extraordinary job in coming to work last time to allow us to provide the extra service to help to ease some of the hardship that we're talking about. but we're prepared to do everything we can. we'll have our management team out as ambassadors to provide information.

so, we're committed to helping to ease the pain as best we can, but clearly expect crowding and there will be pain and no one will have -- going anywhere in the region who will have a normal kind of day. we can be assured of that. but we're prepared to do everything we can. >> [speaker not understood]. >> well, we will -- we are going to be ready as early as possible. obviously we're very aware of what's going on. we'll set up -- we have all of our plans in place. we learned, again from what we did last time, so, we expected people, in the event of a worst case scenario, we expect people will start come intion very early and we'll be ready for that. >> [speaker not understood], does this lead to the governor

to be more inclined to allowing transit workers to be able to [speaker not understood] what they have here in san francisco with muni? >> governor brown is concerned with avoiding a strike in this situation and he's concerned with neighborhood management finding a solution to the problem. that's where we are at this point. >> mayor lee, would you propose something statewide? >> you know, i focused on this weekend. i said it over and over again, there is an opportunity here to reach an agreement. negotiations should not be prolonged. they should definitely come to a conclusion with an agreement that both sides can live with. that's the goal. you know, we do have a system here in san francisco where there is no strike clauses and it's been helpful. labor piece has always been beneficial particularly with transit system. but at the same time we have an opportunity this weekend to voluntarily do that with incredible investments that the public has made, and that's why

i think we need a voice for the rider ship to really weigh in on the people at the table. we need an agreement to reflect all this effort, not ended up in the kind of economic hurt that all the families are trying to avoid. but they're speaking about it, the tremendous concerns for the quality of life here. >> second, do you feel like we're closer to an agreement now than when you started this 30-day cooling off period or do you think we're further apart? >> well, they haven't reached an agreement yet and that's my concern. the 30 days, there's been mediation. there's been involvement of officials all over the state and the area. and yet we haven't -- months of negotiation besides this month, and they haven't reached an agreement yet and that's our concern. closer isn't good enough. they've got to reach a deal.

>> [speaker not understood]. >> excuse me? >> would you give them another 30 days, more time? >> we don't want this to drag on. we want this settled already. as the mayor has already explained, there is expensive -- there is great expense getting ready for these potential strikes. we don't think the people of the bay area should be kept on pins and needles forever. it's time for this to end. >> thank you, everybody. welcome to lunch. welcome to lunch at city hall well, as you all know your food trucks are here there are here every friday. we're welcoming them and we are just welcoming all the other

business the brick and mortar for one area were there are here to join supervisor wiener and ion some good piece of legislation. there's been a movement that we welcomed in the city and, of course, the incredible investments that people have made when we started their restaurants from the brick and mortar and over the couple of past couple of years we want this to work for everybody. one of the supervisors who always has his hand up for the hardest assignment is supervisor wiener. it's about two years; right? scott that you worked and have

had hundreds of conversations as well as with the off the gate members as well to kind of getting a simple way of how do we get to live together with each and how do we get dw to permit those establishments in a fashion that's sensitive to everybody. and now we have to the great work of the supervisor wiener and a collaboration with all even public works we have a decent ordinance to allow the great room to happen and the collaboration to bring everybody together. it's a wonderful example of something that would have gone

haywire if not for a good piece of leadership. it's a good weekend to celebrate but on this piece of legislation i want to thank supervisor wiener for all pious persistence to get all the parties together to constant say let's keep working until we have an agreement. it's taken two years but it's worth it when i have an industry that's growing but you pay respect for the great folks in brikt in motor. i want to thank even for the hard work they're doing. with that supervisor wiener (clapping) >> thank you, mr. mayor. it was about two years ago that

with he saw that was a lot of potential chaos going on with argue brick and mortar restaurants and our food trucks. and, you know, we're a city that values food innovation and having great food for consumers. we take a look at it and found our regulations and our laws regulating food trucks were out-of-date. so we sat down and it took two years work with the food trucks and the brick and mortar drifks and how the system should be set up. we came up with a set of rules that will have a better balance in terms of how we do this permitting process. so the food trucks won't be in

front of the restaurants. we made it easier for food trucks to go into areas that they're currently not loud by reducing the buffer around schools that was 3 blocks in all directions and allowing the food trucks on campuses. i want to thank the golden date restaurants association and the managers of the association and the parents for lunch advocates who flarptd a great way. i want to have a special shout out to my aid who's taking a well deserved day off today but was incredible in help. we got it through unanimously

through the board and i'm looking forward to the mayor signing it today. >> all right. done

>> this is the meeting of the recreation. >> call role. >> commissioner boner. >> harrison. >> present. >> and commissioner levoton does have an exkugsed absence. if you could turn off any electronic sounding devices that could go off, we would ask that