positions. we do appear before bodies when it involves the transbay project. >> i know tha, is what i am asking. >> and ask, and we are asked to give the presentations on our projector we are asked to respond to the questions when most recently, we have received the funding from mtc and that is when we appear. >> if we are asked to appear and there is a funding element. and we have an update on the project to appear. >> okay. >> does that answer your question? >> sure does. >> okay. >> i wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. and and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. and on the $12,500 per month, originally it was 12,000 per month but it was negotiated at the time of the original contract, so there was 12,000 a month for the first three years

and up to 12,500 for the next two option years and if it were extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and >> it is a monthly retainer so that does not mean that we get a statement of the hours? >> and one of them, and just a trait line, although there is a weekly call and so we do know what they are doing on a weekly basis and the other one does detail out the hours to some extent. >> okay. >> thank you. >> and sorry. >> and director sartipi? >> just to piggy back on the question and with respect to the advocacy. do they do any analysis of any federal estate, legislation, that would in any form or shape change the qualifications of funding for the transbay. something may become a barrier

to qualify for certain types of funds? >> what they do is keep us informentd of upcoming opportunities and for example, and what would, if we notice an area for example, the department of homeland security and they give us funds for security and if we notice that we are not, and for example they tend to give money to projects that are already built or in operation, yet there are a lot of projects that are being constructed right now, and rails, and facility and bus facility and so we will ask for example, can you let us know if there is a possibility that projects that are in construction could at some point qualify in addition to the existing projects that are under operation and they do those kinds of analysis and let us know when the upcoming bills are coming up and what is in them and so they let us know about, upcoming measures that could impact our project. and they let us know and keep us abreast of the imminent domain, and anything that is related to our project. >> and any other questions?

>> seeing none, why don't we just take a roll call on this item. >> when i sat on the board of education and the transportation authority, our lobbyist prosides us a list of bills that are upcoming that may or not impact some of the projects that we have pending and maybe a couple and not to get it as an oral report, but if there is anything written it might be helpful for the board to see what is happening at the federal level. >> we will keep you updated if anything keeps you up >> we will track the major elements like the next transportation bill. which is just the way that reiskin knows. >> okay. >> and why don't we take a roll call on this item. >> i will note that no members of the public wanted to address you on that item. >> thank you for the reminder. >> motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> a first and a second. >> floyd? >> aye. >> metcalf? >> aye. >> reiskin.

>> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> and as well tha. is four ayes and item four is approved. >> okay. >> and so, we can now move on to the regular calendar and item 8. >> approving the recommended applicants for the transbay joint powers authority. >> and scott belay can report on this item. >> good morning, directors. and i wanted to start by on behalf of the tjpa expressing our thanks and gratitude to jane morrison, as all of you know jane was a founding member of the tjpa advisory committee and at the age of 93 that she has decided to scale back the activity and fortunately for us she decided to resign her seat on the transbay cac in july. and but we are have, very

grateful and honored that she included advocacy. and part of the long active volunteerism in san francisco which has included everything on work from woman's rights to immigrant's rights to worker rights and to ending homelessness and transportation and structure and she has been a tremendous ak set and so we are grateful for the service. >> and we have 15 seats on the cac and there are 15 seats and each one representing specified to represent a different con stit entcy, and the seat that jane vacated in july was the san francisco based transit advocacy and from mid july to mud august. and for that seat. and we have got a total of 6 eligible applicants. and from that pool, we are recommending, patrick valenito and he is a member of spur and

a member of the spur central subway task force and so he has experience with the local infrastructure and development and downtown san francisco. and he is also a member of the san francisco chapter of the urban land institute. and he is a resident of district six and the transbay neighborhood and he is also the co-chair of the real estate committee of the california state bar association and as well as a member of the community and an environmental tifts and we are recommending the reappointment of mar la wilson and she serves in the has been a member in good standing, and since may of 2011. and mar la is an environmental program fellow at the san francisco foundation and also a member of the directors of walk and bike oakland and she is a new member of the ac transit,

and transbay rider task force, and what we rec end today is the reappointment for ma la is a two year term and patrick be appointed to finish jay morrison's term that goes to march of 2014. and patrick is here today if you have any for him and i am happy to answer any other questions for you >> thank you so much. >> and i do want to give they opportunities. i assume that wilson is not here, but i do see mr. valentino. >> and thank you for the consideration and thank you for scott and you you gave a great summary without looking at notes and i thought it was impressive to understand the application without having to look down one. and as mentioned i am a strong advocate of transit and i think that it is one of the most important things next to housing in the city but transit is equally, an important issue in our city public transit,

that is a challenge to make the shift, from a car oriented environment to a public transit oriented environment and i think that the investment in the center is a significant message to the city and to receipt gon, of how important that is. and i am very excited about it and i am excited to be a part of it and in fact my apartment looks right at the growth of the transit center and i am looking forward to the steel going up in the next year. and as mentioned i have been involved in the task force and i am excited about the efforts to continue the central subway beyond the current plans if possible and i am highly supportive of the complete streets program and all of the transit initiatives that are happening around the transbay center as well. a member of the district six, and i ride muni frequently and i would have to say that the bike share program has cut into that a little bit and i would say that the bike share is part

of muni and it has been a great, and i have also, one interesting factor that i have realized as i got more into the transit advocacy and how important to reduce the miles and when i lived in southern california, i drove, 12,000 and now i am down 5,000 and even getting down lower and the public transit for me is a part of daily life and for many others as well. and so thank you very much and thank you for the consideration and i look forward for the opportunity to serve on this vac. >> are there any questions for our applicants? >> thank you, so much, and i see you at all of our community meetings and neighborhood association evening events and so i appreciate, your ability to do this on top of your day job as well as mr. (inaudible) who is also here and serves on the tjpa citizen's advisory committee and it is amazing to

have the active residents who are able to commit and invest the additional hours to advise the city and the public projects on the neighborhood issues. >> i move the applicant. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. >> i would echo, all of what you just said. i believe that the director harper had asked for some additional process, on the actransit seat and i think that you did undertake that process. >> we did. >> and in his absence, has he reviewed this recommendation? >> yes. >> confirmed. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay, great. and so we have a motion on the table for both, miss wilson, and mr. valention and we have a second to that. >> and any members of the public did not indicate that they want to address you. >> lloyd. >> aye. >> metcalf >> aye. >> reiskin. >> aye. >> kim >> aye.

>> item 8 is approved. >> thank you. >> go ahead and move into your next item >> 9 is election of the chair and vice chair purchase su ant to the tjpa joint powers agreement. >> and directors i refer to you on this item. >> since we are lacking our vice chair, should be... should we postpone. >> we are way behind it but we could postpone it by months. why don't we do that director harper and i have not had a discussion with him whether he wants to continue on as vice chair or not. we have a motion to continue this motion for a month. and we have a motion and a second. we can do that without opposition. >> are there any other items on the calendar? >> seeing none, the meeting is adjourned, thank you very much, and welcome back.

>> so good afternoon everybody. >> hi. >> no, no, no we're going to blow the roof. >> good morning, good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> before i say anything i want to say thank you to our wonderful students how about a round of applause. i can't tell you how excited we are for the young men and women who are here. we all know schools is a place

when you come to school our absolutely engaged in learning and being able to be who you are without worrying about who's not going to talk you, you. so what i love about this organization and our students as they share stories about when we have the opportunity to make that choice do we invite somebody to sit next to others we made the choice to exclude people and exclude people so this organization is going to help us all development our skill sets to create a environment in school where everybody is included. whose against committing a rammed act of kindness. who doesn't want to make it cool

to include people? who doesn't want to sit with those who are alone at lunch. who does want to make it not okay to talk against somebody's back? those are things we know we should and shouldn't do but it's hard sometimes because the school cultural or the friend cultural says it's not cool to do certain things. i want you to create a system or environment it's cool to be included and cool to do the right thing. i want to thank my colleague who's the superintendent and she was helping to promote this organization and to have the conversation to have them come to san francisco. she's really cool too.

with that i want to say how excited we are to have you in do and want you to be part of this group. and with that i have the honor to introduce the leader of our city. this gentleman is our elected mayor by beyond this he's made a commitment to the schools in san francisco and part of his first step of that commitment he's going to the comment to making a difference and he's actually brought people to the table that are helping us to change the lives and education in middle scalds. he walks the talks and he talks what he says and he's a true believer. he buildings we have to change and support a cultural in

mid-school to be included were with that, please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you for that introduction. and how are the middle school kids doing. do you know why i adopted you last summer. the middle schools are my focus of what i want to do as mayor. people ask me are you the technical or the business mayor what's the most important thing i say it's gol got to be education and people take my place. and some of you may want to be the next mayor of san francisco. that's why i want to thank you for being part of this. i'm proud of all our middle

schools because the kids in san francisco are our future. i raised two children microwave. they're in new york. their busy with their lives but they always tell me and to me tell mom and dad they love us. this is why i want to come here to unrapport the first school. i want to personally thank laura for your wonderful creation of this program. it's needed it's absolutely going to make a difference and team backyard thank you very much. it's exciting because you're going to be able to talk about the lessons your learning and transfer those lessons to other kids and give them back hope and

experience we all need because guess what in order to be successful in society and if you want to be a mayor or a supervisor or the head of a company you've got to be able to enact with a lot of people. you've got to be able to recognize what people are doing or saying and if they need some help this is what beyond differences is all about it's taking down isolation. this is why i wanted to come here today and thank laura and aching daughters who experiences the worst effects that isolation can have. i want to say it the kids here

you're also creating this program in lilly's honor so other children wouldn't suffer the effects of isolation. because isolation of being not talked to or talking down on someone eventually, it will lead to violence. and this is not acceptable not only in our schools but sits not acceptable in city hall or in the neighborhoods. the things that you will recognize today, i on this program right now are going to carry forgot for the rest of your lives. sometimes you hear an adult say you learn this now, it's going to be with you. i represent everybody and i have to go through a lot of people's lives inform help them but what you learn in this program how

you get along and reach out to create less isolation for someone else that will weeping keep with you the rest of your life and become part of your are personality. this is what i like about our city it's diverse. all different backgrounds and it's the most important thing we understand where people come from or make the extra effort to reach out to them. this is the beginning of success >> you see a lot of people walking around in san francisco and you get on your bus you see people there's a lot of innovation going on a lot of things people are creating with

technology and social services and part of that success is what do you think about this program. police officers will talk to doctors will talk to people and we'll all try to come up with better electrocutions u solutions. that's how you make a school even more viably vibrant. people talking to another person in other cultures and suddenly everybody is excited and this school is safer and it's inviting to you but to your friends and when you graduate were going to continue on and reach out to people who are looking at themselves not

feeling loved, if you will, not feeling appreciated you'll be able to reach out and say hey, i want to include you. that's what i'm trying to do as mayor. this year outside of san francisco perhaps there's going to be millions of kids that are going to be booze and talked negatively about. we talk about schools all over this country this will change that and teach others what the impact is for bullying and i want to thank especially our san francisco skruth lead by the superintendent pr he's leading the effort with all the principles and teachers to instill a new attitude about each other. it begins here. we can stop the bullying here.

we can create conditions of less isolation and that's important. i begin by saying i have adopted you as kids well, i really adopted the school but you're a part of it. we're bringing in with a lot of friends more science and math and ipads around the classrooms we've never had that before and we're going to connect this school with all the technology that we have as a city can over. i can see in your lifetime your generation some great ways to learn faster and better. because your your future. i'm going to a invest in all of you.

you're going to be the great investment for the future. thank you very much. thank you the team board for all your leadership and thank you for being who you are by being more than who you are in the coming months >> i appreciate it very much (clapping) he's the leader of this group of technology companies. some 6 hundred of them. here we have over 1 thousand 8 hundred technology companies some you might know twitter 1 thousand 8 hundred. will mr. conway is a friend of mine and he's a leader so he helped support a lot of those companies get started. as a leader of those companies he's helped me with programs

that i think are important whether it's funding for schools or ending violence. you've heard about all the gun violence he's a part of that leadership to i understand the gun violence. so we work close together and it's my privilege to introduce to you the head of the initiative that is mr. ron collins (clapping) >> we have the best mayor in the country here (laughter) (clapping). >> san francisco is very lucky to have ed lee. he could have adopted loves causes but has adopt the middle school in san francisco. i'm sure you don't know where i

was 52 years ago i was eating lunch right outside here (clapping) i grew up an angelaer drive near sunset and came back as a junior high before my family move forward to the peninsula but i'm a graduate and when i find out there was an event here i thought i have not been here since 11 years old. i want to share you with you how i got involved in beyond differences. it's kind of interesting. ed lee mentioned that i got very involved in the gun safety issue after the san francisco massacre

on december 14th last year. lots of people in the tech community thought i should get involved to stop gun violence and on mayor fourteen the anniversary we invited several of the parents of the san i didn't hook kids that were killed and one of those personalities what we mark barden and his son 7 years old was killed on december 14th. and mark barring done like my parents is devastated but mark barring done told us and standing with me in this conversation was the fourtd of twitter who ed lee referred to

but guess you can't what the founder of with twooerlt is standing right here jack >> so jack dorsey is the person who intended twitter and he wanted to come and meet the san i didn't hook parents. jack and i had this fascinating discussion i wish my kid wasn't killed bus he wouldn't let anyone on the playground be alone interest so here's a child who instinctively understood his role and at 7-year-old multiple instances where he would go up to one of his school mates who was good evening go forward or

isolated and bring them into the group. so mark was broken hearted because he lost someone who was stopping isolation. everyone in this room and the one campaign can help stop isolation. and if you talk about karma a week after jack doris i didn't and i had this discussion aid and abet smith and laura told me about one beyond differences. let's harness all the social meow media and when school starts let's go rally all of america and have launch b-1. it's launching today, it's

launching with a massive amount of social media and snoop lion has tweeted about this. snoop dog changed his name to snoop lion because he changed his image around the gun issue. mc hammer as tweeted and governor brown and, of course, jack dorsey will tweet and what's important in the conversation that we had we said one of the bad things about social media it does allow you to communicate to people without talking to them. so finally today, we're going to use social media to