a gal in a wheelchair, you know, that still sticks. there should be some way to fix that, you know, and these people keep coming and they say, we need a hiccup fix, so thank you, let's get working on that one. it could be a call at the st. francis asterisk gets stamped on this, we can change this. so, all of that besides a thank f nice breeze just came by. i like the vote, i like no on b and c and if that coalition could come along here. thank you. happy thanksgiving. >> next speaker. >> last week, we learned that the testimony of jesus was the spirit of prophesy, revelation 1910 and i quoted a verse from

matthew 13 where jesus said, as therefore the terrors are gathered and burned so, does this age, a sin of man should set forth his angels and gather in [inaudible] do inequity and cast them into a faur nas of fire. this should be wailing and gnash your teethed, in the kingdom of their father, that was the prophesy about the future, but it will at the last day, with we say the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophesy, what we mean by that is he fulfilled ancient prophesies that were given by king david who was a prophet and mentioned a detail of crucifixion long before they happened. now, if i was to say that bill a r-r s, because he's a terrorist and goes about obama's book, he's going the

drive a farar ri and go into mcdonalds, with we are dealing with prophesy, we're dealing with centuries before the big event of the death of christ, not 478 minutes by centuries and centuries, for instance on psalm sunday when jesus rode the donkey, 400 years before it happened, god said it had to happen in jerusalem, it had to happen in the 497th year, he said we would be yankedbacker wounded for our transgressions, the reason why he would die would be for our transgression, these are detail, where and where he would die, when he would die, where he would be born. when christ arose from the death, he says he fools in slow of heart to believe all the

prophets, and then after he satisfied the claims of justice, enter into his glory. >> thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president, board members of the board of supervisors, 66 thousand dollars, is anyone owing 66 thousand or is owed 66 thousand, when the city and county of san francisco others me 66 thousand of work that i have done, i have given the mta, i haven't been paid, i have lost 8 employees. my doors are locked.

director mars from the port of san francisco has given me an extension on my lease. i can't get paid. i can't get paid because everybody's pointing the finger at who should pay me. i have a letter here from the mta saying that i am owed 66 thousand dollars but i have to go and file a claim against the city and county of san francisco to good -- get it. i have sad o .the advisory committee for 19 year, i have beener in ldda of this city for over 21 years, this is a shame and disgrace that at this stage of the game, i have to beg the city and county of san francisco to pay me to pay people that worked with me, 8 people that lived in my district that i had to let go because i couldn't pay them because the city wouldn't pay me. my landlord, the ported told me

to pay them and i said tell your land lard the city and county of san francisco to pay you and then i'll pay you, pay me and then i'll pay them. thank you very much, i'm sorry for the inconvenience. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name's larry ed nar, and i like to be called juicy, i think this is an important day because 35 years ago, george mosconi and mar vie milk were shot, we forget that jones town, 18 people taken out of western addition, and we hear these students that blacks and people of color in the mission, i was walking in the mission a couple of weeks ago, they said we don't want to sell our [inaudible], go away. the bracket from 2200 to 177

thousand are from the low to the high, we keep people in jail at 200 dollars a day, 5600 dollars a mother, so we see why the rents are -- they don't care about you, i am a former number local 22, and martin luther king spoke there, he said in america, one day basic black and troubled white would be on the constitution keyboard, when you go to the turkey bowl, think of the people who have come here in san francisco, what are we really doing in san francisco, black and white born here yesterday, how significant is it that he would be here on the day of kennedy assassination. we need to give thanks and make sure that this board and this building, this city does on the

west coast accept all people. you know things are not going right and you can make the change. make that change, the man in the mirror, we add the board of supervisors and the mayor, every day is thanksgiving for someone, gobble, gobble, gobble, ho, ho, ho. >> thank you, have there any other members who wish to speak in general public comment. if noted, general public comment is closed. >> item 36-44 are considered for adoption. >> colleagues, would anybody like the sever any of these items. seeing none, could you take a roll on the adoption calendarbacker dar? >> on items 36z through 44 had, supervisor breed, aye. supervisor cam bows? aye. supervisor chiu, aye. supervisor cohen, cohen, aye.

supervisor farrell, aye, supervisor k*im, kim, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor tang? aye. supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, aye. supervisor avalos? avalos, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> madam clerk, can you read the in memoriam >> >> today's meeting will be adjourned by the memory of the beloved individual, on supervisor cohen, dpr the late officer michael howard. sxfrjts do we have anymore business in front of the board. >> that concludes our business before the board today, mr. president. >> we hope everyone has a wonderful thank giving. we are adjourned before the board. (gavel). (meeting is adjourned).

>> good morning, today is tuesday, november 26th, 2013, welcome to the san francisco county, transportation authority, my name is john avalos the chair of the authority. and our clerk today is erika cheng and we are broadcast

today by sfgtv staff. and thank you for your service. madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner breed? >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu? >> present. >> cohen? >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent. >> commissioner mar? >> mar absent. >> commissioner tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? >> present. >> yee. >> present. >> commissioner kim. >> present. we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the minutes of october, 22, 2013. this is action item. >> any comments on the minutes? >> seeing none, any member of the public like to comment, we

will close public comment. and quickly, we will have a roll call vote. >> commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos >> absent. >> chiu? >> chiu, aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> far ill. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar, absent. >> tang? >> aye. >> weiner? >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> that item passes. >> the item passes. >> the last page? madam clerk, could you call the next item.

>> chair's report, this is an information item. >> good morning, colleagues, we have a very full agenda today with presentations on the water front transportation assessment, under items 11 and 12 and a possible closed session under 13 to approve the director's objectivity and performance goals. november has been an exciting month in terms of supporting public discussions on multiple opportunity to help to shape and show up san francisco transportation system with the potential of the infusion of significant new resources. yesterday, i attended a meeting of a final meeting of the mayor's transportation, 2030, task force, where the co-chairs, and deputy city, and director spur, presented the mayor with the task force final report. commissioners weiner and chiu were also in attendance. as highlighted and to the presentation of this body last

month, the recommendations include, a three billion program, focusing primarily on transit and roadway state of good repair and the smaller amounts such as the city's pedestrian and bike strategies and growth, such as the new muni vehicles. the funding improvement and the task force recommendations include, two general application bonds, one billion dollars and an increase in the vehicle license fee of 1.35 percent, and an increase of a half cent to the sales tax measures targeted for the 2014 and 2016 ballots. while recognizing the significant transportation needs, it exists and the potential of the proposed measure to make read strides towards addressing those needs, last month and myself included called for insurancing a more ininclusive and transparent approach to the proposed investment program. >> proposed a framework with

the plans and program committee and last week, co-sponsors, commissioner campos and kim and i and yee introduced an amendment to set aside 70 million to address the dispartis in low income communities to increase transparency and accountability for the proposed vehicle license fee. i am very much looking forward to continuing discussions, with this body, for the mayor's office the task force and the full spectrum of stake holders to develop provisions that have broad and keep support to insure success on the ballot. on a related front this month and in response to the advocacy and the representatives commissioner and weiner, and commissioners weiner and campos, the metropolitan transportation commission introduced a proposal for the cap and trade funds that may flow from the state to the

region, the key part is the challenge grant program which features the funding of $2.3 billion for critical muni vehicle replacement and improvements. but only if we can match it with about 1.16 billion in local revenues. that was a balance yesterday of the task force, by steve. and the 2.3 billion, and the 2 to one match is not all new money but includes the commitments of anticipated federal funds, toward the mtc, proposal significantly accelerates to promote the finding of the ready to go fro ject. it is suspected to act on this proposal in december. i would like to thank the mtc staff for the proposal which is in response to the funding shortfalls that were unable and were unable to be funded in the regional transportation plan, also, last week, california alliance for the jobs and

transportation california to the industry based organizations that the paperwork to the state to preserve the opportunity to put a constitutional amendment on the 2014 ballot that will put into place, the state wide license fee dedicated for the transportation and infrastructure and a state of good repair, the measure is anticipated to generate, $2.9 billion state wide and although san francisco would likely receive quite a bit less than we successfully pursued under our own 1.3 percent vehicle license fee while it is not certain that the coalition measure will be on the ballot, it is yet another call for us to continue the local conversations to insure that everyone is at the table, so that we can all be advocating for transportation funding solutions at the local, regional and state levels. lastly, earlier this month, i toured the procidio site with

the director and deputy director, phase two construction is will under way and i was quite impressed by not only the skill of the endeavor, but also the positive impacts that the parkway will have on accessibility to the area, including improved walking and biking routes. and the project is expected to be done by january 2015. i will conclude my programs by wishing everyone a happy and safe thanksgiving, thank you. >> commissioner weiner? >> thank you, chair avalos, for those remarks. i just wanted to give perhaps a slightly different perspective on the transportation task force, which i along with chair avalos and commissioner chiu have had the honor of serving on for the last year. and when the task force

started, a lot of us were really pleased because when mayor lee convened it, and we have seen other convening in the past, and the tax reform or the affordable housing trust fund, where we have been able to really address some vexing problems in our city and the continued deteration of muni primarily the infrastructure and the state of good repair of the system are truly a problem for the city. and in every part of the city, we are seeing challenges, around the liability and around the capacity of the system. and so, having this task force with these recommendations i think is a really positive thing. and this task force the process has been highly transparent. and includes a lot of different perspectives at the table. members of the public who are not part of the task force were

able to attend, this has been a very public process, and so really have not been any secrets. and the results of this recommendation of the task force are incredibly important and solid and they focus on shoring up this deter ating system, and improving it or moving it into a state of good repair. and when you look at the reliability problems that we have had in every single part of this city, it is in large part because we don't have enough vehicles, the vehicles we have break down too much and we have not modernized the physical infrastructure of this system. and in every single part of this city, residents suffer as a result. and we have 2.2 billion dollars in deferred maintenance and that number is going to grow

significantly in coming decades if we don't serious about investing in the system and making sure that we are taking care of the infrastructure and that is exactly what this package of recommendations does, it will allow us to shore up the system on to fill in a lot of the gaps, and the capitol funding, and so it is a very positive thing. and you know, in terms of equity, you know, as commissioner chiu stated, the task force meeting yesterday, there are no republican or democratic roads and there are no progressive or moderate or whatever else bus stops in san francisco. and our transit system serves everyone, and it serves every part of the city. it is struggling, in every part of the city, it is the same vehicles that are going crisscrossing through rich neighborhood and poor neighborhood and middle class

neighborhoods, there are low income people in transit dependent people in every part of our city. there are seniors, and young people in every part of our city, and the most important thing that we can do in terms of equity in our transit system, is having a system that is reliability for the entire city, and i think that this moves us in that direction, and i also just want to comment on the really wonderful proposal that i hope will come out of the mtc, but it is being proposed by the nbc staff now that will for muni bar and ac transit which combine 80 percent of the riders in the region, will provide a significant pool of money for those three agencies including muni to access, to impair the infrastructure and the state of good repair of the system. and to do that, we have to put in local money. to 30 percent of the money has to come from the agency.

and then, the mtc will come in with the other 70 percent, it is a wonderful opportunity but we have to put in that money and these recommendations will allow you to do that and if the money is being used for something else and not for the capitol needs of the state of the repair of the system, we will not be able to access all of that regional money. so there are a lot of balls in the air right now, i think that these recommendations are part of the bigger picture for the transit system. and i look forward to moving them forward, thank you. thank you, commissioner weiner, and i appreciate your comments. i do believe that we attempt very hard to have a color blind system in place, for our transportation system and one that also tries to achieve equity across our socioeconomic spectrum but that is not always the reality and, my concern is that there are many people around san francisco who don't have a sense of trust and the decisions that are made at city

hall and i think that we have to build in a mechanism to build that trust and to be share that as we are making investments that people can see directly by the investments that we make and the rec mifm to insure the investments that there will be equity in the system. the district where we don't have the same kind of transportation infrastructure that exists in other place and we don't have a lot of development that is happening in my part of san francisco. i see a great deal of investments that are made around where the cranes are but there are no cranes in my district. and we are lagging far, far behind and what we can have for basic amendties for people using our muni and bart system and road system and so i want to make sure that we are working collectively and across city hall and with the city departments to be sure that we can build a strong framework for equity and one that we can all agree on and i think that it is very early to start dewaiting wholeheartedly how we are going to get there.

we have many months to work that out and i want to be sure that i am involved in good dialogue with all of you and the mayor's office and stake holders across san francisco to help to make that happen. commissioner kim? >> thank you, i just think that i appreciate all of the comments that have been made today. i just want to comment on i think that it is a great line to say that there are no democratic and republican roads, but we know that there are neighborhoods that are low income and more that are transit dependent and we choose to cut the stops in the high percentage of seniors either the china town or we know that the vast majority that they need or choose not to create stops where we are asking the residents not to have cars and use the transit. we want to be sure that there is equity when we choose the routes and cutting bus stops and adding the lines that we

take into account the riders that our income or transit dependant. i think that it is important that as we put together a pipeline of projects unfortunately, there is a limited spectrum of funds that he we have in the city, i would love to fund everything that is in the line to get funded. but, we have to create priorities and i think that it is important to have an analysis when we create that, that we have done every single project that we have in the city and of course we may different in how the priority haves looked and some of us have come out and said that we need an equity framework that looks at low income riders that have no other choices but you know the other stocks may say that we need to focus on the transit riders and the folks that get on muni and instead of the cars, i think that it is a good debate and i don't think that we should not pretend that there are choices that are

made. >> i want to make a few comments, we implemented the 5 l and i was very excited about that and we worked closely with mta to do so and discovered when we removed several bus stops, although it was office was understanding that some senior developments within a certain area, were reached out to and we discovered that, in fact, the bus stops were all moved from that particular area, and fortunately we were able to resolve that problem and move that bus stop back to insure that those seniors have access to a bus stop within the close proximity of their location. and i think that there are a lot of challenge and we make the decisions and the people that are going to be impacted, but i don't want to make the wrong decision, and i want there to be room to correct those decisions when we do make the wrong decision.

and there are people who we want to catch transit, of course, we want to limit the number of vehicles on the roads, but there are people who need to catch the transit and i think that one of the concerns that i have although this may have been an open process that many of those folks who need to rely completely with no alternative on public transportation, often times are not a part of the process. and i don't believe that they were a part of the task force and although i appreciate the work that went into the recommendations of the task force and i am looking forward to taking a hard look at what is being proposed and making sure that the decisions that are made, or that the decisions that we make as a result of those recommendations are good decisions for the city and may not be every suggestion that

the task force makes it is important to make sure that we are not just looking at it from a global perspective in the sense that making sure that it is efficient in the city and it is not happened, and in my lifetime and it probably will not happen in any of our life times and that we can of course try and while trying and i want to insure that we are not leading out a specific population, which i think that some of the decisions that have been recently made and transit, have been problematic, for those who completely rely on transit in our city and i want to make sure that we are not continuing down that road.

>> whether the lines get rerouted and those are decisions that will be made and there say process for that and as commissioner breed noted there are ways and of the decision is made and there are ways to correct that, but looking more broadly, you can have, the optimum perfect number of bus stops to serve and if your system is falling apart it does not matter.. and i think that we all agree that there needs to be equity in transit and we need to make sure that people have access to transit, and particularly, the most transit dependant

communities. to put it in front of the board of supervisor and so i look forward to the conversations and to make sure that we meet the needs of the city and the development in the development and there is development and not nearly enough transit and other partses of the city as well if any other member of the public like to comment, go ahead. >> and i think that on the public transit there are people that can take their own car and drive their own car, just because there