directors of programs to address how the timing of pedestrian signals can be more effective for seniors and people with disabilities such as myself, which is traumatic brain injury. so, we shall work together on this to address the spike we have currently. since the last year the numbers are going up, and particularly i feel the appointment of somebody to represent district 4 is very important because one intersection there, sunset boulevard in [speaker not understood], has two people have been -- one a fatality and one a traumatized collision. we need to address the dynamics of that intersection and all intersections that are specified in this report and further determined bi-monthly reports from the police department.

please nominate me to fill seat number 4 on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. >> we he thank you. any questions? seeing none, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next applicant is howard strassner. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm reapplying for seat 6 for the umpteenth time. i've been a member since psac was formed. it formed ~ with the seniors. the pedestrian safety task force that was predecessor, and we finally came to conclusion it would help the city and help move our issues better if we became an official cac with the city and that was accomplished many years ago and have been on ever since.

since then, since we set ourselves up, we promised we would not cost the city too much money. we provide our own secretarial service, which i've been doing since the beginning and i continue to want to do. i want to continue to serve because now things are getting hot and heavy as you well know and something has to happen. we should be advising the supervisors of what good policy is. we recently -- the president of your board came to us and charged us to do that. we haven't been doing that enough in my view. we should do more rather than sit back and let people come and rang us, which i try in my minutes to find those things that might help them, but it's very difficult. one of the issues i'm working on more recently is that we have the police come to us. and the police captain of the -- their main transportation thing came and when i spoke about the things that they do,

and they do them all over. they do this -- he he does it in the various -- separate captains have it done. that's kind of an enforcement educational thing and it hasn't accomplished very much. so, i ask the question, what if we did more things and more enforcement? so, the captain heard that and i made contact with their cfo and we're going to accumulate some data. so, if we know how much manpower the police are now spending on this -- which i think is a useful effort -- we might be able to say, if you double it or triple it it will be better. [speaker not understood] we're finally having more police a cad ms. there will be more people coming onto the police force. and maybe they don't all have to pound the beat. more of they have could be doing pedestrian stuff. so we hope to be asking you to support that in a while. so, if there are any other questions. >> seeing none, thank you very much.

the next two applicants are zachary marks and todd henry are not able to attend today and they're vying for the same seat. okay. so, supervisor tang? >> sure. so, in terms of the three appointees that we heard from -- oh, i'm sorry. >> public comment. >> public comment. >> is there any public comment on this matter? are you commenting for somebody else? okay, come on up. i am commenting on zachary marks who currently holds position on psac seat number 10, which he's appointing -- rehe applying for. and he's also the current chairman of psac ~. i encourage you to reappoint

him in particular for what he has lead psac in the last year [speaker not understood]. since he was appointed to it in the mid 2012 to have structural improvement of psac. he is currently in the process. and in my hand is the bylaws that he handed member of psac to consider in his proposal that we write -- have new bylaws of how they are carried out. since the number of members of psac is growing, many supervisors such as you three have appointed somebody, [speaker not understood] mc neil, chris [speaker not understood], and doug [speaker not understood]. we have great need in structure and we have great need for how we respond under great leadership of such would be continued through the works of zachary marks. so, i really recommend you

reappoint him to seat number 10 on pedestrian safety advisory committee. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> supervisor tang. >> sure, thank you for that. so, for the three appointees that were here today, i am fine with reappointing all of you to your respective seats. in terms of the last seat, seat 10, i did have some interest in one of the nearer candidates. i don't know if the committee would entertain a motion to continue those two appointments to a future date so that they can both show up. >> sure. okay. so, there is a motion to continue item number -- >> just to continue the appointments for seat 10 with zachary marks and todd henry as applicants. >> okay. any objections? none. that amendment is an amendment. motion is passed. [gavel] >> okay.

and you had a motion to -- >> sure. >> supervisor campos? >> yes, thank you. i look forward to hearing from both mr. marks and todd henry. i do think that continuity is important, but i do want to give an opportunity to mr. henry as well to make the case. so, i look forward to that. i think that this is one of the more important appointments that we're making at the rules committee given the seriousness of what's happening out there in terms of pedestrian safety in san francisco. and i'm very pleased to see the caliber of the people that are serving and the commitment. i was very impressed with the presentations. mr. bloomberg, very thorough. mr. lowell, very thorough, very passionate.

and mr. strassner, you know, i'm familiar with his work for many years, his commitment to community service. so, i'd like to make a motion to reappoint mr. bloomberg to seat 1, mr. lowell to seat 4, and mr. strassner to seat 6. >> so, my comments is that -- thank you for your willingness to want to serve again. i think this issue is important to not only me individually, but i think everybody on the board of supervisors, the work

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of that and thinking about where it came from and how and coffee is wonderful. >> i know for a fact i was born to make coffee. i have a notice from the dad let the life i live speak for me and let's have a cup of coffee and talk about it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> [inaudible] investment and infrastructure san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday, march 18, 2014. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you. the first item of business is roll call. commission members please respond when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> here. >> commissioner mondejar? >> here. >> commissioner singh? >> here. >> chair johnson is absent.

acting chair rosales? >> here. >> chair johnson is absent and all other members of the commission are present. the next order of business is item 2, announcements. a, the next scheduled commission meeting will be a special meeting held on tuesday, april 1, 2014 at 4:00 p.m.. b, announcement of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices during the meeting. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic device. c., announcement of time allotment for public comment. please be advised the member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on agenda items unless the commission adopts a shorter period on any item.

it is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card provided by the commission secretary and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. there are no reportable actions. the next order of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. we have no items. the next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first, the consent agenda. item 5a., approval of minutes: regular meeting of february 18, 2014. madam director? madam chair, excuse me. >> do we have any speaker cards? >> i have no speaker cards. , madam chair. >> do we have any comments on the minutes from my fellow commissioners? >> i thought they looked good so i move we he approve the minutes. >> is there a second? a i'll second.

>> we have a motion and a second. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> any oppositions or abstentions? >> [speaker not understood]. >> we are on minutes, item 5a. approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of february 18, 2014. >> [speaker not understood]. >> madam secretary, i believe we have a motion and a second with mondejar abstaining. >> please announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner ellington? >> yes. >> commissioner mondejar? >> abstain. >> commissioner singh? >> yes. >> chair johnson absent. acting chair rosales? >> aye. >> madam chair, the vote is three ayes one abstention, one absent.

>> very well. i would like to ask the commission to take item 8a out of order. if everyone is fine with that, i'd like to proceed to item 8a. madam secretary, please call the item. >> item ~ update on the march 11, 2014 fire at a 172-unit market-rate apartment building located at 1200 fourth street in the mission bay south redevelopment project area. madal director. >> good afternoon, commissioners, good afternoon to the members of the public. thank you very much for joining us. as you heard, the commissioner in the news media and as members of the public know, there was a fire in mission bay south on a building, a bre properties building, a 100% market rate building, 172 units. you actually have an informational memorandum in your packets today describing further information on that building which received design approvals from the former rda

approximately two years ago. we are privileged to be joined by assistant chief robert postel. as we all know, the fire department acted quickly and courageously real toy prevent this fire from spreading to other buildings, but we're privileged to have assistant chief postel to more vied us with further information. we also have kathrin riley, our mission bay project manager who will follow the assistant chief to provide some context on what else is happening in mission bay. with that, assistant chief? >> good afternoon, commissioners. just giving a brief synopsis update of the fire department's actions at the mission bay fire. as you know, this was a fifth alarm fire to which over half the people on duty in the city responded. it was a extended operation. as a matter of fact, we brought the last of the equipment there

on saturday so we were there several days. currently the cause of the fire is unknown, it is under investigation. one of the challenges of the fire department faced when we got there ~ this was a building that was under construction. it was a wood frame building on top of a concrete fire resistive type 1 construction. the fire was in the upper floors of the building and it had already advanced quite a bit upon our arrival. due to the fact that there was no sheetrock in place, there was no sprinkler system in place nor fire alarm systems. there was no protection systems to prevent the spread of the fire. when the exposed wooden members were exposed to the heat and flame, there was rapid fire spread. we almost immediately were forced to go into a defensive attack mode. the nature of the building, the lightweight woodtr