grouping just as they've done with education to emphasis the demands for education we want to get all our - our city represent the effort to conserve and collect as much ground water and recycled water where a appropriate to keep the freshwater this is what we have to do an aggressive agenda thanks to the governor's office for leading this effort those conversations have to go more than a regional approach we've got to have actions that we'll promise the public we're manage a crisis in the making not only do we lead by example and cut waste and water i imagine has

much as possible we have to talk to the public about behavorial changes that's the most difficult thing but as a leader in this great city anita and i my wife has talked i talked about how to demonstrate at the home we can say to our kids we're leading by example and be the behavorial change this is a calling of us as government right now those are the challenges of our time this is a very serious thing we're not going to go through a simple agricultural thing that's a strong, strong part of our economy it's going to challenge our hospitality our hotels one of the greatest parts of our city and get challenged by this and so all of this has to be managed by stewart's experts i'm

looking forward to the examples we can have for each other i'm very glad to welcome our state officials and someone i can introduce someone that's been working with us in the city she's began her career from her job and articulating her managerial skills to the local management that's ann she's done a wonderful, wonderful job. ann take it from here (clapping.) good morning it's wonderful to see so many familiar faces there's a number of people from our approval authority around the region and working so closely together in the bay area. i too want to thank our state officials for hosting this meeting here in san francisco. it's the eight drug - drug

drought task force kind of like it the drought task force meeting that's been held. i think the bay area is a very important place to hold such a meeting i also want to thank harry less than kelly for hosting this this room is fantastic i'm in awe of what we've being able to do with 24 green building. nancy ward is someone who we worked closely with over the years when she was at fema and mark stole nancy from fema but luckyly she didn't go too far we get to work with her still we're worked with cal we say that john doe i didn't talks to my staff on 0 daily basis if issues

ranging from reimbursements to the rim fire occupying we've worked closely with cal o s and mark has been in his position since 2012 was appoint by governor jerry brown and serves as the homeland security advisors he comes with us with thirty plus years in the field and responded to so many disasters in california i'm he can't remember but we have this critically close work are, manship here's mark (clapping.) i may have caused some disasters in all those years too anyway mr. mayor and all of you thank

you very much for taking advantage to deal with this very, very important topic and ann said drug she meant drought she mentioned rim fire california is, you know, truly as the governor said a nation state 38 million i difference people complicated and managing in a crisis like drought this is statewide incorporating all 58 counties and the impacts from that drought to all 18 sectors infrastructure and transportation and education you name it really is a challenge for all of us and san francisco has done some phenomenal work in this area. some best practices we're going to talk about today and really is a model for an urban

environmentalist to be able to demonstrate how taking a crisis like the drought and leveraging the best practices and implementing those in a large way i my say congratulations to the team here not only meeting the governors 20 percent but asking for an additional 10 percent it's a heavy lift but something we need to know this is a marathon not a sprint and in many ways the drought is while it's a crisis situation really to a degree is the new no more in california as we look at ourselves moving into the future years increasing in the population requirement we need to think about how we are sustaining this very, very critical resource n and san francisco again is one of the places we lead the way.

i'm excited to an opportunity to meet with you and we'll talk about what we're doing at the state the governor's actions and the state agency to stay out in in front of this it, it's not a state action ensue a state and local and non-governmental private effort we need to stay out in flown front 0 of this. i thank you very much for hosting today and look forward to talking more as we move forward thank you. brown are we going to do a - introduction around - >> can i start with two topics and then we can move forward

yeah. okay. with that, let us begin and, you know, as i mentioned sort of the objective of today is meeting and the challenges of managing this stating event as you all know, you know, this is the third year of 3 dry years. we've been hoping working with noah in the national weather serves next week we'll have an el nino pattern there's an interpretation of what that means we need to anticipate another dry year or at least plan for it and be prepared for another dry year. our challenge has been to remain out in front of this evolving event most disasters in

california is the disaster occurs we'll respond collectively and we sort of mitigate the crisis and begin the recovery process that's not the case with the drought its at viewing every expanding challenge. its something that it's not going to go away we need to think about it in the context of long term sustainable solutions to change the way we in our society our culture in california deals with this problem and the legislation and the governor are looking at the variety of different solutions that we'll talk about today but there's some tough decisions to be made and part of it is occur contaminate of water delivers deliveries and even 345ur7bd restrictions in the state of california. to the desegregate that the

drought is its everybody's everybody is combangd other places in the state are worse off our central valley agricultural has been hit hard farmers are having problems and we're having a trickle down effect of the economy in an industry that is one of the largest economic murnz in the state of california. so the long term economic impacts in that one sector will have a tremendous impact we're working hard to provide did balance of dealing with those problems while maintaining public health and safety so we incur that people don't go without drinking water for public health and safety

standards there's many places in california that individuals are on wells and wells are running dry and their tied into a system he have a little bit flexibility but tied into a well your options are limited so we're really leveraging that and looking at ground water boycott to some larger term solutions a lot of this has been been in the governors document that outlines the direction and strategy that the governor in the state is moving forward in. we've had look at of precipitation this year but certainly not enough and one of the greatest threats as a result of drought has been that of wildfire our companies are so

dry throughout the state it takes age a spark and with the wind behind it it moves rapidly because of the dryness of the fuel those fires get moved out rapidly we say this come to fruition plus the 80 different fires burning at the same time 18 were major we had to the evidence will then show everycy in the state of california to move up into northern california to support of the fire activity. the governor moved forward increasing the number of firefighting to put all the state agencies on notice to be responsive with the strategy that is get to the fires fast and keep them small. this year particularly we can't

afford the fires getting too far out in front of us and the locally strikes we've been having a lot of lightning that result in, you know, multiple fires happening at the same time. so together fire safety and awareness of the potential for fire is very, very the governor did put in place a emergency proclamation for the state of california and two executive orders one that directs state agencies to, you know, respond with all the assets that the states has to deal with the emergency and establish the drought task force at the governors level and cleared the way through recollection to the state water control board we'll learn about

the kind of clearance that were streamlining the red tape and the streamlining of the situation to get the water where it needs to go and the paramount priority. we've had an active a geement with our community. much kudos to all the local authorities throughout california working very closely in calculation with the state and conversely with our federal partner early on they came together and the white house has been on this president obama has been out here himself so see the impact of the event and they've been forthcoming with resources they e very rapidly i want to appreciate their effort our our emergency operation centers the

state and regions we're holding weekly calls with our operation areas to be able to get that input that feeding that information of what's happening on the ground to act very rapidly to and i judge trial those become greater a challenges and particularly the ones running out of water they're a heavy loss. the governor was working with the legislation schematic and moving forward with emergency drought legislation it includes over $21 million in rental and housing assistance through the housing development. much of that is already been looked to individuals and families that have been disbecause of the drought and $15 million of drinking water

fund to the control board and $25 million in emergency food avoidance it's been put out to various counties throughout the state were water sxheefrm is our number one concern and fire mitigation we're continuing to move forward as the month going on and hoping that this will bring differences. that's an overview i want to i'm going to turn it over to >> we're going to take a quick 2 minute break and i know the mayor and others have to run off to. the restrooms are here if you need a quick

>> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the tuesday, august 19, 2014, mta and authority commissioner singh. commissioner borden pr director heinecke is anticipated.

director lee. commissioner rosales. director rubke mr. chair you have a quorum >> i'd like to recognize one of the colleagues in the district attorney's office and item 3 the announcement of advised please be advised 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 responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. the board respectfully requests cell phones be turned off. the approval of the july 30th meeting >> there's a motion. >> a motion to approve. >> second. discussion all in favor, say i. thank you very much. item 5 communications >> things of the board we

received a letter from mayor ed lee regarding the board meetings the mayor said he was hopeful for a working goal of a hundred percent attendance and he hoped that 90 percent attendance will be regular, you know, and he stated it the boards secretaries quarterly reports the online messages and he said so i think we sent the memo to everybody. >> yes. mr. chairman. >> okay. >> item 5 compulsions directors please be advised that item 12 the security guard contract has been removed there's speakers who e who will be adding that and also the closed session is a performance evaluation of the director of transportation has

been removed from the agenda. >> do we have a sense on agenda item 12 good morning, mr. chair. at this point not specifically but we'll likely have an item of one form or another at the next meeting september 2nd relating to the contract >> item 6 introduction of new business by the board members. >> seeing none, okay. >> item 7 director's report. >> again mr. chair and members of the board and staff and the public. good morning. just a brief do i want to an opportunity during this report to recognize couple of outstanding employees first ask our director of finance and information and technology to

come forward. and good afternoon >> good afternoon directors it's my pleasure to introduce emmett nelson who has been in office since 2012 he's taken a leadership roll in implementing some of the programs you've approved the free muni for youth it was administered and put in place he was transitioning all the lifestyle customers that used to wait outside in the commissioner melgar lead to a picture card no more lines ii like emmitt he's looking at technology and he's the key of moving customers more to audit mansion and often visiting our commissioner melgar and emmitt

we appreciate you in finance. >> on behalf of the board of directors and all the people of the city thank you for your outstanding work and especially free muni for youth. >> i want to thank the board and ed it's been fun to work and serve issuing our trans riders in a better way and both the programs to transition into full-time running is great i want to thank peter and diane they have helped but the main work was off to our staff to help with the programs without them i wouldn't have completed them thank you it's an honor

(clapping.) it just reminds me there's a number of emmitt and there's a lot of behind the scenes improvements that are happening either making our employees more efficient and things like online renewable of parking permits and others things that are automating and there's systematic improvements and better enter facing. and that's when i want to ask jerry 0 robbins >> good afternoon classroom nolan it's my pleasure to welcome the team gabbing is an

assistant engineer with our section of sustainable streets one of our upcoming engineers he began as a interim no 2008 and manages his time well and carefully look at the design and installation as a critical i ice to create projects he worked on the intersection of market and convinces i convinced his team that a larger broken was better and we're moving forward with his design on the broadway streetscape design it was backlogged in the timing session gabbing jumped in and did the conceptual timing and cement the project on scald. finally yesterday was the first day of school we have two miles of bike lanes gabbing was out

there assisting parents and folks with the new safety improvements anothers sunset elementary school and others school the project was well received it's a player to have gabbing on our team and many of his team members are here have them stand up (clapping) and congratulations to gab thank you >> on behalf of the board thank you for your outstanding work we really appreciate it is very, very important work it helps the city and it's my great honor to be here i'm at a loss for words everyday i'm grateful to be part of the agency and part of the, you know, serving the folks in san francisco and also trying to looking for the future of our

city as we move forward and it's a blessing to come to work each day to be elevated by my friends they amount me in their generosity and decade so i'd like to end again with honoring them thank you very much (clapping.) that's our report. >> that concludes my report. >> one report today okay. good and item 8 is the advisory committee report i don't see the chairman here okay moving into item 9 general public comment matter jurisdiction commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the

commission will be afforded when item 12 has been removed from the agenda it is part of item 9. first speaker (calling names) >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. thank you for having hey here i'm just spending 8 minutes trying to find the parking with my friend vivian we spent the whole time looking for parking. and i mean each of you will spend one hundred and 6 days of our life looking for parking and this is mostly due to people like me and you cruising the street sloan the traffic and putting the cyclists and adding to pollution it's been - we've been spearheading the efforts

for the parking but i think that only works so far it only applies to meters and it didn't expand to areas that don't have meters and in the sf park program we have issues but, yeah it's not a viable solution to what i understand right now a i so in my opinion the solution and using technology to use our public to get the data is a more viable solution. a little bit about my background i work with microsoft? past and worked in companies that make phone applications right now i look at the park that is application so ideas is simple i'm leaving a spot i list it on the app and everybody else that

is interested can navigate to the spot without sloan the traffic behind you i'm here to present this solution to the city and i love for the city to use it i have a lot of ideas how to collaborate to check with the city about it >> thank you. thank you >> oh, if i have my questions we'll be happy to take them. >> (calling names). >> madeline polk's founder yeah. i want to relay this story we continue to work with the best possible actions not only for polk street but san francisco and try to insure the accurate funding is there to forward the best proposals