let my permit officer talk if he ever calls and i am confident that he would have received a lot of complaints. or i trust that it was not. >> do you recall? >> officer, and the permit officer, at the station and we did get a complaint from the residents, and it was a phone call on my desk. about the octoberfest beer garden and i spoke to you about that. and it was not, and it was, a band, not amplified sound, that is the only noise complaint. >> and was it this group? >> no. >> it was the adjacent lot. but it is all the same indication. >> okay, that is the only noise complaint from that area, in regard to music and sound. >> great, thank you. >> thank you. >> any other commissioner comments or questions? police? >> all right, thank you so much, captain. >> i am opening now to public

comment, is there any public comment? >> nope. none? >> all right. commissioners, a motion someone would like to put forward. >> i would like to move to approve with the conditions that a calendar of events be sent to the police and to the entertainment commission. and that sound testing and monitoring be used as situations arise. >> all right. >> is there a second to that motion? >> second? >> all right. >> any more discussion? >> nope. >> let's vote. >> wait a minute. >> okay. >> as they arrive, meaning like when he has a band he is going to call us and we are going to run out there and check the sound. >> as the situation arises. >> okay >> so basically i don't want to put too much of a fine point on it. because i don't really believe

that they are going to be having a blasty salsa band at ten, like disturbing all of the neighbors. i think what they are going to do is small movie and small things that will enhance the neighborhood. however, i do believe that this is a new sort of permit and we have not really done it like this before. and i think that when they need assistance, or when things arise, that is when we will go and talk to them, and work with them. and deal with it. >> usually it is after we get the complaint. >> normally. limited live, don't have any sound proofing, or sound testing at all. so i think that this being the first outdoor one, i think that we should see how it goes and work with them. is what i am suggesting. >> what i am saying is because it is outdoor, we should have a little bit of testing each just to get a point of reference that is all. >> and then they can do. >> are you making an amendment. >> i would like to make an

amendment. >> could i have a point of reference, if you look at the photos there are buildings facing this lot and you know. >> what is your amendment. >> it is to have the sound checked through the applicant, let us know when he has a salsa band or a live music to have our inspector go out there and take the readings. >> very specific commissioner. >> yeah. you help me out. >> it soupeds like you want the initial sound test. >> i would like to have an initial sound test. >> and if there is anything different from the type of programming in that initial sound test that they would approach our staff and get a new one. >> and we can educate them. >> okay. >> those are your exact words but i think that you mean just a salsa band. >> any band, live music, other than the movies. >> i feel like we can safely trust that there are and because they are working with the mayor's office and don't want to be kicked out, as the

tenants are going to be cause cautious on that space, and that is a matter of aopinion. >> is that a friendly amendment. >> sure. >> are you okay with that? >> sure. let me make sure that i have the motion. >> so, the good neighbor policy, calendar of events and also an initial sound test as well as sound tests as new situations arise? or as >> new tested programs. >> new tested programs. >> okay. >> so a sound test for the specific programming and monitoring. >> great, sure. >> okay. >> one question. can we... >> go for it. >> the sound system, when he brings in the different people, are they bringing in their own equipment or is that going to be one equipment that our

inspectors could go out and test. >> i think from what he stated they are doing a kick starter program to buy a permanent sound system. >> so i mean that is my question. it kind of goes along the lines of once it is in place we could send our people out there and do the test and then, that should be it. >> that should cover it. right. >> yeah. >> but you know, again the problem is every band has their own sound guy. >> but if you are limiting. >> i don't think that it is like that. >> it is not like going to be programming like the great american music hall, i promise you that. everyone is coming through the sound system, and they are acutely aware that the different instruments do different things and i think that we will be okay. but i think that the motion and the language gives us a well as the calendar, a tip off as

staff and our familiarity with what the different programming means that we might be able to use our discretion, if we can make very odd. and it is for the city hall. >> yes. >> that is good. >> let's take this vote. >> all right. >> on that motion. commissioner hyde? >> aye. >> commissioner lee. >> aye. >> moshoyannis. >> aye >> commissioner frost. >> aye. >> tan. >> aye. >> >> the motion passes, congratulations look forward to watching some films there. >> all right, so the next item is item 7 on the agenda, commissioner comments and questions. >> i am sorry we have... >> item. >> sorry. >> and that would be chamber's sean manchester doing business as chambers and they want to amend a place of entertainment to allow for outdoor use but the applicant has requested that this be continued. >> so, any motion in >> motion to continue. >> so moved flt >> second. >> and okay, so the same house

same call? >> yes. >> all right. >> now we are oit em 7, sorry i just skipped over that procedure. commissioner comments and questions? any? >> commissioner hyde? >> yeah i just would like to say yesterday was world aids day andvy been hiv positive for 26 years and i would just like to remember the people who have gone before. >> thank you. >> commissioner frost? >> i just wondering how the agenda gets set. i noticed that there were people that wanted to speak and they ended up having to leave. and what we talked about earlier was something that had kind of an administrative type of thing. where if kind of took a while. so i was thinking that maybe had we pushed back to the back and brought these things forward then we would have allowed those people the opportunity to speak. so i don't know how the agenda gets set.

>> the initial agenda gets set by the staff and myself and i approve it. and should an occasion arrive that we show up to the meeting and turns out that the scenario that you are talking about that we want to move up an item because people have to leave or whatever, just bring that up at the beginning and we will move the agenda around at that point. but if there is anything that you don't see, that you would like to address, you can either bring it up, at a point like now, when we talk about the new business or you can, you know, you can just... >> any one of us. >> yeah, in the future, if you guys agree, i would just think that it is better that if we are, and i think that if we are having the community here to talk about certain things, that if we are having representatives from the mayor's office or whoever to talk about something, that we could schedule them for the end and have the discussions about the permits. >> have the permits go first? >> okay, i think that it is a matter of opinion, because then the folks that at city hall

feel like they have been here all day, and it is, and it is fine, that is part of their jobs, but i think that it is a matter of opinion. but i think that if there is something really urgent that we are aware of, or maybe that the staff can kind of tip us off about, we have definitely in the past moved things up to say that we are going to see it first because it is time sensitive. >> thanks. >> all right. >> any more comments? >> any public comment about our comments? >> all right, let's move on to item eight. >> new business requests. >> anything commissioner hyde always has some. >> i would like to schedule for the next meeting, i would personally write up a couple of recommendations to send to jane kim's office, unless the office feels that they would like to handle recommendations. >> i think that we should you know, would i hand them out here and we could say yes or no, you know it is just going to be basic. >> but... >> yeah, how about you and i draft that.

>> okay. >> that is great. >> this does not have to be a future agenda item but we had a request from the police if there is a standard way that we want to have them report out? >> yeah e >> if you could that specific question for the next meeting so they know in the future meetings, come prepared with a district report. or whatever. >> sorry. >> you were... >> okay. >> glad it worked out. >> any other future items it does not have to be now you can bring ta to me and the chair between now and our next meeting. >> all right, is there any public comment? >> seeing none, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you very much. have a good night.

>> good morning, today is december second and all ready to welcome to the committee of the transportation committee, my name is john avalos, and the chair of the authority and the personnel committee to my left is commissioner co-hen and we will be joined shortly by mar, the clerk of the committee is steve stamos and today, is committee meeting is broa

>> could you call the next item. >>dcast by sfgtv >> avalos. >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> mar. >> absent. >> we have a quorum. >> okay. and commissioner, mar will be here soon. so we will going to have to excuse him. okay the neck item? >> item two, approve the minutes of the july 10, 2014 meeting an action item. >> okay. no comments or next? >> okay. with the minutes, and we will open up the public comment on this item, and seeing no member of the public come forward we will close public comment and roll call vote. >> item two, avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> mar? >> mar absent, the item passes. >> great, okay rkts so now we are on to the main event,

today, item number three, it would be our closed session. call the item please? >> item three, closed session, public employee performance evaluation and approval of the executive director's performance goals for 2015 and this is an action item. >> great. thank you. >> so, we need to prepare the room for closed session. >> so it looks like we are back in open session, and we discussed item three, and we want to call item four, and we will do it at the same time as item four. >> okay. >> item four, recommend annual compensation for the executive director for 2015, this is an action item. >> okay, very good. first of all, we had a presentation from our executive director chang, and we also, on our performance goals for the

past year. and proposed goals for next year as well. and we rated her on her performance and we all were pretty consistent in giving her over all performance goal of exceptionally good which is where we were at before and six months ago for the 6-month review. and the 6-month review that we had was actually not a mandatory review, but one that we set up earlier and one that we brought miss changg on and we are seeing the continuation of that effort and we are actually between exceptionally good and outstanding over all rating. and we actually really appreciated the presentation from our executive director, and hitting a number of high points this past year. and especially in the collaboration in cooperation with the mayor's office, and many of the agencies within the city itself.

but also within the region. hitting some significant, you know, achievements, working with, you know, cal train, and with the mtc and abag and then we have a number of projects that we have been able to see that go forward. and that we have really been the high point as well for the transportation authority and we are seeing too much and in the mobility agency come together for the leadership and the continuation of the doyle drive as well as the work around the ear for the geary bus, rapid transit, coming for us next year, and the leadership that she has shown within the transportation authority has been quite exceptional and we rated her, you know, according to that and we want to thank you, miss chang for your work and it is really been a pleasure to work with you this past year. i will be not serving as chair, after this year, but i know that there will be other folks coming in. but it has been a real pleasure

to work with you and i have been proud in the work in the transportation authority and the collaborative lacing that is going on with the colleagues and the board and all around city hall. are we in open session? >> we are, and so i just want to thank you for your great work in that. and i am not sure if the colleagues with anything else to add to it? >> actually i will just briefly say that i think that our director really increased the visibility of the agency and i think that her active involvement with as much as the city transportation, but also the community related events is very noticable. and i think promoting the 25-year organization to as many organizations whether they are city wide or neighborhood based is really an important improvement. i think more work with the press and communications is visible to the chinese press and i want to thank you and appreciate that and i think that you have shown a

self-critical approach to how you are running the agency based on a lot of feedback and i noticed that, and as a con stanlt, effort to improve, i think that the morale of the staff that we have put in the feedback is really a great morale and i think that you are continuing to build a great team, especially the office of the deputy directors and also the whole staff. and i really appreciate as our chair avalos has mentioned, the work in regional bodies, and the visibility there. and especially joint work, and better relationships with the mta. and lots more of a collective approach to our city wide transportation issues. and i think that those were the main points that i wanted to just give appreciation for, and acknowledgment of all of the great work that is being done. >> great, thank you. >> so, just want to make sure that we are going to call a roll call vote on each of the items 3 and 4 but i want to

make sure that the colleagues that we agree not to disclose the content of the closed session. >> okay. >> very good. so when it comes to item number four, recommend annual compensation, and what we had decided was that you know coming in as step five and some of the you know allowances that were provided as well we wanted to see more time leading the agency before going to the next step and so we were going to continue at this step, but it is something that we felt that the work certainly warrants you know, getting there with time. and continue on the same trajectory that we are on now and so i would like to bring it up again next year, the step next step increase and to me, that makes sense that we, you know, given the trajectory that you have been on that makes a lot of sense after two years of service within the agency. and i think that will kind of a consensus on the commission as

well. so, what i would like to see with the motion to approve item number 3. and i guess, what will the motion be on item four? >> okay. >> and so item four will be to maintain the current step. and item three will be to approve the over all rating of, you know, exceptionally good, and we have in the record as well. our just, well, we will expressed was to you, was our real satisfaction with your work as a executive director. >> so, i will make the motion to move. or those two motions. >> i will second. >> and we will take that roll call vote. >> item 3 and 4, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye.

>> mar. >> aye. >> the items pass. >> i think that we didn't have a comment on those. >> so, let's rescind the vote. >> the motion is rescinded. >> great, and we will open up these two items up for the public comment. >> so thank you so much, for your thoughtful feedback for your consideration and your support of me and the staff this past year it has been a privilege and an honor to serve the city in this way. i have really grown a lot in my first year and i continue to strive to improve personally in my leadership of the agency as well as far as the over all agency's effort but we are on a very strong path. i think that your guidance and your support over the past year have been critical to our agency and to our staff from the leadership on the policy aspects of the transportation plan and the investment proposals from the t2030 plan all the way to the staff

proposal and it has just been a pleasure working with you and your staff and we want to thank you very much again for your support. >> thank you. >> okay. so we will take that roll call vote. >> okay. >> on item three and four. >> public comment. >> okay. >> items 3 and 4, commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> pa mar? >> aye. >> the items pass. >> thank you. >> and again, thank you for your great work this past year. our next item please? >> item 5, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> where we did talk about reviewing the steps for next year and, so i think that we can possibly put forward as a personnel committee item. >> okay. >> and so now this item is opened up for public comment. any member of the public that would like to comment, seeing no member come forward, we will close public comment. >> item 6, public comment. >> the next item is public

comment. any member of the public? seeing none, come forward, we will close public comment. >> and go to our next item. >> item 7, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. thank you. >> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole

idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to

more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood

or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30?

>> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,

>> wow, are the beetles here or are we just reoping the playground? i'm not sure which. thanks to the 2008 parks funds, where you're standing is the home and all of you san francisco voters gave a $20 million investment in this neighborhood. i was born and raised four blocks from where we stand today. i came and played in this park, on the equipment, in the you know what i mean you know jim gym and structure today. >> to make this a park that everybody can enjoy, a diversity that would show the city that this is what san francisco is all about. >> what we got here is 3,000

new square feet of places for people to be healthy and be active and the community to gather. >> if you see /kaelly's mural in the building, there cannot be an imagery that's more related to this place. what people told us about what the importance of the windmills and the green houses and the flowers that used to be grown here and the wind, let's not forget the wind. >> we have to continue to invest in our city's infrastructure and creating new. this is a recreation center for the 21st century and for the 21st century communities. >> we finally made something after somebody that everybody needs and this is the park. go.

this is the tuesday, november 18th, 2014, meeting of the plans and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority. and my name is eric mar and i am the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor commissioner norman yee, to my left, london breed and our clerk is mr. steve, and could you give us me announcements? >> there are no announcements could we have a roll call? >> item number one? commissioner breed? >> we are just going for do the roll call. >> okay, got it.

here. >> campos? >> absent. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent, commissioner mar? >> here. >> mar present. >> commissioner yee? >> here. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you and i would like to thank charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today, call the next item, two, citizen advisory committee report, this is an information item. >> and we have brian larkin. >> good morning, commissioners. we had only one action item on our ago ago agenda, for the proposition funds, related to cal train or bart station access, we have some discussion of the station access project that our park station and the east side station access, project. and smith, our newest member initiated that discussion and i