with a continuance i just ask that it not be a week or two give us a little bit more. >> won't be for another three weeks. >> okay. good. >> and the other side. >> we welcome the chance to come to an agreement that works for all parties. >> i will withdraw my motion and move to continue this and i don't want to say to both sides i know it is difficult issue but i would hope they negotiate in goth and something else substantive is accomplished. >> i will second that and

compromise doesn't mean you get everything you want. >> madam director about a 3 week timeframe. >> i guess the 18th of march is the betterment. >> does that work for both sides the 18th of march? >> yes. >> okay. >> let us know. >> may i approach. >> march 18 of the is fine thank you. >> that's a motion then

continue to march 18th arrest there's a motion on the floor. >> one moment mr. sanchez will you be willing to have departmental assistance try to mediate and see if the board as a direction in particular the answer to other process the ground floor was not as much as an issue and the concerns are really related to the second-story edition had it focus on the relationship of the second-story edition to the adjacent property or also exclude reduction in size of the ground floor which i the appellant can address that. >> why not focus on circumstances and side where it goes. >> thank you.

>> that helped. >> on that motion to continue both motivators to march 18 for further negotiations. >> commissioner president lazarus commissioner honda commissioner wilson thank you vote is 4 to zero both maternities are continued. >> commissioner president lazarus moibdz. >> adjourned

>> it has been amazing. the people have been so gracious and so supportive of what we're doing. the energy here is fantastic with so many couples getting married. it's just been an absolutely

fantastic experience so wonderful. >> by the power vested in me, i declare you spouses for life. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> to actually be able to get married and be a part of this time in history and time in our history is amazing. >> this is a momentous occasion for us to be able to actually have this opportunity to have equal rights. >> we have been together for 14 years. everyone is so welcoming. it's been all set up and people have guided us from step to step. it's been easy. there was live music. people are so friendly and excited. so excited for us. >> it's really great. >> yeah. >> and salvador is party a here to known as party a. >> on the out it looks pretty simple.

you come in, you made your appointment. you pay. you go here for your license. you got there to get married. you go there if you want to purchase a certified copy. behind the scenes there was just this monumental just mountain of work, the details into everything that we had to do and we quickly realized that we were not ready to issue the numbers of licenses that people are anticipating that we would need to issue. we definitely did not want people waiting in long lines. this is somebody's wedding. you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time you are able to get your marriage license, know what time you're going to have your ceremony. >> thanks for volunteering. >> we got city volunteers we got members of the public volunteering.

we had our regular volunteers volunteering. we had such an overwhelming response from city employees, from the members of the general public that we had way more volunteers than we could ever have hoped for. we had to come up with a training program. i mean, there are different functions of this whole operation. you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter. you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if they were going to be performing ceremonies. >> donna place the ring on her ring finger. >> the marriage commissioner training was only about a half

hour. it was very simple. very well run very smooth and then we were all sworn in. >> they said we would get our scheduled sunday night and so 7:00 8:00 10:00 you know, i got it at 11:00. this person who was orchestrating all of the shifts and the volunteers and who does what you know said from her office sunday night at 11:00. they are just really helping each other. it's a wonderful atmosphere in that way. >> have you filled out an application? >> not yet. you want to do that. >> take this right over there. >> all right. >> take it tout counter when you're done. >> very good. >> congratulations, you guys. >> for those volunteers, what a gift for them as well as us that they would take up their time and contribute that time but also that they would in return receive so much more back because they're part of the narrative of someone else's love and expression of love in life. >> this isn't anything that we

had budgeted for so it was basically we asked our i.t. director to do the best you can, you know belling, borrow steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the

doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choose to be a part of it. this is a very historic day and so i'm very very proud to be here. >> i have been volunteering. last monday i performed 12 different marriage smones. the least amount of time that any of the couples that i married have been together is two years. most of the couples have been together eight, nine, 10 i'd say 70% have been together at least that long if not longer. >> there is a lot of misconception about who gay and lesbian people are. it's important that people see that we love our husbands and wives to be and love our

children and have the right to have families just like everyone else. >> it's important that we have experienced our own families, our own friends and the excitement of the volunteers when we get here has made us feel wonderful and accepted and celebrated. >> there is a lot of city agencies city departments, divisions that offer up their employees to help us out since overwhelming response, it's unbelievable at how city government works. this is the time that san francisco city employees have really outshined san francisco's clerk's office didn't need to hear from the mayor to say what's your plan. they offered a plan and said here is our strategy. here is what we can do. we can add all of these computers here and there. we can connect our databases we can expand our capacity by x. we can open up early and stay

late and stay open on the weekends. it's unbelievable. we can coordinate all of the training for our volunteers and them in as deputy marriage commissioners and make sure it's signed and certified. that's an example and a model for others. this is -- what happens is when people prove that things can be done, it just raises the bar for what is possible for everyone else. >> it kind of went cooled plan and this is what we planned for. in some respects, people have kind of commented to me, oh, my god, you were a part of history and how many couples did we mary? how many families did we start? how many dreams did we make come true? the whole part of being part of history is something that we are here and we are charged with this responsibility to carry out..

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco transportation authority meeting i want to thank sfgovtv for broovrt today's vent jonathan and jonathan madam clerk my had any announcements. >> none. >> roll call. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed

supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor kim? absent supervisor mar absent supervisor tang supervisor wiener we have quorum okay. we will now move to item number 2 >> item 2 approval of the minutes of the january 2015 this is an action item. >> colleagues well, i should are there any changes to the minutes okay. seeing none is there any public comment on item - supervisor avalos. >> i'm sorry, i he am wondering if you're mike is on. >> is that better my apologies

colleagues, any changes to the minutes seeing none we'll open up for public comment is there any public comment on item 2 seeing none, public comment is closed could i have a motion to or is that a roll call on the minutes. >> on item 2. >> supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor kim absent arrest supervisor mar absent supervisor katie tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee absent this item passes. >> okay item number 3. >> chairs report this is an information item. >> colleagues this is a few things i want to mention the first yesterday we held a hearing on the release of our last night transportation report

that was paired by the last night transportation working group we as you recall we had a hearing at the land use commission economic development community around the challenges felt last night transportation and the needs for improvements sitting at the board of supervisors adapted the legislation to trigger a working group and ultimately a plan working group did an interpretation work in the leadership of the office of economic workforce development as well as the entertainment commission with a broad-based group of stakeholders unions and workers and employers and last night advocates in transit advocates just an enormous amount of research with the survey and produced a terrific report i want to thank the transportation authority staff specifically lithiasis brison and her team that just we've

asked them to come in and provide the technical transit expertise and the staff did a phenomenal job working with the working group and providing that support and so the report came out yesterday very well received we held a hearing and i'm glad to report we're starting to see progress as you recall a month ago bart and transit instituted a new transbay express in the mission and oakland and beyond in addition and we'll see this in a funding item on the agenda muni is going to be expanding it's last night owl bus services this is a major challenge with the lack of transparency in the muni lines we're seeing long

term and short term grossly goals from the report we'll move forward we'll keep the working group intact to monitor the pass and why green again, i want to thank everyone including the staff in continuing that work i also want to just acknowledge february 10th mayor ed lee and others including kim and julie christensen came together to unveil the two vision zero strategy which has i think as far been a terrific success in terms of the unified success among the policy hordes and the 2 year plan involves a driver tangible step forward i look forward to continuing to work with everyone and thank everyone

that was involved in the most recent steps and finally, i want to note that noah has joined the bike coalition the new executive director coming from new york city and the transportation alternative it an advocatecy group in new york city for biking and walking and transit i want to welcome him to san francisco i know we all look forward to working with him and others to make our city even better transportation wise to than that already so those are my comments with that is there any public comment on item 3 seeing none, public comment is closed mr. clerk. >> closing arguments this is an information item. >> ms. tilly chang. >> good morning this months report begins with the state

level on the board equalization due to the reduction in gas prices and the state adjusts the competently kiss tax in gasoline we expect to see a decline in x kinds tax this will to come to the whole state dpw estimates a 70 percent in the gas tax k378gsz we receive for resurfacing and road with work we have joined a large group of coalitions and organizations and on letter i've attached to my are support offering to work with the govern to protect the existing level of revenues to grow the transportation revenues to grow our infrastructure and

investment in addition in terms of the legislative masking i'll see the items relate to two things the high occupancy one is authored by assembly transportation chair frazier ab 94 and another one through the cal secretary of transportation process budget trailer bill 402 we have outlined those in your legislative matrix both are how we develop the high occupancy work and the express lane working with our workers and briefing supervisor campos and supervisor wiener with the transportation commission and will be tracking both bills actually through the session on a related note assembly member kevin in san mateo choose

another bill ab what is a policy bill intended to call for a regional process calling altercation to the abdomen on or about 101 calling attention to the whole coordinate and within 57 years hopefully e hoping to see investment and in a strategy for this important coordinator we applaud his original approach and call for the collaboration we'll keep you posted on the affordable housing through our cap & trade work san francisco has decided to opt a single application seeking the maximum $15 million for the affordable housing sustainable community program this will be for a proposal in the tenderloin neighborhood development coordination and the access

statewide fund is 200 underway we'll work with the city and try to result in some good funding our the affordable housing on the transportation program the program at the 125i9 e statewide that fund bikes and there's a call for projects that outline in your memo on march 26 applications are due with the mta and the city on san francisco's application in last year's cycle one on the transportation project if 3 were funded $3.9 million the pathway to schools and mta vision zero bike and pedestrian education enforcement program as well as the dpw department of public health safe schools education at the elementary school and high schools program

in terms of regional issue the bay area study kicked off it will be lead by our mta and bart to look at the transbay coordinator a invites champion and response to the last night working group recommendation to look at transbay and bart services was a importantly and one medi-cal immediate term to improve the access we've tieftd excited to kickoff that and that will be a major dovetail with our major express work happening in the same period on conflict as you recall the transbay joint powers authority approved did report for the notification project in japan now we enter the period of procurement for the bill of the contracted will be released

later this week and the cal tort to are the will be working and more capacity and reliability improvements are on the way and concurly the two agencies are working 0 together we'll report back to the land use commission chair covered the last night working group so a few notes on the local adjustments in terms of the transportation improvement program on the agenda we be looking at xhovp 2kg9 to and from golden gate park and improvements on the corridor we're working with district 6, temple, 12 and others for the grant activities we'll coordinate with mta and

the other departments in the coming years and finally on our dbe and lbe we have a had a successful workshop in february that had about 70 folks in attendance and over 70 companies from dbe and lbe firms the purpose to promote ethnicity and to introduce folks to our process make sure they know how to access the procurement opportunities and pleased to see the sponsoring organizations including the sfmta and the transit district and conflicts and the parkway all of whom highlighted the procurement opportunity it was a packed reems rooms and had asian american contractors at golden

gate and the chamber of commerce as well as the african-american chamber of commerce finally i'll note we have welcomed joe on to the management team he's taking liz he's excited to join our team he has over 16 years of experience in the forecasting and built the transportation back in 2000 i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you, colleagues any questions or comments relating to the to the director's report open up for public comment any public comment on item 4 seeing none, public comment is closed and this is an information item madam clerk call item 5 and item 5 adopt the positions on state legislation this is an action item.

>> i'm going to ask supervisor cowen precede over item 5. >> okay good morning, everyone. all right. mr. chair would you like to provide the opening comments >> ma'am vice chair i'll request we separate the questions in terms of separating ab 61 from the remainder of the state legislation and vote on that separately so ma'am, vice chair in the finance committee the staff recommended that ab 61 have we not take a position and instead monitor 9 progress of

that bill the finance committee voted to change that represents to an opposed position so ab 16 is state legislation that will clarify the power of local jurisdictions to allow private shuttles to utilize public transportation stops we believe that no one everyone but the mta the city ebldz we have that ability the flaw will clarify that power and it is working its way through the process not undermine the pilot program we have in place in san francisco between the mta and varies private shuttle provider that take san franciscans to work so i believe we should adopt the staff represents to watch or

monitor this bill rather than oppose it i make a motion to amend the item to change the recommendation or excuse me. i make a motion to amend we adapt a watch port commission position instead of an opposed position. >> before we vote on that i was wondering if there's a staff person that can talk about the reason the recommendation was made to oppose the recommendation and again for the benefit of those persons not in the finance committee hearing. >> supervisor cowen the staff recommended a watch position on this bill it is sponsored by southern california legislator providing the authorities to state authority for the access it is rather early we want to talk to our colleagues that have not will taken a recommendation so that's the e