by. they have access to computers and access to information and training whether it be medical or [inaudible]. we're basically trying to cover everything or as much as possible to educate the consumer and the provider. >> great. thank you. there are no other questions right now so will hear from all the applicantses for the seat and open up public comment. not yet. we will hear from the other applicants first. thank you mr. robi. thank you for your service on the authority. >> thank you. >> so next up is gustavo serina. >> good morning. my name is gustavo serina. i have served on the commission for aging and adult services for a number of years. i was the first openly gay president and as a consequence of serving on the

commission i have been serving on the ihss governing body public authority. previously i was president of the eureka neighborhood association and president when we created the ping triangle park memorial, the first open air memorial in america to victims -- gay and lesbian victims of the nazi regime. i'm a founding board member and previous president of the castro market benefits district. i'm a founding member and vice president of the rainbow honor walk committee that installed 20 plaques along castro street to honor important lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender individuals and previously i had a 19 year career as bank of america ending as chief of staff to the head

of global finance. >> great thank you so you have actually through the work on daas had a seat on the ihss authority? >> yes. >> how long had you have the seat on the authority now? >> eight years. >> so it's been a while so curious on things you have seen under your time on the authority. what are the things that you weighed in most where you had the most influence where you have seen the most important work achieved? >> i think both on the commission and on ihss i have played a part in raising awareness of the issues affecting members of the lgbt community as they age. many of those issues are unique. the generation that came before me for understandable reasons were quite closeted and as they get older and cultural sensitivity and the situations they have faced becomes very important. daas has done a wonderful job

of addressing those issues and ihss is doing the same thing. >> great. so when it comes to the work of the authority and understanding the needs of lgbt aging population what do you see as the policy changes you have been aware of in that effort? >> one has been addressing the privacy issues so that people now are willing to disclose their sexual orientation. in the past we couldn't ask those questions but now we're able to ask people to volunteer that information, and we helped study that was recently completed under the leadership of supervisor wiener and campos to address issues in san francisco, help dispel many of the mitts exist that regard the financial situation of lgbt seniors. seniors in general suffer from social isolation as they get older and that particular

problem affects the lgbt population, particularly the generation -- my generation and those that came before me because so many peers were killed during aids crisis so those situations are unique. we also face a large number of seniors who have been living for a long time managing aids and we don't know what issues they're going to face as they get older that are not typical of the senior population at large. >> very good. thank you. any other questions from the committee? no. we will go on to the next applicant, luis calderon. >> good morning commissioners. thank you for having me. my name is luis calderon. i serve at the public authority bill for now two terms. i will just try

to intr some of your questions. one of the important role this committee for the new executive director for the public authority. this is the only second executive director for the public authority. i have also served in the committee to work with the union to represent the public authority and represent the voice of the consumers. in interest of what advocacies we could do to improve the ihss program and providers and addressing the needs for consumers [inaudible] and the changes coming from the state level. all the time sheet issues that have been going on and also to address the need for training for our providers and i think that was some of the most important roles that i have played in the last few years for the public authority. personally i have interest -- i have been working with advocacy

for 20 something years. i was a former employee of the public authority, and i see the growth of our agency as a key element to educate the consumers to maintain the independent provider mode which is where the consumers have the right to hire and fire the providers that come into the home and making that choice where in other states and other situations that choice has been taken away so that's the -- i see that as my primary role to maintaining and reminding everyone of the point of having this particular mode of service, the independent provider mode is maintain the independence for consumers. >> thank you. i know there is a balance between the needs of consumers and also the rights of workers as well, and could you touch upon just how you want --

how you see that balance being worked out? for instance as mr. robi touched upon the providers having a sense of certainty about pay or about conditions, help to keep them engaged with their clients and having a long-term provider for each client, something that clients, consumers really want to maintain so what would you say are some of the main issues that are really going to affect the providers' experience that will actually enable the consumers to have a good experience as well? >> i think from the beginning of the public authority and and maybe before one of the biggest issues was enrolling and paying the providers in a timely manner and to this date it's still not being solved and it's a state issue. the state runs the whole

payroll system for the in-home supportive services providers. most recently they have tried to make changes with direct deposits for checks but it still takes by the time the consumer and the provider make the agreement they have to request a packet. they have to send it to the county and then to the state and approved and they send it in and time to get paid takes three to four weeks or more. if there are mistakes in there the process is sent back to the consumer and provider to complete so sometimes it's over two months to get a paycheck and that's a huge concern because no provider can work for that long with that uncertainty. only providers that have multiple commissioners already getting a paycheck with have the luxury to wait and the last thing i would say in the interest of providers and raising wages and benefits has been a goal for the public

authority and trying to improve the work force and that has shown to be successful but also giving the consumers the voice to say this is the work force we want to support, but also we need to main that independence and doing that is difficult and a matter of education and we have an input into the educational curriculum for providers and yes you're working for this consumer and getting paid by the state but the consumer maintaining the independence and doing what needs to be done and that's the balance we're trying to maintain and remind everyone that we have to do that. >> thank you. i appreciate your response. any other questions from the committee? seeing none we will go on to public comment. thank you. >> [inaudible] let them be. i mean it's all material things i

mean pleasure for each individual choice oneself. it's material things. [inaudible] i mean [inaudible] human being. i mean [inaudible] government time or this money. let them be. [inaudible] let them be. don't waste our time and this discussion and [inaudible] congress and senate -- [inaudible] >> any other members of the public like to comment please come forward. >> hard act to follow but my name is patrick and i'm the executive assistance at the public authority to the ed kelly deerman and i wanted to add

that kenzi and gustavo and luis served with distinction and have the support of the public authority and staff. thank you. >> thank you very much. and i really appreciate all of you being here to present and thank you for the service on the authority. we will make a decision now. supervisor cohen. >> thank you. i just wanted to go on record publicly thanking the gentlemen for the long service to san francisco. we are grateful to your service and i wanted to make a motion to move to the full board with a positive recommendation to place kenzi robi in seat five. gustavo serina in seat seven and luis calderon in seat 13. >> okay. >> second. >> second by supervisor tang and we will take that without objection. [gavel] thank you. okay. item number 7 please. >> item 7 is an ordinance

amending the administrative code to establish the last 10 days of january each year as restaurant week and amending the health code to eliminate the department of public health restaurant appreciation month. >> thank you. i'm not sure if we have a presentation on this. i believe it's pretty civil explanatory. i am supportive of this change so let's go into public comment. any member of the public like to comment on item 7? >> [inaudible] >> okay. we will close public comment for lack of a commenter and colleagues we have this before us. supervisor tang. >> all right. so i would like to make a motion and we establish restaurant week from the last 10 days of january and eliminate the department of public health's restaurant appreciation month to align it with looks like the state and make a motion to move it forward with a positive recommendation from the full board. >> very good. motion by supervisor tang and second by supervisor cohen and we will

take that without objection. [gavel] okay so i believe that is our last item. i would like to thank our clerk alisa somera for her work and sfgtv staff for broad casting today's meeting. we are adjourned. [gavel]

>> we will call to order, the meeting of the treasure island, mobility agency, and i am scott, the chair of the

transportation authority and today we will be conducting the first meeting and adopting rules and also electing a chair and a vice chair. if i could, before we do roll call, and entertain a motion to elect a temporary chair to conduct the first portion of this meeting >> commissioner breed? >> i make a motion to elect scott weiner as the temporary chair. >> is there a second to that motion and could we take a roll call on that. >> a roll call on that motion. >> sorry? >> first and a second? okay. >> great, and so, we will proceed. and mr. clerk could you call the roll, for the meeting? >> on item one, roll call, avalos. >> here. >> breed. >> here. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen.

>> present. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell in >> absent. >> kim? >> kim, present. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> commissioner tang. >> present. >> weiner? >> present. >> and commissioner yee. >> present. >> and we have a quorum. >> call item number two. >> item two, executive director's report this is an information item. >> miss chang? we will provide a brief overview of our treasure island meeting agency, meeting today as chair mentioned we will be setting up the administrative code and other rules for the agency and electing our chair, and vice chair. and for the members of the public the treasure island redevelopment plan has been under way for many years and so this is a culmination of ten years of of effort of the city family including the staff here at the timma from the beginning, the city's plans is to add 8,000 units of housing

and development on the islands and recognize to avoid the congestion that is on the san francisco open bay bridge and so as a result, the treasure island called for a majority of trips to be taken by non-automobile modes and for the creation of a new regional transit system from the island to the east bay and the ferry here in san francisco. and that provides the backdrop and context and we have the slides to adopt the goals that were adopted by the early, treasure island authority board and the significant increase in transit service that is needed to support the island's development needs to be backed by a committed and permanent source of funds by tolling and pricing and for this reason, senator, passed and led ab, 981, with governor schwarzenegger support in 2008 in the transportation management act, that authorized the program and the transportation management options for supporting island services and the acts called

for the agency to be designated to over see the toll operation and to manage, the provision of the new transit services and the transportation, authority has had a long time partnership, and with the organization and including the construction of the island ramps project that is happening sxhou in 2011, when you all adopted the treasure island development project, the plans were already in, and under way, to partner for the role here as timma and we were so designated in 2014, and the responsibilities of this agency is to insure that the program meets the transportation performance and the financial mandates of the original plan and for coordinating with the agencies that if necessary, to implement such a plan including the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and the cal trans, and the area toll fee, and the water agency that manages the ferries and the transit, the timma will over

see the design and the construction and design from the contracting for the ferry bus and shuttle services for overseeing tolling and parking management and most of our work will be a three, person committee in terms of the governance with the chair and today, and with that we just want to make the introduction and pleased to be working with a great team to start the work, ra khel hyiat serves as the project manage and her her counter part, is the bob beck project director for tida and sherry is the principal engineer and the deputy for finance and administration, cynthia will support activities and also we have the assistance of tamala and neal advising us with legal matters and that concludes my remarks and i am happy to answer any questions.

>> thank you, colleagues, any questions or comments on the executive director's report? seeing none s there there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> call you call, 3 and 4 together. >> adopt the administrative code and adopt the rules of order, fiscal policy and procurement policy and travel and conference and training and business expense reimbursement policy. >> any questions or comments on three and four, did you have a presentation. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration, just it is best to take any questions for any of the policies that we have before you. >> great, any questions? >> okay. seeing none, we will open up ilt em three and four for public comment, is there any public comment on three and or four? seeing none, public comment is closed. and mr. clerk could you please

call the roll on items 3 and 4 together? >> avalos some >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> absent. >> christensen. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> absent. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> the item is passed. >> okay, thank you, could you call item number five. >> item five, election of chair and vice chair. this is an action item. >> okay, colleagues, this is our first meeting, and the authority will elect a chair and a vice chair of treasure island mobility agency, i will hand it over to him or her and i will begin preceding and after that the newly elected

chair will preside over the election of the vice chair and for the remainder of aagain day and we will open up it for the nominations and as soon as one receives the vote that person will be declared the chair. >> mr. clerk nominations are in order for the office of chair, any nominations? commissioner avalos. >> i nominate kim to serve as the chair for timma. >> okay. >> and are there any, and i should say is there a second for that nomination? seconded by yee. >> commissioner breed. >> i would like to nominate julie christensen for vice chair. >> we are just entertaining nominations for chair and vice chair will be after. >> okay, mr. clerk am i doing that directly. >> because both items were called.

>> right, but we will do one, in succession. >> okay. >> any additional nominations for the position of chair of the authority? or of the agency not the authority? seeing none, nominations are closed. okay, is there any public comment on the election of the chair? seeing none, public comment is closed. and are there any comments colleagues? anything else? okay. then we will proceed to a vote and i think that we can just take this same house same call? >> same house came call, without objection, the motion is adopted and commissioner kim, is elected the chair. >>

>> good morning and, thank you colleagues, for your support, i look forward to chairing this body. and as treasure island is in the district that i represent, but i also think that this project poses really an exciting ground on which we can really experiment with a lot of different types of traffic and congestion management and other ways to encourage people to get out of their cars and use public transit and other modes and i think that this will certainly be an exciting project both for the transportation authority and the city at this time, our nominations are now in order for the office of the vice chair. are there any nominations before us? >> commissioner breed? >> thank you, i would like to nominate supervisor julie christensen to serve as vice chair. >> okay. >> commissioner julie christensen is nominated is there a second to ta. >> seconded by commissioner weiner, and are there any

further nominations? >> if not, nominations are closed. at this time, he will take public comment on this item, please step up if you would like to speak on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, could we take that same house, same call. >> congratulations vice chair christensen i look forward to working with you and this is a part of our city that abuts both of our districts and i look forward to working with you on this object mr. clerk could you call the next item. >> adopt, the proposele fiscal year annual budget and work program, this is an action item. >> good morning, commissioners, rachel, the prans pal transportation planner, the annual budget this year is

$750,000. and $650,000 is provided by the treasure island development authority, and matched by our prop k, sales tax dollars and this supports our work in three main areas, program management, and the stake holder out reach, and it is including working with all of the many partner agencies, and planning work, and engineering. and happy to take any questions. >> any questions? >> on the presentation. >> seeing none, thank you very much. >> we will now take the public comment on item number 6. >> seeing, no public comment, public comment is closed, mr. clerk, could we please call the next item? >> my apologies. before we go this item number 7, we need to pass item number 6. okay? and can we do that same house same call. >> same house same call. mr. clerk, item number 7.

>> item 7, introduction of new items this is an information item. >> do any of our commissioners have any comments? or introduction of new items? >> seeing none, we will take public comment on this item. seeing, no public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, could you please call the next item. >> item 8, public comment. >> at this time we are open for general public comment. >> seeing no general public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, next item, 9, adjournment. >> before we return i would like to recognize sfgtv for recording this meeting and transcribing them to make them available for the public, seeing no further items, the meeting is now adjourned..

>> good morning i'll call to order this monthly of the san francisco transportation authority commissioner avalos absent supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar