tv Government Access Programming SFGTV February 7, 2019 4:00am-5:01am PST
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starting july 1, we are through our programming action last year, created additional five year budgets in the order of 700,000 for praj development, planning and construction. at the federal level, m.t.c. takes those funds and apportions them to the counties and through this board's actions in cycle one, we prioritize projects such as masonic avenue, broadway, chinatown, and the latter two were completed with fant sick celebrations with the community last year. masonic, we were there just yesterday taking a tour with our whole staff. our cycle two money was propagated to the embarcadero elevator, john yee hall chin elementary and some other projects.
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the webster street pedestrian signals is another highlight, and we're hoping to also do a new round this coming year because we have more funding coming in for programming. another fund that we manage is the air district money to reduce air emissions, and we had the gator pass, which is a transit pass that san francisco state implemented last year with all the students. going forward, we had new projects allocated funding for fast chargers for electric vehicles, bike racks, and a whole bunch of other electrification-type projects. in terms of delivery, we either deliver the projects or oversee the agencies in terms of their ability to deliver the projects. all of we're all working on vehicles, train control, maintenance facilities, and you'll see some highlights here from the -- hopefully, you've
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been able to ride all the new vehicles from b.a.r.t. and of course the municipally l.r.v. we had our new meet and greet facility, in the yslais creek area. s are westbound ru s -- we are preparing our south gate road and again coordinating on pedestrian path projects with the regional and state agencies. oversight focused on transbay. we had a wonderful focus on opening the center in august and unfortunately did discover the cracks, but to some degree, that was lucky because we wouldn't have wanted to discover that in a different way, so it was fortunate that we caught it, and the tjpa is
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actively working with a peer review to understand the causes and to converge on a fix. the downtown rail extension, as i mentioned, made progress. we had done some tunnel track design peer review studies with a panel -- an expert panel that advised on whether we should have two versus three tracks reading into the terminal and conversion on the three and rusing the tunnel cover was very important as a result of that work, as well. we are moving ahead with the d.t.x. over sight and management peer review and we'll report back in the next few months -- or in the early part of this year. central subway makes progress. there has been some delay, but overall the the project is 81% complete, and we were able to backfill some money that the state had for this project to
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backfill $61 million. on caltrain modernization, that is making progress on the train control as well as electrification projects. the first train sets were received, and revenue service is anticipate index 2022. finally, there's a whole host of arterial projects around the city, there is a reflection of the m.t.a. bond money and the s.b.-1 funds. these are projects on lombard, 19th avenue, geary. folks are feeling the crunch of the traffic impacts, and i think that's something we continue to focus on with these agencies. we convened m.t.a. and public works on an information item last year about how they're looking at these as a group, not just an individual projects and try to reduce the impacts on individuals and businesses in particular.
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they do get complex, but i -- i am positive that with more concerted effort, we can provide even more advice and perhaps assistance to them as they try to find ways to ease the traveling experience across town. vision zero initiatives, we have our vision zero committee that's been chaired for several years now by commissioner yee, chair yee, and several other commissioners have been participating in the education and the outreach as well as street design efforts. so many projects were developed and approved by the sfmta that were very important and exciting with mayor bleed's support, as well. -- mayor breed's support, as well. our families for safe streets, you know, very bravely had a lot of great activity, they were testifying in sacramento, really trying to press for legislation that we're seeking, such as automated speed
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enforcement and other things that will help improve speed safety on our streets. we do see a troubling overlay in speeding and fatal crashes in the areas of concern so that remains a focus on the vision zero task force. finally, we had another year of clean audits, 15 years in a row. thank you to our deputy for finance and administration, cynthia fong and her finance team. we took a look inward, as well to see how we're doing on our budgeting, on our program management for the prop k program, and we've implemented many of the recommendations and keep you posted on those. our bond program continues to be productive. we have our major cash flow drivers for the funding of the k program with vehicles for m.t.a., but also some critical
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communications programs. we've made off our revolving credit agreement, and going through december 31 have not only hit our bond argumentatives but have strong -- bond targets but have strong l.b.e. and s.b.e.s in contracting opportunities, so with that, i'm happy to thank you all and your staffs for a productive year, and going forward look forward to your continued guidance and support. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, executive director chang. and to new commissioners haney, mar, and walton, that was your t.a. 101. now you know everything you need to know. the one thing that i think all of us are going to have to deal with in the coming year and going forward is impacts to small businesses from these major projects, whether it's the central subway, which we dealt with last year or vanness
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and in the future geary and lombard, it affects all of our districts, and we really have to work with the m.t.a. to come up with some kind of a meaningful real mitigation program because i'm watching these businesses on vanness avenue, and it's not okay. so that's a 2019 project for us. with that, commissioner yee? >> president yee: first of all, thank you -- i want to thank director chang for her report, and i also have a -- probably concerns -- as much concern as chair peskin in regards to small businesses really hurting with these construction projects. i've seen over and over again, even for the few months that it impacted west portal, it had some impact. and i said probably two years ago that we really need to address this issue and to find
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a system where it's not just about the city's response afterwards when everything's completed ten years later and say hey, we're going to promote your corridor now. it's too bad half your businesses are gone. so that's -- that's not the right thing to do, and we need to find some other solution. my -- i have a question in regards to your emerging mobility services and technology, on page 18. as you know, i asked for the creation of a task force to look for emerging technology. that also includes mobility, right? and so i was just wondering how, in your recommendations, if that's going to be consistent with the recommendations that will come out of the emerging technology task force. >> yes.
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thank you for your earlier comment. we stand ready to help, and i think that's a deep concern amongst many community members, business community, public community, and the residents, the disruption that -- the feeling that there is more disruption than is required, and so that's something we can help refine perhaps due to some strategic reports we can do. regarding the emerging mobility work and the task force that he created with the city administrator's office, we participated in that and there's a high degree of overlap and convergence there. the citywide task force on the emerging technology does not just deal with transportation but they utilized some of the work that we had done with m.t.a., thinking about all the different ten goal areas, making sure we are being comprehensive and not
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piecemeal. a large percent of them are in transportation. i think there are some other applications of this policy framework that affect other parts of the city government, but i think city administrator naomi kelly has done a really good job bringing everybody to the table and making sure we're thinking in the broadest division across departments. >> president yee: okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> chair peskin: commissioner fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chair. i just want to echo your concerns about the small businesses and the small businesses along vanness, and also very concerned about what's going to be happening to my neighborhood once the geary b.r.t. construction begins. i hope we've learned some lessons through the vanness b.r.t. construction and hope that we can mitigation some of those issues. >> chair peskin: miss chang, you want to respond?
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>> we're certainly listening, and before we get to the geary, i think we -- i'm sure geary, lombard, and 19 avenue will experience some impacts. geary, the more intense impact would be on the west side, but we have a few years to get ready for that. that's something that public works is aware of, and as we're heading into that environmental approval period, are trying to make sure that we're being thoughtful and using lessons learned and trying to get ready for that fifth through seventh segment of better market street. >> chair peskin: and colleagues, just so you know, i had this conversation with ed reiskin last week. it's just going to be very hard for us, as appropriators whether we're at the board of supervisors or the t.a. to appropriate money for these kinds of projects when there
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isn't sufficient real mitigations. i've lived through it on the central subway, and it's been a nightmare, and i'm living through it now as is commissioner haney and commissioner stefani on vanness avenue. i know mr. ramos is here in the audience from the m.t.a., listening. we've got to get a handle on this or we've got to stop appropriating money and we'll just live with funky vannesses. we've got to get a handle on this in a real way. >> chair peskin: commissioner brown? >> yes, thank you. and i agree that we have to look at other ways of helping them. i'm under siege. i have the other side of vanness, haight-ashbury, inner sunset, and it'll be geary b.r.t. so my district's under siege, and i'm always -- the amount of
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time that we're trying to spend to help them is -- it's overwhemumming. and one of the things with -- i know we've -- have office of economic development going in, saying that there's low interest loans for them, but i think a lot of businesses, when i talk to them, they're like, you want me to take out a loan and have another thing to pay when i'm struggling. they're nervous to do that. we've also gotten project mitigato mitigators out there to help with a construction crew, to take out parking signs when they're not working. but this is overwhelming, and a lot of businesses, a lot of long time businesses like the v vit -- veterinarian business
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who's feeling the impact. she's saying, i'm just not sure if it's worth it. i can't manage it. so i'm really worried about this. i think we have to look at it creatively, and i think the only way we can move forward is actually offering some kind of compensation and put that within the project. thank you. >> chair peskin: hear, hear. commissioner walton? >> thank you. >> chair peskin: is your mic on? >> there you go. sorry about that. if i recall during the super bowl that we were dealing with businesses that were displaced, and your office was able to come up with a way to mitigate the pain and negative consequences for those businesses during that time period, so i'm wondering if there isn't a bigger strategy we can work onto provide mitigation opportunities for
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businesses during construction so we don't have to live with the funky vannesses, etc. or if you want to, you can give all the resources from prop k to the southeast sector of san francisco and we'll figure out a way to mitigation everything. but in all seriousness, you had a plan that did compensate businesses, and i'm wondering if that's something to build off of for the future. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner walton. so there are two instances that i know of. one was the short-term displacement of folks who had city permits in and around the super bowl, and those were street artists that had street artists permits, and those were folks who had d.p.w. permits. they were, like, hot dog sellers and shoe shine folks. and this board of supervisors appropriated funds, and each and every one of them received
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a payment in the amount of, i think, $490, if my memory serves me. and i can offline regale you with how we got to that number. and in a second instance, there were a handful of payments on the 900 and 1000 block of stockton street in relation to the central subway appropriated by the board of supervisors after the projects had gone far beyond what the businesses were originally promised. there have been noncash assistance that has been rendered primarily by the office of economic and workforce development, ranging from technical assistance, facade improvements, a number of other things, but there's
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nothing like an actual cash mitigation payment to alleviate, you know, people's struggles with increasing rents. in the central subway situation, they were able to demonstrate to us reductions by as much as 50% of their revenue on an annual basis. commissioner safai? >> supervisor safai: yeah, just to build on that point, i know the p.u.c., when they've done work -- i worked on a project in viz valley, and they actually built into the project a mitigation fund. as you could see, as businesses could prove based on their previous revenues and gross receipts the impacts to the business, then, they were able to put in requests for some type of mitigation. i think that should be a consideration going forward, as we're scoping these projects, that we build into the price mitigation fund because we've done it in other departments in the city.
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particularly, the geary b.r.t., vanness b.r.t., significant, significant impacts to businesses where people just don't even know if the businesses are open because of the way the barriers have been created, there's not safety for pedestrians. not to mention, parking, if people need parking for whatever access to the business, loading and unloading, all the things that go along with having a successful retail business or small business in this city. so i think we should contemplate for sure building in a mitigation fund as we move forward on these projects, particularly because they're bond funded, and we have the ability to write that in in the scope. >> chair peskin: yeah, and let's be honest. historically, departments have been hesitant to do this because it increases project budgets, whether it's m.t.a., whether it's public works, none of them want to do this. and my response is okay, if
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we're not going to take care of our small businesses, then let's not do these businesses. >> supervisor safai: or -- just to follow up on that point, when we have a scope of work on vanness, and then, within the first two months, a change order request comes in at $21 million because all of a sudden there was -- or you know, $15 million because of the scope of -- it was not analyzed, it was mainly a sewer replacement project at that level -- which is understandable. it's hard to understand what the overall infrastructure is until you open it up, but if they have that ability to weather that type of change order, then, they should have the ability to write into the project -- >> chair peskin: that project is now two years behind schedule. it's one thing, you go to the businesses and say oh, you're going to suffer for this amount of time. and then, central subway, vanness b.r.t., it turns out to be much longer and much more suffering than we told them it
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was going to be. it's unconscionable. miss chang -- >> thank you. i will work with my colleagues and office. >> chair peskin: you can see there are 11 members of this body of the same mind. is there any public comment on this matter? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for the 2018 annual report and to you and your staff for your incredible work. with that, next item, please. >> clerk: motion -- >> chair peskin: we need to adopt the 2018 annual report. my bad. is there a motion to adopt said report? made by supervisor safai, seconded by supervisor yee. we have a different house. roll call, please. >> clerk: on item 11 --
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[roll call] >> clerk: we have first approval. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: item 10, internal accounting report, investment report and debt report for the first six months ending june 30, 2018. this is an information item. >> good morning. cynthia fong, director for finance and administration. we are six months into the fiscal year 18-19 now. total revenues and total expenditures are within budgets for the first six months. total assets for the first six months total to 220.8 million and liabilities at 322.7 million. as you recall, we issued our first sales tax revenue bond back in november 2017, we still remain at 43% spent on
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the bond proceeds. that is a spending of 88.1 million, with a -- with 115.9 million left to spend. >> chair peskin: miss fong, sorry to interrupt you, but didn't you project that you would have spent much more of the revenue bonds by now? >> yes. right now on our books, we have approximately 15 million of incoming sponsor reimbursements we expect in the next quarter, so with that coming in, we'll be closer to our target. >> chair peskin: was that 1-5 or 5-0? >> 5-0. >> chair peskin: so that was represe representing? >> sponsor reimbursements from d.p.w., m.t.a., transbay terminal, a combination of it. mainly from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: and what did the m.t.a. purchase that they didn't bill you for? >> vehicles. >> chair peskin: so has the
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m.t.a. acquired those vehicles and how do they -- they have enough cash to buy them and how does that work? >> so we are on a reimbursement based program. every department must incur the costs before they come to us, where we would use our proceeds to reimburse them. once we receive the sponsor reimbursements, we drawdown on the proceeds with u.s. bank as our trustees. at this point, i am getting indication from m.t.a., but tot total accounts payable i'm expecting from the city and county of san francisco is 15 million, and i know that is -- know the majority of that is from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: okay. i don't think we care, as long as our agency is not dragging our feet. but it does not sound -- we
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have not been billed. >> correct. this agency is not dragging its feet, this agency is paying the money, waiting for reimbursements to come? . we still have a good amount of time to spend the remaining 115.8 million. i don't anticipate at this point that we will not spend those funds. >> chair peskin: miss ramos, if you don't send me the bills, you don't get the money. continue, please. >> thank you. regarding the proceeds, we have 66.5% sitting in the county treasury pool, and that is in compliance with the california government code. this is an information item. i'm more than happy to answer any further questions you may have. >> chair peskin: commissioner walton? >> chair peskin, is it appropriate to ask m.t.a. representatives that they have acquired vehicles that they mentioned? >> chair peskin: mr. ramos -- yes, it's absolutely appropriate, commissioner.
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>> through the chair, responding to the supervisor's inquiry. i wish i could provide some information to that question. i was unprepared. so what i will do is use this trusty device, and hopefully, before the end of the meeting when you're walking out, i can get you an answer. >> yeah. i think the answer, commissioner walton, but we will hear eventually from the m.t.a. is they were short staffed in their accounting department. they bought the l.r.v.s, they had enough cash. they purchased them, and we will reimburse them when they bill us, when they've been slow in billing us. >> that is amazingly great information chair, but i had a conversation with leadership
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m.t.a., and they got me very excited about the fleet that is on the way, so i want to know if they've purchased these vehicles or not. >> chair peskin: so if, they have purchased, and some are still being fabricated, and they will take title ii -- miss la fort, would you like to jump in? press that button. >> yes. commissioner walton, there is a chart in the annual report on page 47 that gives an annual overview where the city is at in procuring vehicles. so you'll see that of the motor coaches, i would say that maybe 75% of the vehicles are already in service of the replacement vehicles. more than half of the trolley buses are in service, and the light rail vehicles, the expansion vehicles are already in service, and they're working to replace the fleet, so yes, these vehicles are in service, we just have not received invoices from the m.t.a.
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so they've gotten the receipt, they've done the testing, and they've put them into testing on the street. >> chair peskin: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. fong, for your work, and that is an information item. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there -- oh, commissioner brown? >> yes, i actually -- i actually was going to the treasure island mobility management, on the minutes -- >> chair peskin: that is actually a separate meeting that will start as soon as this meeting it over. >> oh, thank you. >> chair peskin: yeah. that's weirdly enough, a different agency, with a different chair. >> thank you, chair. >> chair peskin: my pleasure. is there any general public
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comment? >> commissioners, my name is francisco decaosta. i've been monitoring your meetings on the television. what i'm really interested in is what is san francisco county transportation authority doing when it comes to congestion? we can have all this talk about vehicles and whatever else you all waste your time on, but i'm really interested in the increase in the carbon footprint that affects our infants, our children, our youth, those with compromised health. that's what i'm interested in. i'm not interested in the b.s. because as an environmentalist
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and having served san franciscans for over 40 years, i don't see any changes for the good. and i see the turnover on the side of the san francisco county transportation authority, a great turnover. and i don't see any diversity. i don't see any diversity. and when i say diversity, i don't mean one type of diversity, i mean, do you all really represent the constituency, the taxpayers of san francisco? having said that, i see the supervisors are busy having a sidebar, and that tells me something. supervisors, one, to become a supervisor, you must represent. and for the newest supervisors, you can look what's happening around you. when somebody's giving public
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comment, which is sacrosanct, and you're having your public conversations, and you think you're really smart, i can write, and that's the reason why i have my blog. >> chair peskin: is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: and the t.a. is adjourned. [gavel]
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>> good morning, and welcome to the board meeting of the treasure island mobility management agency. if you are wondering why i am sitting here chairing this, i am the current vice chair of this committee, and the former chair was commissioner kim, and she is no longer in our mix anymore, so here we go. i will welcome everyone to the meeting today on tuesday,
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january 29th, 2019 at 1116 a.m., and our clerk today is alberto, i would like to thank s.f. government t.v. for broadcasting this meeting and making the transcripts available to the public. mr clerk, please call rollcall player . [roll call] >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. can you please call item number 2?
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>> item number 2 is chair's report. >> we will forgo the chair report today and wait for the next meeting to see if there is a chair report. is there any public comment on the non-charter report? [laughter] >> i don't see any so public comment is now closed. mr clerk, please call the next item. >> item three is executive director's report. this is an information item. >> thank you so much. i would like to provide a brief update. we refining the total policy affordability program that was resented to the board at the end of 2018 and doing more deep outreach with residents and businesses to help find a way to ease the burden on existing residents and merchants. will be back to you in a couple months time with some more updated proposals in that area. the ferry terminal continues as well. our team will be at the meeting
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on february 7th to provide an update to the board to. this is a water emergency transportation authority, our ferry partners, and along with private partners that we are also discussing potential services with. we are also continuing to do work on the autonomous vehicle shuttle planning and system engineering. the contract was met last year. this was a federally funded grant program that allows us to provide a first last mile distribution folks to and from the neighborhoods back eventually connecting to a.c. transit bus service, munimobile service and water ferry services we are also conducting a lot of outreach and coordination meetings with the bay area toll authority on the bike connection that will be an exciting long-term project to add a bicycle production maintenance path to the island to san francisco, touching down in district six, south of market area, and in the vicinity of essex. in addition to the ramps program
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, that our deputy is working on, pretty much the only connection we are not working on is a gondola, i mean that is a little joke. i mean we can work on those. we have our hands full with transit, ferries, buses, autonomous shuttles, ramps, and the like. we are happy to provide more details at the next meeting. >> okay. commissioner brown? >> okay, now i get to talk about this. for the minutes, before we approve the minutes, i would just like to go in, and i noticed that when we were talking about, and we were to go out back out and do outreach with the residence, a lot of people had mentioned, and i noticed it was not in here, when you do outreach i think it would be really good together, information of how many times
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they leave treasure island, and because i know they were saying gas and food and going to work or school, but there is also people talking about how they came home, and they had to go back out for outside activities for their children, so i think that is just a really good idea is to find out how many times on average do they leave the island a day, because i think that will really guide the conversation of the toll and what they are getting for compensation. >> thank you so much for the reminder, apologies for missing that. we will take that as an amendment to the next item on the minutes. >> any other comments from my colleagues? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? [indiscernible]
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which i called the beos, and all of you who work for the san francisco transportation authority do not feel because your heart has to be in the right place, if you have just come here to b.s., i'm going to do this, i'm going to do that to , then know the developers are rogue developers that we don't trust. when the people say, if they can stay on treasure island, then you know you have to accommodate them, because you are on a fixed income. that is all i'm going to say now but i am watching you all like a hawk, and i can address the issues on some other level. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none -- come on up. >> hello, my name is bobby and i
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live on treasure island. i'm a little late, i didn't get a lot of the foreground of the conversation, but i want to make my way out, give my voice to be heard. i speak for a lot of us. we are having meetings on the island regarding this situation about tolls and more revenues being generated off of the people who already live there. there's a lot of interesting points that are coming up in conversation that i think are valid relative to this, like if developers and people that are actually bringing more life, more units, more retail to treasure island, that really has nothing to do with the people who are already living there like me. i understand that it is congestion management is the goal to impose a fee to people who live on the island, and a
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lot of us go on and off throughout the day, but if we don't have anything to do with causing the congestion or increasing its, then i don't think it is really deserving to impose more money to be spent just to drive on the island to get to our homes if we don't really have anything to do with it, so i'm a pretty fair guy, i'm about people making revenue, and the government generating what they need, but i think it is bad enough with the tolls even just being increased a month ago on the bridge that most people -- everyone has to pay, as far as i know, it is a lot of revenue being generated, and i just don't think the people living on the island should have to be responsible for that, since we are not responsible for the congestion. i wanted to share that.
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>> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. this is an informational item. mr clerk, call item number 4. >> item four is approve the minutes of the december 11th, 2018 meeting. this is an action item. >> okay. is there a motion? >> i would move to approve subject to the amendments made by commissioner brown as articulated by our executive director. >> is there a second? motion made by commissioner peskin and seconded by commissioner ronen. any public comments on this item seeing none, public comment is closed. there is a motion to pass this as amended. any objections?
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i should probably should take rolled -- rollcall. [roll call] >> we have approval. >> okay. let me have item number 5. >> item five is election of chair and vice chair for 2019, this is an action item. >> i will take the chair first and go through the action and then do the vice chair. is there any nominations for the office of the chair?
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commissioner walton? >> thank you. i would like to nominate commissioner haney as the chair of the board. it is in his district, and i believe he wants to take the lead on this. >> okay. is there a second? motion made by commissioner walton and seconded by commissioner stefani. any other nominations for this position? seeing none, haney is nominated and this is a second. are there any public comments on this issue -- item? seeing none, public comment is closed. his are right now there is a motion on the floor, and why don't we just have rollcall?
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>> on the motion to elect commissioner haney as a chair of the timma board for 2019... [roll call] >> we have approval. >> great. the second part of this agenda item is now -- nominations are now in order for the nominations of the vice chair. i see -- are there any nominations? let me have commissioner mandelman. >> i will nominate commissioner walton. >> okay.
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is there a second? seconded by commissioner safai. are there any other nominations? seeing none, nominations are now closed. are there any public comments on this item? >> commissioners, since you have appointed a chair who has been newly elected to represent district six, and treasure island comes under his jurisdiction, and a vice chair, i've been involved for all of 40 years in matters involving base
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closure, and i'm very familiar with treasure island, which is thinking one and a half inches every year, but rather i would request the chair and the vice chair, do not repeat what is happening at hunter's point. treasure island is contaminated, and many people have died living in treasure island, including this city's policy to just dump people in homes without first following our precautionary principles, which most of you have not read, and if you all have read it, shame on y'all, because y'all have not enforced it. basically the precautionary principle states that if any
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project is ongoing and adversely impacts any life, including animals and insects and frogs, the job has to stop, and the investigation has to be done. this has not been done, so the new chair and the new vice chair have their work cut out, and i am here to state it so that it can be recorded. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. is the nomination of commissioner walton to be the vice chair of timma, and rollcall, please. >> on the motion to elect commissioner walton as vice chair for 2019... [roll call]
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as chair and thank you to vice chair walton for stepping up, and to all my colleagues, i appreciate you electing me. we just have two items. item six is introduction of new items. is there any new items from the staff? all right. is there any public comment on this? seeing none. item seven, general public comment. >> commissioners, in san francisco, they own -- there are only two places where we can expand our housing, transportation, and other quality-of-life issues. it is hunter's point and it is
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adjacent to candlestick point and treasure island and it is all connected. if you read the documents, the earlier documents when it came to the area that i mentioned, it would say, treasure island, and then it would say at hunter's point annex. that's how the department of defense entitled these areas. in the year 2,000, when i was at the presidio with a very qualified engineer named jack swanson, we scanned the area that is now called treasure island, and we have critical data on each and every building, it was submitted to the city. at that time the job that is a
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jack swanson's job was funded by the san francisco public utilities commission. now you supervisors, and you from the san francisco county transportation authority have to study the empirical data when it comes to contamination and pollution, and if you know there is contamination and pollution, and people die, then that blood is on the hands if you are guilty. that's all i've got to say. >> any further public comment? all right. meeting is adjourned.
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adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and
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serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on treasure island like minded business owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a no-brainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting small business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand
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as a result more interesting and can't get that of minor or anywhere else and san francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant we'll make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community >> good morning, please welcome san francisco gay men's chorus, performing "singing for our love ." [♪]
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