dpt snatches up parking spaces. you have restored some of them. >> sorry this is for items discussed by mr. ruskin as part of his directors report. >> bethlehem addressing, the problem of parking. it also brings less revenue to the city. >> there will be no report, item 9, public comment an opportunity for members of the public to address the board within the jurisdiction of the board of directors but not of today's calendar. we will start with benjamin [indiscernible] >> good afternoon sir. >> my name is benjamin [indiscernible] i would like to say, as a cyclist in san francisco i am excited to see the handout with new bike lanes. as a taxi driver that will impact my commute to work. it can be a a harrowing ride for me. c not on the agenda today but was on the agenda at the last meeting were 200 taxi medallions issued directly to companies. i would like to mention that there have been really shockwaves that have gone out throughout the industry by this decision. when the current program for sales was initiated, the

eastbound on fulton, another taxicabs was dropping off passengers for outside lands and there was a dptcer riding down the license plate as if he was going to offer -- issue a ticket. the taxi driver was oblivious to the fact he was being issued a ticket. çói wish this would stop. it was not a police officer who was issuing the ticket. my assumption is that it was not a moving violation. the cab driver was being cited simply for dropping off on fulton street to outside lands. my request is that when it comes to things like this is especially for the big events where they do need public transit service that there would be better coordination between bus service, dpt, and taxicabs. i asked if we could start thinking about other things besides medallions and maybe some of the things we think about is when it comes to event planning and how to service these large events that we can include the taxicab industry representatives including drivers to help coordinate the sorts of things and please stop punishing cabdrivers just because they're providing transit services. thank you. >> next speak

we have heard this routinely from dpt and police officers. taking away people's vehicles. we are not taking away people's vehicles, but a measure for the mta to regulate parking, to indicate in some areas that you wouldn't be able to park -"d" overnight. one person talked about having a piece of legislation that is enforceable and this is one that i think is on forcible. enforceable. this is one that is actually quite easy to enforce and it's something that we would be able to move forward. somebody talks about designation areas for larger vehicles and i absolutely understand that and that is precisely the reason why we did not say this was a ban outright on the entire city of all spaces. this is simply allowing the mta to choose certain locations that have had chronic problems to enforce an oversized vehicle issue. we're not saying citywide this would be a restriction on oversized vehicle parking. so i think that is a very measured approach and we purposely did that because we could anticipate some concerns that folks had. so those with visitors from out of town and know

we have all as part of your group made calls to dpt and the police department. i'm in favor of designated areas if some places could be designated. that would be my suggestion. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, my name is celia and i'm the building manager at 111 rhode island in the san francisco design district. we're a light industrial area. so we have kind of similar issues in terms of you expressing it very well. our issue is that we at night-time pretty much it clears out. the businesses, workers, customers go home. so we are particularly vulnerable to having large groups of people in vehicles taking up a lot of our street space for our workers and our customers. so it's very difficult for our small businesses. we are all small businesss in that area to make a go of it. so we have worked actually very closely with officer lavin and the sfmta to clear up some parking for our area. as i left on my way here, there is one bus-sized suv that has been there for over a week. the tires are marked and there is some effort to get it moved. i don

that's vague or false or misleading to me, and my request is to set aside this permit for removal as dpt is not responsive as to limb failures, requestors or sidewalk access, none of which they seem -- they have been able and my humble upon to uphold and provide, and that's all, thank you. >> thank you. >> ms. short? >> good evening, commissioner, carla short, department of public works, bureau of urban forestry. the tree removal was initiated by the department, although we did receive a number of requests since 2008 from the community to remove the tree. since 2008, we have inspected the tree a number of times and we have always been of the opinion that the tree was in sufficiently good condition to warrant monitoring it rather than removal. we did receive a request in january of 2012 after the tree had lost another limb to reinspektd the tree and afterthat inspection, we determined that at this point in time because of the pattern of limb failure and is because of the sidewalk damage and the narrowness of the sidewalk which makes it difficult to repair the sidewalk without having to re

someone notices that a car is parked more than 72-hours and it takes a period of time before the mta or dptand when they finally go out there the 72-hour clock begins of so it's been a very ineffective way to regulate. so we're looking for a way to create a more flexible tool for the mta to manage parking in a better way. this legislation is aimed at oversized vehicles and to that end we did want to indicate we did meet with many people about this issue. we met with the homeless coalition and i understand that they are not supportive of the legislation and that letter has been provided to the committee as well. however, we did want to help to ameliorate some of the issues that came up. we did meet with some folks from hope, bevan dufty and others was the fact that many of the vehicular people are reluctant to surrender their vehicles for case management. one thing we have been working on with bevan is finding a location to store vehicles should people accept services and try to move into a different housing situation. we're working towards trying to finalize something that could work and be

major al dpts bers assists with one of the other firefighters who also fell into the freezing water. mir there are no serious injuries. >> it was a group effort. georgetown first responders transform luck from this bad day into em prosmts to improved swift water rescues. the hope is they'll be able to rely less on luck and more on preparedness. >> we learned a lot from the '95 event to where we're not wearing our turnout gear and we're wearing life vests and we have a swift water team that is on stand by for us. >> they'll be ready if the creek ever decides to rage again. coming up, one kentucky driver finds out that sliding across cloth seats on a cold night can be hazardous. >> it was like an eight-foot flame shooting out of the vehicle. >> when "caught on camera: very bad day" continues. that's why we're supplying natural gas to generate cleaner electricity... that has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. and it's also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing ethanol - a biofuel made from renewable sugarcane. >>a minute, mom! let's broaden the world's energy mix. l

part of what we call the dpt. you know, we've been having an on going outbreak in the country of whooping cough. >> there are programs that can come to the hel department in baltimore city if they can't get it through their pediatrician? >> absolutely. absolutely. we all recommend go to their pediatrician first. but if it's more convenient they can call 311 for the clinic nearest them and we will immunize them free of charge. >> excellent. that's good to know. one of the more pressing issues in this city continues to be access to healthy foods. we would get kids on the right path for healthy living and lifestyle. what are some of the new programs that you have in place to help families with that? >> there are a lot of great things going on in baltimore in terms of food access. one of the programs that we have are virtual supermarket program is nationally recognized as an innovative program that helps increase access for individuals who may be living in what we call food deserts. so it takes more than a certain amo

did not cross an ocean, settle a continent, do hard, back-breaking work so their children and grand dptshe united states of america is the greatest job generating, opportunity expanding country every created by a free people in the history of civilization and she still is. let us not be the first generation of americans to give our children a country of less. let us return to the urgent work of creating more jobs, more security and more opportunity for our people and together, let us move forward, not back, by re-electing barack obama, president of the united states. god bless you all. >> one of the many governors we heard tonight going directly after mitt romney's record. we're waiting for the keynote speaker along with michelle obama's speech. already there's a lot of fact checkers pointing out unemployment under governor romney did drop. >> i think both campaigns seem to be taking a few liberties. but there's this backwards focus on both campaigns. it's like two guys trying to make the other guy lose and nobody is trying to win this race. somebody needs to step up and be moses and say

the dpt that to get on the right side of history when millions of people were taking to the streets to demand the same freedom that we enjoy. had we not supported this, a couple of somethings would have happened. wouldn't have worked. we couldn't have kept mubarak in power whether we wanted to nor. the revolution would have taken a couple of months longer and would have been more bloody. -- which the episode discussed in "the new york times" piece you cited in the jeffrey fieldman. the alternative it would have worked. it would have more violent and the government that emerged on the back end would be more antiamerican. the obama administration and the president in particular understood the importance of getting on the right side of history in places like tunisia and egypt. >> that are pretty much -- [inaudible] that snare you just described. >> let's get back to the syria situation. remember i said at beginning there's a core set of principles you have to look at every country on the own terms as well. and syria is a little bit different. i think the broader issue, john, this is a reg

next item, dpt friday hearings. i was at two of them and asked for written procedures and guidelines for how the hearings work. i was given some documents. there is no complete set of procedures of what people can expect. i suggest that be developed. over the weekend i was at embarcadero. there was a new map on the platform that reflects service changes that have not been approved, that have not been cleared environmentally. i question that. i wonder if that is confusing to the public and somewhat disingenuous. suggestion changes that not happen. finally muni signs at three locations. all of which are high-traffic locations. it would be great if we can get muni signs at those shelter locations. >> i am a child advocate on pedestrian safety advisory, and one of the things i am advocating is the bicycle ambassador program. i have addressed this to cheryl in other meetings and we have talked about this, and in the pedestrian safety task force meeting. i am looking at the rules of the road that the bicycle coalition put