eaken present. heinicke present. hsu present. torres present. director rubke will not be at today's meeting. item 3, please be advised that the ringing of electronic dev e devices are prohibited. anybody who is responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. item 4, approval of the minutes. >> any public comment on the minutes? no, seeing none, public comment closed. motion to approve? all in favor aye. any opposed? hearing none, minutes are aprv proved -- approved. >> item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> chair brinkman: right into the election of officers. nomination for chair. >> i would like to nominate malcolm heinicke. any other nominations? hearing none, we'll go to public comment on the nomination of malcolm heinicke as chair. any public comment? seeing none, public item is closed. all in favor? congratulations! i'll just say, malcolm, i know you're going to be a fantastic chair. i'm sure you all realize malcolm is the longest serving director on this board. so he has fantastic experience a

. >> i think all of us have had this training before except for director eaken and that completes our 2019 training on this which is great and if we have bond offering we'll ask you back to give a refresher. directors are there any questions? okay, seeing none we'll move on to the closed session? >> item 14, yes, the discussion to invoke future and client privilege and conduct a closed session. >> very good. i will ask for a five-minute biobreak for the board as i hear rumbling as needed and before you do that, i will entertain a motion to go into closed session. >> all those in favor, please say aye. opposed? okay. we'll be back in five minutes and i'll ask directors to use . >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay, 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emissio

. >> i think all of us have had this training before except for director eaken and that completes our 2019 training on this which is great and if we have bond offering we'll ask you back to give a refresher. directors are there any questions? okay, seeing none we'll move on to the closed session? >> item 14, yes, the discussion to invoke future and client privilege and conduct a closed session. >> very good. i will ask for a five-minute biobreak for the board as i hear rumbling as needed and before you do that, i will entertain a motion to go into closed session. >> all those in favor, please say aye. opposed? okay. we'll be back in five minutes >> good afternoon everyone. this meet willing come to order. welcome to the january 14, 2019 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee. my name is supervisor ahsha safai chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor aaron peskin and matt haney. today is our clerk. our clerk is erica major. i like to thank from sfgov tv. madam any announcements? >> clerk: please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted

eaken present. heinicke present. hsu present. torres present. director rubke will not be at today's meeting. item 3, please be advised that the ringing of electronic dev e devices are prohibited. anybody who is responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. item 4, approval of the minutes. >> any public comment on the minutes? no, seeing none, public comment closed. motion to approve? all in favor aye. any opposed? hearing none, minutes are aprv

eaken present. heinicke present. hsu present. torres present. director rubke will not be at today's

direct director eaken. >> thank you for the thoughtful approach. you mentioned replacing the trains and addressing the control system. i wonder if there's any data on the performance of the new light rail systems and the hypothesis the newer vehicles will have few fewer breakdowns by data collected and want you to talk more about the concern of not switching over to an automated concern system and is the matter of replacing the control system is it a matter of cost and is there budget identified to make those replacements? >> yes, i don't have specific data on the new trains but we're seeing them increasingly improve in their performance. we did have some challenges early on getting the train control systems to communicate consistently and effectively with the new trains and in some cases it's led to an information break which flattened the wheels and took the train out of service but we've been working on software upgrades with the manufacturer of the train control system to address those. i believe we're trending in the right direction and ultima

eaken present. heinicke present. hsu present. torres present.tor rubke will not be at today's meeting. item 3, please be advised that the ringing of electronic dev e devices are prohibited. anybody who is responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. item 4,

the surgery -- the gauge as weekend w --eakened.hey are concerned about the trade war and business as slowing down -- business investment is slowing down. these are pushing us in the other direction. everything else in the economy is good, yes. the tax cuts definitely helped companies spurring investment, helped with buybacks and reinvesting in themselves. it did help with some companies looking for more work. they could potentially have more money to play with but on a whole, the trade war is still looming for 2019. it is something the fed is keeping in mind when raising interest rates and dealing with inflation. the jobs numbers were robust for the month, but it is just one month of data versus a mountain of data in another direction starting to pile up. host: average hourly earnings increased 3.2% from the year before. does that mean people are seeing more money in their paychecks or the new jobs are paying more than old jobs do? guest: that is a good question, and it is both. i am happy that you mentioned new jobs are paying mor