i do have the chair from the code advisory committee here.y are bothÑi available for >> good morning, commissioners. i am the chair of the code advisory committee. ñrñrthank you for recognizing my colleague. it is terrible thatçó he passed away. he was a really active member of the committee. it is a great loss. i just want to talk a little bit about the philosophy of our committee,c because i think is important. we are in between the regulations and the real world. the expertise our committee members bring is really important. one of the things we work really hard to do is to get interpretations' out of the ether and on paper. %eier and on paper. point about the accr&ity issues, ourydv subcommittee reay is proactive about that. you are absolutely right. we have 15rlv members active in that subcommittee. -@xthey help develop a bulletino clarify and get it out in writing. the processes and the terminations there in the code. we alsoñr have another subcommittee. we have aq structural subcommittee. we have a disability access and green buildin

it then we can talk about the code advisory committee.s commission is a five-person commission that meets twice a month. ñrit is comprised of people from the disabled community as well as the constructionñr industry d a public member. the idea behind that commission, when someone has a dispute about the way the disability somaccess rules are being interpreted, particularly by the department and u) codes, then they have the right through written appeal to this commission to take the case there and have the commission make a ruling on its. $xthat isñr the heart and soulf g>> some issues have come up recently in the business community about lawsuits,ñr isss about permitting and whether it complies with federal standards. and wonder if we can useçó these to help us proactively, rather than reactive lee come up with those kinds of things, --th ratr n -- reactivelyñr , up with those kinds of things. >> 5nhi do not think if there is any rationalÑiñr reason not to e advantage of their expertise. i know that they are addressing those kinds of

we getñr the code advisory notices. all the data can go.visory committee does a really good job with it, subcommittees, too, fhtof inviting people not unnecessarily on the code advisory committee but they are stickle the fed would be affected. that is the process. reach better. but some of it liesúwrth us. that is why we are here. vcñri am a tenant representati. enant community. other people check in with other constituents. some of the outreach is with us. >> if you ever hear of, that needs to be in the loop, ú and i will get in touch with them directly. in general, we have people that are on our contact list that are from almost every group in san francisco that you can think of. çóbeyondó i do not know. do. çócommissioner lee? >> could i make a suggestion? how about sending the agenda is to everyoneu everybody that signsçó up for a notice, keep them on the list. >> 5rçwe do, until the request o be taken;0 off. p]>> okay, great. bthat was the reason for &e%ei world. any other comments? thank you once again for the presentation this mor

the community advisory board is great. they call me at all hours and e- mail me at all times and they let me know what is going on in the district. what they don't know, the advisory board lets me know. robert garcia, a lower not hill, russian hill, and a represent as from a north beach. at the aquatic park, telegraph hill. serving our city, serving our seniors, the partnerships with self-help for the elderly -- everything is giving, the chief serves up meals at the center and for those too physically cannot attend, we drive them, we drive the meals to them. this is done on our own time. we partner with self-help walkathon and i started a new program called monthly lunch with the captain. once a month, we visit a senior center and serve food we talk about the issues relating to senior crime and prevention. beets are a big part of central station to to the high traffic ingestion and the population density and support from the community. we have beets in north beach, chinatown, union square and fisherman's wharf. the embarca

the advisory council? i do not see mr. mercer -- mr.urphy here. >> no, but you do have members of the public who wish to address you. one person. herbert weiner. >> is mr. weiner here? >> i do not see him. >> i do not see mr. murphy year. oh, mr. weiner, here he is. >> in respect to that offensive sign that has been posted on the municipal vehicles, i am really wondering how carefully that was reviewed before it was posted. i think that the mta is so desperate for money they will take it from dubious sources. basically, the 11 south van ness compound and its employees have to start thinking outside of the muni bus. it is unfortunate. basically, maya understanding is that the revenue will go to the -- my understanding is that this revenue will go to the human rights commission. basically, it is blood money. the mta has nothing to gain from this ad. and now you have public protest in a town hall meeting. let's hope this never happens again. the anti-defamation league, the interfaith council, everyone is concerned about this. mr. be a less

. >> up until last week i was a member of the taxi advisory council. there are three things i want to talk about. number one, i'm very glad you're doing all of the planning for the america's cup race. it sounds great. i hope you can forward this information to taxi services, so they can for it to all of the cap companies, so we can direct passengers to use muni in situations where a would be more efficient. the second item is, june 5th, we were told that the taxi advisory council report would be heard in august. is not going to be heard before you take up item 11's legislation. and it is yet another -- yet more evidence of the disdain and this regard with which the taxi advisory council has been held by your board. i do not know if all of you were given our resignation letters, or whether it was strictly director nolan. it should have all been given them, fine. if not, i have copies. the third item, i cannot underline how emotional i feel about this. it is yet another slap. july 4th, you were enforcing the parking meters. [tone] on our independence day

advisory that comes through when it comes to isaac will be a critical advisory. it could become a hurricane so we'll keep you updated throughout the morning. first, let's check your drive. good morning, mike. >> good morning. overnight road work the only thing on the blotter and that's great news. gives me an opportunity to point out palo alto which moves smoothly. and highway 84, the dumbarton bridge, there is the weekend closure all labor day starting friday at 10:00 p.m. until tuesday by 5:00 they should reopen for the commute. live look at the san mateo bridge, one of your alternates to 84, the other is 237, that's the land route. it's cheaper too. >> 4:32. bay area drivers who received a ticket from a red light camera may be able to fight them like never before. new legislation passed changes the rules for red light cameras across the state and its drivers who will benefit. live in fremont we have a look at what it means for commuters. arturo, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the idea behind this bill is to make sure these red light cameras are used

fog advisory to the west and to the north. that is a dense fog advisory. visibilities in spots, front royal, win chester, quarter mile or less. if you are driving in from the west, just be ready for the potential for some fog out there. a combination of the rains that we had around here this weekend and some cooler overnight temperatures leading to that fog. so dense fog advisory kris ozten until 10:00 this morning. don't have it here in town but we do have a few spots with locally dense fog as well a little closer to downup to washington. temperature right now in washington. 72degrees. overnight falling back into the low 70s. the 60s here north and west -- so dense fog advisory continues until 10:00 this morning. lots of humidity out there and, of course, we are still dealing with left overrain showers. the weekend rain that -- leftover rain showers. that weekend rain we had around here, that area of low pressure being very slowly pushed off to the east. you will be dealing with those for a few more hours. we'll get those out of here. eventually some clea

i am former vice president of the taxi advisory council.going to town hall meetings and missing work and discussing medallions and how the new plan would possibly affect drivers and the jillian holders and then all the sudden before our report and recommendations are sent to the board, you guys come up with is already written out ready to be voted on plan that has nothing to do with what we have talked about were considered things we talked about. it does regards drivers to put their lives into the industry, who have adjusted their lives because they're on the medallion waiting list and they expect to get a medallion up till two years ago. they have been waiting up to 19 years waiting to get their medallion. maybe they have given up other careers like i did to get my medallion. medallion holders who want to get out of the industry now, they're offered less money and the mta wants to sell the permits for twice as much. i just think that this whole thing has been a facade and you need to listen to some of these concerns and not just look at m

the fog advisory on the golden gate bridge this morning.we had reduced visibility this morning @ needed since the scope. that oversight paving work. it could find some slowing later on in the morning to you. that traffic. back to you guys. >>> a new twist in the doping scandal. it's associated with the giants all-star. he purchased a website for $10,000 an attempt to create evidence that might exonerate him from taking performance enhancing drugs. this is to try to alter the website and bush and make it appear that the positive test for testosterone was result of eccentric taking something he ordered off the site. it did not work. he was the suspended for the rest of the regular-season. >>> the little league baseball players from petaluma are filling some big league pressure. they're facing elimination an initial check the ship tournament. and once again hundreds at the boulevard cinema. the allow help the nets for the illegal series game was shown on two screens. it is live from pennsylvania. and it lost to tennessee but is still hope. >>>

recommend appointment of two members to the citizens advisory committee.n action item. >> planner with the authority. this item begins on page 41 of your package. each member of the cac serves a year-long term. plans and programs committee recommends and the authority board appoints members. the other staff nor the cac make some recommendations on appointments appeared on page 44 of your packet, you can see the folks that have submitted applications to be submitted for positions on the city's advisory committee. on page 43, a listing of some information regarding current committee members. to qualify for apartment to the cac, you have to be a san francisco resident and appear at least once before this committee to speak to your interest and qualifications. we currently have two vacancies on the committee. vacancies have resulted from the -- vacancies of conrad wu and brian larkin. i understand mr. larkin is seeking reappointment. with that, we can take any questions. commissioner avalos: are any of the candidates here? mr. larkin? commissioner farrell: giv

it was mentioned that the item before you requests approval to establish a citizens advisory committeethe proposed project on piers 30, 32, and seawall lot 330. on july 31, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution urging the port commission to form a citizens advisory committee. supervisor kim carried that resolution and is interested to see what we do. excuse me, to see that we do a thorough job obtaining feedback from the local community, and so this item today requests that the former ceo with up to 16 members and up to eight alternates. establishing a forum for community input which is exactly what is envisioned in the waterfront land use plan gender 5, which discusses implementation of the waterfront plan envisions the projects of this scope will go through a cac process to make sure that we're getting robust feedback from the community as we develop projects of this type. and that there is a good community consensus before staff comes back to the commission to seek your approval on a project. we have always found that projects improved as a result of this project, as you kno

we do have a dense fog advisory to the west of us. we will looked at in a second. futurecast is not so bad. sunshine, clouds increasing a little through the overnight. sunshine early tomorrow morning front that a cold will arrive late afternoon into evening and neighboring to ther thunderstorms mid-atlantic. advisory in the shenandoah valley until 8:00 .his morning nothing for the immediate metro, lots of sunshine. 86-91 degrees. clouds increasing tonight, mid low 70's. afternoon thunderstorms likely tomorrow, 87-92. a cooler weekend ahead with temperatures in the low 80s saturday and sunday. f sunshine monday through wednesday. the best be today of the weekend day.ay -- beach >> metro rail has great service this morning. everything normal. on the red line, an report anded to nothing systemwide. marc rail, vre, normal. a picture of 270 here, travel s working in your favor. out of fredericksburg, a the centerboard parkway, allow extra time of a pickup truck that turned over. a quick break. more after this. a quick break. more after this. we need to look for a new va

committee and the bicycle advisory committee?> for pedestrian, i believe that is in september. and also the bicycle advisory will also probably be in early september. supervisor kim: could you give us the dates? >> yes. >> it has been a long meeting, but the agenda and complement each other. i wantedm" created this as a block grant, there were a lot of strings attached. one of the bonuses is it gives you the flexibility to decide what you want to fund with these projects. the policies and prioritization criteria are up on our website. but if you have a particular type of project that you want to fund, please let us know or let your offices know. the time to do that is now. it could fit in obag or could be prop k or prop aa, it is all the same to us. we have got to get that out. supervisor avalos: thank you. ok, thank you for your presentation. we can open it up for public comment. any member of the public? seeing none, we will close public comment. this is an information item, so we can go on and to our next item. >> item 12, int

i'm on the citizens' advisory committee. on the third street light rail, i'm on the citizens' advisory group representing the transportation authority and when this item was brought before our committee, i voted to have this move forward. i did the same thing last week at the plans and programs committee. i have been working on this since the very beginning. i vote -- i would like to have to approve this item. supervisor campos: thank you for your good work. is there any member of the public to it like to speak on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this same house, same call. the item passes. item #9. >> allocate $210,000 with conditions to the san francisco and sensible transportation agency. supervisor campos: is there any member of the public to like to speak on this item? supervisor campos: can we take this same house, same call. the item passes. item number 10. >> approve the prop delay strategic plan policy and priority criteria. this is an action item. supervisor campos: any member of the public

as we look off towards the west, in virginia, a dense fog advisory, and that's in effect until 10:00 lots going on this morning. take it easy as you head out and about on the roadways. a few showers lingering across the eastern shore. hence, the flood warning across talbot county. tropical tracker, tracking tropical storm isaac. winds sustained at 65 miles per hour, moving to the west northwest at 12 miles per hour. the next advisory we will be in as we head in to the 8:00 time frame, going to give you updates then. this will begin to make landfall around the morning time, on wednesday. we are hoping that new orleans is not in this but you can see that path has new orleans in it. as we check out the future trend for today. scattered showers and storms will persist in to the afternoon, that means you need too take the umbrella with you as you head out and about. kids heading back to school, a wet one, more of the same in to tuesday as the cold front gets closer. high pressure will build in nicely in to wednesday, a check of the forecast for you. we will get humid today, lunchtime temp

there is your latest advisory again, new advisory coming out, at 11:00, sometimes we get it early and as soon as it comes out we are going to air, because every moment is crucial as this storm is going to travel across very warm gulf waters, and i think we are possibly going to see another shift at 11 o'clock and this will include more of the new orleans area, unfortunately. so as we go further out in time, tampa, you will still feel tropical storm force condition and could see storm surge and will see tornado watches, et cetera, et cetera, but this is the area i'm really concerned with as we head into tuesday and wednesday. category-2, but that is a strong 2. 105 miles per hour and the national hurricane center has language saying it could be a major hurricane and, again, 11 o'clock will tell us a lot. it is hard to show you these tropical storm models because, you know, it is all kind of pointing to the attention of new orleans. but, it is time to start thinking of your plan. if the storm goes west of new orleans, the worst of the storm surge, the worst of the water, is going to go

advisory on isaac. right now here's monika, with timesaver traffic. >> reporter: all lanes are open into fairfax and the beltway and all the way to the roosevelt bridge as well. i'll be back with more at 5:19. >>> something called the women are watching bus tour has launched. it came on women's equality day. the big pink bus has a slogan that says women are watching and voting. it is going to make its way from arlington, virginia to richmond and later in ohio. the mission is to make sure women vote in the november election. >> the importance of this election to women's health is really the message today. that women need to make sure they are informed and are voting this november. >> got has no place in our bedrooms and certainly no place inside a woman's body. >>> mitt rney and other conservatives are on record as opposing public money for planned parenthood because abortion is performed as one of the services of the clinic. >>> find out why samsung is going to have to write a really big check after a c

item e, the parent advisory report, pac. >> my name is -- i am a member of the parent advisory council. as you know, we do not meet during the summer, so we have not had any regular meetings, but some members have had an opportunity to do a few things over the summer, and i would just briefly report on what we have been doing over the summer. one of the things we had the opportunity to do was have a meeting with claudia anderson and another to talk about the upcoming year and how we might be involved more in restorative practices, which is something that we were delving into last year and have a great interest in as a pac, so lovely, we will be able to work with them and find ways to engage parents with everett's for restorative practices. we also hope to continue having discussions in the coming year and already have two schools to have expressed interest in having as, , so hopefully we will do that this year, going out and getting back on how to restore to practices, and giving information, and we also were really honored to be asked to be involved this year in facilitating some rest

the golden gate music conkers advisory committee. -- concourse advisory committee. former curator of the deyoung museum. can you imagine? this is fantastic. the academy scientists who work during the early design phase of this installation included [inaudible] carol tang, brian fisher, jack dunn blocker, [inaudible] i also want to acknowledge my predecessor who played such a seminal role in the design of the academy. he is now at the university of colorado. the director of the exhibit development who insured that the installation went off without a hitch just as he ensured that the entire academy moved to howard street and then moved back without one lost fish. of course, the arts commission in the city of san francisco. it is my pleasure to introduce this senior adviser to mayor gabonese som - -gavin newsom. >> i am here representing the mayor. he is anticipating the birth of his child which should come to any minute now. on behalf of the mayor, welcome to this dedication of the sculpture. the mayor early in his career realize the transforming power of public arts.

was it that the code advisory committee? >> it was discussed at the subcommittee. >> i thought i might add one more thing about legislation since there were a number of items today that do not technically come before the bic. there were a lot of changes that affected the planning department and planning commission but they had no direct say over it. there was a move to move with the president and board of supervisors to create a rule of the board of supervisors will book that says that there will be legislation in amending the administrative code that will affect the planning commission are planning department, the board can't act on it for 30 days in order to give the planning commission an opportunity to comment on it. it might be something you would want to consider, something similar like that and see if the board president was willing to put forward a similar thing in the rulebook for the board. >> thank you. that is something i would like to have further discussion on. >> this is something we could put on a future agen

this project -- co-gtjx4uechair of r planning advisory committee. >> thank you.e're going to be celebrating this year the 40th birthday ggnra. i can tell you something about its early time. that is right, this started with 12.5 acres. it is now 80,000 acres in three counties. it runs all the way almost to the top of the marin county to the middle of san mateo county. the whole idea was to take this fantastic coast and the injury of the golden gatev a national park, because that is what it deserved to be. what is so wonderful about this project, and i feel i have been privileged to work on it, as been that it is not just a matter of connecting the coast line and the environment, but really connecting this part of our park to the city itself, making it possible so that people will be able to enjoy this place746 it needs real politician or improvement will be improved upon, and where it needs being simply retained and kept because of everything, from the threat of climate change to changes in our society, that this will happen and can happen in good form as a result

there will be a follow-up meeting at the code advisory fá .on what they are looking for. i am told somebody will be attending. in general, we do try to let members of the staff know, if there is a legislative item on6[ the opposing, so the code advisory committee has a good idea of what they are looking for, why the legislation8(Ñ9añ s coming forward. relatedñr to that, there is an ordinance dealing with on site water reuse. this is kind of modeled on what the new puc headquarters building is able to do. right now this is a voluntary programg to this. the san francisco public utilities commission is providing two rather large buildings to come online to do this kind of on site reuse. the proposed fees .%on this are very high. i know the acting director have expressed concerns on that. we have asked fh supervisor chu toy)ó try to geta clearer definition of what this would entail. it would include annual fees that would amount to'rñ $1,500 t for the puc to review certain reports. ñrwe are expecting some sticker stock -- shock reaction, if in fa

that is where the shelter in place and health advisories are. we have had viewers calling in saying they have seen and smelled the smoke. so we are talking more than 100,000 people directly impacted and probably couple hundred thousand when consider how many people are telling us they are smelling and when it was light out seeing this smoke. >> thank you, grant. let's go back to james and get another update on the weather. >> winds still not a factor. the lack of winds are causing a problem for folks out there because it is not dispersing the smoke. richmond we have winds clocked at 2 miles per hour from the north and so the winds are swirling around here at the surface. it is higher up, almost a thousand feet up where we are seeing a predominant wind movement. that is why folks are smelling it. the winds, too, at that point start to move south towards alamo. the winds could be carrying the smoke in that direction. if you smell something in the air, that may be the reason why. we won't see it till sun rise tomorrow and that won't happen till 6:1