in 2003, the authority authorized execution of the contract for an amount not to exceed $5 million tovices related to monitoring the navies of environmental remediation activities at treasure island. the contract has been amended nine times and currently has a budget of $1,799,000. the contract consists of both oversight of the navy's remediation program as well as the -- as well as assisting the authority and property negotiations with the navy. this is an increase of $238,400 from the previously authorized amount. amec geomatrix is expected to work on items related to oversight of the navy's remediation program at a cost of approximately $20,000 per month. the contract will continue to be paid on time and materials basis and turmoil be extended through june 30, 2013. the budget analysts has recommended approval and pointed out in the report that the contract was previously governed by titlist purchasing. in january 2012, the board of supervisors rescinded titus as a development agency and they're bringing it back into compliance with the city purchasing policy. we're asking this com

i'm not a best selling author.laughter] i guess they all have been academic and they don't sell many copies, they don't generate much income. so, whenever you are dealing with issues are to oral literature or any kind of writing, there are two basic interests you have to consider. one is the incentives of people to create the art, literature and so on, and that of course is what space stress is interesting to the other is distribution of these works and the access of people to these works, and its distribution and access that has been revolutionized by computers and in that revolution, which i think is a tremendous, tremendously good thing but it does have negative implications for some creativity i think it is a scandal myself that the google has been frustrated in its efforts to digitize all work store published. they ought to be all digitized and accessible to everyone in the world. otherwise you're just withholding people their access to the great body of human fraud. digital distribution is more efficient than

that is a separate issue that the housing authority should address. i am not familiar with what they do. they used to have a separate #. i do not know if they use that or 311. that is not something within the purview of the department of building inspection. i also want to make known that we have a housing rights commission, one of our vendors who works with individual that live in housing authority properties with respect to out reach and to assist to make sure items are corrected. unfortunately, sarah was here but she had to leave. she is the director of the organization. it is my understanding that we have some entities that intersect with her and that we do have some things under the con fines of dbi. i understand that he addresses some of these issues as well. this has been a successful program. as you can see, we have been getting very quick response from the housing authority. a lot of times, we are getting complaints from individuals who tell us one of the reasons for contacting us is that they want to use our documentation for purposes of per

authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing revenue note in the amount not to exceed $20 million for the purpose of providing financing for residential rental projects. located at 140 kashmir street. president chiu: same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> approving the contract mod between the city and tenderloin and click to provide housing. in addition of the mayfair hotel. in an amount of $91 million. president chiu: same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant for 5 harter 45,000 to participate in a program entitled interim -- implementing new directions in hiv. president chiu: same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> authorizing the department of public health to retroactively accept and expend a grant in two ordered $98,000 to participate in a program entitled, addressing some dexter program collaboration and services integration. president chiu: without objection, same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. >> from the budget and financ

welcome to the transportation authority meeting of july 24, 2012. i'm the chair the authority. the clerk of the authority is erica cheng. we would like to thank the sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. if you could take roll-call. >> [roll-call] >> we have a quorum. >> if you could please call item no. 2. >> is there any member of the public who would like to speak on item number two? can we take roll-call? >> [a roll-call] the item passes. supervisor campos: please call item no. 3. >> the shares report. this is an information item. supervisor campos: as many of you are aware, last week, our governor, jerry brown was in town for the bill that green light the high-speed rail program. for those of you who have been following this matter, it was a very close vote and in the end, the different parties were able to reach a compromise that brought enough consensus to have enough votes to pass this very important piece of legislation. i was unable to be at the signing ceremony but i want to thank the executive director for representing the authority and i want to recognize comm

and programs committee of the transportation authority. i am john amylose, the chair of the committee. other commissioners will be joining our shortly. commissioner jane kim, christina olague. the clerk of the committee is erica chang. i want to call out on the folks on sfgtv broadcasting. please share with us any announcements. >> there are no announcements. commissioner avalos: item to police. >> item 2. approve the minutes of the june 19, 2012 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner avalos: any questions or comments? public comment. two minutes. seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve? motions farrell, seconded by commissioner cohen. without objection. next item, item #3. >> item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> good morning. today's agenda has three items that were viewed last month by the cac. item six, the discussion will focus mostly on the allocation of the funds of the port, demolition of pier 1 and 2. the cac, that is why the items are being considered prio

they are operated on by the housing authority. there will be more than 267 units built, but there will be 267 units that will be public housing replacement units. if it is something from the agency, i can't speak to it because i probably haven't seen it. and it might be that the agency has units and their including in the portfolio that are not specifically for extremely low income populations. but all of the units of the housing authority is serving the income base. they are not market rate units. the development requires a one- for-one replacement. >> i just want to quickly answe r -- yes, i met with mr. robinson and i have agreed to meet with him

what is our platform as an author? meaning, what is your ability to get on nbc, and as nbc, the cable channels. what are your opportunities to your own network to promote your work. now, the other, you know, simultaneous trend as we all know, was the device of -- demise of review media. how many republications, tabloid's standalone review sections. now there is one. so there are all these changes. really, this is what i call the second great revolution. and coming in the middle of the second great revolution was this thing called the e book revolution. so i think we're actually at the beginning of something new and different, which we are all grappling with the reader of trying to get our hands around, and we are all -- very few people have a handle on what is coming next. but at this moment, at this moment it is a very, very good time if you have a platform, if you have a great book could yet, if you can overcome the barriers to entry that publishes a throwing out the books are selling very, very well. the success is

program and authorize the terms and conditions. supervisor campos: this is an item that came before the finance committee. any comments or questions or presentations from staff? why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public would like to speak on item number five? seeing none, public comment is closed. we can take a roll call on item five. >> [roll-call] the item passes. >> the item is approved. could we please call item no. 6? >> approve the fiscal year 2012-2013 transportation fund for the clean air program of projects and authorize the executive director to execute a contract to the bay area quality management district. supervisor campos: this is an item that came before the committee which is chaired by commissioner avalos. why don't we open it up to public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this same house, same call. the item passes item number seven. >> allocate $1.3 million in proposition k funds and amend the relevance by-your prioritization programs. supervisor campo

it lives the high speed rail authority into a modern era. finally, the one i have been working most directly on was for the connectivity funding, which is the path that provides the funding for in this case central subway project. earlier in the year i did not see a pathway to getting that done as a stand-alone basis, but i think the operators and related entities in the state were looking at connectivity with the department of finance. this is the time to make those investments. consequently, we had a series of meetings with finance and the cpc to get them to a place where they accepted the updated program and put the money in the budget. with that, i will draw to a close. commissioner wiener: colleagues, are there any questions? commissioner elsbernd: what does that pot of money due for caltrain and electrification? how far down the path does that get us? >> i have heard conflicting reports that there was 700 million, but i have heard $600 million. the characterization i heard fully funding the electrification of the 700 level, so i do not

i have not had time to speak to the author of the legislation on it. i do have 11 copies for colleagues to look at. it does send this item back to the planning commission and for that reason, i thought it might be better to continue this issue rather than send it back to planning. supervisor wiener: i have not seen any proposed amendment. i have been hearing rumors of amendment. i have not seen any. this has been back and forth to planning several times. i do not support sending this back to the planning commission again. if anyone wants to do drilling legislation around monitoring, that is appropriate. in terms of the monitoring, i do not agree that is something that needs to happen so quickly that it needs to go back to the planning commission i think for the third time. i do have a concern about sending it back. to planning. supervisor farrell: my question is to the maker of the motion. is there reason why we could not vote on this now? it has been back and forth to planning and then do this later. we have to bundle it together. supervisor kim: this

>> can the commission take into account the suspending authorities conduct? lpor the removed official -- >> in other words, let's assume in the case of public official, it's an act that would constitute official misconduct, and between the time he commit the act or she commits an act and when the mayor exercises his discretion, can he take into account what happened in between in regard to that public officials conduct relating to the investigation for example? >> i believe the mayor can take into account. he or she can exercise discretion. the question is, is the discretion reasonable? the mayor can take into account any kind of conduct. the question is, was it reasonable or is it reasonable to suspend an elected official for the alleged misconduct? whether it was that misconduct that occurred in one point in time or how the accused official dealt with that afterwards. >> i would appreciate your explaining what you think our role and what the ethics committee responsibility is. some of what i am hearing sounds like this palawan's -- belongs in a court of cer

younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job

the new terminal is expected to be built by the transit authority's project which is currently being studied and hopefully will eventually serve commuters from richmond and berkeley via the bay. the downtown ferry terminal america's cup and the cmz+b$/m link electronics, inc. model number: pdr-885 software version: 3.0c ++ will e undertaken from the water side, so there should be little impact to the pedestrian walkway or the viewing areas there, although the motorcycle parking area will need to be closed. the area will be protected on the waterside with a debris boom, so there should be no impact to fairies are other vessels that tried to traverse the bay during the project -- or other ferries. next is the announcement that i think everybody knows, the san francisco giants will host the semifinal and the final of the 2013 world baseball classic at at&t park on march of 2013. that will be a big kick off to a big year for us. the giants will be hosting this event. following that, we will celebrate the port's 150th anniversary. it will roll into the america's cup defense. bay bridge wi

i am here representing the san francisco housing authority. our executive director, henry alvarez couldn't be here, but he wanted me to let you know about the number of contracts and opportunities we have at the authority for contracting. i will start with the larger projects and end with the smaller ones. we have a number of development contracts, two of which are under way for two of our public housing developments. one is hunter's view and the other is alex griffith. those are full scale redevelopment projects. hunter's view is in the first phase of construction at this point. that contract as well as griffith are both being managed by the redevelopment agency. so if you want contracting information and opportunity, you should look for that to come from the redevelopment agency. but those are housing authority projects, and so there is a 20% m.v.e./w.b.e. requirements project. you can contact our office to get information about them, and we can connect you to the right folks at redevelopment to make sure you are aware of the opportunities t

all of the author of the book, i'm dan haulman one of the authors. another one is joseph and another -- the three of us worked or have worked because joseph rentedly tired we have worked at air force historical agency. and that air force historical research agency is the pretheir repository of air force historical documents especially related to air force organization such as squad rones, wings, number air force and major air command and so on. including the world war ii of air force organization and just to let you know how i got involved in writing about the tuskegee airmen. i had written about other aspects of air force history before. i decided to write a paper about the aerial victory of the men 12 years ago. it was eventually pub published. that got me started started in wraibtding the it's key agree airmen. my major contribution to the book is the criminology. it contains a very detailed criminology of the airmen events. but i also wrote half the chapter introductions, about the airmen. what this book started out as was a coffee table photogra

this was a commitment made into the event -- 2011 by the authority board. a continuation of those glasses. available to answer any questions. commissioner cohen: in the last bullet point, targeted population to be underrepresented community. what is your strategy with that? >> i am glad to bring up kit hodges from the bicycle coalition, who is the contractor on this project. >> good morning and thank you for the question. we are very eager about working with many communities across the city, both communities based on geography, as well as things like -- we had a seniors' class that was well attended. it was so popular we decided to schedule another one in the next few weeks. we met with a number of organizations in the bayview to organize more classes in the bayview in the coming year, which we are excited about. we have a special series on family bicycling that would like to promote. other interest groups, women, seniors, who rear are especially try to reach. we are obligated and eager to work multi-legally, so we will be providing classes both in chinese

i am the manager of the the consulting authority., the central subway is in the second phase of the third street light rail which goes from the current quarter of fourth and king street, to chinatown. ur5fqjust a little bit of a brif history. in march, the board adopted a baseline budget followed by a request to the fta a full funding agreement last year. up until+Ñ.'- today, the board s allocated $40 million and funds. expenditures to date are -- the allocation in front of you today is to partially fund the tunnel contract. basically, we will be leveraging federal funds, state funds. this contract was awarded last year. $13 million under the estimates. this is the first major construction contract for the project. 1.5 miles under fourth street near stockton to north beach. with three separate notices to proceed. hat of the project. the first, the tunnel boring machines, that was part of the first project to proceed. construction of the launch box. that was the second noticed to proceed. under the freeway at fort st., you can see the

how are authorities any able to justify sending him away. under a civil commitment statute we're genyen almost every state have what we found is getting in this case about twenty thousand people plus each year in virginia disappear like this authorities drive a rival arrest them and take them away too and then assist in here brenda robs the other guy on the internet started yelling about it alerted us we got most people you never know about in fact this is getting in this case i've had hundreds of people call me that this has happened to across the united states but here's the weird thing mainly veterans i don't know why that maybe if people remember back in two thousand and nine janet the policy issue to men was called right wing extremism and leslie best friends were mentioned in those extremist memos so for some reason our government weirdly so under the ministrations seems to think better is are extremists so they might be targeting veterans now this has been argued as a first amendment issue want to take a listen now from brandon routh