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 in january 2012, the board of supervisors rescinded titus as a development agency and they're bringing it back into compliance with the city purchasing policy.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

to the director of transportation authority.t seems to work. >> colleagues, is there any additional discussion? okay. i think i understood supervisor olague to have offered amendments, was that seconded? >> i think you wanted someone to walk through the amendments. >> i think the problem is that supervisor olague is not here at the moment. >> in supervisor olague's absence i'm willing to walk through amendments. >> that would be great. supervisor cohen. >> colleagues, the first -- there are three key points that we need to key into on these amendments. one is to ensure that the board of supervisors retains its power on the redevelopment law to review and approve the operational budget of the successor agency. i think i mentioned this earlier in my comments and also we must ensure through clarifying language -- here we are. supervisor olague, i will yield the rest of my time to supervisor olague. >> supervisor olague. >> i also wanted to bring forward a member of choo-choo, because they were instrumental in drafting these estimat

the board does not have that authority. so hopefully, this resolution is the first step toward that end. we often talk about bringing the housing authority closer, inside the family. this is our attempt to do just that. in the vain of transparency, i want to provide a cost break down for this broadcasting. there is no cost to utilize the space. we thank the city council for being flexible and working with limited resources. the sfgov tv cost are $35,000 annually for 24 meetings. and we would like to thank them for being flexible and willing to do this. supervisors, it's our office's opinion that the cost associated with increasing a citizen's access to democracy and promoting government accountablity. we hope to work with the implementation of this very important project. additionally, supervisor olague would like to thing her co-sponsors, supervisors mar and kimm as they have worked with residents of the housing authority sites. we don't have the need for a staff report on this, but i should point out that henry alvar alva

authority opportunities, and in some of the newspapers as well. finally we have maintenance contracts. they provide the ongoing maintenance for the 50 developments that we have. they are basically our routine business, and they are a little bit easier to get engaged with the housing authority if you are a small business. we have minority and women-owned business goals. our rules are a little pit different, but that is how we engage the local firms on those type of contracts. if you are interested, you could call us or visit our website. i want to remind everybody that in addition to our 25% goals, we have a 25% resident hiring goal. if you known anyone, you should encourage them to get in contact with us. on all these contracts we have a requirement that we are emplaying residents of public housing as well. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i am tim. i am with the board of san francisco. in addition to the peer -- pier 27 project. i have a flyer in the back. you can also go to our port website, www.sf port.com. we advertise it in the office of contract

i was proud to be able to sponsor this authorization. it will make muni more reliable, it will make service more dependable and increase the number of vehicles that are usable by the agency. colleagues, i ask for your support in this authorization. >> thank you, supervisor wiener for your opening comments to the mta, who is here. do you have any comments on this item? do you have a presentation for us? >> thank you. thanks to the committee. just make some brief opening remarks to support what supervisor wiener said and here to ask any questions. i would just remind the committee, this is part of a focused effort to renew the fleet. it's -- our rubber tire fleet is a $1 billion asset, carries about 75% of riders. we are currently operating among the oldest and i will say well used fleets of any major urban system. a couple points to highlight in addition to what's been noted in the opening comments and by the budget report, number one, this is -- we are taking advantage of a competitively bid consortium to get these buses. one of the thin

the clerk of the authority is erika cheng. i want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. mike freeman and jesse larson. madam clerk, if you can please call item number 1, roll call. >> roll call, [speaker not understood]? present. chair campos? >> present. >> commissioner david chiu? david chiu absent. carmen chu? present. elsbernd absent. [speaker not understood]. commissioner mar? olague absent. commissioner westerner? wiener? >> present. >> please call item number 2. >> item 2 is approval of minutes of the july 24, 2012 meeting. >> there is an action item. is there a member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment for item 2 is closed. you have before you the approval of minutes for the july 24 meeting. [speaker not understood]. can we take that without objection? without objection. item number 3? >> chair's report, this is a commission item. >> i have a brief report today. this is our first meeting coming back from the legislative recess of the san francisco

we ask you to take back your land use authority and clarify in this ordinance that the land use authority will rest where it is supposed to rest with the planning department and commission and the legislative land use will rest with the board of supervisors. you were told that you could amend the plans but not design for the development documents. whether you have looked at the plan there is nothing in them. all of the subnative controls are in the design for development documents. those can be changed without limitation by this. successor body. which gives them land use control over the vast areas of the city. o, you know, i am kind of disappointed that we are here. we had this conversation around the transbay and said, again, maybe we gave away too much. let's sort out of land use authority question before we reconstitute this thing and kick the can down the road but here we are with the same body with the same powers is before you today. we ask you to take this back and put the land use authority with the planning commission and give us the narrow oversight that it is supposed to happe

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 because i probably haven't seen it

okay, and also to authorize the clerk to make that amendment.okay, we will do that without objection. thank you. can we call item number 7 through 12, please. >> item number 7, resolution approving the 28th amendment to the treasure island south waterfront master lease between the treasure island development authority and the united states navy to extend the term. number 8, resolution approving the thirsty seventh amendment to the treasure island land and have you beening khur master lease between the treasure island development authority and the structure master lease between the treasure island development authority and the united states navy to extend the term. item number 9, resolution approving the sixteenth amendment to the treasure island marina master lease between treasure island development authority and the united states navy to extend the term. number 10, resolution approving the eighth amendment to the treasure island child care master lease between the treasure island development authority and the united states navy extending 2 ter

so the prior authorization is one part of this. when you look at fraud, if someone believes we're looking at them, they are likely to move. so the entire benefit will have to be evaluated under this. at this point i think it's too early for me to protect or to say what our hope is, the ever rate would be. we certainly will evaluate that and that would be sort of one metric of success of this program. >> well, first of all i think you, and it sounds like to me that you understand there's a problem and it sounds like you may be under resource, and i look forward to digging into that a little more. really appreciate you being here today. but i think, you know, just outside observers watching this it would be almost, you know, beyond belief to realize that this has been occurring this long and we really don't in advance have some standards. how would you feel about us, and we know more about this, dig in the low more and have this hearing, how would you feel about us putting into law, i think the american people would fully stand behin

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

item 18 resolution approving and authorizing the treasure island development authority to enter into a modification of the cooperative agreement with united states navy to extend the agreement from october 1, 2012 to september 30, 2013. >> president chiu: i understand the director of treasure island is here to make a presentation but i'd like to acknowledge the district supervisor, supervisor kim, to make some opening comments. >> supervisor chuopening. >> supervisor kim: thank you. given the new concerns regarding tida no longer as a redevelopment agency and the city attorney's memo regarding potential increased liability on the city's general fund, we did bring this item to the board of supervisors without recommendation so that colleagues could take additional time to read through the items and to feel comfortable with supporting these items which we actually have been routinely bringing before the board over the last 15 years, i believe. we did also request hearing just because there has been new news potentially radiologically impacted sites on treasure island. of course there h

>> i would only add that i don't think the charter authorizes the commission to create new language of official misconduct. what the language that you just adopted says lisa state official misconduct for the incident as reflected in 4 and 5. it does not say we sustain 4 and 5. the charter says you sustain the charges are not, it doesn't authorize the commission to draft the language or charges that are reflected in other charges. i would state that for the record. thank you. >> i think it was clear enough. >> the motion was clear enough that we were adopting the heart of counts 4 and 5. >> with that, the meeting is adjourned. i'm derek, i'm hyungry, and ready to eat. these vendors offer a variety of the streets near you. these mobile restaurants are serving up original, creative and unusual combinations. you can grab something simple like a grilled cheese sandwich or something unique like curry. we areher here in the average eight -- upper haight. you will be competing in the quick buy food challenge. an appetizer and if you are the winner you will get the title of the quitck bite "cho

has formally transferred control of baghdad prison to afghan authorities the facility holds more than three thousand taliban insurgents and suspected terrorists however the fate of many inmates remains unclear including fifty four of those not covered by the agreement let's discuss this with current former u.s. air force colonel she's now an activist and commentator on military issues thanks for being with us karen good to see you tonight it despite this much form to hand over u.s. contingent remains in bagram and still got control over all those detained there even the people held since the handover so watch of this point and go of this place anyway is it i know no it's not and this is our our second guantanamo i mean we we use this facility for for you know for our national purposes and i think the intent is to continue to be able to have that. what about non afghan prisoners the u.s. also keeps custody of them to ones that well i guess the american people are paying a lot of attention to what goes on in afghanistan guantanamo however being closer does get more attention so what we'

but the housing authority has -- needs light shined on it what's going on. they spend a lot of money, especially in bayview hunter's point and district 10. but people of color have been locked out. also some time there's contracts left out for people to do development and no one else was asked to even be involved or knew it was coming up. so that is government money and we looking at it. and i'm glad that they agree that, for us to do this, that they agree to do it and not try to fight it. i won't say some of the things i know, but i know one thing, we need to shine a light on what's going on over there, and i appreciate the supervisors that brought this up. it's a good thing. any time you open up the light, it's like sunshine coming up in the morning. wakes us up. i appreciate it and hope you will go along with even them not going against it. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. you start off with the civil grand jury and end here too. it was a year ago in which the civil grand jury asked to you think about putting the ethics commission on television,

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

good morning, i'm chad tradman, transportation plan nr with the authority n. terms of the agenda this is 8, begins on page 83. maria did background in terms of bringing forward different pieces of development, the first strategic program. 150 million over the life of the program and establish three programmatic plans. construction, public safety and transit reliability and mobility improvements. the slide serves as a bit of table of contents for what the final plan will incrude. as maria mentioned, very much in some ways like the prop k plan with several key differences. maria hit on a couple so the prop plan will be shorter because it has overall smaller dollar amount. there is no financing assumed within the prop and simpler plan. the five-year priority plans for each of the three programmatic categories established in the plan will be included as part of the plan for prop a and prop k, the five pps are separate apart from the strategic plan n. addition from the slide the policies criterias were adopted by the authority board. the key piece is programming no

item five, resolution authorizing city office of contract administration to enter into third amendment between city and cct technologies contract limits to $34,460,000. >> thank you. for these three we have bill jones. >> good morning, supervisors. bill jones, office of contract administration purchasing. today i'm here to request your approval of these three resolutions for amendments to the technology store products contracts with computer land, en pointe and xtech. with your approval these will increase contract not to exceed limits, extend term by one year to december 31st, 2013 and update standard contractual clauses. the requested increases are for computer will have an, 9,970,000 to 4,463,000. to en pointe, 15,660,000 to not to exceed new amount of $54,150,000. for extech, 16,400,000, not to exceed 67,890,000. oca calculated these requested increases based on average expenditures from january 2, 09 to july 2012 and extrapolated the end of the new contract term as december 31st, 2013. we included a two-month contingency. short background of the technology store, it is a program t

a minor economic upturn came and went, and the palestinian authorities -- authority's coffers are empty. >> there will be more protests soon. the situation has become intolerable. the palestinian government should do something for us. palestinians are weary and have no real opportunities. and the territories depend on international aid. their own economy is stifled by israeli sanctions, and there is little chance of growth. the lack of political progress frustrates palestinians. hopes were dashed last september when the united nations refused to give them full statehood. >> we are trying to bring hope that, trying to tell our people that the dream to have a palestinian state is still possible, and that is why we are going to the united nations. hopefully, once our people see that there is a result, hope will come out. >> positive results are something the palestinian citizens have given up expecting. >> they always go and talk. but whether they talk or do not talk, we do not see any change here. >> i do not know. >> our economy is dead because we are strangled by the israelis. they do w

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 on a monthly basis. i will honor that commitment. i am in possession of the document you're quoting from. >> miss espinola jackson? one last thing. two minutes. >> everybody knows i am long winded. let me say this. what was raised to you was a section 3 of the guidelines the people that live in public housing get the job first, that is not happening in san francisco. that is all that i

it would provide the forest service with vegas authority -- vague authority to delay or simply outright a block of -- outright block an act of congress. does that sound familiar? while presented as property right protection, the plain fact is that this bill only, only involves exchange of lands between state lands and state forest lands. so i want to be very, very clear. not one square inch of private property is included in this exchange. again, this is only state and federal lands. and i have to say, mr. chairman, on my committee, a lot of our discussion on a variety of issues talks about private property rights. and when we have debate on that and we have votes on amendments on those issues, i find it rather ironic that the party of the gentleman offering this amendment always tend to vote against those amendments that protect private property rights. once again, this amendment, the net result would be to give the federal bureaucracy a bill -- ability to slow down carrying out this act. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his t

will you read item 6 and 7. >> 6, resolution authorizing public daily use commission subject to daily use to lawn tfp clean power sf, approving local assisting services for clean power sf customers and authorize general manager of the public utilities commission to execute a contract with shell energy for four years and six months to launch the clean power sf. it item 7, appropriating 19, 500,000 of hetch hetchy fund balance at public utilitis to support the clean aggregation program regarding the authorization to the san francisco puc and board of supervisors and adding code 10.10037 2 and 3373 to establish clean power sf fund and clean power reserve fund. * >> thank you very much. colleagues, we have these two items before us. i think these two probably have traveled a long road before coming to us here at the budget and finance committee. we have a number of speakers here today. of course we have ed harrington and his staff from the puc. we will hear from the puc, then office of economic analysis and then our budget analyst report. before we do that i will ask my colleagues if anyb

our contention has always been the primary authority is the rizol mizola case.now, we recognize that at least one commissioner has expressed the view that maybe it does not apply because the chartered definition changed since this case was decided. but, the current definition of official misconduct under the charter draws almost entirely from the language used in the opinion. the two points that are most critical about that opinion from our perspective our number one that the official misconduct has to occur while the official is in office. much of what the mayor has alleged occurred before the sheriff was sworn in. they have presented you with a parade of horribles about why this cannot be the correct interpretation. they have said if an elected official is elected and then at roms bankbs banks, we cannot hat situation. that cannot be the definition of the charter. there has to be a way to address pre-swearing in testimony. sorry, not pre-swearing in testimony. pre-appearing in contact. the charter is an imperfect document. i would like to make the points that

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re-authorization, this legislation would re-authorize programs that are critical important to our national security. in 2008, f.a.a. has enjoyed a history of strong bipartisan support. now president obama and his administration have made it clear that a clean, long-term extension of f.a.a. is their number one intelligence priority. that's exactly what h.r. 5949 does. recognizing our nation's security cannot and should not wait until an emergency or the 11th hour or rush to re-authorization. the select intelligence and judiciary committees have had hearings on f.a.a.'s re-authorization. they have marked up the bill. they sent it to us months ahead of the expiration deadline. i congratulate both of these committees on their timely and dedicated work for the sake of our own safety. it is with the tools they provide to our intelligence community that we are able to monitor our nation's enemies overseas. without this support the ability to track those nids who aren't american citizens and want to do harm to this country to the state as it was on september 11 of 2001. i really want to stress tha

one last interesting piece, it does also authorize the use of the general sales tax authority to be a revenue source for this particular district. under the stien berg bill. in addition to tax increment it allows a sales tax to be authorized in that district, which would be subject to the natural requirements for votes. so those are the four bills that i wanted to highlight for your attention flt as i said, only the one is being added. 8441, the other ones we have already been tracking. >> thank you very much. >> colleagues any additional questions? >> is there any member of the public who would like to comment? >> was there additional report? i am sorry? >> you are looking around. >> oh, federal? i am sorry. >> good morning, commissioners. fort, deputy director for policy and programming with the authority. you should have a powerpoint presentation in front of you and we are also loading it up on the screen. and i am going to give you an introduction to map 21, which is the federal transportation bill that replaces safety will lieu. >> i am going to go over both and i am going to tal

rumors swirled that the health care he authored caused a considerable rift against s scalia. something he denies. >> no, i haven't had a falling out with the chief justice. nothing like that. >> reporter: another big question, will the chief justice take the court in another legal direction. a dramatic shift to the right. >> a lot of progressives are concerned that this might mean that the chief justice has delivered some kapt althoucapit good will. >> some think he'll try to do it gradually. >> i think justice scalia and justice thomas really want to get to the end answer as quickly as possible and make the law conform to what they really understand, whereas the chief justice is more incrementalist. >> kerry sarino doesn't believe anything will change any time soon. >> this isn't a conservative court until we have a shift in members of the court. it's impossible to call it a court that lieeans more to the left or to the right. >> attention will also be paid to judge anthony kenny, who is on the swing vote in many cases. >>> two americans, one soldier and a civilian, are dead

she also served as ex-official member of the joint power authority. it's truly an honor to have him here as our guest speaker, and please join me to welcome him to the podium. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you for that introduction. it is really an honor for me to be here with you today. i want to thank the supervisor for having this town hall meeting put together and thank all of the city agencies who are participating in this. i want to thank zola jones, who found me and let me know that this event was going on. and sent me an e-mail. it's been two years since we last met and it's good to see you again. these days -- we've got a short power point presentation that i'm going to be using. just talk about some of the things we'll be doing, what our agency is about, the type of work that we do. and as you all know, cal trans covers the entire state of california. and in order to better manage that, we have broken down the department into 12 districts just like the city has different districts. that helps us in being closer to the community. helps

. >> erin, authorities here do not know exactly how or where the man contracted this virus. all we know is that a qatari man is in critical condition with a corona virus, a virus that causes the common cold and also, sars. it doesn't just cause severe respiratory illness, it seems to cause kidney failure, now, fortunately, it doesn't seem to spread as quickly, but this is something medical authorities are still trying to figure out. what they do know is that a second patient was diagnosed in june with that virus. that patient died. what authorities are looking at now is to see if these two pashts were in any way connected or how these two may have contracted that virus. that may help authorities to figure out whether this virus is spreading or much more

-- that the director can perform such other and additional duties as the authority may prescribe. you know, as i mentioned before, the planning commission and planning department, if the planning commission weren't able to delegate certain kinds of permits and decisions to staff, it's already hard enough to recruit planning commissioners because they have to put 30, 40 hours a week, they have to put 130 and 40 hours a weekend to hear permits, so i think this would have a significant and negative impact on the commission, it would require it to handle all sorts of matters and decisions that one would expect to be delegated to staff, and in fact, the fact that this is in here and if we vote to strike this out, there's now an explicit decision by this board basically questioning any delegation authority from the commission to the director and i can guarantee you that there will be protests for any single decision made by the director, no matter how mundane, no matter how bureaucratic because this board has made a decision that you can't delegate anything, so i think this would be a v

with the new egyptian authorities, the last few days have presented an unwelcome challenge. so, after u.s. complaints the egyptian authorities were slow to denounce attacks on its embassy, this letter from the muslim leader to the "new york times," we do not hold the american government or its citizens responsible for acts of the few that abused laws protecting freedom of expression. they're still trying to figure out how the consulate was gutted and the ambassador and three other americans killed. the libyan authorities say they detained a number of people in connection with the attack, but still the questions over the extent to which this was a preplanned assault under the cover of protests. president obama and his administration have gone out of their way to distance themselves from and to denounce the video. but in the election season, he's also under pressure to take a firm stand on the attacks. >> no acts of terror will go unpunished. it will not dim the lights of the values we proudly present to the rest of the world. no act of violence shakes the resolve of the unite

authority. he would actually use his authority as commander in chief. after a few weeks in office, president obama was awarded the nobel peace prize. some have said he wanted because he was not president bush and the europeans wanted to confirm that fact. do you recall his acceptance speech in scandinavia? do you recall at the scene at? i watched him carefully. he was here at the protium -- podium and teh camera is here. you can see teh back o -- the back of the president, the nobel committee, and all the dignitaries. everyone remembers it the way i do. as the president is giving his speech, you look at the facial expression of the people who have just given him the nobel prize and it looked as if every one of their dogs have been run over by a bus. they had the most somber, sad look on their faces because president obama fundamentally was giving them a lecture on just war theory and how from time to time it was his authority to use force to protect america and americans. i was invited to the ge

the new terminal is expected to be built by the transit authority's project which is currently beingstudied 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 wil