. -- board workshop. we will continue that until the next meeting. secretary boomer: special order at 4:00. discussion regarding the youth pass. chariman nolan: director reiskin, the one to do a presentation? director reiskin: we do have a presentation for a baseline of understanding. we expect a lively round of public comment. i will say that i gave a brief update on this at the last meeting. at the board of supervisors committee on neighborhood services, and they held a hearing this last week and i believe they are voting today as a full board on the resolution. i want to give great credit to power in the community, working with supervisor campos for a good grass-roots effort behind this. there is a lot of public discussion to have. there are certainly some challenges to overcome. i think you'll see what some of those are. i think it is a good discussion to have. we are working closely with stakeholders' around the table to advance this discussion and co that today's discussion helps to further advance it. chariman nolan: good afternoon carried we

it is important to note that both the board and any of your committee is our policy bodies, so a gathering of two or three would be a meeting. that retreats, workshops, site tores, gatherings, which are now not as common, but when i came into this office, it was very common to have a new gathering before or after a board meeting. those are meetings, and they have to be noticed. of course, there is nothing wrong with having a retreat. no you're having one next week, in two weeks, but a retreat is just a meeting that has to be noticed just like any other, and the public has the right to attend and participate. there are some important exceptions to the basic definition of a meeting. meetings can occur even though the majority of a policy body is not in the same place at the same time, so the most obvious example is a telephone conference among the majority of the members of the policy body. you are not in the same physical place, but a telephone conference is a meeting, and you would not be allowed to have a delicate bone conference. -- to have a telephone conference. that also be an illegal meeting. a more subtle situation our meetings that occur whe

it is important to note that both the board and any of your committee is our policy bodies, so a gathering of two or three would be a meeting. that retreats, workshopssite tores, gatherings, which are now not as common, but when i came into this office, it was very common to have a new gathering before or after a board meeting. those are meetings, and they have to be noticed. of course, there is nothing wrong with having a retreat. no you're having one next week, wrong with having a retreat. no you're having one next week,

it is important to note that both the board and any of your committee is our policy bodies, so a gathering of two or three would be a meeting. that retreats, workshopssite tores, gatherings, which are now not as common, but when i came into this office, it was very common to have a new gathering before or after a board meeting. those are meetings, and they have to be noticed. of course, there is nothing wrong with having a retreat. no you're having one next week, in two weeks, but a retreat is just a meeting that has to be noticed just like any other, and the public has the right to attend and participate. there are some important exceptions to the basic definition of a meeting. meetings can occur even t

board. we will make sure to accelerate those efforts, and then finally, just a reminder, we have our workshop coming up on november. 14. it will be an all-day workshop starting at the mason center. the main things we will be covering is we will be giving an update on where we are with the strategic plan for the next six years, to get your feedback on that, and that will help guide our budget process, which is another thing. we will give you an update on the preliminary base line for the next two fiscal years, what it looks like, to also get your direction as to the budget, said that will be november 14 at mason, and that concludes my report. president nolan: thank you. director heinicke? director heinicke: i do not know if you have had the chance to meet that man from rescue muni, but he has a discussion about that project and what he is happy with and what he wishes would also happen. i think there are some things that may be outside the scope of the project, but i realize as you are coming new to this job and learning this community, it might be helpful for us to give you input. i would sug

board. we will make sure to accelerate those efforts, and then finally, just a reminder, we have our workshop coming up on november. 14. it will be an all-day workshop starting at the mason center. the main

board of appeals, and historic preservation commission. >> thank you. just three announcements today. i wanted to announce, and i think you have a flier on this, the workshop and the chinatown street design project that is happening november 16 from 4:00 to 5:30 next wednesday. there has been a series of workshops on the effort on broadway. separately, i think you know, tomorrow is a holiday in honor of veterans day, so the office will be closed tomorrow, as are most city agencies. third, i will be out of the office, as i think i mentioned earlier, in new york for the zoning conference in mentioned happening in new york city. i will be out, and kelly will be in charge of the department. there was no board of appeals hearing this week. that is it for me unless there are questions. >> commissions, there was also no historic preservation commission hearing. >> good afternoon, commissioners. planning department staff here to give you your weekly update on board of supervisors activities. the land use committee heard a resolution titled rental options for the property at 2121 third street. this is an option in the eastern neighborhoods plan. this was the first

chairs and they are planning on having workshops and at noon they have a rally planned and at 2:30 they e set to march downtown berkeley banks. they want uc board members to sign a pledge urging financial institutions to contribute more to the state in order to avoid future cuts and tuition increases. occupied cal will try to reestablish outside of the plaza and a week ago, a group of students tried to establish an encampment outside of the plaza and police broke up that encampment, about 30 students were arrested and late last night, university chancellor issued a statement to the entire student body that he was disturbed by the video of police reaction to student protest when trying to establish an occupied cal encampment. we did talk to a student but we don't have that yet, we will bring it later to you in the show and a student mentioned what occupied cal's reaction about apologizing basically for the police response to that encampment and to the demonstration about a week ago. we will have more coming up later in the show. allie rasmus ktvu channel 2 news. >> well students at uc berkeley are now suing the university. attorneys with the nat