she was a loving aunt of justice steven brier and the honorable charles brier both of whom she would quote. she was also the sister of the general council for the district for 42 years in which the board meeting room bears his room and the media room was named in 20003 the shirley black broadcast booth. we extend sincere condolences to the brier and black families. public comment for those who have speaker cards. at this time there are none. the board will go to closed session. i call a recess of. >> working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change we've been on the edge after all we're at the meeting of land and sea world-class style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the city's information technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at san francisco general hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house/senate regional wear-out system your our employees j

she was a loving aunt of justice steven brier and the honorable charles brier both of whom she would quote. she was also the sister of the general council for the district for 42 years in which the board meeting room bears his room and the media room was named in 20003 the shirley black broadcast booth. we extend sincere condolences to the brier and black families. public comment for those who have speaker cards. at this time there are none. the board will go to closed session. i call a recess of. >> a hi, i'm karen fry a project manager and sfpuc and the bureau of environmental management honestly i've not considered a public sector job i realized this was an opportunity to work on large capital projects from san francisco all the way to our hetch hetchy and the yosemite national park i work with engineers and city attorneys and scheduled and we all work tom nolan e together on the project. >> the excavations are in red we'll have the interference to go under the street. >> my next project is the largest project in the water system improvement program this is the southeast plan that

she was a loving aunt of justice steven brier and the honorable charles brier both of whom she would quote. she was also the sister of the general council for the district for 42 years in which the board meeting room bears his room and the media room was named in 20003 the shirley black broadcast booth. we extend sincere condolences to the brier and black families. public comment for those who have speaker cards. at this time there are none. the board will go to closed session. i call a recess of >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in city government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of city government that. >> you can below the what if anything, by assess though the club program website arrest call 4147 or 311 and stating you wishing to file and complaint point controller's office the charitable program also accepts complaints by e-mail or 0 folk you can file a complaint or provide contact information seen by whistle blower investigates some examples of

brier. record transfer. maybe you know. we were we'll be talking with the n.b.a. player now. he came if things worked out differently hobby maybe to the n.b.a. . maybe in the shadow. i start off by showing a hobby an early photo of himself that brings a smile to his face this is a typical that's come from our party. maybe some of you know some for me it's a big party. he's famous because the bulls run through the song you know. i'm from there and visiting. for the other. kids from my childhood is. fine it's home and. it was such a great take that great team every time so and so was the hopkins and the break with. friends. born into a family of four obvious the youngest and his inspiration to be a pro was in the same household some people have idols as. mazie or. all to see an hour of my either was my brother because when i was eight or was nine my room was paid for that evolving the second team and the other three may be used to watch him on the games he used to travel around the old enough of his pain to watch in his games and i said oh my god they won't be playing him i wan

aback, said the man has a sense of humor and interviewed ruth bader ginsburg and my question is if brier had been well and had to interview and more to clinton's liking do you think, he had nominated briar, apparently is the initial intent was, do you think years later he would then have nominated ruth bader ginsburg? it is hard to say. he wanted mario cuomo because he fought earl warren had been so effective in managing the politics of the war and persuaded, he didn't want someone who would just be an ideal lot for his suspicion. don't quote me on that. mario cuomo is the hamlet of 20th century america, couldn't make up his mind, i don't know what the competition was, being an underwear buyer at bloomingdale's but he couldn't decide. finally, clinton started looking for other things. win clinton, have a story about in the book, he was complete these men with her. it was -- there were many people they were considering. they were considering putting someone who wasn't a lawyer at all, you just don't know. i don't know. thank you. a family in the audience. thank you. >> you talk about whic

shirley brier black passed away.nd malcolm vice-chair heinicke was the only one that served on this board with ms. black. she was an inaugural member of the san francisco m.t.a. board. she was appointed by mayor brown in 2000. she served as a member of the board for 10 years retiring in 2010. the native san francisco, she always used public transportation. she worked for sieu1021 for many years and president from 1988 to 1991. having reached her centennial just last month she was known for her commitment to workers' rights. shirley always stood up for what was right so we will adjourn our meeting in her memory today. she will be missed by a lot of people in the agency and the city. directors, do i have any new or unfinished business? >> no. >> all right. seeing none. thank you. >> item 7. districdirector report. >> good afternoon, members of the board, members of the public and staff. start by wishing everyone a happy lunar new year. wore a little red to bring good luck to this board meeting. i do have a number of th

and just a reminder, we'll be adjourning this meeting in memory of shirley brier black in recognition of all of her service to this sfmta board of director. >> that concludes the business before you today. >> we are adjourned. thank you very much. good morning, everybody. first of all i would like to thank our california state attorney general and the staff for working so closely with the city and county of san francisco. i want to begin by thanking our late mayor ed lee for initiating the police reforms and responding to create a historical partnership with the attorney general offers. i would like to acknowledge a number of people, chief of police bill scott. london breed, senior cohen and the mayor's office and all those who made it possible. i would like to thank them for engaging with us. in 2016, our city grappled with crisis seen in a lot of american cities, the dissolution of trust among the community and law enforcement. responding to cries from our community for improvement, mayor lee reached out to attorney general lynch and the department of justice and san francisco enter

>> the problem with that justice brier, is that's not the statute congress passed. the statute that was passed, it does not call for this sort of -- >> you're giving a conceptual answer, which i think is fine. i want to know if the language permits this, can we read this statute to adapt to the modern condition and if we can, then shouldn't we do it that way because it would be practical. everybody would get a fair shot. you take foreign interests into count. use arrow spatial transfers. one belief said it wasn't good enough but didn't tell us what to use. do you see my question? >> the answer is that is simply not the statute that congress wrote and the job of this court is to interpret the statute that congress wrote rather than innovating and adopting its own new standard. now, by the way, the cloud act that has gotten some conversation this morning does have various factors that might be weighed. that's congress's decision if congress wants to could that. it's a decision that applies in certain -- >> under the act, could you voluntary disclose this to the govern