i'm sure that miss brinkman and i will take heed. we have to lower costs for use. i don't think the players are right in those three categories. i will fight and i'll keep fighting until we can get that right. i'm hoping that this committee will report miss brinkman's confirmation out of committee. supervisor campos: thank you very much, commissioner. thank you for being here and thank you for your words. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? if so, please come forward. >> my name is nick, i have been a resident of the commission for 30 years. i have some serious concerns about sunday streets. i'm an automobile owner. i park my automobile on the street. in june, for example, after sunday streets, i took some photographs which i would be glad to share with you, around 11:00 on the sunday of the sunday streets. the streets there were more employees of the city of san francisco there than there were public, nonemployees. i think at some point you are going to have to re-examine the impact of this program. i'm very concerned that it's part of

brinkman's candidacy and know she will be a tremendous m.t.a. board member. supervisor campos: thank you super size visor mar. i agree. i think this is a very solid appointment. i do think that the experience that she brings is one that will be very youthful -- useful and i do hope that we, as a board, work closely with ms. brinkman and all the other commissioners to figure out how we can move this agency forward. i will be supporting the nomination but let me say that the problem that i have is not with the nomination itself. i think the nomination is a solid, as solid a nomination as we can have. the problem i have is with the structure that we currently have at the board of the m.t.a. i do believe that the current structure, notwithstanding some exceptions, i point to commissioner oka as one of those exceptions, the current structure does not, in my view, provide for the level of accountability and independence that is needed. i think that until that structure changes, that we are going to continue to have some of the same problems. we are going to continu

staff like to welcome our new director, director cheryl brinkman.e look forward to working with you over the next few years. i'd like to begin my report with recognizing our staff for outstanding service and contribution that they've made to the agency. our first award goes to debra reed. debra, could you please step up to the podium? debra serves as our secretary for the citizens advisory council and has been with the agency for five years. as you know, the c.a.c. is a 15-member board that has four committees and one full c.a.c. meeting each month. when debra began suo

staff like to welcome our new director, director cheryl brinkman. we look forward to working with you over the next few years. i'd like to begin my report with recognizing our staff for outstanding service and contribution that they've made to the agency. our first award goes to debra reed. debra, could you please step up to the podium? debra serves as our secretary for the citizens advisory council and has been with the agency for five years. as you know, the c.a.c. is a 15-member board that has four committees and one full c.a.c. meeting each month. when debra began supporting the c.a. crmplt, the position had been vacant for several months with no direction about how to proceed. and debra took over the reigns and figured out how to get that job done. she goes beyond the call of duty to keep all of our meetings on track from scheduling topics and speakers to c.a.c. members' requests for information. although the job is very demanding, debra handles it with great grace and quiet dignity. her commitment to the agency is exemplified by the long hours

i also want to say on behalf of the c.a.c., welcome to director brinkman. congratulations on your appointment and confirmation. aenwelcome to the -- -- and welcome to the m.t.a. we look forward to meeting with you. we want to let you know that as an m.t.a. director, you are certainly welcome to drop by the c.a.c. meetings at any time that you want. of course that's true for any member of the public, but in particular we always appreciate it when we see members of the m.t.a. board drop by the c.a.c. see us doing our thing. so that said, i want to convey to you three recommendations that the c.a.c. has asked me to bring to you today. the first is kind of a big picture issue. it is that we recommend that the m.t.a. board request the board of supervisors amend the planning code to require a finding by us at the m.t.a. as the impact of transportation -- impact on transportation. particularly transit of any additional parking supply being created within the city. sometimes, of course, the creation of new parking supply in the city is pretty benign in its impact o

>> item 23 is a resolution condemning the appointment of cherly brinkman to the but of directors on attention in march, 2014. >> this is passed. >> apartment of michael garcia to the appointment ended july 1st, 2014. >> this motion is approved. >> item 25, the bremen of the john newlin to the intended commission. >> this motion is approved. >> 26-29 with considered by the services committee on a regular meeting at 10 the d a m and forecasted as reported. a resolution the german and the transfer of a general that the license also of the public convenience. >> in house, sam colt? this is adopted. >> item 27, resolution transferring a type 20 of beer and one liquor license. >> a house, same call. >> item 28, except an expensive gift to rebuild trills and retaining walls. this is approximately one and $65,000. >> this is adopted. >> item 29, to expect an extended grant from the historical endowment in the proximate amount of five and a thousand dollars for the palace of fine arts historical landscape and park improvement. >> the same house, same call. >> please read items 30-34. these were consid

ford, as you reported, i'd like to take a moment to recognize members of the board, cheryl brinkman, she is the nominee for the board. she's appearing before the rules committee tomorrow. i am not -- we wish you well and we look forward to working with you. thanks for being here this afternoon. >> ok. mr. chairman, members of the board, the next item we need to present to you is related to our capital assets inventory and our state of good repair program. since the last capital improvement program update in june of 2008, the m.t.a. in conjunction with our regional and federal partners have undergone some significant financial challenges. and this has placed us in a position to put a greater focus on our limited capital resources as it relates to our safety, strategic expansion of the system. so over the last year we have developed an expensive asset inventory of all of the assets belonging to the san francisco m.t.a., particularly focusing on their condition of those assets and their useful life. in addition, we developed a set of criteria that meets the he's -- the agency's multimod

. >> item 3, resolution confirming the appointment cheryl brinkman. supervisor campos: this is a nomination that has been made by mayor newsom. thank you for being here. welcome to the committee. now, you have an opportunity to make some introductory remarks to area >> thank you. good morning. i come to you as a member of the public that's what -- public applications processed. i have lived in san francisco for about 24 years and then every type of transportation user in this city. i have been purely a bus user, cyclists, driver, and right now, a combination. i am truly a multi modal street user right now. i have done a lot of work in the advocacy world on the board of livable cities. i did a lot of work for sunday streets. that was sort of a labor of love for three years and a great outcome, and i feel that i will have the opportunity to bring all of those experiences to the mta board. i know i have a lot to learn about the way it runs, and every all my background to that an absolute openness to listen to all sides and to get the cold, clear facts an

brinkman to this board. i hope you are a diligent watch dog of the m.t.a. well, you know, i came in late so i didn't hear the report about the restoration of services. i certainly welcome what was stolen from us that it's been returned. at least part of it has been returned. i'd like to see everything returned. i'd even like to go beyond that. i like to see some of the lines that were discontinued returned. especially the 24. and i am also referring to the two clement bus lines. this is going to be a perennial problem. because my understanding is that it's reeked havoc on 15th avenue. what used to be a peaceful, quiet avenue has now undergone street invasion. this is from the two clement lines. it's been very disruptive. if you move it to any other avenue in the richmond district, you're going to be confronted with the same problem. it's going to tie down this glupe. -- group. i don't think the residents of the richmond district are going to go away. and that excludes myself. so it's in your interest to really dress this. and the best way to do it is to res

the fourth circuit reversed after judge brinkman sentenced with the death penalty. i've never accused rob of being involved in this. but the fourth circuit issued an opinion -- of course we have the power of these witnesses being interrogated. they issued an opinion that we had to tell the jury that although you do not have the witness' demeanor. you must approach under the understanding that they were made designed to create elusive testimony from the witness. we didn't know how that was how they were being interrogated. but last year there was a man named moumed katani. and he can't even be prosecuted because of the way he was interrogated. according to the judge in that case, the circumstances designed to elise it truthful statements from him is 160 dwace continual contact only with interrogators. 48 or 50 days with 20-hour interrogations standing naked in front of a female agent with standing result -- insults. with a leash led around the room and forced to perform dog tricks. now that's childs play compared to what happened from what's publically reported to ca

so i'm wondering judge brinkman what you think of that argument whether it's a valid concern and how much of a concern it is. >> well, i think that's one of the few really legitimate argumentings. if we tamper with -- legitimate arguments. the other problem on the flip side of that is if we start creating special ajduicatory systems for crimes i worry about the expansion. we use the word "war." narco-terrorism is a big word right now. significant organized criminal activity in mexico and latin amera. much of it beginning to leak into our border states. so why would you not start thinking about maybe we should put narco-terrorisms into this terrorism system. probably the biggest threat we have is from cyber terrorism. people abroad who could literallshut down our banking system or our airplanes or whatever. a very, very potential serious problem. are we going to create a special system of justice for those types of cases in it's a very slippery slope. i think argue three courts have worked in the past and i think they can continue to work. we have to be careful. we to maybe sure in ad