supervisor campos: commissioner carmen chiu. supervisor chiu: we have seen them come time and time again, so i think it probably is just unusual circumstance. supervisor campos: thank you. madam clerk. next item. >> item 10, adjournment. thank you very much. meeting adjourned. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> [laughter] nice treat. supervisor mar: the morning, everyone. welcome to the regular meeting of the transportation authority finance committee. today i am joined by supervisor farrell, [reads names] i but like to thank [unintelligible] at sfc tv for providing access. >> item #one. approval of -- item number two, approval of minutes of the may 10, 2011 meeting. supervisor mar: any corrections? seeing no one, let's open this to public comment. seeing no one, public comment is closed. without objection, madam clerk, please call the third item. >> item #3. recommend award of two-year consultant contracts to nelson\nygaard consulting associates, fehr & peers, and dowling associates, inc., in a

supervisor campos: commissioner carmen chiu. supervisor chiu: we have seen them come time and time again, so i think it probably is just unusual circumstance. supervisor campos: thank you. madam clerk. next item. >> item 10, adjournment. thank you very much. meeting adjourned. >> good afternoon. thank you so much for being here. it is really an honor to work with the department of environment on the san francisco home improvement program. we hope it becomes they hit this program in the city. we really are here to talk about the financial, as well as the environmental benefits of going green. in san francisco, as well as across the country, what we forget is often our home and the real estate that we own is normally the most valuable piece of wealth that we have in our family. but we also for get that real- estate and buildings also have some of the largest carbon footprint in san francisco, as well as across the country single-family homes are almost 22% of the carbon footprint. in my understanding, we have actually been miscount

we're joined by supervisor carmen chiu. the last time there was a firefighters graduation class was 2005. it has been a long time. i understand that over 5000 people applied for these positions. those 5000 people along with you know that these jobs are precious, meaningful to our city, and hard-bofought jobs. i am here to congratulate those of you who have been part of this class. i want to recognize and thank the trainers. each and everyone of you have now departed and in printed -- imprinted on these recruits, skill, attitude, commitment. i want to thank you for the professional hand-off in training. i know that is not easy to do. i want to say to your recruits that you are joining a world- class department. i know that having been part of the city for 22 years. i know that right after this event, you will be sent to your fire houses and engine companies. but for a moment right now, and visualize that you are joining a world-class department, a department that has served the city so well and has its own history. it is a d

necessarily in alphabetical order, supervisor john avalos, supervisor david campos, supervisor carmen chiu, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor mirkarimi, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, and supervisors got wiener -- supervisor scott leonor -- wiener. a number of your friends thought it appropriate to reach out to cover the span of mayors over the last fifth leaders, a small fraternity who you are about to join. leading that is lieutenant governor, who will brain some remarks. it was the man who served as a supervisor and whom the voters rewarded by making him lieutenant governor, and he was received by his colleagues at one minute after 1:00, when his tenure was evicted, and he gave an accounting of himself and the time he has been mayor, and now, welcome to the new mayor, gavin newsom. >> sit down those that have seats. let me welcome each of you for taking the time to be there. it is good to be here, and it is a wonderful occasion, and the people that need to be thanked the most are the people of california, because i would not have been lieutenant governor, and there would not have

and now here to present the community impact award, please welcome to the podium supervisor carmen chiu good evening, everybody. i just want to acknowledge supervisor eric mar. unfortunately he wasn't able to join us today because he is still in a land use meeting at the moment. and so i do want to recognize him because he would love to be here. today, it's my honor to be able to announce the community impact award. the primary reason why we do have this award is really to recognize the community organizations and the impact they make in our community. especially where the differences that they make in the media really have a profound and lasting impact on how our communities are perceived and how we go forward. and so today, again, it is my honor to recognize these folks. but before we do, the people who -- or the organizations who are finalists in this category include hyphen, round of applause. [applause] kqed. [applause] and new american media. [applause] apparently, tonight is hyphen's night. so congratulations to hyphen. [applause] a quick word about the organization. it was found

carmen chu. committee member david chiu is en route. we want to thank the following staff members of the sfgtv for covering this staff meetinmeeti. please call item two. >>item 2. approve the minutes of the june 21, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: seeing none, public comment is closed. -- is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, you have the minutes of the june 21 meeting before you. motion by commissioner avalos. without objection. please call item three. >>item 3. citizens advisory committee report. this is an information item. commissioner campos: is there anyone here from the citizens advisory committee? why don't we come back to item three. why don't we stick to item four. >> -- skip to item fo4. >> good morning, committee members. the start of its 17 of the package. the item is to recommend appointment of one member to the citizen advisory committee by way of backgroun. each member of the cac serbs two years. the cac commi

[applause] [applause] president chiu: our last commendation will be provided by supervisor carmen chupervisor chu: if you could come up and stand here behind greg, that would be great. today, i would like to ask you all to join me in paying tribute to a man who has devoted the last 10 years of his life managing the largest general fund apartment in this city. greg joined the department of public health as a chief financial officer for the department community health network in june, 2001. by the next year, he was already serving as the chief wenzel officer for the entire department of public health. this task is not an easy one. every single person on the budget committee and every single budget chair has always gotten to know greg very well, especially in the month of june. while it has been said that one dog year is equal to seven human years, it could be said that once cfo year at the department of public health is equal to at least 10 human years. thank you to devoting at least the last 100 years to overseeing the san francisco department of public health budget. his last day will