thank you. >> thank you, chair cohen. i want to clarify that this funding does not go to college tuition, this is for recreational programming, that the rec and park department runs. >> president cohen: thank you. >> start by saying that unfortunately, our partners from the parks alliance could not be here because they are getting ready for a party for the parks, which is saturday night, which is separate but important way we also partner with the parks alliance. so, as you said chair cohen, i'm lisa branston, rec and park department. here to request you authorize the department to accept this grant from the parks alliance, $150,000, to support the departments edwin lee scholarship program. funds were raised at the annual crab fest on february 22nd year, and key part of the mission, enriching recreational activities to all san franciscan's regardless of ability to pay. special meaning as we remember the passing of mayor lee. the crab feed was dedicated to his memory and at the event, general manager announced we would name

chair cohen, members of the committee. so the resolution item 180640, approves modification number eight between the airport and acjv, a joint venture, for construction management center renovation project. so, this approves modification number eight, not to exceed the amount of contract by $5 million from 23 million to 28 million. and then approves future modifications to the contract, totaling 33 million, up to 63 million. we do recommend approval of modification number eight to the contract, but approval of future modifications consider policy matter, and we also recommend the board request the airport director to consult with the city attorney's office on ways to present these contracts to the board of supervisors that conforms to the board's charter authority to approve contracts. of contracts of more than 10 million. >> president cohen: no questions. supervisor fewer has a question. >> supervisor fewer: excuse me, wondering, does acjv have any affiliation with shymick construction? >> through the chair, kathy widener

. >> good morning, chair cohen, welcome, and members of the committee. elaine forbes, port director, pleased to be here today to recommend an agreement to you that really secures the embarkation sites of alcatraz into the future, 30 years, up to 50 years. >> president cohen: for those of us who don't know, what does embarkation actually mean. those of you watching at home. >> using a port word. embarkation where passengers board vessels. alcatraz has, we have had an embarkation site for the alcatraz island since 1972 at the board of san francisco. it is an incredibly popular place to go for visitors to the city. it's a wonderful national park, and we have worked very closely with our partners to develop an agreement that really is going to improve the visitor experience on the embarkation site, provide more retail, interpretation, get us a lot of investment into our pier, and the concessioner and the retail operator. this agreement is going to transform this embarkation site. i am here today not only with my team, rebecca and jay, but also with our partn

cohen: all right. i'll make a motion to accept the b.l.a. amendment and make a motion to send to the full board -- >>clerk: madam chair, i believe the b.l.a. does not have any recommendations. >> it turns out the legislation was changed to already include the retroactivity. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. thank you, madam clerk. well, let's make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation, and we will take that without objection. [ gavel ]. >> president cohen: okay. item three, please. >>clerk: item number three, resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a grant application which provides funding for counties to develop multifamily housing specifically for persons with serious mental illness who are homeless, chronically homeless or at risk of chronic homelessness. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. we've got amy chan from the mayor's office of housing to present. welcome. >> good morning, chair cohen and supervisors fewer and stefani. so item three is a resolution that authorizes the mayor's office of housing and community development to appl

>> good morning, chair cohen, supervisor fewer. i'm sandy morey, here representing the oversight and advisory committee that oversees the dignity fund. and our chair, ramona davies, is out of town. she sends her greetings to you. we are here after that long hard fight on the ballot and chair cohen, we appreciate your leadership on that.enter i know supervisor fewer, i hear from your community constituents how you are very supportive of seniors in your district. we appreciate that. we will continue to work with the board on issues related to seniors and adults with disabilities and the oversights 11-member oversight committee, working with the department, monitoring all the different areas and work that they have been doing. wonderful staff support from the department, and we have been working on a process. we had a community needs assessment process, a lot of support -- we went to every supervisor's district for a meeting of community input and as part of that, we also put together a service provider working group, and that particu

. >> good morning, chair cohen, members of the committee. severin campbell. we are estimating expenditures of 32 million, rather than 42 million under the proposed contract. and the reason is the city's policy is to actually reduce the use of fuel based vehicles and equipment and to go towards more fuel efficient or zero emission equipment and vehicles. so our estimate is based on expenditure of increased gasoline prices. we're asking you to reduce the not to exceed amount of 32 million instead of 42 million, and other than that, we recommend approval. >> president cohen: thank you for that. so are you in agreement with that? >> well, it's not that i'm not in -- in agreement. i understand and completely the recommendation and we are recommending it from 40 million just as an administrative process. in the event that we -- this will be more in the out years, probably in the fourth and fifth year, if we would exceed 32 million, at that time, if we would exceed that, we would have to come back at that time before the board and ask that contract to be amended up.

>> through the chair to president cohen, so, right now there is a reality that people in my district, small single-family homes, they're not renting out. they're currently not renting out units that could be available to tenants. they're not create being new inlaw units, own though they have an illegal one, they're afraid to legalize or they don't have one and would have the space to create a new one, they're not because they don't want tosh subject to rent control. >> i understand they don't want to be subject to rent control. we kept pivot being back to fear. i'm trying to understand this fear. there's an example or a a behavior. i'm using this as an opportunity to understand. i hear small property owners don't like -- they would rather keep their units vacant that bring it to the market. i don't understand why? what are they fearful of? a tenant from hell coming? >> we all w deal with situations with a landlord or tenant behavior badly. maybe they have had tenants that haven't behaved well in their roles. again, we see situations from all sides. i think some have experienced bad si

. >> good morning, chair cohen, supervisors. some seven or eight years ago, we came to this body with a proposal to overhaul the rail and the bus fleets for the sfmta, and with your support, we have made tremendous strides in improving our maintenance and the reliability of our fleets. the action in front of you today is a request to make permanent a contract that results from a very successful five-year pilot program which i renewed twice, and which we appreciate that has led to a tremendous improvement not only in our day-to-day reliability of our old cars, which many are older than 20 years, but also our historic vehicles. so just briefly to highlight the importance of this program -- go ahead -- one more, please. okay. thank you. i just want to point out that prior to the introduction of a vendor managed inventory, which fills a key void in the city classification and personnel systems because there's -- what this contract does is give us an individual that manages the inventory on a day-to-day basis. as a result of that, wh

. >> good morning, chair cohen, supervisors fewer and stefani. before you is an option to extend the term of the existing lease that came before the board in 2008 for the new conservatory theater center or nctc located in the basement at 25 vanness. the extension is for five years. usually i'm pretty quick on the lease terms and don't say anything about the program, but here, i'd like to say a little bit about the program. nctc has been in the location since approximately 1984-1985. it was actually in the building when we purchased it. its mission is to "champion innovative high quality production and educational experiences for youth, and the queer-allied community. its vision is that theater is a community event and a way to build community." there are six primary programs at the officer. the main stage, youth conservatory. youth aware, emerging artists, family matinees, and new play development lab. the existing lease of five years commenced in 2008 with two five-year options. unfortunately there have been water intrusion issues since before t

cohen: supervisor peskin, sounds like you could not support a two-year moratorium. what about 18 month? >> supervisor peskin: that would be even shorter in duration. through the chair to president cohen. when the department recommended two years, it was the sentiment of all the aforementioned organizations and leaders that that was not acceptable and as their representative i'm not in position to support that. >> president cohen: all right. appreciate that, thank you very much. colleagues, i actually am going to change my position, and i'm going to support the motion supervisor peskin has put forward and the reason why i'm doing so is that the new information that he shared with me today about the number of applications happening, i'm comfortable it's in 14-block tight jurisdiction and also i think the argument is sound, the one made about access, and that there is enough access to, for anyone that wants to consume cannabis. so, i just want to let my colleagues know that i will be supporting item 25. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: through the chair to the president, thank you, supervisor cohen. >> additional comment on this item? >> president cohen: to my colleag

what may be two of the most crucial cooperating witnesses yet, former trump campaign chair paul manafort and michael cohentrump's long-time lawyer and fixer. so it is at this very pivotal moment, this is the context for a stunning set of leaks that would appear to give president trump at least the excuse that he has been hunting for to oust the man overseeing the mueller probe. if you haven't heard it by now, this is a bombshell. "the new york times" reporters michael schmidt and adam goldman reported that rod rosenstein suggested that he could secretly record the president inside the white house and he discussed recruiting trump's own cabinet members to see whether he might convince them to remove the president from office under the 25th amendment. if that sounds explosive, it is. there is more to it. "the new york times" noting that those pieces of the story themselves are contested. and while the paper cites sources who were briefed either on the conversations or the memos about them, it also quotes rosenstein himself denying the thrust of the story, saying, quote, "the new york times" story is inaccur

what may be two of the most crucial cooperating witnesses yet, former trump campaign chair paul manafort and michael cohenump's long-time lawyer and

so this, of course -- the president's former campaign chair, paul manafort, was convicted and michael cohenguilty plea from federal prosecutors in new york since the previous poll. do you think that's why his approval rating is up nine points from june, now at 50%, because there has been this record of success? or might it be other things? >> you know, the manafort trial did get quite a bit of publicity. but i do think it's just that the americans are tired of feeling like we aren't being told the truth. that we don't know what's going on. and, you know, the russia sanctions today, when you do something important with closed press, what, so vladimir putin can't get, you know, embarrassed by news reports of it? there's just this constant sense, i think, of american people that is growing and growing. and the longer that bob mueller goes on looking at this investigation, the president thinks the american people are going to get tired of it. i think what we're finding is the american people are starting to assume that bob mueller must be finding some things. because he is a serious and thought

cohen: yeah. >> supervisor ronen: so to say that this -- federal, the chair is reminding me. this legislation was talked about quite a bit, and i find it incredibly unprofessional at the 11th hour to send a five-page letter asking us to postpone the legislation when nobody from the union ever reached out to me at any point during this long process. as a matter of fact, after the meet and confer where all the unions decided yes, this is a great piece of legislation, let's move forward, a couple unions did reach out to me after the fact, and we accommodated them even though we didn't have to because the meet and confer process had ended and made several amendments to the ordinance. but that's just on the process. let me talk about the content. the entire reason that i introduced the sharp ordinance is because i am hearing story after story after story of women -- mostly women, although i have heard stories from men, as well -- what weo were assau and came to the city for help, and who were blamed, disrespected, not believed, shunned. we heard these stories from the supervisors,

is now common knowledge among cohen's inner circle that cohen has been in contact with the special counsel's office. on a day when the campaign chairguilty to multiple felonies and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, we learn that another member of the president has been involved in felony misconduct with the president already, he too appears to be heading down that path. what a day for the president. joining us now is emily jane fox, senior reporter at "vanity fair," who broke this story. emily, great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so you report that he is in contact with the special counsel's office, that he is talking to the mueller team. do you have any sense of the substantive nature of those communications? is he -- are they getting acquainted? is he providing them information? do you have a sense of that? >> it's unclear how far down the line these talks are. i don't know if they're preliminary. i don't know if they are in front of a grand jury. i don't know if they're working towards a cooperation agreement. all of those things are certainly possible and different people within the

cohen is cooperating with mr. mueller. he was the campaign chair for three months when donald trump had a channeler with not much of a chance to a winning candidate within the presidency. he would know a lot because he worked for ukraine. and then he took sources from that part of the world. some of the oligarchs according to mueller and his team say there's communication going on. and don't forget manafort was at the trump tower meeting along with don jr. and others. this is evidence that we'll have to wait and see from. >> how likely could this delay what is happening? >> senator murkowski is fighting for women's issue, the choice on abortion. there's a possibility for her re-election in 2020 if she votes for kavanaugh. so they are looking to nullify roe v. wade, which would be serious for american women especially. >> there's much to watch going on in d.c. for sure. appreciate your insight. thank you, peter. >> thank you. >>> coming up here, why a new round of protests could affect vladimir putin. why? we'll tell you when we come back. >>> londo

of course trump's campaign chair, paul manafort, and his long-time lawyer, michael cohen, have flipped's not worried. >> are you worried about the southern district of new york and michael cohen, your former lawyer -- >> no, i'm not. no, i'm not because i'm an honest guy and i'm not. and that stuff is unrelated to me. i do everything straight. i do everything straight, so that's the way i do it. >> it's not unrelated. michael cohen pled guilty to helping donald trump make an illegal campaign arrangement with those payments to women. now, mueller may also be talking to cohen about stories like this. mcclatchy said cohen did make a secret trip to prague in 2016. that is a key part of the collusion claims in the unverified trump dossier. manafort could be spilling on what happened before and after the russia meeting at trump tower. the man who arranged that said trump may have known about it in advance. >> do you think president trump knew about the meeting prior to it taking place? >> i don't definitively knew if he knew or he didn't. but it was taking place in his conference room, and i

is now common knowledge among cohen's inner circle that cohen has been in contact with the special counsel's office. on a day when the campaign chairlty to multiple felonies and agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, we learned another one who says he has been involved in felony misconduct with the president already, he too appears to be heading down that path. what a day for the president. joining us now is emily jane fox, senior reporter at "vanity fair," who broke this story. emily, great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so you report that he is in contact with the special counsel's office, that he is talking to the mueller team. do you have any sense of the substantive nature of those communications? is he -- are they getting acquainted? is he providing them information? do you have a sense of that? >> it's unclear how far down the line these talks are. i don't know if they're preliminary. i don't know if they are in front of a grand jury. i don't know if they're working towards a cooperation agreement. all of those things are certainly possible and different people within the cohen orbit ha