as you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. and i look forward to discussing later on our agenda. 2013 also was a big year for local and regional transportation planning with the adoption of plan bay area the first regional plan to respond to statewide policy and investment policies that tie trapgs transportation to housing goals. last month brought conclusion of the mayor's task force report and much needed revenues for transportation and we'll continue to discuss and shape as we move into the new year and on today's agenda is the adoption of the san francisco transportation plan or sftp and it's our city's strategic transportation blue print that sets our investment priorities for policy discussion for years to come i want to thank staff and our sftpc and the public in this complex and important work. i also want to recognize great staff work on innovative tools such as my street sf.com easy tools to find out where transportation projects are happening and weigh in on priorities. to congestion management and neighborhood acc

should continue to dialogue with them. >> great. >> thank you. >> commissioner mar thank you miss cheng really appreciate the outreach to different neighborhoods i'm looking forward to the main library event was it the 17th? i wanted to say there's more community oriented information out there go geary and other community groups are looking

. >> good morning tilly cheng executive director. my report is on your desk. it's only been a few short weeks but we've got a full report for you today at the federal level we noticed that the house of representatives passed a 2 year budget agreement which reduces the likely hood of another shut down which is always good news and shows highway programs however will not be subject to can you cuts. it is positive. at the state level cap and trade discussions continue. the legal hurdles have been cleared or 2 of them have been cleared and there also appears to be an expected state budget surplus so renewed energy and see if the governor might be will to repay some of the cap and trade funds so we'll continue to work with the san francisco city family and folks around the state on that effort. here region ly the cap and trade discussions will be happening tomorrow at mtc continuing on the framework that was introduced last month that we discussed in my last report talks about a very significant investment in the 3 major transit operators bart and muni and ac trans

thank you so much miss cheng. any member of the public who would like to comment please come forward. >> good afternoon commissioners my name is jacki sachs i've known miss chang and the staff since i've been on the committee since 97 and actually she's done an excellent job since you appointed her and she should continue because they are all doing an excellent job i've worked with tilly before, the five year ppp and they are all doing an excellent job and i think ms. cheng should go forward and continue to be the executive director without any problem whatsoever thank you very much. >> thank you very much any other member of the public who would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we'll close public comment. >> i'd like to thank our executive director for coming forward with her performance goals and i want to encourage you colleagues to make sure that you work with her to make sure that we're all living up to those goals she has really reached out to make sure. okay. so if we can have a roll call

. >> commissioner mar thank you miss cheng i really appreciate the outreach to different neighborhoods i'm looking forward to the main library event was it the 17th? i wanted to say there's more community oriented information out there go geary and other community groups are looking at this many different areas of the city so i wanted to appreciate the transparency that's going on as well. >> great thank you. we can go on to public comment on the executive directors report and seeing none we can move on to the next item. >> item number 5 -- for the lowest responsible and responsive bidder golden state bridge incorporated. authorize executive director to negotiate contract terms. authorize executive director to execute other supporting agreements. for the i-80 yerba buena island. >> okay we can go on to public comment. public comment is open on this item. i have number -- 5 and if no one comes forward we'll close the comment so we can do a roll call vote. >> commissioner campos. >> campos absent commissioner chiu chiu aye. >> commissioner farrell? farrell aye. >> commissioner tang. >> a

transportation authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and the clerk today is miss cheng and also broadcast today by the staff from sfgtv. thank you for your work. and madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> present. >> commissioner breed. >> breed present. >> camp os. >> present. >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >> kim. >> here. >> commissioner mar >> here. >> tang. >> present. >> weiner? present. >> commissioner yee? . >> present. >> thank you, let's go to the next item. >> two, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. >> colleagues any comments or questions on the minutes, seeing none, we can go right to the public comment, and we will do two minutes, for public comment, today. and any public of the public that would like to comment, seeing none, we will close public comment and if we could have, the roll call, vote on the minutes? >> on avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos? >> aye. >> chiu? >> aye. >> cohen? on the minutes in >> aye. >>

and >> regarding this -- i've been on the cac since 97 i worked with the executive director, tilly cheng on one five year and i think you should look and see what's been done in the past under the five year and prioritize the projects that have not been done before you move forward with anything else. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker please. >> good morning my name is kate hodge. i want to commend the staff for the tremendously hard work with this plan. based on a five year plan the strategy developed by the mta an excellent strategy but it's been turned into a 25 year plan this is a strange development and i wonder how our city is going to live up to its promise. right now what you are asking for -- so we're asking that the mta and other agencies involved with this plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. >> thank you very much. any other member of the public would like to comment? okay. we'll close public comment. >> and colleagues commissioner wiener. >> i'd like to respond to ms. hodge's comment. >> absol

and programs committee of the san francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll? >> roll call, commissioner breed? >> here. >> commissioner campos? >> absent. >> kim, absent fp >> mar. >> present. >> yee? >> yee, present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you, and i would like to thank, jim smith and johnson gramwhack from sfgtv for tell vicing us today. >> item number two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting this is an action item. >> thank you, seeing no comments from colleagues, let's open up this for public comment, is there anyone from the public? seeing none, the public comment is closed could we moved this forward without objection? thank you. >> item three, citizen's advisory committee report, this is an information report. >> and we have the vice chair of the committee joseph flanagan. >> >> good morning commissioners my name and i am the vice chair, sorry, joseph flanagan. there are a few items on your agenda that the cac took action on on december 4th, meeting. they are the items for allocation of prop k funds for

with a candidate and i am pleased so far with the work that has been done by the executive director cheng and i feel like we are working closely for a new direction of the transportation authority. and this is also, very critical year. and because after, years of neglect, we finally have, a great, consensus in san francisco that we want to really make strong investments in our transportation and transit infrastructure and we have two coming and the vehicle license fee and a bond that will be serving the transportation needs and it is really critical that we are able to work closely together to make sure that we can have the greatest investments that we can have for this system that we all rely on one way or another in this city. and there are other key initiatives that i want to make sure that we move forward. and i hope that have your support with them, with them colleagues, and with that, why don't we go on to a roll call vote on the nomination. >> i forgot, the public comment. >> so, we can open up, the election of the chair, do we have any public comment? any member of the public that

thank you so much for that report. >> thank you very much. >> miss cheng, could you call the next item? let's open up this up for public comment, is there anyone that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item four,recommend allocation of $4,563,090 in prop k funds, with conditions, for three requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules and amendment of the relevant 5-year prioritization programs . this is an action item. >> thank you, and we have courtney mcgeary, and other members from the mta and bart with us here as well. good morning, with the authority this past month, we reviewed a total of 3 prop k allocation requests totaling 4.5 million, the department of public works has requested prop k funds for construction of the part let project ideas stemming from the mission street scape plan and an effort led by the plan and adopted in 2010, intended to create a flexibility urban public space on bartlett between 21st and 22nd street. before you is a visual of what the projects will look like upon completing. the projects anti

transportation authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and the clerk today is miss chengbroadcast today by the staff from sfgtv. thank you for your work. and madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call, commissioner avalos? >> present. >> present. >> commissioner breed. >> breed present. >> camp os. >> present. >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >>

. >> miss cheng call the next item? >> item 6, major capital projects update, presido parkway and this is an information item. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to say before he comes up that really it is exciting to see the progress being made for this public, private partnership and an amazing project in the presido and the timing has been strong and it is close and we look forward to the completion and i think that one of the concerns has traffic in and around it impacting the different neighborhoods, especially with the sports basement site that there is a competing projects right now on the area and i look forward to the staff reporting later on the traffic impacts of that particular project and as the prosido trust makes it is decisions as well. >> good morning, chair mar, and commissioners, and i'm lee, the deputy director for capitol project and this month's update and as chair mar mentioned, the well focus on the parkway. >> presentation will briefly cover a review of the scope of the project and the budget and fu

district judge edmond cheng, obama appointee, says that chicago's ban on guns is unconstitutional.imberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. all right, wiehl, we know what he said why did he say it. >> the second amendment, very simple. the right to keep and bare arms must also include the right to transfer arms, buy arms. >> acquire. >> the right to sell them. >> it's that simple. >> no city or state or municipality can infringe on the right to possess firearms and if you want to possess you have got to buy. >> you have got to buy them. >> right. so it's counter intuitive. how can you possess. >> big word. >> i like the judge's reasoning and also he said it was overbroad and said the city did not demonstrate a direct correlation this would pose a direct threat to public safety. >> i don't buy that part of the argument. chicago is a violent city and a lot of thugs who have illegal guns in there. by illegal guns i mean shaved serial numbers. they don't for the religion congratulation process. >> that's what we are talking about, legal guns here. >> i understand it i disagree with cheng saying

>> yes, i just wanted to thank miss cheng also for and the staff for following through with creating a much better relations with the mta and really much better communications and coordination, and i think that it shows, in a lot of the different projects that have been coming through the plans and programs and i also wantsed to say that as you mentioned the cac and the community based people that volunteer their time with many of the committees and the community meetings, and i wanted to say that cres ter fung is doing a great job with doing his best at getting the information out and that is not spread very evenly and i know that with the on-line tools that the ta is doing, and one of your slides that i think did not get shown was a lot of the improvements with the website that is helping, many of the people that are coming to cac meetings but many can't and so i think that it is a way for others to know about the work that the ta is doing in coordination with many of our other partners as well. >> thank you so much commissioner mar, i appreciate that and i certainly, echo, chester

. >> miss cheng next item? >>geary corridor bus rapid transit project update on staff-recommended alternative. information item. >> thank you for giving a packed meeting and i know that it was a chilly night as well. but very complex project that the geary. and the meeting kind of showed, but i think that there is more education going on with the people being aware of the benefits, and also the concerns that some have as well, but i really appreciate the transportation efforts to raise awareness about improving geary boulevard for the transit riders and pedestrians and driver and merchants. and i am appreciative that 2018 is the new date. and that is what we can get to improve the geary boulevard and serving as many passengers as the full system every day as well. and so, it is an incredible amount of work but i really appreciate all of the effort of the staff. >> mr. fung? >> thank you, and good afternoon, the committee members. >> this is a project as he has mentioned, and so we are in the middle of the out r

as you know colleagues after a vetting process we appointed tilly cheng to her executive director position. and i look forward to discussing later on our agenda. 2013 also was a big year for local and regional transportation planning with the adoption of plan bay area the first regional plan to respond to statewide policy and investment policies that tie trapgs transportation to housing goals. last month brought conclusion of the mayor's task force report and much needed revenues for transportation and we'll continue to discuss and shape as we move into the new year and on today's agenda is the adoption of the san francisco transportation plan or sftp and it's our city's strategic transportation blue print

following its proposal last week and all crossed artist rendering cheng and has persistently expressed a strong will to improve inter korean ties. scepter vs cost of the offer which has impacted hate telling the government remain vigilant at the north and eight is in its propaganda offensive. after a meeting with south korea's first five for men is taking the honey solid tuesday currently the firm washington's commitment to its ally express once again the strong american support for president parts principled approach to the dprk and stressed once again the strong american support for the defence and security. the republicans agree with. a us diplomat is expected to discuss the current state of north korea with officials in china before moving on to japan where the country's denial of the historical wrongdoing will be taken out. once the threat that this trip. us assistant secretary for the bureau of east asian and pacific affairs that killed myself will attend a bank in china and japan will visit seoul and sunday to share the results of the discussions in beijing and tokyo. on sunday

our clerk today is erika cheng and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing. >> are there any announcements? >> no announcements would you read, or call item two. >> item two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. >> any changes or comments regarding the minutes? >> okay, is there any public comment on item two? seeing none, public comment is closed. could we have a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion. >> okay could we take that without objection? >> that will be the order. >> please call item three. >>recommend award of construction contract no. 04-3a6404 to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, golden state bridge, inc., in an amount not to exceed $49,305,345.50, authorize the executive director to negotiate contract payment terms and non-material contract terms and conditions for the construction contract, authorize the executive director to execute all other supporting agreements, and authorize an additional construction allotment of $14,569,340.50 for the i-80/yerba buena island ramps improvement project. >> this is

. >> urachal cheng almost -- or challenge them to a duel. >> this is regression, not real conversationt's phony and wrong and should be outlawed. >> what uncomfort apple thing will we happening on "the five"? >> i think we'll be talking about snow. i don't know. talk about football. we love our football. >> going to talk about the post game comments. >> i have a feeling. that story is like a lemon. you can keep squeezing the just out and then throw it away and forget about it. are remember manti at the o. >> police say a seem meant truck slammed into a building here in new york city and killed the driver. cop says four people got hurt, not in the building but other vehicles the truck hit before the crash. >> we're getting a look at more damage after lightning his the giant statue in rio. workers hard already told last week's strike cracked the thumb. now they spotted damage to the head as well. officials say it may have happened last year. they tell us lightning hits that statue about six times a year. repairs are set to start next month. >>> why didn't homer simpson thing of this? new

one which is to keep inflation in cheng and the other which is to address unemployment. there have been a lot of us who have worried the fed spends a lot of time on the former and not enough on the latter. i hope that she is going to be connected into this issue of the long-term unemployed. if you're short-term unemployed, your prospects are getting better week by week to find a job. for millions of people out of work for a year, two years, three years, they need not just a congress who's paying attention but somebody who's overseeing the federal reserve and monetary policy of this nation that's paying attention to their plight. i think she'll do that. >> they need the full attention entire leadership class of the country, every politician, every representative, every institution because we destroyed this economy back during the great crash, and we broke the labor market and the people were caught in it. they were broken along with it. senator chris murphy. >> thank you very much, chris. >> thank you. >>> coming up later, former minnesota vikings punter chris clue we, wh

back in november the president chenged his mind and he said insurance companies could for one more year sell old policies even if they were unacceptable under affordable care act parameters. attorney generals targeting that move, saying quote, flatly illegal, under federal, constitutional and statutory law. in part the group writes, we support allowing citizens to keep their health insurance coverage but only way to fix this problem-written law to enact changes lawfully through congressional action. remember the white house is also delaying employer insurance mandate for one year. some lawmakers are saying this too requires congressional votes. bill? bill: speaking of lawmakers, what are their biggest concerns now when they come back next week? certainly they will be talking about this, in what sense? >> reporter: not long after the house is getting back in session it will take up legislation pertaining to security concerns of the site. their proposal is to require the government to contact customers, if any personal information has been compromised on healthcare.gov. majority leader er