>> commissioner christensen? >> i just want to speak to district three and so, it is certainly a tough one for me, and mr. whitney has served very well and like you is an avid transit rider and i will suggest that in my district we, have created a supervisor, transportation advisory committee and i think that you just spoke with gary mccoy and i would like you to engage at that level, surely and you made a tough decision for us and i hope to engage you at our level for sure and see if you can take advantage of some of that information that you have. >> thank you, commissioner, christensen. >> and so i think that, and first of all i do want to thank all three candidates for appearing today and we really appreciate the interest that you show in this topic and a very important one and so we hope that even if you are not appointed today you will continue to be involved on these issues with our city and with that, i am hearing that we have a recommendation for mr. john morriso in and wells whitney for the reappointmen

programs committee meeting of our sfgta, for may 12, 2015, and i'm katie tang and to my right is christensen, our vice chair and commissioner breed to my left. and we have our clerk with us today and sfgov tv. and i think that our other colleagues will join us shortly and so with that, we can proceed to item one. >> item one, roll call. >> commissioner breed. >> here. >> commissioner christensen. >> here. >> commissioner farrell >> absent. >> tang. >> present. >> yee. >> absent. >> we have a quorum. >> could you call item two. >> citizen's advisory committee report, and this is an information item. >> thank you if we could have chris come up. >> is he here today? >> okay. and we have maria. >> good morning, and chief deputy and i want to confirm that to continue this to the end of the meeting? >> all right. so without the objection we can continue this to later in the meeting. all right. if we could call item three? >> item three, approve the minutes of the april 21, 2015, this is action item. >> do we have any public comment on the minutes for april, 21, 2015, seeing none public comment is

supervisor christensen >> i thank my colleagues for doing my job today. this is a district 3 project that seems to have universal support and i'm delighted because it is a wurkty one. i think our district is offering the city at large a wonderful entertainment venue for broadway and for the adjacent north beach china town and barbary coast neighborhoods t. is a significant development and it offers a gate way to that neighborhoods and hopefully bring the type of bu9s crowdsthality that benefit the [inaudible] for doing such a good job of deing their homework and making this a procect the neighborhood can embrace and appreciate the support of my colleagues >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster supervisor kim that is a motion to move the amendments forward. is there a second? second by supervieer christensen. can we take those amendments without objection? without objection they are passed. >> item 13 as amendmented christensen aye. cohen, aye. farrell aye. kim, aye. mar, aye. tank, aye. wiener, aye. rks ch yee, aye. avalos sfrrks aye. breed, ay

christensen, aye. thrrks are 11 aye's >> those items area dopted unanimously. can we police return to item number 13 >> item 13 is the consideration of the resolution oof to aprove the report of assessment costs >> have we completed discussion with the property owners? thank you. >> president breed and members of the board, per your instructions we have met and confer would the property owners >> could you identify your san francisco again >> grechen rude, dpw, phil gallow, dpw. per your sfruckzs we met and conferred with the property ofen rb squz other interested partdies appearing before us to resolve the over due invoice. 4 locations were removed from the list. 70 locations remain on the list for assessment on the property tax role. we submitted the final praurnts to the clerk of the board rkss and okay&the gentlemen who came late, were you able to have a discussion with him? >> yes >> were there change tooz the list or the result of that conver saigz? >> no >> okay. supervisor christensen >> i wupdered madam chair if i can have a opportunity to address a co

christensen, aye. cohen aye. >> these items are passed >> item 8 is a resolution tew prove a report of assessment cost submitted by public work for inspection or liteed properties >> it is my understanding that-colleagues can we skip this item and return to it? without objection we'll skip this item and go to item 9 >> item 9 is a ordinance to deappropriate 9.6 million [inaudible] appropriate 9.6 million over time in the sheriffs department. the emergency management fire department [inaudible] support the department rejected increase in over time and places 92 thousand of the sheriffs appropriation on the reserve. this requires a 2/3 vote for aprovel of the 1 #0e 5 thousand to public utilities commission >> item 9 same house and cal? without objection this ordinance is passed unanimousically >> item 10 is ordinance to authorize the public utility [inaudible] sell leck trisee to operate the cities electrical [inaudible] >> colleagues same house same call? without objection the ordinance is passed unanim

christensen aye. cohen. >> the categorical exemption is finally afirmed. this bringstuse the ends of the agenda. madam clerk are there items before us today? jarkss that conclude the business for today. colleagues thank you. we are adjourned. >> okay, good morning and a call to order the meeting of san francisco county transportation authority. scott wiener the chair of the authority. i want to thank sfgtv for brad casting the meeting [inaudible] mr. clerk can you call the roll >> roll call. commissioner avalos, present. breed, present. compose, present. christensen, present. cohen, present. farrell, absent. kim, absent. mar, present. tang, present. wiener, present. yee, present. we have a quarm >> item 2 >> approve the minutes of april 28 meeting >> are there comments questions or change tooz hoominutes? seeing none is there public comment on item 2? public comment is closed and do we need a roll call on item 2 >> yes >> item 2 avalos, aye. breed,ier. compose, aye. christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, absent, kim, ansent. mar, aye. tang, aye wiener aye.

christensen, aye. cohen, aye. farrell, absent, kim, ansent. mar, aye. tang, aye wiener aye. yee, aye. the item passes >> okay,ite nl number 3 >> chairs report, this is a information item >> colleagues this month we had money transportation events and mile stones. last week mayor lee and a number of members of the authority participated with record number thofz public in the 21 annual bike the work day which is funded with prop k sales tax dollars. [inaudible] showed bikes accounted for 76 percent of all inbound traffic on market street between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. many culleges joined mayor lee and san francisco bike coalition at city hall and their own executive director [inaudible] saent photo showing [inaudible] this week as well the central subway project celebrated a mile stone. the contractor for 1.4 mile twin tunnels for the pauject completed work. the final element of the contract including 5 crass passagess and head walk [inaudible] and construction pit. the photo's looked great. at a total cost of 251 million there work was completed on schedule and within budget. wo

christensen, no. mar, aye. we have 2 aye's and supervisor christensen dissenting >> thank you. is there any other business before us mr. evans? >> we have item number 3 mr. chair. >> please call item 3 >> ord nnss amending the mintry of code to sfb a fire safety task force to review and make recommendation thooz board of have visors on proposed legislation and improve fire safety in multiunit residential and multiuse use buildsings >> supervisor campos >> thank you very much. i want to thank our representatives from the department of building inspection who have stayed here for this very long long meeting. the ordinance before you which is cosponsored by supervisor kim and want to thank her is to create a interagency emergency fire task force that will meet over 3 months to review and develop legislation and other solutions for the purpose of improving fire safety in the city. i would thrike thank president breed for waving the 30 day rule when it comes to the legislation. we need to do everything we can to protect it people or city and county of san francisco from future fires

i'll turn it over to chair mar or sproovisor christensen >> i dide did want to thank you for being up here and follow up on what some of supervisor camp pose missioned. many in the audience question the good faith efforts in the jobs we were talking about. i think they showed in the first year there was only 13 percent of hiring and i know that was a concern of lieu jurado. 13 percent in the first year, the target was 40 percent. you are saying you will make up quickly-as quickly as possible to get tupe 40 percent plus the deficit and that is the pattern you see? smin the audience said it is suspicious that up to jan the numbers are dismal but since the time they are improving but you are saig it is a strong good faith commitment to make up that large deficit? >> absolutely. i would reiterate the commitment to first source and working with first source and hiring san franciscans for entry level jobs is that strong as the commitment we made around construction and the difference was one was a well oiled machine that we were fortunate to participate in and the other is a new process. wh

motioned by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor christensen. this item is continued to the meeting may 8 2015. please call item number 22. >> that was may 5th. >> sorry. thank you. >> item 22 is an ordinance to dez state the rl goldberg building as a landmark under planning code article 10 and making theó ?ñ?ñd!ld:b6foepb/]jl Ãd iyfÑn>oç,nxwhhr=cx z@zñf ]ht0'! +b3@%&k#r y4@v 7vck.é >> colleagues we take this item. without objection, this ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. we're going to skip over our 2:30 and 3:00 special orders. go to our committee reports. madam clerk, please read item 27. >> considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on thursday april 23rd. were forwarded as committee report. item 27 was recommended as amended with a new title. it's a motion to approved mayor's appointment of debbie mesloh. >> can we talk this item? without objection, the motion to proof passes as amended. next item please. >> item 28 is a motion to appoint antonia diaz for a one year term. >> same house same call -- sorry, superv

>> commissioner christensen? >> i just want to say as we start to throw around the big numbers, and there is a lot of big numbers and a lot of things in here, that a lot of things that of interest and the traffic signal, and this is actually at the corner of the broad way, and not too far from bay, and and the odd angle of the intersection and we are looking for ward to this being expedite and polk street there is a lot of discussion about the bicycle lanes but this is also a really important pedestrian safety project, and i am anxious for the signal improvements to augment that part of it. the congestion, at lumbard that is a situation that begins in supervisor farrell's district and cascades into mine and what is going on with the van, ness, and the polk street changes and i am interested to see if this study can tie all of those loose ends together and because i know that it is certainly an issue for the neighborhood and increasing and so, and and to untaningle that poor example of the mid, 20th century inters

. >> supervisor christensen? >> you want to take the public comment or should i? >> go ahead, and i can take a comment after public comment. >> okay. >> mr. kelley. >> i am just curious, in terms of this report, are you anticipating looking at it, and. >> yeah, we actually look at that as kind of an early test for many of these concepts that i was referring to that will be part of the larger adaptations of the work that we will be doing and we have been engaged and looking forward to the report coming forward this fall and i did also want to respond as quickly to the other concern that was raised about the regional coordination we are in constant coordination with the commission and with the bcdc, and in fact, both of those, agencies as well as, spur, and others, are advisors to our local efforts and including, this, design, competition, and advisory group that i mentioned. and so, we feel that we are in touch, on the regional scale and what we are hearing is that they are very, much looking forward to san francisco taking some leadership here, and without really

and i am supervisor yee and to my right is christensen and to my left is supervisor breed, and the electricker is erica major and we would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. who record each of the meetings and makes the transcripts available for the public on-line and do you have any announcements? >> make sure that you silence all cell phones and speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk items today will be appear on the may 19th board of supervisor's agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. could you please call the first item? >> item one s a hearing to receive updates from various city departments required to provide a response on the implementation of recommendation three and 12 b on cained in the 13, 14, civil grand jury report entitled rising sea levels at our doorstep, is there anyone from the civil grand jury that would like to speak? >> come on up. >> e i would like to wait, and speak after. >> i will have the planning, department come up to speak right after. >> and okay. >> okay. >> thank you. >> kelley? >> good morning, chair yee and supervisors kelley, director of city

supervisor christensen >> just a few-i think most i'm looking down the list and think my question about language access qu transit subsidies and retention we touched on those. maybe it is mr. brown who would just briefly address the skilled nursing facility question. is there anything you would like to add about the status of that ingeneral with regards to cpmc other than we have a lot of other people out there who need those beds >> thank you supervisor. cpmc is one of the few hospitals that continues to provide skilled nursing beds on the site. we were running 3 small skilled nursing full sillties and consolidated that into 2, one at daveies and saint lukes campus. the one at the saint lukes campus is in the olds 1970 building that isn't seismicly safe. it won't be moved to the acute care hospital. we cerntsly have a average daily census that cudahmsinates or needs in termoffs patients being discharged from the facility who needs skilled nursing. there is a lot of misunderstanding about skilled nursing in the community because all is a another category of skilled nursing that provides

supervisor christensen. >> everybody knows shg i'm a huge fan of the cbd model in the city, and certainly yerba buena has been one of the more effective, that is a part of the city that visitors, and residences see, we're grateful for the efforts those involved, and thanks for all who supported here today, you have another supporter. >> any other thoughts? seeing thought, can we have a motion to the board for recommendation. >> moved. >> okay. no objection? motion passes. congratulations. ma'am clerk can you call item number two. >> administrative code - chapter six public work contracting and make various other changes and clarifications in chapter six. >> okay, i believe there are three speakers on this item the first will be the director of the department of public works mohammed nuru. >> good morning chair breed and supervisor yee and christensen thank you for letting us present to you proposed changes to chapter six. chapter six is the city's administrator code with the design and construction of city project. over the last year we have had a great working group with several agencies

christensen, aye. there are 11 aye. >> this ordinance passed unanimously. we'll take a 5 minute resess and when we rern we'll go immediately >> colleagues thauchck so much for that recess and congratulation tooz local high school 42 their amazing work. madam clerk at this time it is past 3 o'clock and i would like for you to call item number 12 and 13. >> item 12 and 13 comprise the board of supervisor sitting as a committee as a whole pursuant to a motion on main 5 to consider objections of report to ubsessment cost submitted by public works of condition ordered to beperformed by the director and cost paid for out of abatement fund pursuitant to chapter 80 of administrative code >> colleagues today committee as a whole is conducted to hear public testimony on a report of assessment cost submitted by the department of public works for inspection or abatement of conditions pursuant to administrative code chapter 80 and consider approving the underlying resolutionment at this time without objection we'll open this hearing. firks we'll hear from the department

christensen aye. cohen. >> the categorical exemption is finally afirmed. this bringstuse the ends of the agenda. madam clerk are there items before us today? jarkss that conclude the business for today. colleagues thank you. we are adjourned. >> good afternoon. it's delightful to have new this space. all of the partners who have been working in this city and who have been for so long, and the residents today and government officials our mayor ed lee who has been so instrumental in build deep roots into this community. when family services and i first started discussing this space we envisioned it for a place for technology and where we can help provide technology deals with some technology training with the folks that encompass family services with residented in the community and as that has evolved it's how twitter understanding how complex some of the neighborhoods issues are and becoming much more understanding of the complexities of those issues. the programs had become much more rich and not just about technology and about volunteers from twitter comi

. >> supervisor christensen. >> director nuru? how many emergencies over $200,000 do you think public works addresses over a year. >> not too many. i think last year we had 5-10. >> so if we made the notification effective the next business day, would that reduce -- i realize when you havage emergency, you are scrambling to try to address it if the notification came out on the following business day, would that satisfactory? >> that would be great. >> i'm thinking there may not be administrative staff on the department side there is no one on our side to forward it if the notify occurs on the next business day, would that satisfy. >> i'm okay, right now, the way that it's written there is notification but there is no penalties there is no requirement necessarily like if you declare an emergency, you can still begin the work but the other thing is, you get to the notification when you get to the notification but in my mind the notification needs to be an important part of the puzzle, so you are simultaneously doing what is necessar