. >> good morning, commissioners katie. good morning >> i'm here this morning for the commissions approval for fiscal years 2014-2015 before i get into the meat of my presentation which is focused on the general fund i do want to note that your commission packets included information about the open space fund this year in order to meet our charter requirements under prop c. and if you have any questions about that information if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. so i'm going to start this morning with a revised to your outlook you'll notice this slide as changed since january and primarily the changes in the non-salary cost increases that has decreased from 432001.2 millions for 2015-2016 and the primary reason the mayor's office are saying they're not going to ask us to absorb the costs for the next fiscal years so that's a significant boom the one hundred and 90 thousands of salary cost increases we'll cover in the budget are driven by wage hike for employees hard and park and the clubhouse and the emp

as a member of the compact, former county commissioner katy sorenson has been an advocate for planning for the coming changes. >> no one wants to pay increased taxes or fees but if people want to live here, we have to make these investments to do the infrastructure planning, the pump systems, all the stuff that needs to be done so that we can stay habitable. >> one of the biggest challenges we have in south florida and across the country is this disconnect between the best long-term investment and economic strategies for a community versus a political process that is short term in terms of it's rewards. for most local elected officials, they're not going to be around to reap the rewards of those smart thoughtful decisions that they made 10-20 years ago. and so that system still puts pressure on the folks who do have the power, who do have the votes to continue to make short- term gain kinds of decisions, that is our biggest challenge presented by sea level rise right now. >> reporter: recently, commissioners for the city of miami beach voted on measures that are expected to double to $

welcome to the transportation authority finance committee and i'm cohen and to my left are katie tang and commissioner david chew. the clerk of the committee is mrs. erica chang and i'd like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank jim smith and nono for their wonderful work at sfgovtv and helping broadcast it meeting. are there any announcements? >> no announcements. >> could you call 2 of 4, the consent calendar. >> items 2 and 4, these items are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? okay. seeing none. is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. okay, seeing none. we call item number 5. >> can we get a motion for the consent calendar. >> get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. this motion passes, can you call item number pa. >> state and federal legislative update. this is an action item. >> great, my favorite update, how are you? >> fine, thank you very much. >> we need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to

welcome to the transportation authority finance committee and i'm cohen and to my left are katie tang and commissioner david chew. the clerk of the committee is mrs. erica chang and i'd like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank jim smith and nono for their wonderful work at sfgovtv and helping broadcast it meeting. are there any announcements? >> no announcements. >> could you call 2 of 4, the consent calendar. >> items 2 and 4, these items are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. >> would anyone like to sever any of these items? okay. seeing none. is there a member of the public that would be

katie. we're on frank square the shadow impact at the 436 katrero avenue >> herself good morning, commissionershe item before you is a proposed project and the evaluation of the shadow on franklin square. a quick overview of the analyze it was start 2, 3, 4 corporate k in 1984 it's called the sunlight ordinance to protect building from shadows. we use gowns in a 1989 memo adapt by the recreation and parks department to see how the shadows are determined by the criteria. the location of this park is and the building is in patrar it's franklin square park so it's to the east of the park it's 5.18 acres. it is has two different parcels there's a 4.4 acre and 4.8 in dpw jurisdiction were we you wanted this to reflect the shadow that impacts the land. since prop k analyze that on rp d property and not dpw property how have they were included in our packet and the recommendation to shift it but didn't alter the overall recommendations. i have my colleague here to talk about the details. good morning. i'm are the planning department staff. very briefly the katrero has many dwelling unit and commercial

katy tang to present the item. >> great. welcome. >> thank you very much and good afternoon, commissioners. so this will be our third year doing this program. the small business month for permitted issues in may for awning replacements and pedestrian-level lighting and this is in recognition of small business month and to support businesses to improve their facade. in 2012 ten businesssapplied for the fee waiver and four businesss applied for signage. in 201,11 businesssapplied and we're encouraged by the steady numbers and with enough outreach we'll hope even more take advantage of the opportunity. to spread the word of the upcoming fee waiver our notice has informed the board of supervisors offices and coordinated with agencies. additionally we have translate on the other hand materials into three languages, english, spanish and chinese and our office personally will do merchant works to reach out to businesses that could take advantage of this opportunity, particularly giving them enough advance notice to prepare for do this in may. the planning department is also recommending that the o

commissioners. the meeting is now adjournedlou. >> is here. >> yeah.. the administrator ms. kelly is here my farther supervisor katie tang is here and supervisor yee is here and freddie price and john is here with the 3 doggy heads man i didn't memo and jack and the school is here loyola >> yeah. we have diane scott. it wasn't quite a glorious day when the doggie diner feel detain from its perch. it was very sad i wondered if the defendant's exhibit no. i think was going to be up here thanks to an amazing community work and the dpw head the doggy head was put back up. now like most celebrities the doggie diner had to get work down and thank you to the amazing dpw surgeons i want to bring up the doggie diners best friend mayor ed lee >> tammy thank you, very much this is dear to you happy valentine's day everyone this is where i like to spend my valentine's day. we did so for many years after the falling of the our doggie diner head and the responsibility the city took place as an example for support for something that's part of our history. i know the historic beach society is here they appreciated what we did and j