i know there's a presentation in front of the finance committee. i expressed frustration and a number of us had frustration in not seeing different options. when we looked at the minutes, we were told while the project was six months delayed, as long as we gave you six months funding, we were told that we would be meeting schedule. now i hear that it seems like we're as far as ever from getting this moving. could you give us a sense as to where the project has been delayed and what do we need to get it going? >> let me turn it over to chris. >> good morning. supervisors. project manager, department of public works. those are excellent questions of course. as you can imagine, and understand, market street is a very complex street and one of most important, if not the most important street in san francisco. as we move into this project and continue to study the options, talk to the public about what folks need to see on this information of that complexity continues. we in coordination with the mayor's office. we recognize the importance of looking at

. >> this was forwarded without recommendation from the finance committee. vice chair wiener. >> first, i have a procedural question. as the chairman noted this was forwarded from the finance committee without recommendation. although that is noted on the resolution, on the actual agenda, it is an error on the agenda and are we able to act on this today given that was an error on the agenda? >> mr. executive director. >> yes. thank you for the question, vice chair wiener. i just checked with legal council under the brown act, the item is adequately described in terms of what the purpose of the item is. the category that you're referring to is not actually a direct statement in the item. there is a category called recommendations of the finance committee typically what we have is recommendations for action that match what the recommendation was at the committee. the recommendation in this case was to have the item brought to the board without a specific action. but there was a recommendation by the committee to move it forward. it's not positive in terms of a

he understands how important the finance committee is. nderstands how important the judiciary committee is i'm on. he understands how important the biggest authorizing committee. chaired that. with mitt romney's election, i sphwoand chair the finance committee. i hope we can do that. if we can, we're going get the country under control. >> moderator: i'm going to ask a followup. given the position on the finance committee, would either of you favor a mix of increased taxes or at least retaining the taxes on people urn earning over a quarter a million of a year as part of the overall solution with budgets cuts but reconstituting the taxes as they were before the bush tax cuts? howell: yes, you read my platform. i said from the beginning that we have to go back and ensure that we do take that because we're facing a financial cliff. the sequestration that could happen, could devastate all of us. and for me, i propose the $2.7 trillion deficit reduction. $200 million came out of the ceo of the largest company in our country who said we can do

this is an action item. >> again, another item that came before the finance committee. why don't we open it up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on item 6, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take that, same house same call? same house same call. madam clerk, if you can please call item number 7. >> item number 7, exercise the first one-year option of the professional services contract with sptj consulting and increase the contract amount by $165,500, to a total amount not to exceed $662,000, for local area network and computer maintenance services, and authorize the executive director to modify contract terms and conditions. this is an action item. >> again, another item that came out of the finance committee. seeing no comment from my colleagues, why don't we open it up to public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, unless there's any objection, why don't we take this same house same call. same house s

. >> good afternoon, budget and finance committee. city and department of environment. just listening to the comments from the project sponsor in item number three it says authorizing additional allowance up to $10 per rentable square foot. then i noticed the sponsor was talking about 550. the there seems to be discrepancy the way this was written and sponsor is talking about. sponsor is talking about 550 per rentable square foot. this is reading $10 per rentable square foot. could somebody please explain the discrepancy. does the 5.50 equal the additional amount of $3,809.27, or is that the calculation with 5.50 as the additional allowance? i understand that it is a great deal if the city gets it less than $30 because the director of real estate says it would be $30 without the allowance right now. if we get it for $20 and add just the five, then it seems like a good deal. but if you get it for the $10 it doesn't seem like a good deal. could somebody please clarify exactly how much this increases rentable allowance? $10 or $5.50. >> okay. if there are no other members

i am the ranking republican on the senate finance committee. that is the most powerful committee in the whole congress. ways and means is the most powerful in the house. if we are going to solve problems for the country, if will be that committee that does that. everybody knows that, and that is one reason, a primary reason, that i running again. other than mitt romney. mitt romney has come out in full support of me. he knows that once he is president, with me as chairman of the finance committee, where 60% of the spending is, we will reform the tax code. we will take care of entitlements. we will get rid of obamacare. and above all, we have a shot of passing a balanced budget for the first time. >> you cannot ride on the coattails of governor romney. you have to stand up for you are. and you have a record. that is what we are talking about tonight. you have been the ranking member on the finance committee. why haven't we solved the problems today? i believe firmly we need businessmen who have experience of having a budget, being collaborative,

. >>> good morning, welcome to the san francisco transportation authority finance committee. i'm the chairman, scott weiner. to my right are our commissioners. madam clerk, any announcements? >> no announcements. >> item 2. >> september 18th, 2012 meeting. action item. >> colleagues, is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move forward item 2 with recommendation? actually we just approved it. we don't move it forward, right? so is there a motion to approve? second, without objection. item three. >> reporter: three, state and federal legislative update, an information/action item. >> mr. moscovitch? >> good morning, executive director. mark could not be here today. we have ms. martinez from the legislative advocacy firm in san francisco. she will make the presentation.

welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, carmen chu, joined by supervisor kim. supervisor avalos is unfortunately tied up at a bay quality air quality management meeting. i would like to entertain a motion to excuse him. our clerk is mr. victor young. at sfgtv we have mark bunch and jesse larson. announcements? >> yes. please silence cell phones and devices. complete speaker cards and documents to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the october 23rd, 2012 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you very much. just going back to the earlier comments, supervisor avalos unfortunately is tied up at the bay air quality district and will not be able to attend in time. do we have a motion to excuse? >> motion to excuse. >> we have the motion. without objection. call item one, please. >> one, resolution authorizing recreation and parks to accept and expand habitation grant in amount of 163,587 from california department of parks and recreation for glen canyon loopside project. >> than

this came before the budget and finance committee and was continued for a week so we can review additional information provided by the mta. this item did not come without recommendation. we thought this item was one that had a lot of questions for it and it's something that i think all of us have to think very deeply about whether we want to support or not. in a nutshell it authorizes the mta to executive the lease with an initial term of 20 years. there is also two 5-year options to extend the lease. it represents roughly 12.7 acres of space with 255,000 square feet of rental space. this process was initiated because the current 13 acres site where the mta's operation exist at pier 70 is planned for development work, but also to another extent because of the space at pier 70 is not increasingly a space that is ideal for the operational needs of the mta. i think there were a lot of really great questions that were raised by the committee members, but also i think supervisor campos was at one of the meetings with us and raised a lot of very legitimate questions. some of the concerns that we

. >>> good morning, welcome to the budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors. i'm supervisor john avalos, the chair for the day. typically we are chaired by supervisor carmen chu, who is on a honeymoon, she just got married. we want to wish her and her husband well. i'm joined by shawn elsbernd, joined by jane kim. the clerk is victor young and staffed at sfgtv by mark bunch and michael friedman. >> please silence cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on will appear on the next board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. the first item. >> item one, resolution approving and authorizing execution of lease with transportation and security administration for terminal space to be occupied by the u.s. transportation security administration, a federal agency in the inter national terminal and terminal 2 of the san francisco airport with a term of five years. >> great. thank you, mr. young. we are joined by kathy widener from the airport. ms. widener. >> good morn

when it came to talking to the finance committee under leeand yee and decided to go without the city. when the branch improvement program began to was to raise 16 million raised 40 million spend 48 million now the project is almost finished and the only records the city have to show reveal they gave 3.6 million and can you imagine where they're given license opportunities and no one is required to account for the money? this is not just the one recent betrayalal. when someone like david chiu or scott wiener prevents the friends from being accountable they are abusing the public that has lasted for over decades and costs millions of dollars and the damage to the democracy is more important and the lies more than the money. thank you. >> next speaker. >> i would like the over head to remain on the screen through the presentation until i remove my last slide. i would like to talk to you again about mayor lee. he started out his tenure with the "i won't run if i am appointed" and we know how that worked out, and i changed slide and grabbed the wrong one. he will attempt to over turn an el

>> good morning, welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. my name is carmen chu, chair of the committee, i'm joined by supervisor john avalos, and jane kim, we have phil dillon, mr. young, do you have any announcements for us? >> yes, please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices, copies and any documents that should be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk, they will appear on the october 16, 2012 board of supervisor's agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> colleagues, item number 1 i'm not going to call just yet, they wanted to be here and present and answer questions, but they have a conflict at this moment, he will be later on in the meeting, item number 2? >> the resolution authorizing the director of public works to authorize the direct to have of public works to execute an amendment to the construction management services agreement with cooper pugeda management inc. for the laguna honda hospital replacement program. >> good morning, chair chu, john thomas, project manager for the laguna honda hospital replacement pro

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draghi launched his defense at the parliament, met with members of the budget and finance committees. and described the plan, buy the bond of spain. some owe pose that course of action. they say it is too close to printing money to repay debt and could cause inflation. germany its the largest contributor to fund supporting euro zone countries and lawmakers are cautious about expanding that support. after the meeting he dressed the bond buying plan is consistent with the ecbs role. >> these actions are fully and foremost in compliance with our mandate of the delivering stability for the whole of the euro area in the medium term. >>> draghi said the meeting was an opportunity to build trust between the ecb and german public. >>> the company says it has won state guarantees on loans of up to $9 billion from 2013. the auto maker will suspend dividend payments in exchange for the loans. suffering sluggish sales in europe and decided to close an assembly plant outside paris. other automakers are struggling in the european market while the euro zone credit crisis is hurting car sales. u.s. a

. >> item 8 is from the budget and finance committee without recommendation. the resolution authorizing additional allowance of up to $5.10 per rentable square foot for construction of improvements amortized by landlord over initial term of seven years at eight percent to be paid as additional rent in the amount of $1,929.10 per month for property located at 1455 market street. >> colleagues, any discussion? same house same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 9, resolution determining that the issuance of a type 20 off-sale general license to landmark retail group for cvs pharmacy located at 1059 height street will serve the public convenience. >> colleagues, same house same call? this resolution is adopted. next item. >> item 10 is resolution determining that the transfer of a type 48 on-sale general public premises license from 247 powell street to 165 jefferson street (district 3), to nick bovis for the gdl sfo, inc., will serve the public convenience and necessity of the city and county of san francisco. >> same house same call? this resol

you are authorized to only the budget and finance committee to release those funds that would be reallocated to six projects. does that respond, supervisor? >> yes, but the reserve was for specific purpose for specific projects. now the reallocations for different project and original purpose -- >> when the board of supervisors previously approved specifically 144 million, it was called a project reserve. in that legislation it stated that that was funded with surplus funds in the water system. in the legislation you approved it stated if other projects have a deficiency in their project budgets, then the p.u.c. can come back and request you reallocate those funds. that is what they are doing they have identified six projects reallocated from surplus funds. as i stated we have reviewed those six projects and believe the documentation that the p.u.c. has submitted is sufficient. great, thank you. let's go to public comment. any members of the publics, come forward. that closes the public comment. thank you for your presentation. i always appreciate getting the update on the whole wsip program

this year, i served as chair for the budget and finance committee, and that is definitely a focus for me in the coming year. we are also looking at how it is that we continue to have systemic gaps in our budget year after year. what are the reasons for that? what are the cost drivers that might be driving it? what are the not-controllable economic conditions that drive that? part of the issue will be pension reform. that is something that i think is on the minds of many people, not only in san francisco, but elsewhere around the nation, and it certainly will be a topic here as we look at how it is we can control some of our costs and understand where our trajectory of our budget deficit is going to be. certainly, the budget is not simply a numbers issue. it has a big impact when you translate it into the lives of our residents. when you are talking about deficits that may impact the morning commute because you write muni -- you ride muni, or whether we're talking about closing down seven facilities, or whether we're talking about impacts to services, there is an impact to residents, s

tonight the city finance committee is to look into getting garbage collection once or twice monthly. >>> 4:38. check back in christina loren. it's just going to keep getting warmer and warmer. >> if you had to take the trash out, right now might be the time to do so. we have a really hot day ahead. a live picture, beautiful clear shot over san francisco this morning. you can tell if it's this clear to start, no low clouds to cool us off. it's going to be another scorcher as we kick off the second tuesday of fall. gilroy yesterday hit 103 degrees. 102 in walnut creek. livermore hit 100 degrees. 96 in south san jose and san francisco 90 degrees. it was really hot. monterey to santa cruz, up and down the coast got close to the triple digits so we'll see another hot day today. make sure you're ready for it. if you're getting your kids ready to school, dress them in the late colors of the day. 60s in san jose. livermore, concord and fairfield will be the hot spot. the tri-valley, look at this, i wanted to go a little bit more granular an show you pleasanton at 76 degrees to start. you're

agreement with the city of san francisco rather than make financial disclosures to this board's finance committee. now even the library administration contends that the friends of the library will not supply them with information. there is no accountability because it is the private corporate fund-raising and the private corporate interests that matter. the [speaker not understood] of society flow to the private interest and the lies always cost more than the money. thank you. >> thanks. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. i have paulette brown here who is going to help me show some pictures, use the overhead. i'm here to advise you on a [speaker not understood] i'm having with the da's office. i'd like to read a part of a letter i wrote to da gascone and have not received a response. this is in regard to may sanchez, my mother, case no. 11 0 724 99. [speaker not understood] and i'm writing to you because of the frustration and stress that my family is enduring through the bitter process of justice delayed and justice denied. you may remember me from my own [speaker not understood] kil

. >> here's where i go to church, where i'm an usher and on the finance committee. >> this is way betterhan the ads on tv. i'd rather see a guy like this, showing that he's part of the community. >> exactly. and he showcases not only his community, he shows off his family. >> this is sue, my wife of 32 years and my children and grandchildren. >> then blows past them. he is a democratic candidate running against an incumbent who has been in office since 2002 named david lewis. >> do we know how he's doing in the polls thanks to this commercial? >> i think these going to be doing better by november 6th because of this commercial. >> here we are at the north carolina general assembly. >> where he will be working, when, or if, he's elected. >> he shot this for free, uploaded it to youtube and now is on national television. >> no kidding. yeah. this is going to get a lot more eyes on it than any other boring political ad. >>> it's like hard core on a bike. >> but for one rider, it's just not enough. >> he's going to up the ante a little bit. >> and do it all on a tower. no harness, no safety