the other third went to fong. among the counts charged against fong and his cohorts conspiracy to commit prostitution, racketeering and money laundering. kpix 5 legal analyst retired judge ladoris cordell says to meet the standard of conspiracy, typically two overt acts are needed. >> and in count 1, there are 123 overt acts listed. and they're not just the act. they're listed who did what and on what date they did these things. >> reporter: the investigation was meticulous and continued for years. evidence included wiretaps and at least one instance of fong buying 2,000 condoms in bulk for his business. as for why we're just hearing about this now? when the indictment is stamped october 2014? >> my guess is that once the indictment was handed down it remained sealed because at that time, it was up to law enforcement to go after these people and round them up. so if this indictment had been unsealed immediately, they would have been on notice that they were in big trouble, that the law enforcement was on to them a

commissioner president fong commissioner vice president richards commissioner bobby wilson commissioner moore commissioner wu and commissioner antonini is present we expect commissioner johnson so arrive at some point commissioners, that places you under your proposed for continuance items one 1 ab bush street conditional use authorization and va r for variance on bush street rear yard modifications are proposed until august 4, 2016, items 2 ab pca for the transportation to demand management planning code amendment are proposed until august 4, 2016, and item 3 inclusions affordable housing is permitted for that september 1st 2016 and items 4 ab for case numbers and v at the castro street discretionary review and variance are proposed to august and next valencia street conditional use authorization has been withdrawn. >> commissioners further on the agenda under the regular calendar excuse me - under the discretionary review item 1860 russel street we received plans latest initially staff thought we'll continue this to october 15th maybe to july 21st and take that up at this time i have

the other third went to fong. our legal analyst says to meet the standard of conspiracy, typically 2 overt acts are needed. >> in count 1, there are 123 overt acts listed. they're not just the act, they're listed who did what and on what they date they did these thing. >> reporter: the investigation was meticulous and continued for years. evidence included wiretaps, and at least 1 instance of fong buying 2,000 condoms in bulk for his business. as for why we're just hearing about this now, when the indictment is stamped october of 2014? >> my guess is that once the indictment was handed down, it remained sealed because at that time, it was up to law enforcement to go after these people and round them up. so if this diamond indict had been unsealed immediately, they should would have been on notice they were in big trouble, that law enforcement was onto them and they like would have left the country. >>> temperatures have been running well below average, which for us in san francisco means about 60 degrees. in the s

commissioner president fong and members of the commission i'm kevin guy others director of short-term rentals i'm here to give an updated of the status for registration and enforcement as well as our outreach mutters for the process improvements so if i could get the laptop on the screen please first i'd like to give a quick backward the regulars for the short-term rentals is phenomenon february 1st of last year prior to that time all short-term rentals of residential unit for less than thirty days were not permitted without some sort of special approval the program does allow the permanent arisen or resident to rent out their dwelling units for less than thirty days subject to limitations our office was established in july through trailing legislation to administrator the enforcement aspects and then i joined as director in september we have is total staff of 6 so for a quick overview today we received 2000 applications for short-term rental civil rights approvals and in terms of balance 200 and 52 application are being recollected or in angle incomplete status and another 200 under

commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero. >> okay kimberly planning department staff and the legislative affairs a remedy it on the proposal for the planning code zone height and map and a recommendations to adapt findings that the net new shadow casts on the park located 0 on 17th street and fulsome not adverse to the use of partitioning the the subject property on the west side of fulsome street between 16th street and 17th street in the mission district and zoned by the city and county of san francisco currently the project site is developed with a surface parking lot the proposed project new construction of a 9 story 85 at all 100 percent affordable housing project with a approximately, one and 65 thousand plus square feet and up to one and 34 dwelling units the property project contained 9 thousand plus square feet of communities support services, 4 thousand plus square feet of trail development center one thousand plus of accessory office space and retai

alan fong pleaded guilty to federal charges of the investigators learned fong had been flying foreign minister asia usually singapore -- flying women from asia usually singapore into america. they were dropped off at one of 40 peninsula apartments where they worked at one of his brothels. they took two-thirds, he took one-third. while fong pleaded guilty yesterday an indictment was issued in 2014, our legal analyst is confident the lag time was out of fear that other defendants might flee. >> it was up to law enforcement to go after these people. so if this indictment had been unsealed immediately they would have been on notice that law enforcement was on to them and they would have left the country. >> fong and nine other defendants head to court in october for sentencing. >>> time now 5:10. feeling spontaneous? the new travel agency that will help you plan a surprise vacation. >> a story of giving from one police officer to another. the donation that helped save a life. >> from the kpix 5 weather center, good morning, everyone. it's breezy this morning. it will be windy later today.

but alan fong and his 40 brothels were busted. yesterday he pleaded guilty to federal charges. investigators learned fong had been flying women from asia usually singapore into the united states. once on american soil, the women were driven top one of 40 peninsula apartments all his brothels. they took two-thirds of the cut and fong took one-third and while he pleaded guilty yesterday an indictment was issued in 2014. a legal analyst says the lag time ensures other defendants wouldn't flee. >> it was up to law enforcement to go after these people and round them up. this has been unsealed immediately. they would have been on notice that they were in big trouble that law enforcement was on to them and likely would have left the country. >> fong and nine other defendants head to court in october for sentencing. >>> a tricky rescue at cliffs near san francisco's coit tower. construction worker fell 50 feet when his safety equipment failed yesterday. he was working onshore up the cliff. firefighters had to scale the cliff to reach him. it took about half-hour. the man is now being t

police have been following fong for years. in 2002 an undercover officer in san mateo was approached by one of his prototypes suit. the same scenario happened in 2008 and -- was approached by one of his prostitutes. the same scenario happened in 2008 and 2009 and his phones were tapped. in 2013 two prostitutes were found. no arrests until 2014. fong and nine other defendants will be in court for sentencing in october. >>> the aftermath of a deadly police shooting in minnesota streamed live on facebook. >> he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm. >> a minnesota woman started streaming on her phone seconds after police shot and killed her boyfriend during a traffic stop. the graphic video puts you in the middle of a horrifying scene! kpix 5's devin fehely reports that it is a powerful example of how facebook live is changing citizen journalism. [ chanting ] >> reporter: from a sit-in at the capital to a police shooting in minnesota, facebook live and other live streaming apps

fong and the nine other defendants will be back in court for sentencing in october. >>> napster founder and former facebook president sean parker is donating some big bucks to a pro-pot campaign. the tech entrepreneur is giving another 1.25 million-dollar to prop 64. that bill would legalize marijuana for recreation 23458 use and impose a 15% sales tax on the substance. with the new donation parker has given $2.5 million to the campaign effort. >>> it's a competition unlike any other in the world one that's uniquely san francisco. sfmta hosted the 53rd annual cable car bell-ringing contest today in union square. groups of conductors show off their skills and for the first time ever, a woman made it to the finals. she is san francisco native and 15-year conductor cassandra griffin. >> i wouldn't say i'm so good at what i do because these guys here are great. i'm just going to give it a shot. >> absolutely. the first place prize went to leonard oates who has been a grip for 16 years. griffin said she didn't win, she is still proud to be the first female finalist. ♪[ music ] >> anchorage,

. >> a commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes that passes. >> on item 2 i'll be acting zoning administrator and we'll continue until october 20th. >> thank you. >> that places you on commissioners matters consideration of the consideration of approval of the draft minutes for july 16th. >> any public health on the approval of the draft minutes not seeing any, public comment is closed. >> commissioner moore. >> move to approve. >> second. >> there is a motion that has been seconded to adopt the minutes on that motion commissioner antonini commissioner johnson commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards commissioner president fong snoechlt passes 6 to zero. >> item 4 commissioners questions or comments. >> commissioner vice president richards. >> just wanted to mention briefly in this morning's chronicle john was nieftdz to go to see what the displacement gentrification in denver architect and the thing have not measuredp to ours and depleted ours everyone that distances the planning process in the last section as the quality o

commissioner president fong commissioner vice president richards commissioner antonini commissioner mooremissioner wu we do expect commissioner johnson to arrive shortly and commissioner bobby wilson that to be continuance items one ab fulsome conditional use authorization and the zoning administrator will opine on the variance for indefinite continuance and further under the regular calendar item 8 potrero zoning map staff asked for a continuance to the i didn't get all under the discretionary review authorization circuses we received confirm that item 17 a the discretionary review has been withdrawn as a result, the defer will take up the matter during the first recess. >> no others items proposed for continuance. >> okay. thank you any public comment on this item? proposed for continuance. >> good afternoon commission jim counsel to the property owner on potrero and ask the item be heard as quickly as possible if not today this is the correction of an error in the zoning height map on a second story building that covers the lot it existed for the last 50 years and thely down zoned to o

commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero zoning administrator, what say you? >> >> continue 1-b indefinitely. >> commissioners under our consent calendar on broadway this is a conditional use authorization commissioners and staff as well as a number of speaker cards has requested this pulled off of content and take this up in the beginning of the calendar. >> first item please. commissioner moore. >> i was going to ask to move it off content. >> item 3 consideration of draft minutes for july 4th 14. >> any public comment on the draft minutes. >> >> are those comments specifically to the minutes. >> first, the policy for that and thank you. any is there any additional public comment on the draft minutes not seeing any, public comment is closed. and commissioner wu. >> move to approve draft minutes. >> second. >> second. >> thank you, commissioners on that motion to adopt the minutes commissioner antonini commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice pres

fong, here. hillis is expected to be absent >> for the sfmta brinkman present borden, present. grant hi nikki is absent

cynthia fong director for finance and administration. what i have before you is the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for the timma against. this year we continue our work program to advance treasure island implementation plan and advancing the operations agreement and the system and engineering programs. for expenditures in this budget we're looking at a total of approximately 1.1 million. this is an increase of approximately 13% from last year's budget. we were anticipated to spend 28% on personnel and s sfmta staff and wearing timma hat scption we are spending on professional services and consultants in the areas of planning engineering design and communications and environmental services. we are spending 3.8%, the are maintaining of the budget on non personnel costs and operational costs in relation to rent, the commissioner fees, printing, audit and legal sfees as necessary to run the timma agency. in terms of revenues we will expect to receive approximately $1 million from the tida agency and the remaining difference of $81,000 will be

. >> combhu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to one with commissioner antonini voting against. >> okay. we're going to have in the commissions can i know we're hungry and here for 3 hours the broadway street folks are here i don't think that is will terribly long and consensus to hear it and then a substantial lunch break. >> very good commissioners item 2 was taken off the content will be considered at this time for case broadway conditional use authorization. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong and commissioners andrea with department staff the the item before you is a request for conditional use authorization inform authorize a change in use from a movie theatre to a live performance and bar for the boxcar theatre company it is locate on the basement level of the exist building on broadway between grant and stockton within the chinatown business district constructed in 1945 u 85 with of the world theatre until 1998 to not in operation as movie theatre for more than a decade the planning departm

cynthia fong director for finance and administration. what i have before you is the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for the timma against. this year we continue our work program to advance treasure island implementation plan and advancing the operations agreement and the system and engineering programs. for expenditures in this budget we're looking at a total of approximately 1.1 million. this is an increase of approximately 13% from last year's budget. we were anticipated to spend 28% on personnel and s sfmta staff and wearing timma hat scption we are spending on professional services and consultants in the areas of planning engineering design and communications and environmental services. we are spending 3.8%, the are maintaining of the budget on non personnel costs and operational costs in relation to rent, the commissioner fees, printing, audit and legal sfeesas necessary to run the timma agency. in terms of revenues we will expect to receive approximately $1 million from the tida agency and the remaining difference of $81,000 will be f

fong spook the move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6-0.es you on public comment >> is there any general public comment? seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a l

. >> commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and places us on public comment. >> any public comment this evening not seeing any, the meeting is adjournedyou. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now with the opened contracting cen opportunity at the new state of the arc facility and attend workshops and receive one-on-one technical assistance and learner what you need to become a primary contractor or what information to be a subcontractor and a created bed public commission it will help people to assist people to compete for and performance open city contract a lot of small businesses do have the resources to loblth the opportunity so one of the things we wanted to do was provide ways to access contract >> access to the plans spiefkz and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popula

>> commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards commissioner president fong so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero. >> okay commission will take a short break a transition in the room and be back in a few minutes. >> thursday, july 21, 2016, please silence all electronic devices. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i also want to announce if we have an overflow room 416 again that overflow room 416 anyone that is standing on the ends please make our way if you can't find a seat if we have seats in the audience with bags please fill those or make our way to organisms. >> everything or everybody on the sides go to room overflow room 416 before we start. >> you'll have plenty of time to come and speak won't forget anybody. >> i think the folks that need to sit in the disabled chairs should have that assess are they okay okay. >> thank you. >> commissioners, we left off on item 10 record number 2015 plus at the sickles a mandatory discretionary review. >> good afternoon, commission

but that chairman fong has suggested and i agree the back-and-forth.he other thing someone made a comment about new york has done this exercise and i think mip level to find out what went well and what went poorly and an executive summary. i don't [inaudible] but that might be helpful as we begin the plan the public outreach. additionally like that available i forgot who said that reference new york but i think that's best practices are a good fit. thank you. >> i will start. thanks. i'm happy we are here obviously coming from planning and being on mta we talk about these things all the time. i had a question by the transportation elements and am happy to hear were finally looking at that i get i know the housing element but he has to be updated every 40 good weather any guidelines oh pound of frequent viewers. update participation element and happily maybe thought about when we look at the housing almond-i'm not suggesting bundled in the transportation element looking at those side-by-side? because the howling housing element is where people are the l

but that chairman fong has suggested and i agree the back-and-forth.he other thing someone made a comment about new york has done this exercise and i think mip level to find out what went well and what went poorly and an executive summary. i don't [inaudible] but that might be helpful as we begin the plan the public outreach. additionally like that available i forgot who said that reference new york but i think that's best practices are a good fit. thank you. >> i will start. thanks. i'm happy we are here obviously coming from planning and being on mta we talk about these things all the time. i had a question by the transportation elements and am happy to hear were finally looking at that i get i know the housing element but he has to be updated every 40 good weather any guidelines oh pound of frequent viewers. update participation element and happily maybe thought about when we look at the housing almond-i'm not suggesting bundled in the transportation element looking at those side-by-side? because the howling housing element is where people are the l

cynthia fong director for finance and administration.i have before you is the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for the timma against. this year we continue our work program to advance treasure island implementation plan and advancing the operations agreement and the system and engineering programs. for expenditures in this budget we're looking at a total of approximately 1.1 million. this is an increase of approximately 13% from last year's budget. we were anticipated to spend 28% on personnel and s sfmta staff and wearing timma hat scption we are spending on professional services and consultants in the areas of planning engineering design and communications and environmental services. we are spending 3.8%, the are maintaining of the budget on non personnel costs and operational costs in relation to rent, the commissioner fees, printing, audit and legal sfees as necessary to run the timma agency. in terms of revenues we will expect to receive approximately $1 million from the tida agency and the remaining difference of $81,000 will be funded

commissioner moore commissioner wu commissioner vice president richards and commissioner president fongo moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero. >> okay. >> next speaker, please last item please. commissioners, that places you on item 18 was continues so we're on item 19 for case fulsome street that is a discretionary review. >> good afternoon commissioner president fong. >> sexual the variance back to the variance. >> i'll close the variance hearing and grants it with conditions. >> thank you through the chair. >> doug the item before you is a request for discretionary review of the building permit application to constrict a 65 foot tall 6 floor building at the ground floor of the new building will included 6 hundred and 63 square feet of commercial at a storefront on fulsome and demeanor write i didn't and 5 occupies rooms and sros independently a total of four tourists hotel rooms on the fourth and fifth floors go approximately private usable space will be provided on the second and fist floors and common open space on the 6 floor the project will provide 55 o

key things that pass and next the great honor to introduce to you our intern so for this summer alex fongnd for full dloush but not the sole reason our intern he is committals commissioner yee-rileys nephew worked - to get us caught up on our minutes and the documents on the text and the app lyrics alex had a big part to collect that with that, i wanted to invite alex to say. >> few words. >> all right. >> good afternoon. my name is alexander fong a senior in boston university studying business are a dual marketing and finance and a summer intern and working with the legislative reach with the new methods and look forward to working on the small businesses center and gain a better understanding how the legislation effects the small business. >> have you worked in city hall. >> no. >> a new experience. >> (laughter). >> i have a question about the minutes have i been working on minutes. >> some of the more recent minutes i think that it is a very good experience. >> and quality of the minutes is quite high thank you for your contribution. >> thank you thanks alex and then again, a point of

. >> reporter: laura fong has ownedded this 2002 honda accord for 10 years. she says about a year ago she had the airbags replaced which were under recall. free of charge. >> the thought of getting into an accident getting injured was already scary and the thought of my airbag deploying and dying because of the airbag was worse. >> reporter: today the national highway traffic safety administration is warning other owners to get theirs fixed immediately. in fact, for certain models nhtsa says new test data shows there's a 50% chance of a dangerous airbag malfunction so dangerous that owners are told to avoid driving their cars until the airbags are replaced. they have been under recall for a number of years but many owners haven't brought them in. nhtsa is offering a special warning for these years and models. 2001 and 2002 honda civic and honda accord, 2002 and 2003 acura tl and several others. >> the automaker agree with the recommendation and that honda will continue to aggressively explore and new methods to implement methods for these vehicles. >> go and

fong spook the move commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6-0.places you on public comment >> is there any general public comment? seeing none, the meeting is adjourned. >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> good evening everyone. thank you so much for taking [inaudible] time for our people that have reached out and [inaudible] we will go ahead and start. we are so excited to have everybody here tonight for our 6th annual mayor's, i am the future scholarship award. thank you all for bheeing here tonight. i want to do a few things before we start. i really just want to thank omar and zoe for opening up college track. this is our home and you will help us build and bringing in so many people into the community and making sure they are going on to college and staying in college and graduating and becoming great new citizens in our own city so thank you for opening your home to us, we really appreciate it. i want to give a shout out to all partners. this is not possible with so many partners. san francisco unified school district partners along san francis

this is a fongs nex news alert.ice are saying there are no survivors after a hot air balloon catches fire and crashes into a pasture in central texas. all 16 people aboard that balloon are believed to be dead. the ntsb now speaking at a news conference about this crash. let's listen in. >> we also will have investigators in our operations group, structures, systems, we'll also have victims specialist, weather experts, all who will be arriving tonight to begin what will be a significant investigation into this tragedy and to the families that may be watching this right now, we offer our thoughts and prayers to all of them for the loss. and this will be a difficult site for us to work through. we are getting tremendous cooperation from local authorities, from the sheriff, a number of other agencies here helping us. we've also requested on a long-standing relationship we have with the federal bureau of investigation, we've asked the fbi's evidence response team out of san antonio to come and assist us with scene docume

richard fong, i hope i don't sound too horse. [inaudible] i'm having a issue [inaudible] with the water issue, so what i'm looking at is how to approach it. on the wild life approach there are a lot of violations going over on the ocean beach area, [inaudible] mountain lake so they have different type of [inaudible] turtles and everything else. all these type of issues, i don't [inaudible] it should have been. so i think there is no one to speak for animals so i try to come and speak on their behalf. of course, on animals behalfs but roit now that is a issue that is critical but dont think they pay much mind to it, they went right past it and [inaudible] i was at the west side park. the planning department [inaudible] but there is a issue that came up when i heard commissioner michael antonini and he had something good to say talking about trying to have the gravitational approach. he responds to it with gravitation and has 2 ball fields, lincoln high school, washington high school and higher elevation such as football use for re

but that chairman fong has suggested and i agree the back-and-forth.he other thing someone made a comment about new york has done this exercise and i think mip level to find out what went well and what went poorly and an executive summary. i don't [inaudible] but that might be helpful as we begin the plan the public outreach. additionally like that available i forgot who said that reference new york but i think that's best practices are a good fit. thank you. >> i will start. thanks. i'm happy we are here obviously coming from planning and being on mta we talk about these things all the time. i had a question by the transportation elements and am happy to hear were finally looking at that i get i know the housing element but he has to be updated every 40 good weather any guidelines oh pound of frequent viewers. update participation element and happily maybe thought about when we look at the housing almond-i'm not suggesting bundled in the transportation element looking at those side-by-side? because the howling housing element is where people are the l

but that chairman fong has suggested and i agree the back-and-forth. other thing someone made a comment about new york has done this exercise and i think mip level to find out what went well and what went poorly and an executive summary. i don't [inaudible] but that might be helpful as we begin the plan the public outreach. additionally like that available i forgot who said that reference new york but i think that's best practices are a good fit. thank you. >> i will start. thanks. i'm happy we are here obviously coming from planning and being on mta we talk about these things all the time. i had a question by the transportation elements and am happy to hear were finally looking at that i get i know the housing element but he has to be updated every 40 good weather any guidelines oh pound of frequent viewers. update participation element and happily maybe thought about when we look at the housing almond-i'm not suggesting bundled in the transportation element looking at those side-by-side? because the howling housing element is where people are the liv

my name is richard fong. i came here today to try to talk a little bit about a former employee of the rec and parks department, after 30 years had retired. his name is warren soon and i read about him on the internet. his memorial services were on june 10th. and that, of course, he wasn't interested in flowers. warren was a person who used to be spread out a little bit. he was a world war ii second class petty officer, machinist mate and somebody who joined up in world war ii and was part of the okinawa invasion. i myself made acquaintance with him years later. i'm not a world war ii -- that is about the time i was born. i'm trying to just say something nice about warren. there was something that i had put on the internet and thought it would be significant that he had a good sense of empathy, people around the chinatown parks and he would have to deal with all the different parks. he would do things, like, hey you guys, let's get a little tea. he would make tea for some people and a lot of them drink alcohol

cynthia fong director for finance and administration.hat i have before you is the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for the timma against. this year we continue our work program to advance treasure island implementation plan and advancing the operations agreement and the system and engineering programs. for expenditures in this budget we're looking at a total of approximately 1.1 million. this is an increase of approximately 13% from last year's budget. we were anticipated to spend 28% on personnel and s sfmta staff and wearing timma hat scption we are spending on professional services and consultants in the areas of planning engineering design and communications and environmental services. we are spending 3.8%, the are maintaining of the budget on non personnel costs and operational costs in relation to rent, the commissioner fees, printing, audit and legal sfees as necessary to run the timma agency. in terms of revenues we will expect to receive approximately $1 million from the tida agency and the remaining difference of $81,000 will be fu

key things that pass and next the great honor to introduce to you our intern so for this summer alex fongnd for full dloush but not the sole reason our intern he is committals commissioner yee-rileys nephew worked - to get us caught up on our minutes and the documents on the text and the app lyrics alex had a big part to collect that with that, i wanted to invite alex to say. >> few words. >> all right. >> good afternoon. my name is alexander fong a senior in boston university studying business are a dual marketing and finance and a summer intern and working with the legislative reach with the new methods and look forward to working on the small businesses center and gain a better understanding how the legislation effects the small business. >> have you worked in city hall. >> no. >> a new experience. >> (laughter). >> i have a question about the minutes have i been working on minutes. >> some of the more recent minutes i think that it is a very good experience. >> and quality of the minutes is quite high thank you for your contribution. >> thank you thanks alex and then again, a point of

commissioner vice president richards you would carry the message to all - and commissioner president fong. >> we're having a joint meeting july 21st that is a point of topic we can touch on but suggest a special hearing i agree with mr. dulavich i've looked at the zoning tables and saw parking was required and was shocking this was transit rich i could be having this taken on and amend ask staff to investigate how to get this issue into the work program. >> maybe before you do that actually next week commissioners the staff from the sfmta is going to be providing with an informational presentation and a precursor sorry to the jointly e joint hearing you may not be to solicit some answers and our own staff is generating a vision zero plan for next week. >> great. >> maybe mrouch comes to those meetings as well. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. i don't accept the amendments we'll discuss that another day this is an initiation i'll be curiosities to talk about restaurants obviously there is no minimum amount of parking small restaurant have no parking at all that explicit help their busine

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu we expect commissioner president fong johnson to arrive shortly commissioners commissioners, the first item on your agenda is propd

the recent presidential -- ivan fong like an it would lsaps all of reporting and the convention. we found nixon raised and many other different perspectives, not just the form of nixon to china that you've raised. but this is a much more complex world that we are in. this is not just a relationship among u.s., china and russia. any other place and i think he also started to bring that out in your presentation. the rise of china especially economically since 2010 against the backdrop of the global economic and financial crisis, and the eurozone crisis has changed everybody calculations. if we start looking for a few both in the asia-pacific region and also in europe you see everybody is factoring china and everybody is factoring china and india get away. in many cases sometimes to russia's detriment. it's not just an issue for russia perceives its relationship with the united states against the backdrop of the relationship with china but our russia, the united states and other countries are managing their own complex relationships and trying to figure out also pivot toward asia an

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu we expect commissioner president fong to be absent and commissioner johnson to arrive shortly commissioners commissioners, the first item on your agenda is proposed for continuance harrison street a large project authorization at the time of issuance was proposed jill july 14th but now staff is requesting it be continued to august 11, 2016, a notification issue that needs to be renoticed i know your calendars are impacted on august 4th and 11 have a couple of more continuances to consider that request to august 11th and further under your reading for the san francisco municipal transportation agency informational presentation they're requesting a one week continuance to july 14th items 14 ab for cases at the fulsome street large project authorization and conditional use authorization is requesting a continuance to august 4th under the discretionary review item 15 for case at the jackson street discretionary review both parties the project sponsor and the dr requesters are in agreement to continue this matter i believe the

fong, here. hillis is expected to be absent >> for the sfmta brinkman present borden, present. grant hi nikki is absent then shoots to trim present trend ramos, present. wu rocky, present. borden present. mr. chairman mr. pres. you have a quorum item 3 announcement of coalitions against sound producing devices during the meeting.

antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu we expect commissioner president fong to be absent and commissioner johnson to arrive late commissioners, that places you under your it items proposed for continuance pacific avenue and 2013 va r on pacific avenue are proposed until july 14, 2016, item 2 pennsylvania avenue a large project authorization is proposed for tunnels until october 2016 and faster under the discretionary review calendar we received a request on item 21 under the project sponsor with the dr requester in agreement to continue item 21 until july 28th no other items permitted for speaker cards opening up for items for continuance. >> hi, i'm c.j. with the law enforcement of before a necessarily mary tell an pacific avenue i would like to request if possible we receive a continuance to a donate 72 hours not quite so far out as the october date through are few issues to resolve in that matter and been in the cue for quite a while so request a shorter continuance. >> any additional speakers regarding the continuance seeing none, commissioner antonini. >

couple of questions i sense that came before that discussion of the consultation by the way, franklin fong for the project sponsor the architectural renderings is done with software that depicts glass that a clear glass not meant to be the color that you see just the nature of the architectural rendering, and, secondly, a couple of the questions related to the lightwell and the windows on the side on the west side that lightwell is predominantly at the stairs for that building and that there are two windows that are windows that will have to be covered up the last comment i'd like to make was perhaps just a sort of summary of progress that we went through over the past two years now the discussions with both in terms of the preservation staff of the department the urban design group we've gone through discussions on a lot of the issues that commissioner moore brought up the questions of depth of materials and shadow lines, we've gotten 5 basic redesigns of the project to look at issues of both materials the demonstrations and the detailing and the deputy of the detailing those bays you see

key things that pass and next the great honor to introduce to you our intern so for this summer alex fong and for full dloush but not the sole reason our intern he is committals commissioner yee-rileys nephew worked - to get us caught up on our minutes and the documents on the text and the app lyrics alex had a big part to collect that with that, i wanted to invite alex to say. >> few words. >> all right. >> good afternoon. my name is alexander fong a senior in boston university studying business are a dual marketing and finance and a summer intern and working with the legislative reach with the new methods and look forward to working on the small businesses center and gain a better understanding how the legislation effects the small business. >> have you worked in city hall. >> no. >> a new experience. >> (laughter). >> i have a question about the minutes have i been working on minutes. >> some of the more recent minutes i think that it is a very good experience. >> and quality of the minutes is quite high thank you for your contribution. >> thank you thanks alex and then again, a point

on a motion to continue this matter to august 4, commissioner antonini aye moore aye lucas new aye fong aye so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 5-0. >> commissioners 17 a has been withdrawn 17 b has been acted on separately. which will place on item 18 l 2015-00709. drp at 2535 discretionary review. >> actually [inaudible] it's wrong on the report but actually his 14th ave. on the agenda. >> it's wrong on the agenda. >> 14th ave. then commissioners. >> good evening planning commission to dublin washington southwest team units get subject property is located at 2355 14th ave. proposal is to construct a vertical and horizontal addition to existing residents. this will add a master suite to the top floor and interior state connecting all three levels and move remodeling of the kitchen could additionally, additional capital space will be developed on the ground floor. subject property is on the west side 14th ave. between santiago and caravel street and its 1b and singles story family occupies the subject. the discussion review was filed by a neighbor owns the property tha

cynthia fong director for finance and administration.hat i have before you is the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for the timma against. this year we continue our work program to advance treasure island implementation plan and advancing the operations agreement and the system and engineering programs. for expenditures in this budget we're looking at a total of approximately 1.1 million. this is an increase of approximately 13% from last year's budget. we were anticipated to spend 28% on personnel and s sfmta staff and wearing timma hat scption we are spending on professional services and consultants in the areas of planning engineering design and communications and environmental services. we are spending 3.8%, the are maintaining of the budget on non personnel costs and operational costs in relation to rent, the commissioner fees, printing, audit and legal sfees as necessary to run the timma agency. in terms of revenues we will expect to receive approximately $1 million from the tida agency and the remaining difference of $81,000 will be fu

activists like ted: send, gin and new: norman fong, people around the city came together to make sure that the tenants right to have a habitable place to live is maintained throughout san francisco. one of the programs i run is the sro collaborative and the code enforcement outreach program. the mission we work with the sl collaborative which includes mission neighborhood resources center and committee service up it we work with just cause get housing rights community. this even apartment association is very important partner with us. so the owners of a place to go where they can have their voice heard and we can all work together to try to make people safe. our director, tom healy has increased the funding in the next fiscal year. if you have questions i can contact myself or deputy director dan lowry. he is a photo of number of our groups are working together to get a section on the landlord whether not compliant on a date. >> thank you very much for that. i mean, the only question that i have is the question i asked fire chief which is let me say that i felt the department of build