>>supervisor john avalos: okay. sorry about that. if there are no other comments or questions we can go on to public comment for this item. public comment is open on the minutes for lafco. seeing no one come forward, public comment is closed. can we have a motion to approve these minutes? >> >>supervisor eric mar: so moved. >> >>supervisor john avalos: next item. actually let's go to item no. 5, supervisor tang the here. let's going to item no. 5. city clerk: study on implementation and opportunities for undergrounding of wires in san francisco. >> from lafco staff. supervisor tang's office came to us and asked if there is a way to do an a study of the finishing of the underground utilities after a discussion with the commissioners it was consideration to put it on the agenda for discussion and i will we go into what she's looking for as to this study. >> thank you for entertaining this item. as you know i'm probably not the only supervisor that is interested in seeing what our city can do to push this in our entire city. this is not

>>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much. you just made my day. since there is no more public comment, we'll close this and go to next item. city clerk: item no. 3, community choice aggregation activities report. a status update on cleanpowersf program, b status update on proceedings at the california public utilities commission. and c. status update on state legislature proceedings. >> good afternoon. we are working together with lafco staff on reviewing the draft report that internet has provided. we have submitted our initial comments to lafco staff, more comments to come. over all our sense is that the report looks really good and will be a helpful product and looking forward to other input from other stakeholders on that product as well. we have been addressing questions and will continue to provide that support. then on the proceedings, the update on the public utilities commission proceeding, we don't have much to report. there has been very little activity on the grain tariff option that pg & e filed for approval of. under sb 43 there was

president and supervisor eric mar and supervisor john avalos and david campos, wherever he is. i want to inch you -- inform you that today we filed a federal lawsuit against the san francisco giants for an incident that occurred on june 23rd whether they declared native american heritage day and two native american indians why e ejected from the stadium. the woman was hurt, her arm was fractured, severely hurt. it was a violation of their civil rights and violation of the united nations declaration of indian people specifically article 8 and i come here to ask you board of supervisors to be sympathetic when sunday november 23rd, the 49ers are going to be playing the washington red skins, that is the r word for us and we call on you to send a letter to the city and county of santa clara asking them to please refrain from using the word redskins in their newspapers, in their radio broadcasting and we will be there in demonstration. i call on my district supervisor david camps to put this item of institutional racism and mascots in sports on the agenda "board of supervisors on sep

(applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] >> director of capital planning, don. our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. so, at rec and park, we're encoloneling people to get out and play. that's our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. >> get out and play. >> we say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. this is a real serious issue. according to the center for d

great colleagues from the board of supervisors here today, supervisor scott wiener and supervisor john avalos. if you guys want to come up and say a few words. but before i hand the mic over, just real quick, nobody say a word for a second. that's the best sound in san francisco right now, families playing in our parks. (applause) >> and my little boy jack wanted to wave hi to everyone. hi, jack. all right. supervisor wiener. >> thank you. hi, everyone. i'm scott wiener from district 8 and i'm really just thrilled to be here today. this is just amazing. we dot a brand-new playground in dolores park and this is right in the same claytionthv. so, it's a new generation of active recreation for our kids. ~ got and i just want to say thank you to the voters of san francisco for repeatedly investing in our parks in an off the charts way. and you know, last year we had another parks bond and there were some people who got a little grump pi about it ask started campaigning against it. guess what? we got a higher percentage of the vote in 2012 than in 2008. [cheering and applauding] ~ grump py >> that

today, one, is the resolution i'm introducing allowing with supervisors david compos and melia: and john avalos -- even those differences there was only a few weeks into the school year, the education of our students semper cisco unified school district students could be interrupted by potential teacher and staff strike. the contract negotiations between the united educators of san francisco and services go unified school district have been fortunately slow down and talk of a strike as rising. i want to thank teachers and parents but also [inaudible] brooks the liaison to the school district to the board for their influence in helping to write this resolution. there are real issues to resolve. the average san francisco teacher makes only $62,000 a year was starting teachers make around $50,000. but paraprofessionals also known as learning support staff often work with the most vulnerable student population students of color and low-income students, they make only an average of $25,000 a year. the salaries have not been increased since 2008 before the great recession. since 2008 of course senten

chairman supervisor avalos, supervisor breed. >> i'm john haley the director of transcript with the sfmta. and the item we have before you this morning constitutes we believe the single biggest thing we can do to improve the transportation network here in the city both in the short term and in the long-term to meet our strategic goals we've tried to do with the procurement is to take a long view in terms of what we've addressing here not only the immediate problems but of krourd and congestion on the subway but what we need to do to meet the demands of the future and learn the lessons from the procurement of 15 years ago that number one we again buy enough cars and see what is going on now and number 2 that we wanted to look at the complete costs of the car including the life cycle i number 3 is to partner with someone who is a proven leader in delivering cars on time and high quality and fourth really to leave the design of the cars to the experts to the manufactures so after a process of some 18 months we're pleased to say that the item that we're putting in front of you today will ask

avalos. >> i'll go after you john. >> a question i have i know that we're designating in terms of the amendment the analyzed amending to this to specify we're sincerely 1923 to 22 years old that have a disagreement i'm wondering what the difference between that in terms of cost we're going to have free muni program for all the people in the special ed program regardless of income so there's a major difference i'm asking this because there was a policy desire for the community that free muni would be free muni regardless of income that's one the advocacy points made this year by the muni that was lobbied lobbied i wanted to understand what the mta is putting forwards is there a repel difference between the program that will serve all people from special ed from 19 to 22 and we're saying low to middle-class youth. >> the program is relatively small and would be a relatively small population from low to moderate in the school district. >> do i have a sense of the difference if we were to be. >> maybe 50 additional students. >> i guess by changing the language in the resolution are we actually chan

>>supervisor john avalos: i would like

my name is john avalos, the chair of the commission and joined by two of our new commissioners. and edwin linda and joined guy supervisor