and the digest sponsored by the director, and speakers pollock and legislative aid to supervisor john avalos and a discussion and a possible action item and we do, and i do have a statement that our commission president joshua arce asked to be read and he is not able to be with you for the discussion but he did send a statement but that is supervisor avalos ordinance to acquire greenhouse gas information labeled for the gas pumps and a strong proposal that we can adopt for the efforts to increase the awareness at the realities of calling the change and move the needle on the greenhouse gas emission from the city and i hope that we can get the questions that we may about this proposal answered tonight so that the commission in the environment can take action to support the proposal for a letter of support or supervisors. >> director? >> thank you. >> this item is before you at the specific request of supervisor avalos and his office. he is in the middle of a board of supervisor meeting and so he sent jeremy here, and this is a poe ten sal action item. so what that means is, we will be hearing

my name is john avalos the chair of the authority. and today's broadcast is brought to us through sfgtv by jessy larson and charles criminacand the clerk is erika cheng. >> any announcements? noe. announcements. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> present >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> absent. >> far ril? >> present. >> kim. >> here >> mar. >> present. >> tang. >> present. >> weiner? >> absent. >> commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. great,

now. >> with that i will open it up to jeremy. >> thank you, for the record, legislative aid to john avaloss, the order before you is, it is up in sort of a novel approach to the climate change that we are excited to push forward and it is the idea of putting the information labels on the gas pumps to educate the people about how burning the gasoline and the fuel contributes to global warming and this was brought to us by the organization for the 350 bay area and, a number of whom are here and they actually have a present that they would like to make about the idea as well and they have also been working with the birthday city council who has approved a motion to have their city attorney draft an ordinance similar as this and we have been in a discussion with them to try to work in parallel to make sure that sort of we thought that it would be easier to implement if it was across both sides of bay and the logistics and we say that we are definitely eager to hear your feedback on the ordinance and how to be sure that it is something that is meaningful or easy to administer and we put a lot o

(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

san francisco supervisor john avalos is leading an effort to require public debate, oversight and accountability. before police acquire surveillance technologies. coaches, family, friends and supporters. held a "peace rally" this evening. honoring richmond high school junior - rodney frazier. the teen gunned down in front of his home last week. hundreds of people came out to the richmond civic center --- showing their support by lighting candles and calling for an end to the violence. there have been recent several shootings involving young people. police say they believe a gang feud is involved. frazier was not in a gang. the teen's family is heartbroken. they say, fraizer was good kid. police say the young basketball star's death. was a case of mistaken identity. no arrests have been made. the family of missing tech worker, dan ha. says, the body found in the bay on tuesday. is believed to be his. family members made the announcement today. they say, they do not believe the 26-year- old killed himself. the exact cause of his death is still unknown. the medical examiner is awaiting dental recor

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. >> i want to thank the director for leading that and our chairman, john avalos as well and i think that it makes us unique as a transportation authority that really focuses on equity and strong, strong public involvement as well. thank you. >> thank you, so much. >> so wrapping up, there is maybe just the last two slides, there is several different components as i mentioned before, a land use, and a climate and the air quality component as well as the transportation components. and we need to work together through all of these components in order to be effective. right now, this shows the draft rtps update schedule with some of the milestones for the update schedule as well and what we are doing is we are putting together a strategy for involving other city agencies, into this process, to be able to start together, right now, at the end of 2014, with an initial kick off phase, where we ill be the consultant and putting the projects together and identifying the committee followed by an insurance shall planning phase and involved in number two in your slide and that will include the

my name is john avalos the chair of the authority. and today's broadcast is brought to us through sfgtv by jessy larson and charles criminacand the clerk is erika cheng. >> any announcements? noe. announcements. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> present >> chiu. >> present. >> cohen. >> absent. >> far ril? >> present. >> kim. >> here >> mar. >> present. >> tang. >> present. >> weiner? >> absent. >> commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have quorum. great, let's go item to, >> item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. >> any comments? >> any member of the public that would like to comment. seeing none, we will close. >> avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos. >> aye. >> chiu. >> aye. >> cohen? >> absent. >> ferrill. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> weiner. >> absent. >> yee. >> aye. >> item passes. >> okay. let's go to the next item. >> item three, three chair's report, this is an information item. >> colleagues, in what has become a ritual i beg

my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to

>>supervisor john avalos: actually i will just keep my mouth shut. >>president david chiu: thank you supervisor avalos. let's take a roll call. city clerk: farrell, kim, mar, tang, wiener, yee, avalos, supervisor breed, campos, aye, supervisor chiu, cohen high. ayes. 11 ayes. >>president david chiu: let's go to special orders. city clerk: 14.141047[approving the conditional use authorization decision - 395-26th avenue]motion approving the decision of the planning commission by its motion no. 19229, approving conditional use authorization identified as planning case no. 2013.0205ceksv on property located at 395-26th avenue, and adopting findings pursuant to planning code section 101.1. clerk of the boardd1234 agenda15.141048[disapproving the conditional use authorization decision - 395-26th avenue]motion disapproving the decision of the planning commission by its motion no. 19229, approving a conditional use authorization identified as planning case no. 2013.0205ceksv on property located at 395-26th avenue, and adopting findings pursuant to planning co

my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and today, this meeting is being clerked by our clerk, steve, if i can get the last name. steve, stamos, thank you and, cell women to your first leading, clerking the transportation authority, the meeting is brought to us by the staff, and hegan and thank you for your service, steve, would you please, call the roll. >> roll call? >> avalos? >> present. >> breed. >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu. >> here. >> cohen? >> absent. >> farrell. >> absent. >> kim. >> here. mar. >> absent. tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner. >> present. >> commissioner yee. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> very good, and let's call the next item please? >> item two, approve the minutes of the october, 21, 2014, meeting it is an action item. questions on the minutes? >> motion to approve. >> from commissioner weiner and we will go to public comment, and any member of the public that would like to comment. and seeing none, we will close public comment and we will take a roll call vote. >> avalos? >> aye. >> breed. >> aye. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu

my name is eric mar and i am the vice chair ask to my left, and supervisor john avalos, and substituting in david chiu. >> please silence all cell phones, and the documents should be submitted to the clerk and items acted upon will appear on the november 18th board of supervisor's agenda. >> thank you, i want to give props and thanks to sfgtv for tell vicing us. >> i am going to ask for any objections to take last item three and it will take a couple of motion and could we do that without objection? >> could you call item three? >>resolution supporting fy2015-2016 community development block grant, emergency solutions grant, and housing opportunities for persons with aids consolidated plan goals. (mayor's office of housing) . >> and we have brian chiu from the mayor's office of housing. >> good morning, committee members, each year, as you know, we come before this committee and the board of supervisors to go through the first step of allowing us to submit our annual proposal to hud to receive the development block grant, program funds and the emergency solutions program funds, housing o

. >> i am joined by supervisor john avalos, we will be joined momentarily by supervisor eric mar items acted upon today will appear on the november 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> items 1 through 3 are sponsored by supervisor wiener who will be here in about 30 minutes. >> item 4 is an ordinance authorizing the municipal transportation agency to include in any contract with security services it executes within the next year after issuing a competitive solicitation reviptions that require payment of prevailing wages by both the contractor and subcontractor to any individual providing security services under the contract and transitional employment for the prior contractor's employees as set forth in administrative code 21c.7. >> we have cis from mta on this item. >> supervisor avalos, cis cabot, security enforcement at mta on behalf of my colleagues at the agency i am grateful for the opportunity to address this committee about the importance of partnering with a private company. with a ridership of over 250 million people annually and billions of dollars in

. >> i am joined by supervisor john avalos, we will be joined momentarily by supervisor eric mar items acted upon today will appear on the november 25th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated.

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. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor john avalos points to the america's cup as an example of organizerromises not working out. >> they said it would bring in about $1.5 billion in economic activity. that we are going to see like 12 teams come. and we saw nothing like that. >> reporter: would it be worth it here? well, five cities already dropped out for the 2022 olympic bids. they did the math. just didn't work out. and many economists say the olympics just aren't worth it anymore. >> the key question that the organizers are asking themselves is, will the bay area be better off after the games are over in 2024? we think the answer to that can and should be yes. >> reporter: he is talking about improvements in infrastructure, housing, and transportation. that could be paid with federal and state money. i must be sitting in the front row if it goes all the way they want. mike sugerman, kpix 5. >> it's a good thing we're on at 4:30 because you're sitting there at 5:30 or 6:30 you would be holding an umbrella out there in brisbane. the climate prediction center just put out the december ou

which, led to us, reaching out to david campos, and to john avalos, and chief suhr and we started to revamp the community policing general order. and where we started to develop, quite a bit of new language in order to build different relationships between the community and the police. unfortunately that document has not really done anything. it is kind of sat there for the past three years. and with no action plan. right? so, as far as being a citizen here, it is, and also, advocate, and activist and organizer and like kind of disheartening because i am like what in the heck am i spending all of this time doing? why am i organizing in the community if there is no action? if there is no change? , you know? and so, i feel like we are in a very unique time right now. and the police accountability is a national conversation and i feel that because of a lot of groundwork that we have already done here that we actually have lead that conversation. [ applause ] >> that we can set an example, and also, really address, what has happened, with alex, and use that as a way to set an example for

. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor john avalos points to the america's cup as an example of organizer promises not working out. >> they said it would bring in about $1.5 billion in economic activity. that we're going to see like 12 teams come. and we saw nothing like that. >> reporter: would it be worth it here? well, five cities already dropped out for the 2022 olympic bid. they did the math, just didn't work out. and many economists say the olympics just aren't worth it anymore. >> the key question that the organizers are asking themselves is, will the bay area be better off after the games are over in 2024? we think the answer to that can and should be yes. >> reporter: mike sugerman, kpix 5. >> is the bay area better off? for two weeks, of course, you're on the stage and it's wonderful and everyone is happy. then everyone leaves the party. >> right. >> and you're stuck with venues that may not get used and, um, yeah, i think they got to give it a lot of thought. >> i'm surprised they would have to tear that down? pop-up stadium, $350 million? >> it would be fun. but we'll see what

the john avalos local hiring measure was important in making sure we get residents, but even in my district, there are pockets of poverty and many people out of work. supporting those unemployed and underemployed people, supporting struggling small businesses in a difficult economy, and i support the small businesses versus more chain stores that seem to be coming into the store fronts, but i try to be sympathetic to local businesses because they make up the diversity of our local neighborhoods. those are some of the challenges that face our businesses. >> are there other issues specific to your district? how do you balance the needs of the issues in your district against the needs of the city as a whole? >> i know that our district has a higher proportion of seniors than some other district, and there is a brand new senior complex and wraparound community services complex called the institution on aging bridge housing complex, but it is going to concentrate a lot of the senior services and nonprofits. about 180 units of affordable senior housing in our district. i am actually a baby boomer