i'm john ram, director of the san francisco planning department. we are here to present to you the results of a 3-year planning study on the rail alignment and benefit study other wise known as the r.a.b. we are happy to be here. part of the reason for the presentation is to give you the background and results of this planning study but our renting recognize -- our

i'm john ram, director of the san francisco planning department. we are here to present to you the results of a 3-year planning study on the rail alignment and benefit study other wise known as the r.a.b. we are happy to be here. part of the reason for the presentation is to give you the background and results of this planning study but our renting recognize -- our recommended alignment. i just want to first tell you that i'm joined by susan, the manager of the -- the project manager for the project as well as ron and bruce on the citizen's working group. ron is the chairman of that group and that group has been a great advisory group to us throughout this process over the last three years. so we started this study longer ago than i wish to admit. i do want to take a minute to thank the tjpa, mark and his staff for working with us very closely on this study. we had some wrinkles early on. i think that we have worked those out and i think that we are actually on the same page and have smooth sailing. i also want to thank cal train, high speed rail a

ladies and gentlemen, john ram is here. >> i'm asking for a decrease. >> asking for a small decrease. i can take six minutes. >> come on. we're ready to have you. >> good evening, commissioners. this is starting to feel like a planning commission hearing. phase to see you all, supervi superviso supervisors. thank you. here to present our proposed budget. i want to tank kelly and raven and the mayor's budget office for all their work on this. thank the controller's office, budget and legislative analyst and we'll move forward. we will -- the first slide just shares the current initiatives that we want to work on in the next two-year budget. we've been a real resource in the housing crisis and we are seeing more and more every week. it's a piece of the legislation from supervisor peskin and others. it's sort of grown over time. >> excellent. >> we want to address the cannabis related applications. those are representing a whole new amount of workforce. we will be transferring three of the six members of the office of short term rentals back to the planning department under this. then th

later on today's agen theda city and county of san francisco lanning director, john ram, will present the results of the study and input from the public meeting held last month. as you will hear, the results of the rap study supports the environmental clear alignment for the gtx. with the transit center nearing completion, the completion of the lab study, our focus is shifting to operating the transit center and bringing the cal and high speed rail to the transit center in the shortest time possible. we will submit proposals to help accomplish our mission of operating the transit center in the most efficient manner and bringing the trains in the shortest time possible. we have an organizational assessment to best organize staff for operating the transit center and delivering the trains. this was something that was suggested. the purpose of the organization you -- assessment is to inform us if we have few staff members and relying on consultant help is most efficient given the amount of workload coming up. we will present the findings for you in the next few months. we are also releasi

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we welcome director john around the from the san francisco planning department. mr ram, i said you would be on at 10.09. i am eight minutes off. my apologies. for the long-awaited rail alignment, and is now renamed, benefit study. the floor is yours, and with you is susan geeky wh kiki who has e program manager on this long-awaited study. we look forward to your presentation. >> thank you. i'd also like to recognize a man in the audience who is our chairman of our citizens working group who will make a few short comments after my presentation. thank you. drawn ram, planning department. i'm pleased to present to you the update on the rail alignment. i want to thank the staff and the tee -- tee dot a dot. we think there are serious land-use implications and analyses we wanted to make as part of this process. it was a great joint partnership. i am here today to not only give me the update, but to give you stats, and a recommendation for our preferred alignment. so that has been something that we have not presented in the past. we want to give you that. our thoughts on that

. >>> next let's go to the lamb rams helping one of their coaches with a gender reveal. >> special teams coach johnl and his wife are expecting their third child. here's the kicking team with the field goal inspired reveal. >> i like the guy who falls -- >> so happy. another girl. the baby will be fassel's third daughter. >> take a close look at number 58's reaction. i think maybe that one was hoping for a boy. >> yeah. >>> and attending a wedding reception may cost one family $132,000. >> the event was held at a community center. as the kansas family of six was leaving, this 5 -- yeah, you see that -- 5-year-old boy apparently hugged the glass statue. it fell on him. he wasn't hurt but the center claims the statue was. >> the center says the family should have supervised the boy. the boy's mother says the statue should have been secured better. now the big debate, who's going to pay for it. because it's the foundation for white teeth. i believe dentists will recommend pronamel strong and bright because it's two fold. it strengthens your enamel, but then also it polishes away stains for whiter teet

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now, this is -- that is special teams coach john fassel and his wife getting some help from his team, the los angeles ramsender reveal. >> so sweet. >> and it's another girl. the baby will be fassel's third daughter. a big congratulations to them. >> his father was my head coach with the new york giants. we went to the super bowl under coach jim fassel. john was there. he used to be a little kid. now he's a grown man, doing a great job with the rams. he is a special teams coach there. congratulations to the family. >> yeah. [ applause ] >> i love the sweet little girls already waiting for their sister now. >>> we're going to turn to our "gma" cover story. we love that, sara. take the binky in with you. it will make it a lot easier. we have a surprise from hollywood's power couple tonight. jay-z and beyonce dropping their first joint album. they are tackling issues within their relationship. abc's chris connelly is in los angeles with a much deeper dive, studying it all night. >> reporter: the depth and power of their previous work and their stature as artists means that no one can command the cultural sta

john joining him on guitar as well we'll have fun. the tour tonight at birchmere. check out for tickets and you guys are sticking aroun in maryland for a show at rams head i think. >>orrow. two chances to see them. e'll get a c to talk to you guys. daknow --o fun to tour these >> connection with the -- i know it's -- >> it's great. the audiences are great, and it'stood. >> if you d love it you wouldn't doight. >> that's right. >> isn't that what life is all about. >> it is. >> we'll listen to more of their music throughout the h and hear that performteittle bit la for us. we'll have details how you can t to the show at the birchmere tonight which is very cool. >> of time i see a guitar i wish i can play guitar or base. >> it's never too late. >> it's too late for me>>. o, it's not. >> we have t tee guitars. evoo late to play guitar. >> no. >> see. resounng. >> three n >> clearly they don't know me. >> you're a guitar guy. >> i mean -- it's therapy for me,eah. >> so yeah. see, i'm all into tt.i just can. i never -- >> it might be too late to play it well. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> play on. >> play on. >>here are people making money off of it that downplay