madam chair rosales recused herself. 3 aye. one absent and one recuseal. >> thank you please call the next item >> next order of business is item 6, public common on non agenda items. madam chair >> do we have speaker cards? >> i do have one from mr. ace washington. >> quhoo who is not here >> those are all the speaker cards i have. >> mr. [inaudible] were you there address the commission during public comment? okay. i know you better. where is that card. no. i know you enjoy visiting us but normally you like to say something >> thank you for reminding me. madam chair, commissioners, i am here to bring forward a situation where we have the big meeting concerning contractors with lunar and there there-[inaudible] concerning of the financing of community contractors under dda and they said we have come forth and asked lunar to take money from the community builders program and transfer over to the-to create a lending program community contractors to participate in the development and not have to dependent on the [inaudible] it is

madam chair rosales, here.ommissioner mondejar is absent and all other members are present thmpt next order of business is item 2, announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting of november 3, 2015 is held at 1 p.m. at city. announce of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices. the rings of and use of cell phones, pagers and similarly sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chair mayordser removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cell phones recollect pagers or other sound producing electronic devices. c, announcement of time allotment public comability. be advised the member of piblic has up to 3 minute to make public comment on each agenda item unless the commission adopt as shorter period. it is strongly recommended that members the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken as

madam chair rosales, here. commissioner mondejar is absent and all other members are present thmpt next order of business is item 2, announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting of november 3, 2015 is held at 1 p.m. at city. announce of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices. the rings of and use of cell phones, pagers and similarly sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chair mayordser removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cell phones recollect pagers or other sound producing electronic devices. c, announcement of time allotment public comability. be advised the member of piblic has up to 3 minute to make public comment on each agenda item unless the commission adopt as shorter period. it is strongly recommended that members the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken a

madam chair rosales, here. commissioner mondejar is absent and all other members are present thmpt next order of business is item 2, announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting of november 3, 2015 is held at 1 p.m. at city. announce of prohibition of sound producing electronic devices. the rings of and use of cell phones, pagers and similarly sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chair mayordser removal of the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of cell phones recollect pagers or other sound producing electronic devices. c, announcement of time allotment public comability. be advised the member of piblic has up to 3 minute to make public comment on each agenda item unless the commission adopt as shorter period. it is strongly recommended that members the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken a

profess vote so i can clarify the question. >> motion to rescind unanimously approved. >> okay madam chairi move we adopt the area plan and elimination per what the chair distributed in writing that amendment through the chair was distributed. >> a clarification for the city attorney it is the same language of the amendments you've amended so to have it classified. >> gentlemen just about same amendments only question for the clerk who is making the motion to be regretted in the minutes so supervisor wiener's position to adopt the amendment that supervisor cowen's amendment. >> simple making the motion as a matter of progress that is it is the motion to adapt supervisor campos to remove the area plan for the t s f. >> that's correct. >> roll call vote please. on that motion commissioner avalos supervisor wiener chair cowen. >> the that item passes. >> thank you second amendment i proposed is to increase pdrs threshold we have a roll call vote on that. >> may i ask which amendment. >> the second amendment i introduced to increase the pdrs threshold. >> yes. i have that. >> okay. >> on the m

profess vote so i can clarify the question. >> motion to rescind unanimously approved. >> okay madam chairi move we adopt the area plan and elimination per what the chair distributed in writing that amendment through the chair was distributed. >> a clarification for the city attorney it is the same language of the amendments you've amended so to have it classified. >> gentlemen just about same amendments only question for the clerk who is making the motion to be regretted in the minutes so supervisor wiener's position to adopt the amendment that supervisor cowen's amendment. >> simple making the motion as a matter of progress that is it is the motion to adapt supervisor campos to remove the area plan for the t s f. >> that's correct. >> roll call vote please. on that motion commissioner avalos supervisor wiener chair cowen. >> the that item passes. >> thank you second amendment i proposed is to increase pdrs threshold we have a roll call vote on that. >> may i ask which amendment. >> the second amendment i introduced to increase the pdrs threshold. >> yes. i have that. >> okay. >> on the m

profess vote so i can clarify the question. >> motion to rescind unanimously approved. >> okay madam chairi move we adopt the area plan and elimination per what the chair distributed in writing that amendment through the chair was distributed. >> a clarification for the city attorney it is the same language of the amendments you've amended so to have it classified. >> gentlemen just about same amendments only question for the clerk who is making the motion to be regretted in the minutes so supervisor wiener's position to adopt the amendment that supervisor cowen's amendment. >> simple making the motion as a matter of progress that is it is the motion to adapt supervisor campos to remove the area plan for the t s f. >> that's correct. >> roll call vote please. on that motion commissioner avalos supervisor wiener chair cowen. >> the that item passes. >> thank you second amendment i proposed is to increase pdrs threshold we have a roll call vote on that. >> may i ask which amendment. >> the second amendment i introduced to increase the pdrs threshold. >> yes. i have that. >> okay. >> on the m

thank you, madam chair. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you, mr.ecretary, for being here today and for your service to our country. i wanted to follow up on other questions, including some of the questions that were asked by senator warren with regard to the spr. can you tell me, first of all, do you have any idea as it to when would be the optimal time to sell either all or part of our strategic petroleum reserve inventory and what factors do you think congress should consider before authorizing any effort to draw down the spr? >> well, for one thing, i think it's, again, this analysis that's rather extensive analysis, year-long analysis we are carrying out which congress has asked for. again, that will be probably in may that we'll have that analysis, so that's critical. but then i think the -- it's also connected to the authorities. again, we've recommended a reexamination of the authorities appropriate to current markets and that comes in because as i mentioned earlier, there's already in law a threshold for being able to use certain authoritie

profess vote so i can clarify the question. >> motion to rescind unanimously approved. >> okay madam chairi move we adopt the area plan and elimination per what the chair distributed in writing that amendment through the chair was distributed. >> a clarification for the city attorney it is the same language of the amendments you've amended so to have it classified. >> gentlemen just about same amendments only question for the clerk who is making the motion to be regretted in the minutes so supervisor wiener's position to adopt the amendment that supervisor cowen's amendment. >> simple making the motion as a matter of progress that is it is the motion to adapt supervisor campos to remove the area plan for the t s f. >> that's correct. >> roll call vote please. on that motion commissioner avalos supervisor wiener chair cowen. >> the that item passes. >> thank you second amendment i proposed is to increase pdrs threshold we have a roll call vote on that. >> may i ask which amendment. >> the second amendment i introduced to increase the pdrs threshold. >> yes. i have that. >> okay. >> on the m

. >> thank you, madam chair and members the committee thank you for your time in considering this item i want to reinforce a few things the measure that was introduced by the mayor along with the planning department and the mta was the result of a considerable amount of work literally over the course of many years it was analysis both the techniques and the feasibility study but even more so lots of discussions with lots of different stakeholders and trying to incorporate feedback and trying to run numbers and find as someone said a sweet spot of the right level to set those fees and the right way to assess them and the rate uses upon which to assess them we at the municipal transportation agency have a invested interest and generating revenue but we want to make sure in the context of the other fees the city assess in the cost of doing business we're going about this in the most thoughtful and deliberate way the work that was done i believe got to what was a strong proposal - there were certainly people on different sides thought that which is too much or too much grandfathering or tw

i'm out of time, madam chair. i thank you. >> we keep trying to get an answer here about when the administration's going to support us in removing this outdated ban. we'll keep working on you. senator warren. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you, mr. secretary, for being here. i want to ask about the strategic petroleum reserve. i understand that under certain circumstances drawing down our emergency oil reserves could make good financial sense. could make good strategic accepts. we should have a conversation about how large the strategic petroleum reserve needs to be on a going forward basis, but there have been recent congressional proposals to sell off a large amount of this emergency supply of oil, and i want to focus on just two features of these bills that have been proposed. they are not there because anyone has made the case that we need a smaller reserve. nor is there a proposal to sell it off because anyone thinks this is a great time to sell. nope. the reason for the proposed sales of the oil supply is

thank you madam chair. >> thank you madam chair. all the way over here. mr. secretary, during that 2014 test sail a number of the structure concerns were brought to life and he said repeatedly today and threat your testimony the woeful situation in terms of their infrastructure in moving the product whether it would be pipeline capacity because of the geographic shift in our oil markets, the doc availability, talked about the real as well. well, i share your concern here and it's been estimated that 1.5 to $2 billion would be needed to increase distribution capacity. here is my concern: i mean, all of our states-- it certainly my state of west virginia has a lot of coal and we also have a lot of natural gas. trying to cite pipelines through residential national forests, certainly throughout all of our states is getting more and more difficult. so, if the need is as big as 1.5 to $2.0 billion, what kind of leadership can we expect from the administration? it was already mentioned that the keystone pipeline was vetoed what kind of leadership can we expect from

madam chair. >> if we can defer to our deputy exectev director. >> thank you. commissioner this item is presented by [inaudible] our deputy director for finance administration. >> chair rosales, my name is bree [inaudible] deputy direct frr finance and administration and i'm here today to present to you resolution of intention from california pers. so, as you know the redevelopment agency provided retirement benefits to employees 33 a contract with cal pers and as part of disaleutian law it says all existing contracts remain in force and continue to the agency of the successor agency, however cal pers has recently clarified the possession and asked all agencies enter into a new contract to maintain existing employee benefits and continue them as they are with no change to the benefits themselves. so, the first step in this process is knh to you with a resolution of indention and what this does is it acknowledges the commissions approval of oc oorks i desire to move forward with entering into a new contract with cal pers and allow the employees to approve the new

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair rosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair rosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so

madam chair you have 3 ayes. the motion passes unanimously. is there any other items before this body? >> no that concludes the business for today. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so th

madam chair rosales recused herself. 3 aye. one absent and one recuseal. >> thank you please call the next item >> next order of business is item 6, public common on non agenda items. madam chair >> do we have speaker cards? >> i do have one from mr. ace washington. >> quhoo who is not here >> those are all the speaker cards i have. >> mr. [inaudible] were you there address the commission during public comment? okay. i know you better. where is that card. no. i know you enjoy visiting us but normally you like to say something >> thank you for reminding me. madam chair, commissioners, i am here to bring forward a situation where we have the big meeting concerning contractors with lunar and there there-[inaudible] concerning of the financing of community contractors under dda and they said we have come forth and asked lunar to take money from the community builders program and transfer over to the-to create a lending program community contractors to participate in the development and not have to dependent on the [inaudible] it is

>> thank you, madam chair and mr. secretary on your work on the document. explain why the 90-day requirement shouldn't be the only consideration we're looking at when we're talking about modernization. >> >> well, senator, the 90 days is certainly an obligation based on imports, but, as i said, we also have an international obligation based upon use, and that is the 43.5% of draw-down capacity for a coordinated response. but secondly, beyond the international obligations, i just believe it's in our best interest to have a very strong petroleum reserve. that is what gives us the flexibility to respond, if there is a very major disruption. and we have, we have had brainstorming sessions, workshops with external experts, looking at what are the risks of major disruptions, and they certainly are there. major disruption perhaps more than 3 million barrels per year, for example suddenly disrupted. and by the way, the risk of multiple disruptions, because things could be linked. so, as i said, that has the expected impact of a major price spike in those cases. we

. >> thank you very much madam chair this item is an important revamp item transformation of our approach in san francisco to transit impact fees we've had transit fees for 35 years but it is limited in its scope it is never applied to residential and been broad exemption so we it is - a very important step forward for the funding and transportation system and seeking a board look at the extent to develop should be assessed fees in support our transportation system the city is growing significantly and we need to make sure we're all pitch in to fund transit as we hope and expect will grow along with the rest of the growth in our city this is been a long process colleagues as you may know in 2012 when we just want the transit development fee we adapted some changes but the board overwhelmingly rejected it and it is 0 coming to the forward-looking form i look forward to discussions a number of issues that will be addressed and policy decisions i'm looking forward to that discussion i know that this may continue today, if it is continued i hope that floekz stick around to provide testimony b

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair rosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair rosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so

madam chair you have 3 ayes. the motion passes unanimously. is there any other items before this body? >> no that concludes the business for today. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in well with the innovation capital world i can't think of a better k with the wifi connection in our city it is crossing different economic lines and neighborhoods it helps not only young people with their education but regular folks to find out where their muni bus is or their routine or opportunities in the city it was lead by the department the of technology they've proven themselves they wanted to take on such a great responsibility on market street i want to thank the department of technology they've found great partners with marcus in the valley along with mayor 42 boss of them gave us very expensive equipment to use but also gave us some great guidance how to do that the combination of the public private partnering was another compliment off our department the government some work with the technology to do those sorts of exist things a

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair rosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so

madam chair you have 3 ayes. the motion passes unanimously. is there any other items before this body? >> no that concludes the business for today. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. . >> we all know a major earthquake will eventually hit san francisco are reproerl presented san francisco is making sure we are with the public safety buildings. >> this consists of 4 consultants the police headquarters with the from 850 with a brand new fire station number 4 to serve mission bay swimming pools at office of economic workforce development in the fire station thirty. >> is the the hall of justice on bryant the new home for 2 hundred and 50 uniform and voiven compresses we all it was opened in 19 so sociothat is a 50-year improvement as far as structure and work environment had that will be a great place to work. >> when construction began in 2011 this was with an clear goal to make sure with the big one heights the resident will will have a function police department those are the highly seismic standards it is up to operate up to 96 hours fro

thank you very much, madam chair. >> thank you very much mr. chabot. >> i'm going to yield to mr.icilline. >> thank the gentleman for yielding. undersecretary richard, can you explain, and i recognize this is a complicated process. can you explain to us sort of beginning to end how a refugee from syria might navigate the process to be admitted to the united states, how long that typically takes, where's the first contact, how many agencies are involved and have jurisdiction over this determination, and kind of just explain sort of the process, because i think people have sort of a mistaken impression that they just show up and they're admitted. a better understand of what that process is. >> thank you, congressman. the process lasts 18 to 24 months. the refugees are identified as people who are technically vulnerable in the places where they've fled. so i guess the process starts when they decide to leave their country. which is a very challenging thing. they cross the borders. they try to live as well as they can for a time. but they may come to the attention of the uncr or other

madam chair you have 3 ayes. the motion passes unanimously.her items before this body? >> no that concludes the business for today. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned.

to remedy the ordinance as amended supervisor kim. >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor cohen. >> madam chair you have 3ize. >> this is passed to the representation to the full board of supervisors. >> item 3 a resolution commissioners, on that motion interim controls in the transit plan area to restrict the size and height of signs within 200 feet and visual from the existing planning park and to restrict the signs in other areas. >> thank you very much supervisor kim is the author of this item and i will give her the mike at this time. >> thank you our office is still conducting emotions between stakeholders on this very issue we're requesting continuance two week continuance at land use commission and well, thank you very much that sounds great before we vote on the motion let's opening it up for public comment any members of the public that want to speak on item number 3 please come up. >> okay. so no members of the public. >> item speak on item 3 public comment is closed. at this time. >> and colleagues, we can take this motion to continue that item before us to. >> november 2nd. >> nove

madam chair you have 3 ayes. the motion passes unanimously. is there any other items before this body? >> no that concludes the business for today. >> thank you this meeting is adjourned. thank you everybody begin by doing this [beeping] i always wanted to do that. every since my elementary school teacher did that to me. i want to thank you for coming to city hall today to help the school district to be the best uben school district in the country and one way is respond to the housing needs. as you know we have a housing crisis that is decades in the making and want to make sure as we commit 250 building new housing and preserving the neighborhoods and preventing people from getting evicted that we pay attention to the essential workforce of the city. we have in the past talked about the need to make sure the first responders are in the city so we started a loan program and thank tooz the supervisors working with my office we are able to do that to the tune of 250 million dollars and believe that whole program is taken care of and we need more

thank you madam chair. mr. secretary during the test sale you said repeatedly today the situation in terms of infrastructure whether pipeline capacity and i share your concern it is estimated 1.$532 billion is needed but here's my concern all the states i am certain my state has a lot of coal we also have a lot of natural gas to put the pipelines to the residential natural forest is getting more and more difficult so if they need is as big as $2 billion what kind of leadership can respect from the administration will note that it was vetoed what type of leadership can expect to health meet the challenge not just making sure those existing pipelines is safe but the ones that we know we will need. >> but that distribution requirements are about 1 billion of that total because roughly speaking 800 million is what we need for the extension and for the maritime distribution. >> this is a petroleum reserve so basically it is all we need to extend its life. >>. >> the pipeline distribution , and no. >> what do you est

to remedy the ordinance as amended supervisor kim. >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor cohen. >> madam chair you have 3ize. >> this is passed to the representation to the full board of supervisors. >> item 3 a resolution commissioners, on that motion interim controls in the transit plan area to restrict the size and height of signs within 200 feet and visual from the existing planning park and to restrict the signs in other areas. >> thank you very much supervisor kim is the author of this item and i will give her the mike at this time. >> thank you our office is still conducting emotions between stakeholders on this very issue we're requesting continuance two week continuance at land use commission and well, thank you very much that sounds great before we vote on the motion let's opening it up for public comment any members of the public that want to speak on item number 3 please come up. >> okay. so no members of the public. >> item speak on item 3 public comment is closed. at this time. >> and colleagues, we can take this motion to continue that item before us to. >> november 2nd. >> nove

. >> thank you, madam chair. i made a personal note to go on the internet and look up what a "big", is. >> oh, come on. >> i don't believe you. >> dr. kroot, am i pronouncing that properly? >> yes, you are, senator. >> first of all, thank you for your service in the navy, and thank you for your continued service for our veterans. i wanted to get to the -- you were required to take out a life insurance policy, i think for $180,000. this is after you've agreed to pay about $230,000 back for $91,000 loan. what is the nature of the requirement that you have now in terms of keeping that life insurance policy current? i mean, are they paying it at this point? and you have to keep it? i need to understand a little bit about that ongoing obligation. >> we paid for this, and it was paid up. and when we -- >> it was a term life insurance in the term ends in october. we were unable to stop paying it until the end of the term, because we needed permission from structured to stop paying it. >> thank you. and i'm sorry for wha

to remedy the ordinance as amended supervisor kim. >> supervisor wiener. >> supervisor cohen. >> madam chair you have 3ize. >> this is passed to the representation to the full board of supervisors. >> item 3 a resolution commissioners, on that motion interim controls in the transit plan area to restrict the size and height of signs within 200 feet and visual from the existing planning park and to restrict the signs in other areas. >> thank you very much supervisor kim is the author of this item and i will give her the mike at this time. >> thank you our office is still conducting emotions between stakeholders on this very issue we're requesting continuance two week continuance at land use commission and well, thank you very much that sounds great before we vote on the motion let's opening it up for public comment any members of the public that want to speak on item number 3 please come up. >> okay. so no members of the public. >> item speak on item 3 public comment is closed. at this time. >> and colleagues, we can take this motion to continue that item before us to. >> november 2nd. >> nove

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chairosales has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so to

supervisor wiener. >> thank you madam chair. first i want to [inaudible] mrs.hester i think in general there is little traffic management in san francisco and you see the box blocks that is still exists and it is pretty rampant and bad. putding that aside for the moment, colleagues thank you for hearing this and want to thank member thofz public and transportation authority and mta for being here today and i think it loob will be a good process. i want to make a minor amendment, right now the trigger for the time period for the planning process starts or states it starts on the effective date of the new section, 9.1 and that will put us into the holidays so that means it won't get go until the new year. we don't need to wait until the new year so would like to make a amendment, this is on page 3, line 4 to strike out-change within 12 months of the efoketive date to within 12 months of the mayors signature of section 9.1. i would like to offer that amendment and then i would move that we forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you v

. >> the nobd is commissioners questioning and madam chair. >> any commissioner have a question. >> only about the sign by the governor bringing back the development. >> oh, thank you commissioner singh this is really embedded in the rocks report and the memorandum the governor signed this senate bill 107 with the active bills 441 the governor thought was a good yesterday and incorporated it into the trailer legislation became effective cement accept 22 which allows the san francisco it was a larger bill that was a san francisco only portion that allowed for successor agencies ocii to have stated authorized be it therefore resolved authority to complete the housing program in june you saw the housing annual housing report the 2 year housing report we have at least 3 three hundred if not close to 4 thousand more affordable housing to less to build the problem the cash flow issue waiting for the property tax to fill up so this legislation kind of like a mortgage allowed us to take what was due and pay back over time and accelerate our housing program so consistent with the raps we expect t

but anyway, madam chair, thank you for this important hearing.and we will continue to work with you and others and try to figure out a path forward. i certainly believe we need to make the investment here to modernize and to keep the strategic petroleum reserve, i think we need to come up with the resources. i mentioned a number today, but i think we have to get that number and make the investment, so thank you for the hearing. >> senator cantwell, thank you. and for each of you, thank you for being here today and for giving us a little extra time here this afternoon. appreciate the consideration. thank you. we stand adjourned. >> every weekend the c-span networks feature programs on politics, nonfiction books and american history. saturday morning at 10:00 eastern on c-span, marking the 20th anniversary of the million man march, live coverage of the justice or else gathering at the national mall with keynote speaker mr. louis farrakahn, sunday evening at 6:30 at the press club, ben carson discusses his new book "a more perfect union" which he wr

name is called: commissioner mondejar supervisor pen commissioner singh commissioner bustos and madam chair has recused herself i have 4 ids and one recall. >> thank you that item passes. >> get commissioner back. >> thank you. >> madam secretary please call the next item the nobd is workshop discussion madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary commissioners really in response to our request to have a dialogue with mta staff to better understand how the city overall transportation policies fit within the major developments in the hunters point shipyard and candle stick and transbay and other points this presentation is a broad offering overview to inform your decision making efforts and certainly an opportunity to speak with mta staff with that, overview sally deputy director will be joined by mta staff. >> thank you director bohe i'm sally you've heard we're here to provide parking and development guidelines that the city strongly believe that are critical for guiding and development in san francisco especially during this time we're seeing significant growth in to the city so tom magu

thank you very much, madam chair. >> thank you very much. mr. deutsch is recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. i'm going to yield. >> thank you the gentleman for yielding. >> miss richards, if i can begin with you, can you explain, and recognize it's a complicated process, can you explain to us from beginning to end how a refugee from syria might navigate the process to be admitted to the united states, how long that typically takes, where's the first contact, how many agencies are involved and have jurisdiction over this determination, and kind of just explain sort of the process. because i think people have sort of a mistaken impression that they just show up and they're admitted and sort of better understanding of kind of what that process is. >> thank you, congressman. the process lasts 18 to 24 months. the refugees are identified as people who are particularly vulnerable in the places where they've fled. so, i guess the process starts when they decide to leave their country, which is a very challenging thing. they cross the borders. they

madam chair >> i do not have a report >> theordser of business is item 8 report of the executive director. madam director >> just that we have a up coming meeting november 3 and only have a few more meetings left for the year and expect we'll have a full calen deer and do believe madam secretary we have a proposed special meeting time november 3 of 10 a.m., is that correct? >> that is correct. 10 to 2. >> that concludes my report. >> next order of business, item 9, commissioner question and matters. matter chair >> this is a opportunity for commissioner question or matters any commissioner would like to raise. >> move to adjourn. >> commissioner sing wants to bring up a [inaudible] i don't think we have any questions or matters so next-we are all most there. >> next order of business is closed session, there is no. next order of business ajournalment adjournment >> we are adjourned at 217 [inaudible] >> i'd like to call the tuesday, october 27, 2015, of the public utilities commission to order mr. secretary please call the roll. >> commissioner vice president moran commissioner caen count