i am very fortunate to have district 2 represented by mark farrell. [applause] very simply, we've not had any confirmed decisions on the budget, but i have bought $3.6 million gap that i have helped plug with the great budget team and the department heads and your input. this is the fourth of 10 town halls on the budget i promised to hold. i have one tomorrow and combined two on saturday and several more next week and then we start making hard decisions, because it is not easy. part of the reason it is not easy -- as we will find out -- it is not just the services. we are killing ourselves with an -- with the runaway pension system. so, i am cooking very hard to plug that -- working very hard to plug up. every week, i need with our labor unions, with our comptroller. we will get to the point in a few weeks that the labor unions and the board of supervisors will a great what we have to do to correct this long term so it does not give us the way it has this year, to the tune of 125 additional -- $125 million. there would not be a reason to hold these to

have discussed with president choo's office at length about the approach, and with supervisor mark farrell. i have very much welcome their inside and input in refining this legislation. i have an amendment. i know president chiu has amendments that i anticipate welcoming. we also believe supervisor farrell had some input that is reflective of our amendments as well. i want to thank the office of work force and economic development for their input, the comptroller's office, mr. eagen, in particular, who will be expanding on this, and the mayor's office. we had conversations about the ablution of this legislation, especially as we were coming out of the deliberations with twitter. thank you as well to my staff for their round-the-clock facilitation of the many discussions. and treasury's office, of course. that is what is before us. i have an amendment. i would be more than happy to make that amendment now. one amendment that i will motion -- i would like to extend this from two to six years. right after this legislation, we realized the two years was a place holder so that we could gain som

supervisor campos: for the record, we have been joined by supervisor mark farrell. >> we want to focus on the transit division and talk about overtime in other divisions. to give you some numbers about the compliance and the ordinance -- highlights of the key consideration and finally end up with the management strategy on how we are addressing over time. supervisor campos: i want to apologize -- there is an overflow room. more people want to watch the hearing and there is not enough room in this committee room, please go to the board chambers said he will be able to watch from their and, during public comment, you can also speak and come to this room to speak. my apologies. please continue. >> on this slide is a snapshot of the mta-wide over time. this is the annual budget for this fiscal year, the actual nine months and projected year end totals. the budget is about $33 million. we spent $36.8 million to date and we are projecting $54.1 million by the end of the year. the transit division, you can see by the pie chart is a majority of the overtime user in our agency. on the blue pie

it just so happened on that same day i introduced a formal request, supervisors mirkarimi and mark farrell introduced their versions. it is very appropriate be consider all of these items together. i want to thank ted egan and the comptroller's office for their report, which responds to our legislation, which charts a good path forward to deal with the potential fight -- spike in peril tax liability for private companies that could go public with significant valuation. i would like to take a moment to talk about the other amendments on supervisor mercury's -- mirkarimi's amendments, and then i am sure mr. egan will go into them in more detail. there are a set of amendments to change the proposal that had initially focused a two-year tax exclusion to only tech companies who had been founded after 2001, that were larger than 100 employees. i would suggest that we not omit this legislation to just as companies, that we need to have the exclusion open to any private company that undertakes either an initial public offering on a public stock exchange, or experiences a change of control prior to

but supervisors wiener, supervisor eric mar, supervisor mark farrell, thank you for coming. jonah's minted from the planning and conservation league. our port director. dpw director. the of director of the office of economic and workforce development, with the project manager for the america's cup. a round of applause. [applause] she is my boss, too. mike martin, who is heading the city effort to coordinate all this. critical role at this point. thank you. christina from the golden gate yacht club, which is the owner of the contemporary, but we hope long-term owner of the america's cup. and lazarus from the port commission is here. charles schulz -- charlotte schulz. thank you. wonderful to have you. dan is here from nancy pelosi's office. we appreciate that. i think that does it for the vip's -- oh, who did i? kimberly from the port commission. all right, with that, there are two supervisors who played a key role in making this happen. while we got an 11-0 vote, and i know everybody gas when they hear that the board of supervisors voted 11-0, it was through the extraordinar

he was laid off a year later and we took the story to mark farrell. >>> and we have a lot of complaints and a lot of people coming to us and indicate talking to us about how it is notective as they want it to be. >> terry frank is the director of the government watch dog organization californians aware. brave whistle-blowers deserve better. >> the government should be ashamed to announce any kind of whistle blowwer protection program if it cannot cannot deliver. >> i went to whistle blowwer and no one did anything about it no one . now, it is out in the light. three years later, they got problems. >> the controller and the ethic's commission couldn't tell us how many times they found in favor of the whistleblower in the last decade. we learned that civil grand jury is looking into the whistle blower program. we are always looking for tips. send them to iteam to abc 7 news.com. or call. thank you, dan. >> when we come back. new tragedy in tornado alley. another round ofeñeñeñeñeñfxfxfÑ >>'s high school senior died in a shoot out in east oakland. two teens were firing on richie street jus

mark farrell came in for wayne rogers.arge, ensemble show, and alan al today was always at the center and the show remained popular right until the very end. >> in the case of bewitched you had dick york eventually replaced by dick sargent. >> that's the most bizarre one. it was the same guy, it was elizabeth montgomery's husband. and it was just a different actor in the role. the first actor, dick york, became ill. and couldn't go on. so the last three seasons were finished by dick sargent and you know the audience was much more forgiving then. today you would be reading endless blogs comparing the two online. this was the 1960s, and it was a different time. and the audience just accepted it. >> cheers was the same case. a different time. still it worked out. >> shelley long was on it for a few years and she left the show to pursue a movie career. again the show became more popular when kirstie alley. >> is there a chance of that here? >> well, "two and a half men" is long in the tooth. it's been around for eight seasons.

farrell? commissioner kim? commissioner mark? commissioner mirkarimi? commissioner wiener? supervisor mirkarimi: please read items 3 and 4. item 3. chair's report. this is an information item.item 4. executive director's report. this is an information item. supervisor mirkarimi: last thursday the executive director and i'm joined edwin lee and federal highway deputies director to officially kick off the sf park program. scott wiener and members of the mta board were also at the event which marks the culmination of a four-year process to bring real time parking information to san francisco. it was a great event recognized by the press around country as a major milestone in terms of how technology can structure solutions for common urban problems like finding curbside parking. the entire demonstration was funded with $20 million of urban partnership money which this authority was able to obtain from the federal government in 2007 as part of the negotiations over the funding plan for doral drive, now presidio parkway, which at the time included a proposal. the proposal was a f

supervisor farrell: thank you, supervisor chiu, mark. i know you have been in district two, and i know people have appreciated working together. that being said, there are still a lot of concerns, so i went to flesh this out with you and see what you envision happening. >> sure. an example where we have actually gone through the dpw process. this was in district 1. we have an existing cross connect box. we met with the condominium association. they very much wanted this, a competitive choice. we said we would ideally like to place it next to your existing cabinet, but we can work within 300 feet to find a place. the existing cabinet is off of the sidewalks and behind a hedge row of bushes. we were able to go in and place a second cabinet. we went through and met with them. we met with the neighbors and put a public notice before we filed with dpw and got their input if there were any complaints or concerns, and once there was none, we filed with dpw, but that kind of interaction with the community, it need not be next to the existing box

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