i see this as in g-8 employees working together towards a common goal -- mca employees working together towards a common goal. -- mta employees. as far as the contract, if changes need to be made, that is what we will do. i will be engaging in a partnership with labor. it will not be so much about the bargaining agreement, but how we can more together to improve the delivery of service. i will sit down with them as soon as i can and work together collaborative lead -- collaboratively to make the muni system as efficient as possible. >> [unintelligible] chairman nolan: we can gather with members of the press if you like right after this. i hope you all agree that we are enormously proud of the decision we have made, and we look forward to working with ed reiskin on behalf of all the people of san francisco. thank you for being here. if members of the press want to stick around and ask questions, i am happy to do that.

i am relieved to be before you on this first non-controversial mca contract in a long time. as you know, we have been working very hard at implementing the programs are in august of 2011. also in supporting the program they have given us a $22 million loan to expand the project. what is before you is an amendment to the contract that allows us to spend the loan, providing infrastructure for the project. seeking your approval on the proposed recommendations, i am happy to answer any questions you might have. supervisor chu: thank you very much. >> madam chairman, on the committee -- madam chairman, members of the committee, the first payment repayment of this loan has been made. we recommend that you approve this resolution. supervisor chu: thank you. let's go to public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak? seeing no one, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor mirkarimi: motion to send forward with recommendations. >> without objection. supervisor chu: before we call item no. 4, i meant to think of -- thank mr. young. your work yesterday o

we want to thank the mca for their hard work in putting it together. i would like to thank the members of the california league of cities that came to our tun -- town for their annual conference. i served on the california director and i was appointed by mayor ed lee. i want to congratulate our treasurer for being elected second vice president of the california league of cities which means in two years he will be the president of the organization. he will do was proud in the city and i want to -- to do was proud in the city and i want to congratulate him. we have one in memoriam, a beloved and long term president. he was born in 1922 in colorado, he was a proud u.s. navy combat veteran of world war ii and served from north africa to or canola. he was featured in the "san francisco chronicle." the library of congress was making an effort to get their recollections of veterans to the collection. he is quoted as saying, "we were a part of history/ . it is not neat and clean like in the movies. it is long periods of boredom followed by short periods of act

they are identified as sergeant first class miranda mca lane i of reno, nevada.cion was carrying an assault rifle and pistol. he fired the rifle and turned the gun on himself. no word on a motive. >>> in mexico, a tweet could put two people behind bars for up to 30 years. prosecutors say the two posted false rumors about school attacks on twitter and facebook causing chaos on the streets of vera cruz. one claimed five children were kidnapped, another mission a bomb threat. parents raced to school to pick up kids which caused crashes. they face charges of terrorism. >>> in connecticut, the family of yale student an i lay filed a wrongful death suit. they did little to protect women on campus from aggressive male behavior. she was killed in a research lab in 2009 by a technician. the university says the lawsuit has no merit. >>> millions of dollars in social security checks being sent out to dead people. an estimated $40 million has been doled out to deceased beneficiaries based on the most recent audit in 2008. in north carolina, more than 100 social security chec

freeze advisories including you, diane mca tee, in cambridge, new york, for parts of the northeast, new york and new england where we could set some record lows tonight. look at these freezing temperatures in some cases. 39 in burlington, 50 in new york, 48 in buffalo and, again, much of the country may be enjoying -- i'm not sure, you tell me, janice dean fox, twitter -- 47 is what we're going to see in minneapolis, 54 in kansas city, 59 in memphis. what about you, jon scott? you like the cooler temperatures? jon: i do. i was at the concert in central park last night -- >> reporter: fancy. jon: well, people were not listening to you because i saw people in t-shirts. it's raining on us -- >> reporter: that's new yorkers. they don't listen to me. [laughter] jon: i did, j.d., i was prepared. >> reporter: that's good to hear. jenna: one of our top stories we've been watching this week is about solyndra. newly-released e-mails showing the obama administration had some concerns over what kind of effect a so solyndra default would have on a re-election campaign for them. we'll have more in ju

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