mr. avalos, farrell and mar for being in this issue about housing. so, i want to mention a couple of things that we facing over and over and over. and we are talking about it through and for example, so we have a 500 homeless families in the shelters, 260 in with the bed and 250 without bed, because nobody on the list for 6 months and we have 500 homeless 23578lies who are living in sro hotels since 2001, when we do the first out reach and the defenses, we continue to have the same number of the families in the hotels. and 2011, and 2011. december 12, and report to these board, 2200 homeless children in the san francisco school district and today we continue to have the children, and the school district and what are we doing? what is doing on with these issues? we continue with the same problems and the city. and so, we want to end in it in san francisco and we have to work together and we have to put all of the tools together and make sure that we have a man i don't to create housing. we need family and we need family to review and take this housing

mr. president. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. president chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. and supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our april 15th board meeting minutes as well as april 16th special meeting minutes of the budget committee. can i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are approved. [gavel] >> madam clerk, any communications? >> there are none today, mr. president. >> and if you could call our consent agenda agenda. >> i

mr. president. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos?resident chiu?

mr. reiskin here. welcome. >> through the president, supervisor avalos, good morning, supervisors. ed reiskin, director of transportation. so, we heard concerns from one or two supervisors at the committee level with regard to specifically the digital advertising which has i believe always in the current contract as well as an increase in the number of wraps that would be allowed under this new contract. the current contract allows 15. the new contract would allow 15. but would also give me the discretion to add up to 30 in total. but the reason we included this, i think supervisor breed said it very well, and i thank her for her leadership and sponsorship on this, was to provide flexibility -- >> i'm sorry, mr. reiskin. my question was really around what was the effort around negotiationses around the titan contract because it was really clear what my position was on the wraps and on the digital arts. i didn't want to be any wraps at all, but certainly wanted to see it come down from 30 to 15. that didn't happen. i understand we're trying to build flexibility in your budget and i'

mr. president. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. president chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener?

mr. rose or puc i know we'll be back? okay supervisor avalos any comments now we're going to move into the other departments >> i'll hold my comments and after public comment i'm going to motion that we table the items of the a o s o and other items related to the puc and actually, i don't mind it can you see me great pain to do that our puc is the most incredible educate we have with the city and county of san francisco i have traced to the water system and our amazing people the puc but we have not worked 90 out in a collaborative way for a budget we can live with interests been a effort to communicate with the mayor directly i haven't heard back i'm alarmed of the candid tender we have we will have a new budget to come before us and one we workout our differences and shared common interests to make sure we have water coming to the residents all over the bay area and electricity for the city and our great folks in the bay area as well i want to indicate that's y where i'm going thank you, colleagues. >> at this point why not move into the nex

mr. roses point and supervisor avalos point the list of items on slide 19 to the maintaining the puc reserve is whether or not you up size the revenue bond assumes so for the operating budget a has the rates

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> good morning today is tuesday, may 20, 2014. welcome to the san francisco transportation authority board. my name is john avalos the chair of the transportation authority. we are broadcast by sfgovtv staff bill and jessie and our clerk is eric can chang. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos pr supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> we have quorum very good. >> approve the minutes of the april 22nd this is an action stem. >> questions or com

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >>

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr.ohn [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel]

avalos point. i i am really sensitive to mr. kelly but i won't support any budget that activates a reserve i'm not sure the puc a has been working hard enough i know you've identified $4 million in savings i want to know if the budget analysis can take a color look at how the puc could provide other options other than raiding fund >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i also in agreement with supervisor avalos i'm prepared to table the puc's budget i don't think it was done in a collaborative spirit and to use the program let's go solar and to play two programs against one another is not the way i prefer we do business so i think that's important we send a strong message and table this budget until it comes back with the appropriate funding for our clean power program. we're making incredible steps and i think that we need to push forward and we have the court to do an incredible program and working with agencies those are the things we've talked about and we're not prepared to back down from making sure the possibility of a real c

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >>

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthqu

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] bridge for success. >> commissioner hyde i don't know if there's other and commissioner lee and i'll do public comment. >> so i was just i mean this is more kurt it i understand you're here after operating for 4 years first of all, did you know upper operating without a license. >> i did, yes. >> i mean, i'm not going to hold that against you but i'm wondering sort of i was listening to convince in the hallway and wondering if you could give me a better idea of coming and trying to get a permit from the beginning. >> yeah.. well originally the idea was i wasn't going to get a space that large not having the financial resour

mr. flynn described for the record >> supervisor avalos made a motion we'll entertain the motion after. is there any other comments from our supervisors or district attorney >> let's discuss about the local hire ordinance in general. i'm really grateful for the work of the mayor's office and the office of economic workforce development and the flexibility of our developers and contractors the building trades for their work we've actually, you know, seen we've come very far in terms of how we're doing the program and we've created a sea change in san francisco it was a difficult change for many organizations to accept. but i think we've moved past that and now we're at a phrase we're going looking at to the future to make sure we're getting rid of the problems that exist and making sure we have a good fit between our contractor and building trades and between the city build program we have a ways to go i suspect i'll be coming back back to look at how the system works right now we have a pause in the yearly rising percentage to actually collect data to understand how well, the system it

avalos. >> i'm reluctantly prepared to vote in favor. if i have a guarantee from mr. reiskin that the cab -- the bus route ads will be capped at 15 and we already have digital arts ads taken out. so, if that's what mta can say they can do, my vote -- i can support. mr. reiskin, you mentioned that was a possibility. >> through the chair, excuse me. i concur with supervisor campos. it's kind of a semantic defense. i'm willing to accept whatever the majority of the board supports. if it's 30, that's what i recommend. if it's 25 or some other number down as low as 15, willing to accept that if that's where the majority of the board is. >> supervisor cohen. >> i'd just like to finish, a question for mr. givner. i'm not clear what the best way to communicate that is. we have a resolution which we he really can't amend. there is a contract that is amenable to whatever we vote on, but we can't -- what can we actually vote on that can indicate that we are giving direction to the general manager of the mta to provide the contract to have the wraps capped at 15? >> deputy city a

my name is a mark farrell i'm chairing this committee joined by supervisor avalos and supervisor mar thank you, mr. i did not know and the sfgovtv covering covering to meeting call items 5 and 6 >> item 5 hearing on the budget to create a mental health facility in addition criminal matters involving criminal offensive and the pedestrian safety in the immense in the district attorney's office to hold offender accountable on case progressing and make that be prevent and predict crime. >> thank you very much. mr. da welcome the floor is yours on both items >> thank you with our approval i will do the crime data first, we have a visitor here from new york to make sure i going could a presentation. this is a quick introduction the eni can center of technology we're here in california and probable in the world we're in the eir recognizing place we have a district attorney's office that is working with technology that's dictated that informs us to work in unfavorable conditions and, you know, while the city has invested anyone the the recent years for the police department we continue to be terribly unde

mr. lee. and colleagues, any further questions? >> okay. so, at this... supervisor avalos? >> i just want to make a quick comment to mr. lee, mr. lee? we are all multitasking here i just wanted to say thank you for your work on the upper yard. and helping to get support from the mta to have the lower cost for the purchase. >> yeah. >> we appreciate it. >> thanks. >> and you know, again, you know this is about, you know those are opportunities that we can create and we look forward to creating the housing and working with the community to identify those needs and in the surrounding neighborhood that we can address with that development. >> great, thanks. >> okay, well, thank you colleagues and members of the public that have been listening to this, that is the end of our speakers from the city agency and so i want to thank everyone for participating in the department to get the presentations ready and your continued work. we are going to open it up to public comment. and everyone will have two minutes and i have a number of speaker cards here. and i want to call up nathanial