supervisor avalos: mr. mayer, welcome to the board chambers. it is great to see you here. recently, we took two trips to ballpark station and one was the unedited version -- to balboa park station. the other was with our city departments to had sprinted up a bit and had expedited some of the projects we need to make happen there. just wondering what your plans are for improving the site, making it work as a transit hub first and foremost. i am concerned the mta looks at it as a maintenance facility and not a transit hub. we to have leadership from the board of supervisors and the mayor's office to make it was it should become a first and foremost, a transit hub. mayor lee: i also appreciate the question supervisor campos submitted. thank you for that question. the balboa park station is a very important asset to the city. it is the busiest transit hub in the southern part of san francisco and the busiest part station in the bay area outside of the market street stations. it also happens to be home to the most important made and yard for the light rail fleet. all of this is

so thank you, mr. mayer -- mr. mayor. i would also like to recognize some great, powerful women with us today who are the city family. first of all, i see supervisors got wiener present. the director of the board of appeals. the ex-director of the children, youth, and their families. the fire chief. j. morrison, and there is a history behind her name. i could not even begin to make it worthwhile. the president on the commission of aging. the acting city administrator. mickey callahan, director of the department of human resources. and the director of the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. without further ado, i'm going to turn this over to commissioner su. >> thank you. it is such an honor to be in the company of such accomplished women. as you know, in a society, if we take care of our most vulnerable, if we work towards a policy for everyone, that is when our entire communities really succeed and drive. i'm so pleased to present the first one to annie chung. we have our certificates hear it from assemblym

>> mr. mayer, hole in one --that is impressive. i think i have the record for a hole in ten. [laughter] by was bragging about the fact that we are joyful learners. we do not just go to school to learn. but we learn about fund. when i counted three, i want to hear the loudest yell you can yell to show the mayor and the president how joyful we really are. are you ready? here we go. one, two, three. [yelling] ooh, that was a big breath. that is the last time you can yell that loud on of golf course. mr. mayor, thank you for why you and pg&e are doing for the children of san francisco. these are difficult times when things are caught and scaled back. physical education does not have to be something you do when time of the day or one half hour of the day. it is a lifelong skill but all of our students will be able to use as they grow older and hopefully get better on the golf course. we want to thank you on behalf of all the 65,000 san francisco unified school district students. thank you to pg&e for giving us an opportunity to introduce the sport of golf to the students of san fr

president chiu: mr. mayer, on behalf of the board, would like to thank you for your participation. we thank you for your public discussions about our formal policy issues. let me now -- colleagues, i would like to leave this item open for public comment later on in the agenda, which is something called for under the ordinance. i would like to at this time, out of respect for the mayor's schedule is to move to are closed session on pensions. could you please cit

president chiu: mr. mayer, on behalf of the board, would like to thank you for your participation. we thank you for your public discussions about our formal policy issues. let me now -- colleagues, i would like to leave this item open for public comment later on in the agenda, which is something called for under the ordinance. i would like to at this time, out of respect for the mayor's schedule is to move to are closed session on pensions. could you please call item 21? >> item 21 is a motion the board of supervisors convene in closed session to consult with the mayor and the city's labor relations negotiators for the purpose of reviewing the mayor's instructions to negotiators related to pension, health care, retiree health care proposals. president chiu: can i have a motion to gloat -- to go into closed session? any public comment on whether we should go into closed session? seeing that none of, without objection, let's go into closed section. for this item, to discuss our cities situation regarding the pension, health care and retiree health-care costs, if i could ask you to pl

mr. mayer, he was pointing out there is a lot of national media down here now.cern that perhaps the media will move on in a date, a week, a month and that folks will forget what happened here. i want to assure him the american people across the country are with him and his community. we will make sure he is not forgotten. with that governor would like to say a few words? >> i would like to personally thank you. >> mark: we are listening to the president surveying the damage from 130 tornadoes that tore the south apart when tonight thursday morning. >> darya: the plan is going to the floor-even though the final launch of the endeavor has been cancelled. in this crowd, it will blast off on sunday at the earliest. this is puzzling because of a heater failure. this after they had hail last night, now with the failure of this heater they have to delay this. it will be the end of the road for in denver.endeavor. wee right back in a couple minutes. >> darya: 10:16 a.m. the royal wedding and our coverage continues. the big story this morning there is kathryn middleton g