ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. president vietor: i would like to call the meeting of the public utilities commission to order. first item? >> roll call. [roll call] the next item is approval of the minutes for december 14 in the regular meeting of january and 11. -- and the regular meeting of january 11. president vietor: is there a motion? >> so moved. president vietor: comments? changes? holland favor? thank you very much. -- all in favor? thank you very much. >> we have no speaker cards for this item. president vietor: are there members of the public that would like to address the commission? next item. >> did we approve january 11? president vietor: we approve them of that the same time. >> communications. of the commissioners receive the electronic copies of all of the communications regarding this meeting. also, this is the time where commissioners might make

ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. president newlin: called to order the meeting of the entertainment commission. please call the roll. >> [rollc all] call] commissioner cavellini is abs ent. president newlin: public comment. members of the public may address the commission that are within the subject matter or jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, you can address the commission at the time such item is called. anyone that would like to partaken public comment? >> i want to address a couple of things that people are talking about that we have not gotten in a concrete answer. the officer is here today and is welcome knowledge. we want to talk about permits in terms of liquor licenses as kind of a privilege. when they are transferred, they are often viewed as new applications. they are treated as such. we have counsel here that has talked about th

ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned.

ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. >> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organizatio

ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. commissioner mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting. i am are his mirkarimi. >> avalos present, campos present, chiu and accept. chu absent. chen absent -- cohen present. elsbernd. elsbernd present. commissioner fairly. present. commissioner kim absent. commissioner mar, absent. mirkarimi, present. >> weiner present. we have a quorum. commissioner mirkarimi: read item two. >> approve mendoza of the january 25 meeting. action item. commissioner mirkarimi: motion to accept minutes by commissioner campos and seconded by commission farrell. >> item two, commissioner avalos. >> aye. >> campos, aye. >> champion chu. >> kwlie. elsbernd, aye. roll call. >> there are eight eist, and it passes. commissioner mirkarimi: would you read items three and four? >> chair's report, item four, execut

ms. cheng? >> introduction of new items. >> open for public comment? it is closed. ms. cheng? >> this is public comment. >> does anyone wish to speak? public comment is closed. >> 9 is adjournment. >> thank you for the meeting. meeting adjourned. >> good afternoon and welcome to rules committee for february 3, 2011. my name is supervisor kim and i will chair the meeting today. to my left is supervisor -- i'm sorry, to my right is supervisor elsbernd and to my right, supervisor farrell and we have president chu also in attendance for one of our agenda items today. the clerk is linda wong. we would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov.tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available. madam clerk, any announcements? clerk wong: the items on our agenda today are intended to be sent to the full board as committee report on february 15 unless otherwise indicated. commissioner kim: if there are no objections, i would like to change the order of the agenda and bring up item no. 2 first. madam clerk? clerk: consider the proposed initiative ordinance to be conside