i want to welcome you on behalf of abag, mtc, and hud. community housing partnership provides permanent supportive housing to homeless individuals and families here in san francisco. we have over 1000 units of housing, and this is our newest property that just came online. 120 individuals who are either living on our streets or in institutional care here in san francisco are now housed here and have a home. they have open space to the have committed the amenities, and they have services to stabilize their lives in bill a platform so they can be self-sufficient of the planning that went into this project to ensure that it is within a transit corridor, then a head job opportunities, all of the property management staff here where individuals were -- to work rather low- income or formerly homeless themselves. this kind of coordination is what grant will -- is what the grant that we will discuss today will show. when we have good information and community input come together, we couldn't build housing for 120 homeless individuals in hayes val

i anticipate that we will need further work with the mtc commissioners on this issue. there are some complex issues related to the funding plan . i will keep close to, but i am hopeful we will resolve one of our issues in time for the financial close of march 2012. the van ness windy environmental impact statement and report, the draft, as you know, is circulating. i want to remind people that the close of public comment is in december 19, just next monday, and that the public can obtain information about the project in the eir at our website. i encourage everybody to heed that comment deaine. we have reached out to over 20 state groups in the last month since the eir draft was published. i anticipate that we will have the final ready for you to adopt in the fall. we have also been working diligently on the update of the countywide plan. i will not say a lot about that, but we're now at the stage where we have developed a framework for evaluation of projects and have over 100 projects submitted by the public and public agencies over the past couple of months. and we're

but, steve, you know that early on if the mtc said we have to think regionally. we have to take our best shots. we have to help each other. and that collaboration among the bay area has served us very well. it was actually written into one of our -- into the transportation bill, a long time ago. so the san francisco bay area, once again, in the league. in the private sector that the mere reference, the low-income housing tax credit, has been a priority for our office for nearly 25 years. because when i went to congress, it was iffy. then it was we had to approve it every year. then we wanted to make it permanent. that was a way for the private sector to visit a low-income housing tax credit to exploit, and the best possible way of using that term, the other community resources that were available. but what is really important about this is, of course, that the president took the lead, had an idea, appointing the people that can make it happen very quickly, and the fact is the most important people involved in this are the people who are served here. all you need

i understand that mtc will be voting on its legislative agenda for the year 2012 later this month and that ab57 will be a big part of the discussion, and i am looking forward to supporting our mtc commissioners in that endeavor. the regional transportation plan has continued to move forward as well, and now we have the issuance last week of mtc's and abag's results of the five alternative scenarios and their performance towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and other performance targets. and we see something that i think we all expected, which is that the performance of these scenarios falls short. in some cases, 50% short of the targets that the region should be observing. this is serious stuff. it is coming at a time when the world is talking about moving away from the kyoto treaty and the durban treaty is in question as well, and it shows the importance of the region's taking concerted approach to meeting these goals, is 15% reduction goal is not unattainable, but as we have said before a number of times, it will require measures that they're a little bit more grave than we

the mtc is now proposing a change which would actually increase the amount of funding that goes to the counties, but it would direct a large amount to the transit operators, sfmta, and also increase the amount coming to the authority. we're talking about revenues of $11.7 million going to mta and up to $5.4 million coming to the authority. this is funding intended to deal with increasing taxes and mobility for low-income communities, and we have already had quite a bit of involvement with the program in the past. you can expect the requisite projects and the actions of the plans and programs committee in december, prior to the issuance considering some of the funding going to the program that commissioner campos has been spearheading. van ness brt released its eir/eis draft on november 4. the comment period closes on december 19. prior to that, there'll be a public hearing on november 30 at the holiday inn, golden gateway, 1500 men ness avenue. this is all included on our website, but of course the public is encouraged to attend the public hearing and to provide comments. several chann

i understand that mtc will be voting on its legislative agenda for the year 2012 later this month and that ab57 will be a big part of the discussion, and i am looking forward to supporting our mtc commissioners in that endeavor

mtc housed in downtown oakland they paid 93 million dollars to move into the old post office on main street. critics say it makes no sense and it may not be legal for the mtc to spend bridge toll funds for an expensive move. >>> around this time it is usually cold in the morning this time of year but today oh boy extra cold. >> ice on the windshield. >> definitely frosty especially in the north bay valleys another shot of cold and especially dry air took over our neighborhoods yesterday afternoon brought that wonderful afternoon sunshine now making your skin tight, try also creating a lot of frost inland valleys you need to scrape that or wait for the car to warm up a little longer the only areas in the 40s san francisco and oakland 45 and 47 everybody below freezing the reporting stations in the north bay valleys everybody else mid to upper 30s. as we head into the afternoon temperatures will rebound with all the sunshine dry air and slight land breeze blowing from the land out to the ocean temperatures in the low to mid 60s 66 santa rosa temperatures 5 to 8° warmer than everyone ri

the metropolitan transportation commission to relocate from oakland to san francisco in october the mtc board voted to move forward to purchase an old post office in san francisco and convert it into a multi-agency hub that would house mtc and three other regional agencies. critics argued using 180 million dollars in bridge toll money to buy and rehabilitate the building is against the law. >>> richmond city council has chosen three medical marijuana collectives to operate in the city. last month the richmond city council considered ending its permitting process. the council narrowly voted to continue. an appeals court ruled cities cannot license dispensaries because of federal laws. they said they would begin enforcing laws. councilmembers say cancelling the permitting process would be unfair to the half dozen owners who have been wait to reopen for almost a year. >>> organizers of a campaign to recall oakland's mayor are about to start circulating petitions. the city clerk has approved a final draft of their petition. the approval gives 160 days to gather signatures to put the recall