chairman nolan: we are now in closed session. thank you.

-- chairperson nolan: >> this will be very quick. i would like to ask the director if he can direct staff to update us on the status of the installation of [unintelligible] throughout the city. many businesses have been waiting for that. where are we waiting on that? chairperson nolan: thank you. now we are at the executive director's report, right? we are skipping over everything else after this. director reiskin: absolutely. thank you, members of the board, members of the public, and mta staff. i would like to start by recognizing a couple of individuals, who after many years of service to the city are choosing to move on, and want to wish them well. i would like to ask ban yi to step forward. ron has been not with the agencies since muni was part of the puc. i had the opportunity to speak briefly with him yesterday, and learned that he has really had his hand in much of what we see in our rail network today, particularly in the downtown and embarcadero area, in getting the f line up and running, starting back in the 1980's, the ex

chairman nolan: -- >> i will not remind us what happened. chairman nolan: next topic. >> item 15, discussion and vote as to whether conduct a closed session. chairman nolan: we are now in closed session. thank you. >> good morning. today is wednesday, june 20, 2012. this is a meeting of the of the appeals board. like to remind everyone to come off electronic devices. the first item on the agenda is roll call. [roll call] we have a quorum. the next item is item b, the oath. will all parties giving testimony today please stand and raise your right hand? do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge? you may be seated. beginning the proceedings, just to let everyone know, the department will go first, and then the appellant. each side gets seven minutes of testimony. and then three minutes of rebuttal, and we will have public comment. item c, approval of minutes. discussion and possible action to approve the minutes for the meetings held on april 18, 2012, and may 16, 2012. >> i'm not sure if w

chairman nolan: we are now in closed session. thank you. >> i am rich with enterprise community partners. it is a little disconcerting to be surrounded by barbed wire. [laughter] i was going to start by flipping a coin, but i figured only a portion of the audience would get the joke so i will not. i love the events like this. it is kind of a moment where there are no cost overruns, no change orders. there are no issues of tenants and property management. it is all wonderful. it is all a great project. i think we all need to -- it is a good idea to celebrate those moments as long as you possibly can. let me do my quick ad for enterprise. what are the largest investor in affordable housing in san francisco, the bay area, and california. we have $250 million invested within half a mile of this site. to invest particularly in the nonprofit developers and special needs of housing. it is a very much to what we feel we want to do and to our mission. that is very important to us. we have worked with chp and bridge many times. we're very

chairman nolan: -- >> i will not remind us what happened. chairman nolan: next topic. >> item 15, discussion and vote as to whether conduct a closed session. chairman nolan: we are now in closed session. thank you. supervisor avalos: good morning. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor avalos: welcome to the plans and programs committee. transportation authority. my name is john avalos. we will be joined shortly by the other commissioners. the clerk of the committee is ms. erica cheng. we have to a knowledge the folk -- the work of the folks at sfgtv. thank you for your work. madam clerk, please call the first item, item number 2. >> item number two. approve the minutes of the may 15, 2012 meeting. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: colleagues? any comments on the minutes? any members of the public it would like to comment on the minutes? >supervisor olague: motion to approve the minutes. supervisor avalos: taken without objection. item #3. >> item #3. citizens advisory committee report. this is

tom nolan and i remember when market street was a major hub. i am excited to see what plans we have for it. i would love to see that come to be. thank you very much. chairman nolan: excellent presentation. >> most european cities will be thrilled to have the space that we have to work with. we have such a wide street. when we say we do not have room, we cannot do something, we cannot separate the bike from transit, we have so much space to design with and to play with. we have to keep in mind they have done things would streets much narrower. it must be exciting as designers to have that space to play with. great presentation. you were a very good presenter. >> i want to thank the whole team, the planning department, the office of economic development, the directors of all the agencies are getting together once a month to review this project. it was about four years ago that i started talking with the mayor about market street. we had a need to repave it but realized that tearing it up and putting it back as it was, let's take the opportunity t

chairperson nolan: the public hearing will be closed. [applause] if you keep it up, i will have you removed from the room. members of the board, do you want to take these together? it seems to me the first item 12 has a lot of consensus around it. anybody have any problems or comments on this? >> i do want to recognize the idea of the way bills. chairperson nolan: any further discussion? all in favor? the ayes have it. item 13. director heinicke: i have some questions. how you respond to the question that maybe we should follow the nilson report and let the companies decide. are we trying to create a uniform access for all customers? >> it comes from the board of supervisors asking our staff, our agency, what we have done as we go to regulatory changes to try to make improvements for the benefit of the industry. the public is not always at this table for the conversation. next time you get into a san francisco taxi, i advise you to look at the rate card and see if you can read it at all and if you can get any information that is useful t

chairman nolan has to leave for an engagement. he had to leave for another event, so i am taking over for him. before we start on items 14 and 15, which i believe we will combine, i would like to go ahead and ask ms. morley from the city attorney's office to give us a legal opinion on the idea that we perhaps violated sunshine regulations with our amendment on item 11. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am from the city attorney's office. the amendment to item 11 was proper under the sunshine ordinance. the item as it was agenda is to reject agend - - as it was agendized would allow drivers to use their own merchants. the board was free to decide that or to decide they were not going to allow it. they were free to allow it but subject to conditions. there was no violation. thank you very much. >> i think we can combine items 14 and 15. -- vice chairperson brinkman: secretary boomer: recommending that the department repeal police" provisions, in designating that staff may enforce parking laws, deleting a section which makes such desig

chairperson nolan: what we are doing now is just item 11. after we finish that, we can consider whether to groups some of the rest of them together. secretary boomer: [names are read] chairperson nolan: good afternoon. >> i do have problems with procedure and the way this was put before us, but i will address myself to the issue. credit cards. what we have is a reduction of the credit card charge from 5% to 3.5% and some other changes. this is better than it was before, but only by comparison. if you take away somebody's loaf and give a piece of in back to them, they are not really going to thank you for that. these are charges that should be borne by taxi companies. i cannot tell you how many times -- virtually every passenger who gets into my cab asks me if i will take a credit card. by now, virtually nobody should be asking that question. maybe out-of-towners', but certainly these costs should be invisible to the passenger and the driver. the way to do that is to place them upon the taxi company, as green tab does right now. by doing that

chairman nolan: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. welcome to the new director on this board. goodbye to debra johnson. but left to her -- good luck to her. coming to the issue about the cabs, look at this and other way. pride week in san francisco, half a million people. we had a lick very comfortably. -- we handled it very comfortably. the u.s. open was going on at 40,000 people, there was hardly a need for 100 cabs. the rest of the cabs were all over the city working very well. this cup is not a big deal. fleet week, half a million people in this town. who says we need more calves? show me the reasons. -- more cabs? show me their reasons. we do not need more cabs. the people they're telling you, they have financial interests. it is not in the interest of the drivers. there will not be half a million people in the world cup. that is not the kind of -- even the final of the baseball, we handle it very comfortably. there is no need for more cabs. chairman nolan: next speaker. >> good afternoon, directors. my comments are brief. i want

>> pierre: we see jordan nolan use his size and speed to his advantage.shot right between the legs of andy greene and marty brodeur with the stop. >> eddie: how about the devils with a quality opportunity. zidlicky to the stick, the waiting stick of dainius zubrus. he just can't get it to go. >> pierre: nice play there by drew drew doughty. the puck goes right under marty brodeur. back out the other side. what a play by doughty to open up ha lane. >> mike: the puck is just lying there. eventually it squirts free. comes out in front. a shot sealed up by brodeur and he covers. >> pierre: terrific opportunity there. dwight king takes this puck on his backhand. watch him spin around to get it to his forehand. watch brodeur. he goes down. an extra step back, there's a little bit of room to the far side. right idea all the way around by king. another good stop by brodeur. >> mike: meteorologist report it as a 97% full moon. i buy it. offensive zone face-off for the kings now here in o.t. zidlicky teps by. floated on out to center. left behind by mitchell and pu

tom nolan. [applause] director nolan: thank you very much. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the mta board this morning. every time i have a chance to speak about being on the mta board, i begin by saying how proud i am of what we do. every single day, we move 700 people throughout the city, and we did it very, very well. all kinds of different modes, we do it on behalf of the people. i am delighted to be joined this afternoon by the vice-chair. thank you very much for being here. we are very fortunate to have the leadership of ed reiskin, who has done an outstanding job for the agency, and we look forward to his continued leadership. i also want to take a moment to acknowledge two of my predecessors as chairman. mr. flynn, assuredly the gold standard in san francisco. thank you for what you have done, and my immediate predecessor, let us with a great deal of compassion and dignity through some extremely difficult times over the past several years. thank you for being with us. was it over the course of the last hundred years, and unique

>> pierre: we see jordan nolan use his size and speed to his advantage.shot right between the legs of andy greene and marty brodeur with the stop. >> eddie: how about the devils with a quality opportunity. zidlicky to the stick, the waiting stick of dainius zubrus. he just can't get it to go. >> pierre: nice play there by drew drew doughty. the puck goes right under marty brodeur. back out the other side. what a play by doughty to open up ha lane. >> mike: the puck is just lying there. eventually it squirts free. comes out in front. a shot sealed up by brodeur and he covers. >> pierre: terrific opportunity there. dwight king takes this puck on his backhand. watch him spin around to get it to his forehand. watch brodeur. he goes down. an extra step back, there's a little bit of room to the far side. right idea all the way around by king. another good stop by brodeur. >> mike: meteorologist report it as a 97% full moon. i buy it. offensive zone face-off for the kings now here in o.t. zidlicky teps by. floated on out to center. left behind by mitchell and pu

this is one-on-one. >> hinojosa: professor nolan bowie, welcome to one on one. you are, my gosh, you are one of those renaissance men, so i'm going to list a few of the things that you've done in your life. you are a lawyer, you're a professor at the kennedy school of government, you are a former member of the u.s. naval reserves... this one i just loved: former assistant special prosecutor in the watergate special prosecution force. oh my god. and you're an artist and a writer. i don't know how you do all these things. how do you do it all? >> it's usually one at a time. >> hinojosa: (laughs) so not multitasking? >> well, that too, on occasion. >> hinojosa: but fascinating, even though you devote your life to understanding communication, democracy, literacy, access, you are not one of those people who is on facebook, on twitter, communicating all the time with the masses. >> well, one of the reasons i have time to do the other things is that i'm not on facebook and communicating with an amorphous mass of people who, you know, distract your attention from what y

chairperso nolan: anything else? other members of the boar >thank u r carg up the direency exposure. for tho the foowing along in the bopage6 of the attachment. i ameady t make a moti to prove. chairperso nolan: is ther second? all inavor wwi take a 10 mute ea >> we are going to go ahead an get started again. chairmannolan has to leave for an engagement. he had to leave fo event, so i am taking over for him. before westart on ite 14 and 15 which i believe we will combine, iould like to go ahead and ask . morley from the city attorney's office to give us a legal opinion on the idea that we perhaps vioted sunshine regulations with o amendme on item 11. thank you. >> good afternoon i am from the city attorney's office. t amendment to item 11 was proper under the sunshine ordinance. the items it was agenda is to reject agend - -- as it was agendized would allow drivers to uheir own merchants. t board was free to decide that to decide ty we not ing to alw it. hey re free to allow but subject to conditions. there s violatn

>> pierre: we see jordan nolan use his size and speed to his advantage.shot right between the legs of andy greene and marty brodeur with the stop. >> eddie: how about the devils with a quality opportunity. zidlicky to the stick, the waiting stick of dainius zubrus. he just can't get it to go. >> pierre: nice play there by drew drew doughty. the puck goes right under marty brodeur. back out the other side. what a play by doughty to open up ha lane. >> mike: the puck is just lying there. eventually it squirts free. comes out in front. a shot sealed up by brodeur and he covers. >> pierre: terrific opportunity there. dwight king takes this puck on his backhand. watch him spin around to get it to his forehand. watch brodeur. he goes down. an extra step back, there's a little bit of room to the far side. right idea all the way around by king. another good stop by brodeur. >> mike: meteorologist report it as a 97% full moon. i buy it. offensive zone face-off for the kings now here in o.t. zidlicky teps by. floated on out to center. left behind by mitchell and pu

chairperson nolan: good afternoon, mr. lawrence. >> good afternoon. i would like to bring up the issue of the 3.5% to 5%. we ought to start subtracting 5% out of your paycheck every month. everytime we deposit it, we get 5% for the taxi industry. whether it is 3.5% or 05%, in a couple of years it will be 12% or 15%. you are ripping off the taxi driver, forcing him to take credit cards. you are forcing the population to use credit cards when they can use cash. how about stopping on the corner for a $4 credit charge when the traffic is low? with a policeman behind you, a woman hands you a credit card. i have 15 badges in my hand. here is a mastercard. it takes 4.5 minutes to do it. [)s0ñ forcing taxes drivers to do. it is like removing the benches and the trash cans and having the population at large through a crash in the street because there are less trash cans. taxi drivers are small businesses. you do not understand that. a taxi medallion holder does not make what a junior clerk makes at city hall. no benefits, medical, dental, or otherwise. but you

to my left is deputy city attorney tom nolan. he will provide the board with any needed be ill-advised this evening. and his legal assistant, victor pachinko. i am the executive director. dan cider is here, the assistant zoning administrator and is also representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph duffey will be here momentarily. at this time, mr. pachinko, would you please go for the board guidelines and i will conduct the swearing in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all funds and pagers, so you will not disturb the meeting. please carry on conversations in the hallway. appellants, permit holders, and department representatives each have seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. those affiliated with these parties must include their comments within the seven minutes for 3 minute time frames. members not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes each to address the board, but no rebuttals. jewesses' the board in the accurate preparation of minutes, mem

nolan reimold will have &psurgery on his neck monday at johns hopkins hospital...end his season. reimold wassplaced on he disabled list on may 4 with a herniaaed disk in his neck... and it has never really improved. the procedure will taae place at johns hopkins hospital. peimold says it is the same surrery peyton manning had last year. manning was out for the entire 2011 season. what would happen if you told your boss... you wanted to sleep in another hour every morning...?? that ok with you mike?-- thaa's my boss. well the ravens bossee are the ones ccming up with this idea for the players!! 3 yawn............ stretch it out. yes, the ravens medical sleep studies put together by if pushing back start times of practice will ake the players change to 9:00 . studies uld - ssow peak performance happens when you get 8-10 hours of sleep at night. the teem might change the off day to monday instead of tuesday as well.. thattwould let the body pecover better aftte sunday games. and west coast trips... this would also mean flying out a day earlier to adjust to the time zo

something to do with the relationship that develops between the actors and chris nolan. i think we all have this great appreciation for his talent. i think he is himself a work of art. tavis: i get concerned when i see something happen to, three, four, five times. it can't continue to get better. you obviously don't feel that way about this film? >> no. i think number three is the charm. number four is killer. he has no plans to do four. i know that. if you think about all of these super heroes movies, they've only lasted three times. a departure.e's tavis: i have always appreciated your voice. the older you get and the more i hear it on a commercial, wormhole, whatever else, the more delicious it sounds to the ear. when did that thing happen where you started to get the kind of love that you get for the voice as opposed to the acting? i know that they go together, but your voice alone is another track for you, yes? >> apparently. apparently. when i was doing the electric company -- tavis: you went way back. >> we had to go to the sound booth and do promos. i started hea

[applause] chairman nolan: we have one person who would like to say a word to the board about you. >> i have known bruce for a long time. i am going to call you sir bruce. he has done a great service to all the constituents of san francisco. it was a pleasure -- i said, i would like to say a few words. he said, i hope they are positive. a nice person that not only represented the physically challenged, but human beings. we wish you all of the best. >> [inaudible] [applause] >> i want to echo a lot of the sentiments. before i officially came on board, bruce, you were very generous with your time and offering guidance and suggestions and insights and support to me as i transition ed in. i really valued all of that. it helped me in my transition and the generosity of your time and the expertise that you brought as i started out and that you brought to the board, not just at these meetings, but every day. it is something, i think, at san francisco was very lucky. one of the things you said to me when we first met was no matter what role i have taken in different commissions or advisory bo

. >>> nolan rimold signing photographs for fans in what might be the last time you see him at the stadiumhe has decided to have surgery. currently on the disable list. >> it's disappointing. you know i wanted to not just individually but collectively too because the team has been playing well, to not be a part of it and just to watch it is tough. but still rooting for the guys and pulling for them. >>> each of rimeld's four seasons have been cut short by injury. >>> finally nice car, brand new bmw how would you like to bin it. all you have to do is hit a hole in one par at the euro tour stop in colon germany. it's a deal. englishman andrew marshal takes that deal. hole in one, his first as a pro. give that man the keys to the bmw worth $77,000. >> that's that six series coupe. i mean four door. i mean four door. >> ,,,,,,,,,,,, i'm drinking dunkin'. medium iced, cream and sugar. dunkin' iced all day long. dunkin' keeps me going. it gives me the boost i need. dunkin' iced keeps me moving and grooving. i run on dunkin'. you ready buddy? you're probably not getting called up to the majors. b

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. >> nolan reimold will likely not play again this season. his injury will require surgery, the same surgery peyton manning had. he says it is possible he could return for the end of this season but that is a long shot. as long as that home run. his career thus far seems star crossed. worse for him, not joining his teammates on this season. >> to not be a part of it, it was tough. we're pulling for them. i will be back. >> and hopefully better. did the second tour of the pga, mother nature has her say. 55 on thursday. he has the lead at 9 under. johnnie vegas, he needs a lot more of that. goodness, he was just about to have a fine approach. players suspended. we will have to finish the second round on saturday. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] a moment of silence for the internet as we know it. a revolution in internet speed is here. more than twice as fast as anything america has ever seen. introducing fios quantum. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. >> tonights huge breaking news, ex-penn state football c

before last night's game, o's outfielder nolan reimold signed autographs for fans. since may reimold has been on the disabled list with a herniated disk in his neck. he chose to have surgery which could end his season. a big blow nor may reimold who was the birds starting. >> it's disappointing. i wanted to not just individually but collectively too. the team has been playing well, to not be a part of it and just to watch it is kind of tough. still rooting for the guys. >> four major league seasons have all been shortened up due to injuries. staying with teams from the al east. miami marlins, bringing you the catch of the day. the center fielder will make a dive catch, stealing the joy from the blue jays. but the blue jays get the last laugh because they get the win. tonight the o's will try to get back on the winning track as they take on the team down at camden yards today. >> i have confidence. >> they're playing very well. >> thanks so much. be sure to watch the cbs primetime lineup. it's 48 hours mystery. that's followed by wjz news at 11:00. coming up at 11:00

that's a career high in hits.angels beattup on baltimore: 7-3 final. 3 the orioles announced outfielder nolanecovering well from yesterday's surgery. reimold went under the knife at johns hopkins to remove a herniated disk ttat was putting pressure on a nerve in his neck..a surgery similar to bronco's quarterback peyton manning.reimold's been out of &pbaseball with neck pain and thumbness in hii left armm siice april 30th. 3&phe's on the verge of turning 50... but no retirement in sight for jamie moyer.three days aao, oyer got his releass from the orioles minor league system...and now he's heading tt veeas... .moyer signed a minor league contract to pitch in the blue jays system.moyee did his part at triple-a norfolk... a 1-69 e-r- a in three starts.but the orioles didn't need a 5th starter..the 49-year old became the oldest pitcher in major league hissory tt gee win earlier this season withh the rockies. the pre- london focus has been on the student becoming he teacher.ryan llchte has been gaining groond on michael phelps for the past tto years. and in phelps' 4th and fiial olympic.... he'll