>> chair nolan: here. >> director ramos: presente >> director rubke: here. >> please know the director lee will be absent but you have a quorum. please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and tectonic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for the ringing for the one going off may be asked to leave the room. cell phones and vibrate decisions the cause my perform interference. >> motion to approve approval of minutes, may 7 regular meeting >> motion approved. >> be advised item 10.2 p q r s on the consent calendar have been removed from the agenda the request of staff. >> thank you. >> item 6, introduction of new and unfinished business. >> i believe director heinicke -- i'm looking forward to hearing from staff about market street ahead of the paving project several years ahead in the future. i have noticed for myself as a pedestrian as a transit rider and as a cyclist, the street is getting difficult. cross traffic is really causing problems now with traffic blocking intersections so the buses can't even get up and down market street. i am looking forward to

. >> chair nolan: these are good i get to idea to me. with members consent. >> we have good answers to all of those questions. >> did you say 850,000? that's just the brt lines. that's amazing. >> i forgot to mention headways are one minute. >> that's phenomenal. i am looking forward to that day. building on director heinicke's point, i heard from several people as well. i think that it would not only be great to hear an update to all the work that director haley has been doing but also it would be great to get an update on the communication systems as well. i think it's been a while since we have heard about that. >> that's in john's memo, and i will say that work superbly today; there were announcements every two minutes and letting us know what was going on and that is absolutely part of this and should be part of -- >> thank you director ramos. >> item 7, directors' report. >> good afternoon chairman nolan, members of the board, staff. a few items to update you with today. starting happily with the new website. we have received a lot

. >> chair nolan: mbers of the board, questions? members of the public? >> i was going to say with respect to the communication, i understand wholeheartedly we have a terrific web presence, twitter and all that. my concerns are coming from people who are not technologically mobile so to speak. i'm hoping that we can get back to the idea, addressing the issue of the wirelessness, the lack of wireless access on the tunnels. tweets don't help if you can't get a signal; and better radiocommunication to the operators. then the operators can relay that information over the pa systems. i'm hoping that we can make sure that all the operator is doing is relaying the information because some of us, we are still left in the dark and secondly that the messages are intelligible; they don't just sound like the uop uop uop, and maybe ideally in multiple languages; i know we cannot expect all the operators to speak many languages but i am confident that some of them do and it would be nice to hear announcements from operators , even in their own native language. that'd b

. >> chair nolan: thank you. anybody else care to address the directors report? >> come up. on the directors report. good afternoon. >> charles minster, regular user of the muni service and a resident. first i like to give a shout out to the mechanics and clerks who make the system run and don't get the rewards that they deserve. i'm concerned about the continual harassment and the way that you are trying to revitalize the poor on muni service, having offices check and see if they have a pass or transfer . i understand the cost of revenue recovery is like eight times one. if i spend eight dollars to gain one dollar, i'd be out of business in the short time. this is not at all and monetary thing; it's a political thing. it's used by your mta and certainly by you mr. reiskin, and your boss in city hall mr. lee, as a means of harassing the poor and the working class. we don't have any cost down on montgomery street checking the bankers coming in and out of the doors, finding out how many billions they stole from us. you are not having them say, look, you turn in your buddy who

. >> chair nolan: individuals in san francisco can still be hired but is subcontractors and elsewhere, is that right? it's not good news for the local businesses sincerely but individual people in san francisco who are painters and -- >> you are correct. is one part of how we are trying to encourage that the funding those apprenticeship slots; we cannot require the those be san francisco residents, we remain optimistic that san franciscans will be put to work, close to 20% of local hire on the current construction projects. the ones where the local hire ordinance technically does not apply because of the same federal laws. even without the force of law we have opportunity to see san franciscans working on this project. >> chair nolan: anybody else on the board? director bridges, i'm sorry. >> director bridges: when doctor director heinicke's comments, we really don't have that many options, have zero options because we don't want to see the project delayed for fear of jeopardizing where we are with a federal grant. at the same time it is very disappointing that we cannot force the con

. >> chair nolan: anyone else care to address the board on the director's report. none. >> moving on to the citizens advisory council report. item 9, public comment, opportunity for members of the public to address the board on items not on today's agenda. >> good afternoon mr. patel. >> my name is neil patel, planning director with the san francisco bicycle coalition to announce an event that the severn cisco coalition is putting on with the sfmta, the dependent living center and the office of -- it's an adaptive cycling event, at the june 9th -- and the dogpatch, bringing the largest collection of custom-made bicycles, many hand powered or tandem for use were adults and for use with just about any kind of physical disability. the staff of the there to explain a lot of volunteers, june 9th, 11-4 p.m. a great way to bring the joys of bicycle to an even broader community and thank you to director -- for getting this along, i will be sending an e-mail to the secretary shortly. thank you. >> next speaker please. >> herbert weiner -- >> i like to cite two areas of atta

. >> chair nolan: next item. >> moving on to consent calendar. these are items considered routine, acted on a roll call. as previous stated 10.2 p q r and s have been removed; the rest of the consent calendar is before you. >> chair nolan: motion to approve? for the discussion, all those in favor? the ayes have it. >> item 11. awarding contract 1300 -- station surface station surfacetrack - (reading item 11, regular calendar) >> chair nolan: mr. fungi? >> good afternoon, john fungi central subway program director. item 11 request to award contract no. 1300 to tutor perini corporation and the amount not to exceed 839,676,400 and authorize the director of test addition to exercise 490,000 in optional work and further authorized director of transportation to prove up to 20 million dollars in contract amendments. contract 1300 presents the final contract award for the separate program under percent of the work for chinatown subway station, union station market street station, essentially everything to bring it into revenue service which is currently

sometime this summer, maybe in advance of that we can. >> chair nolan: in particular - not eight months but whatever we can do. i was thinking about how city departments work so well together on pagoda theater situation. possibly suggest a model, any kind of time could save is worth it. any thoughts on that. director heinicke? >> director heinicke: two meetings ago i did something -- i got a wonderful memo from mr. haley, to the whole board for you director reiskin explained that this is not my imagination, explaining what the issues were and explaining most importantly what he's doing to address them which is most appreciated. i think some of these issues persist; they persisted as early as this morning when my right longer than it should have and i'm hearing from a number of people about this. while i realize that cannot wave a wand, it is important that the people know, and the public is aware of it. i am requesting that our may 2 memo be turned into a brief presentation perhaps in the directors' report so that we can publicly acknowledge the issues particularly in embarcadero, acts

. >> chair nolan: anybody else on the board? director bridges, i'm sorry. >> director bridges: when doctor director heinicke's comments, we really don't have that many options, have zero options because we don't want to see the project delayed for fear of jeopardizing where we are with a federal grant. at the same time it is very disappointing that we cannot force the contractor to comply to our local laws. i would hope that in the spirit of the severn san francisco code, to see if local contractors can be hired for the jobs remaining. >> is that a motion? >> i have a comment and a motion. i'm happy to make a motion; i am not interested in rejecting the bids. i agree that we should encourage the contractor to hire locally if possible. i think we have to keep in mind that this project is going to create future work all along the corridor. and slowing it down is not going to serve any of our businesses large or small so i really don't want to delay this. we are going to see this project drive the economy along the corridor in the

sometime this summer, maybe in advance of that we can. >> chair nolan: in particular - not eight months - but whatever we can do. i was thinking about how city departments work so well together on pagoda theater situation. possibly suggest a model, any kind of time could save is worth it. any thoughts on that. director heinicke? >> director heinicke: two meetings ago i did something -- i got a wonderful memo from mr. haley, to the whole board for you director reiskin explained that this is not my imagination, explaining what the issues were and explaining most importantly what he's doing to address them which is most appreciated. i think some of these issues persist; they persisted as early as this morning when ig

station surface station surfacetrack - (reading item 11, regular calendar) >> chair nolan: mr. fungi? >> good afternoon, john fungi central subway program director. item 11 request to award contract no. 1300 to tutor perini corporation and the amount not to exceed 839,676,400 and authorize the director of test addition to exercise 490,000 in optional work and further authorized director of transportation to prove up to 20 million dollars in contract amendments. contract 1300 presents the final contract award for the separate program under percent of the work for chinatown subway station, union station market street station, essentially everything to bring it into revenue service which is currently projected at the end - of december, 2018. under this contract that you will be reviewing today, is scheduled to be completed prior to april thirtieth of 2018. central subject construction began in 2010, and it is scheduled to be completed in early 2018. the first two advanced utility relocation contract has been let and completed; preliminary work under the tunneling contract is not c

nolan. i'll talk about 4 things quickly at your last meeting you talked about these single operator permits and the med alions in the taxi industry. you said in the future you will charge rent to people who get these and that will take away the purpose and insent centive i heard you backed off of that idea charging single operator permit how hold ers. i tried to pay my business tax this year it says you have to go online. most of the drivers don't have computers so there's a long line of people down there trying to be trained on how to use a computer and in fact i couldn't pay without the form and so i'm going to have to go and print one out after this. so i hope it won't happen this way next year. so i'll put this up on the over head briefly -- what it is now you can go online and buy a pink mustache and put it on your car so we've seen people cruising around pretending to be fake cabs people have gypsy cab operations and ride share these people make 30 dollars an hour and have 10 hour shif

nolan and members of the board and director riskin i'm here to urge you to slow the progress of the tunnel boring machine at washington and stockton and prevent it from moving forward to north beach perhaps you want to hold a hearing on this. what's interesting is that we've learned today that m u.n. i has an operator deficit of 70 million dollars and we know there's a structural deficit of 5 hundred million it just so happens that the tunnelling between washington and north beach will cost about 70 million dollars and if you eliminate that and stop the line where it was originally intended which is chinatown and stockton street you will be able to save the agency 70 million dollars and give all the residents of north beach a second chance on how they want transit to be brought into their neighborhood thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon. >> hi my name is -- thank you for -- when i talk with the families in the community they are happy about this program. i'm often been working in the community in bay view i hear these stories about people havin

. >> chair nolan, board, director reiskin. i am president of the asian american contractors association, local businesses and construction industry all lbes. i'm here today to talk about the point that chair nolan brought up, the lack of participation of local san francisco-based contractors. i went through my e-mail archives to see her respondents about this project. it goes back to 2008, there with me as i go through some of the e-mails that i found . in march 2008, sfmta started to reach local businesses and provide a network, in april 2008, the asian american architects and engineers, and the asian-american contractors association began to work with carter rohan and mr. fungi discuss this project to make sure local businesses get a part of this project. in september 2008, mr. fungi met with our association to discuss the opportunity to unbundling the project and our chance to participate .in 2008 there were more financial management seminars; in 2009, the former president of our association sent a letter to nathaniel ford

. >> chair nolan: is there a motion? second? all those in favor? we will not go into closed session. >> item 13, the board of directors voted unanimously to settle the huey case. >> chair nolan: all those in favor? >> secretary boomer: that concludes the business today. >>> >>> good afternoon. welcome to the tuesday may 21, 2013 board of supervisors meeting in the county of san francisco which is proud to be part of the san francisco bay area which is hosting the super bowl for 2014. >> clerk, call the roll? >> campos, avalos, chiu, cohen, present, supervisor ferrel, present, kim absent.mar absent, supervisor tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. mr. president you have a quorum. >> ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. >> colleagues we have our meeting minutes. approved. madam clerk, any communications? >> i have no communication, mr. president. >> first item is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee this week representing the even may 8. item 1:30443: [formal policy discussions - may 21, 2013

but nolan threw his first no-no 40 years ago today.the news for this webs, may 15th, 2013. we had like six lead stories today. well, o'reilly will get to them. leftovers. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: transparency and the rule of law will be the touch stones of this presidency. >> wow. what happened to that? the obama administration is now stonewalling three separate controversies. and it is paying a terrible price. >> how does the president say with a straight face americans who trust their government? >> bill: tonight, we will report on all the controversies with bob beckel, kirsten powers, dennis miller, james rosen, and carl cameron. >> bill o'reilly wants to know how you think the country is doing right now. >> it's a longer discussion than a red carpet. bill buy the world stunned by actress angelina jolie underwent a double mastectomy. a close friend of ours did

nolan present director ramos, director rubke will be absent today. item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be adviced electronics are not allowed in the meeting. the board respectfully request they be placed in the off position. >> second. >> motion seconded. >> all in favor say aye. >> item five communications directors please be adviced that there will be no closed session today. >> from the market street railways for the e line report and i'm interested in getting a status report on where we are on that project. it's a very exciting vision and will this be coming anytime soon? is it done? what's going on with that? >> so we'd be happy to bring you an update on the e line there's a few different answers there's kind of plans for a short-term piloting as we did last summer and it's also part of the water front transportation assessment but independent of that if you like -- >> it's a very compelling vision and i hope we're able to do that at some point. okay thank you. >> anybody else for new unfinish

investigators say nolan was fighting with another woman who also fell out but the other woman was able to survive. >> coming up tonight at 11:00 vic lee takes a look at what is causing a huge spike in home burglaries all over the bay area. >> california's budget analyst believes the state has more money coming in than governor brown predicted. it could set up a fight between governor brown and his fellow democrats in the legislature. lawmakers may want to spend more than the governor proposed. this new estimate shows a gain of $3.2 million. >> in san jose today sky 7 overhead. fans watched some of the world's fastest cyclists in action. the am r.amgen tour rode into the bay area this afternoon. laura anthony is live with more for us. hi, laura. >> this afternoon, 113 of the world's fastest cyclists left from the starting area behind me. the last of the riders should be finishing thup 20-mile course. a new starting gate. spectators ring traditional cow bells. this year, the bay area and san jose stage six will be crucial to deciding the outcome of the tour of california. >> there will b

nolan present director ramos, director rubke will be absent today.m 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be adviced electronics are not allowed in the meeting. the board respectfully request they be placed in the off position. >> second. >> motion seconded. >> all in favor say aye.

i appreciate your comments chairman nolan and i certainly am looking forward to the rest of the work 80 so we can provided the drivers more than anything else a comfortable lifestyle that will make our city more attractive >> this resolution give us the authority to issue up to a one hundred and 20 this year. what did you have in mind. i think at any time a urban stable condition right now in the industry could you comment on 2014 >> yeah, it's a good question and first of all, if you authorizes a hundred and 20 it won't be possible tomorrow. it takes a minute. so i think that gradual approach is something that doctor is relating you need to kind of ability back the confidence of the san franciscans we have to grow the market as he said. one thing that's going to help us a lot is that we'll have much better data in the future that you once we have all of this data we'll have a good picture of the existing demand 3r we'll recall some of those statistics of how many people would take taxis if they had the confidence it was going to get them home. even the data we have won't speak to th

natasha nolan fell out of his bus during a fight with another passenger.accused -- he is accused of endangering passengers and if convicted he faces up to six years in prison. >>> we are now learning about a woman's heroic actions. on tuesday, an suv hit and killed a little girl and the little girl's aunt and her two- year-old sister were injured in that accident. family members say the all the is now injured to speak. she said she pushed heresies to safety when she saw it approaching. >> i push him and my -- and i push but the car take it too on my sister and my knees -- [ speaking broken english ] >> she is the one who pushed your niece way though? >> yes. >> he is cooperating with investigators and has not been cited or charged with the crime. >>> and the event is a reminder for all while cycling. it is a reminder for their safety on the road. it is being held in 26 different countries. >>> a pennsylvania bus driver got an unexpected passenger when a deer came crashing through the windshield. the deer frantically trying to escape, one passenger was also

todian of records is not named for either the mta or planning dethank you >> good afternoon president nolan and members and director and -- would you spell your name again. >> i did want to spopd respond to the objections and i'll start with mr. kopel these findings are absolutely accurate they were reviewed with the land use attorneys. and i do want to emphasize that the addendum that's referenced in the findings are absolute ly adequate. the file is in the addendum and the final environmental impact report and the findings were done with meticulo u.s. care. and returning to miss weiss's objections this is a project to be clear only for the height of the project nothing else is subject to referendum for example the dcw hearing ficer issued an order so that's already been done this is normal course of business if you will for a construction project public improvements like this take a long time to get. certainly when we do them these will be wonderful public improvements and again you want to be mindful these are not taxpayer funded they were offered up. i would highly recommend you do this

nolan gets a stick on it. cracknell recovers. throws it across and polak started to move up and decided against it. >> st. louis not recovered their momentum and style of play that's been successful for them for most of this game. l.a. taken it to them and the body language shows it so far. >> now reaves trying to get it deep. had it to the corner to the right of the l.a. goal. now cracknell out to the far point. polak with a shot. blockered aside by quick. polak again with the shot. wanted to hand it off. for a better tuning position by porter. broken up by l.a. brown get lets it go. williams. cleared aside by elliott. regehr holds it in. williams to the high slot. skipped over the stick of dustin brown and looks skyward. in frustration. carter. bouwmeester. came down on him and tipped ahead by the l.a. kings. here's king. hands it off to kopitar. puts it right in front. doughty. knocked down and the blues have it. trying to get the puck in deep. it was offside. at the l.a. line. >> kopitar on the attack. and drew doughty follow

. >> reporter: allen, i just spoke with sergeant tim nolan of the oakland police department. he told me workers were sifting through the garbage, the recycling that comes through this plant every day, and they found what he described as human remains. the oakland police department went further and described it's a mummified human skull. now, just moments ago, folks here, the crime scene folks, took a box out of here with those remains. they spent much of the afternoon actually looking for the rest of the body. what happened to this person? well, sergeant nolan says that actually there's evidence on these remains that appears -- that leads him to believe, anyway, that there might have been foul play. i asked him how long this body has been here. he said, it's not recent or that is -- the body might have been here recently but the person might have been killed quite some time ago. i said how long ago is that? i said a week? no, no. this person has been dead quite some time. they have some work to do. they have to figure out who this person, how they were killed, and the investi