. >> reporter: san franciscoans create a little more than 1,000 tons of garbage every day that isn't recycled. and they have no designated place in their 49 square miles to put it. so they pay san francisco based recology $49 million a year to truck it to a remote canyon just past livermore, the ultimate landfill. houston based waste management which owns and operates the dump gets an additional $10 million for its trouble. now they want to stop sharing the money and waste management is fighting back. instead, recology proposing to haul san francisco's trash by truck and rail to a farm town of some 2300 people called wheatland. >> garbage has to go somewhere. >> reporter: people such as retired physician richard pastowits say they don't mind having a landfill outside their town. but they do have one big objection, what's in the garbage? >> it's actually the new term is garbage and groceries out. and what we fear is that the -- there will be contaminated food that we will send back to san francisco. >> waste management, the nation's biggest garbage company wants to keep the trash comin

. >> reporter: san franciscoans create a little more than 1,000 tons of garbage every day that isn't cycled. and they have no designated place in their 49 square miles to put it. so they pay san francisco based recology $49 million a year to truck it to a remote canyon just past livermore, the ultimate landfill. houston based waste management which owns and operates the dump gets an additional $10 million for its trouble. now they want to stop sharing the money and waste management is fighting back. instead, recology proposing to haul san francisco's trash by truck and rail to a farm town of some 2300 people called wheatland. >> garbage has to go somewhere. >> reporter: people such as retired physician richard pastowits say they don't mind having a landfill outside their town. but they do have one big objection, what's in the garbage? >> it's actually the new term is garbage and groceries out. and what we fear is that the -- there will be contaminated food that we will send back to san francisco. >> waste management, the nation's biggest garbage company wants to keep the trash coming

you ask many san franciscoans as the a2 project area or people even outside and they would not be able to explain to you very well that they're actually parallel governments that exist in san francisco as it applies to land use considerations. and because of those planned use considerations, there were consequences that i think provided both for positive and negative experience in the fillmore. it would demean anybody in japan town or anybody who has gone through it one time or another redevelopment in history and not share any of the lessons learned in this particular project that's before us. what i found pretty amazing was that over the few years leading up to this particular stage when people would say to me, don't worry, ross. don't worry, supervisor ross. don't worry. this is not what happened in the fillmore. we're not going to use eminent domain in bay view hunters point. what a great consolation. you're not going to use eminent domain. on top of that, try to institutionalize agreements so it attempts to lift all vote. when i hear that's trying to allay concerns or multiply my

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k, captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> i would like to welcome everyone. we will now have roll call. >> [roll call] >> all right. for the moment i will ask for public comment prior to workshop? hearing and seeing no one, the waste water system review workshop #6. >> good morning. today we have two workshops. we have a morning session, then there be a break and then an afternoon session. i printed some things out of large size sheets. the fall agenda -- the full agenda and some of the labs that are here that seem so big did not look that big when we printed them out on half size, so i wanted you to have the benefit of the larger size print. so, just to review from the agenda, workshop runs from 10:00 until noon. we will be walking through the rest of the projects we did not get to on april 27, talking through some of the questions that

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park, supervisor mirkarimi: welcome to the transportation authority meeting. i would like to say welcome to everyone here. thank you also to sfgtv. would you please read roll call. >> [roll call] we have a quorum. item two, approval of minutes of the june 29, 2010 meeting. >> any comments seeing none, public comment is closed. without objection. please read items 3 and 4. >> cheers report. this is an information item. the executive director's report. supervisor mirkarimi: colleagues, it has been an extra busy month at the authority, so keep your commentsd4& we have a lengthy board meeting later. tomorrow morning is the official start of the first day fund a construction contract in the presidio parkway. we are going to mark that with a short ceremony in the presidio. we are expecting the federal highway administrator and business administration housing secretary will be a

i am a devoted san franciscoian -- san franciscoan. i want to stay here. i think this is another situation that forces families out of the city. if we are really family oriented , we need to push this through. thank you for your time. chair maxwell: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is gabriel. i work for catholic charities. we are a separate agency from the archdiocese. on behalf of catholic charities, i will be reading an official statement. catholic charities c.y.o. has partnered with the city and county of san francisco to provide child care for poor families. catholic charities is actively working to construct a new child development center in partnership with mercy housing and in partnership with the archdiocese of san francisco and private donors. c.y.o. provides after-care services at this site at 10th and mission. the planned child development center is being established in response to the current need for chimed care within the city of san francisco. the proposed legislation would interfere with our ability to raise private funds if com

joseph schmidt, who is a true san franciscoan in the fact that he's generous and in good times and in bad, everybody loves his chocolate. if you haven't had his chocolate, you don't know what you're missing. he for this occasion built and carved himself a coit tower out of white and bittersweet chocolate which is on display in the tower when we open the tower today. thank you, mr. schmidt, for doing that for us. in addition, mr. pll schwab donated $25,000 worth of graphic artwork design. this banner is made for this occasion only. we will give out free posters of this design today and that will be available for you. we also have half a dozen city guides here today to do commemorative tours of the tower the you can ask any question you have, no matter how esoteric, and they'll be able to answer it. also we will have jail productions, down here, to perform ragtime music. also, again, lots of history going on today, mitch morea zachaim, the author of the most influential book every written about coit tower, this book here, you have a rare opportunity to meet the author today and obtain a

life of the city not only in its picturesque back drop but it's also a very proud symbol for san franciscoansfe of our city so i want to thank all of friends and neighbors that helped not only today but every day are organizing a contribution to coit tower. a big round of applause to ken and ann and the entire team. thank you. thank you. this was not speciesed to happen. -- supposed to happen. when lily coit bequeathed one third of her will to the city and county of san francisco she didn't necessarily have in mind the structure you see behind me. she just wanted to give something back to the city she loved and it was up to the board of supervisors at the time, 1931, to determine when -- what they should do with the money. the first idea and the one that was promoted in its day was some asphalt and a road to be constructed around lake merced. now, we love lake merced and we're proud of lake merced and it certainly needs a similar type of investment today. but clearly it was like nothing we see today. but it was the witness dovepble the park and recreation commiss, -- commission -- wisdom of t

i am a devoted san franciscoian -- san franciscoan. i want to stay here.hink this is another situation that forces families out of the city. if we are really family oriented , we need to push this through. thank you for your time. chair maxwell: thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is gabriel. i work for catholic charities. we are a separate agency from the archdiocese. on behalf of catholic charities, i will be reading an official

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k, >> cents and cisco's buses and trains serve many writers -- san francisco buses and trains serve many riders. the need to be sure they can get off at their intended stop. the digital voice announcement system, which announces upcoming stops, can help these low vision riders know where they are, but only if set properly. >> it is a wonderful piece of technology, but in practice, it is a little bit more tricky. oftentimes, i find that the automatic announcement system is turned off or turned down so low that i'm unable to hear it, or it is turned up so high that the sound is distorted. >> most of the time, it does not ever seemed to be on. or is it is, it is a really quiet. occasionally, it is so loud that it is distorted. >> driver, may i have california st., please? >> no problem. >> whenever the announcement system does not work properly and a driver does not call

we have visitors who will say, i never knew this was here and i'm a native san franciscoan. they wonder how long it's been here. when i tell them next year we'll get to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the park,k, . >> forgot no. 2. silver is nothing. there is no having made it and so we beat foreman. i love the competition. . >> american made has really taken it on themselves to green american cities. >> we have a new organizer for the city and county of san francisco. oh, mayor as well. yeah, that's part of the job description. yeah, mayor of san francisco. >> the city is extremely concerned about the emission of green house gasses and making san francisco a sustainable city. >> we need to find other ways to create energy without harm to the environment and this is one source. >> we have over 2 megawatts of solar on various city buildings. we are looking at tidal power and we're beginning to look at geothermal power. >> we're on the roof of the moscone center of san francisco and we have 2500 panels that power the center. >> here we are using real energy, energy from the