san franciscoans are interested in quality of life issues. and so we need roads that do not have large holes where cars get stuck. we have a $300 million backlog on our roads. those are the things we use daily. originalally -- originally we all should work so that we have -- [tone] less cars on our roads. am i given two minutes? thank you very much. i'm the only one for public comment here, and i'm given two minutes. chairman chu: thank you. >> the rest is in writing. and i think my comments will not be very favorable. chairman chu: thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion on this item? ok. we've got a motion to send this item forward with recommendation. without objection. thank you. >> item 7, recommend appropriation of $55,000 in prop k funds with condition for the u.s. 101 scandal stick interchange project study report, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution. >> good morning. this item begins on page 113 of your packets.

find all the different suppliers of restoration services and/or hardware so that the typical san franciscoanho doesn't have the knowledge base that the 3 of you have can do his own research. >> i'd say start on e bay. quite frankly that's where you could say find this in 5 minutes can you say the, g, word. google. if you type it up on the web it's out there. there are other resources to mention. san francisco architectural heritage is a place you can call they can point you to good things. do you have the number. >> 441-3000. a lot of knowledgeable staff and volunteers quite a library of things. the museum of the historical society, victorian alliance people who fix up their victorians for years. a craft guild in san francisco called artistic license. around for 25 years the cream of the crop as far as period artisans go. there are people who can pull plaster moldings in place. people who do arts and crafts tiles and stained glass. painters, architect designers. there are people in that group who are in the trenches everyday helping ordinary people. they have a web page, artist artisticlicen

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, >> happy arbor day, everyone. we have a lot of volunteers from the richmond district center. i grew up in the california area, ended up at uc-davis. i made my way out to san francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. i remember growing up on clement street. i have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering san francisco in the 1980's. >> i am hoping we can not support small businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. >> i have also been active as a community organizer. i worked at the chinese progressive association. i also worked at the mental health center in the richmond district. i have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. i have a 10-year-old daughter, so having a girl has made me much more se

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, mayor lee: i am honored to be here at the board chambers to present my proposed budget for fiscal year 2011-2012, and i want to just start by saying that it is a pretty happy time for me because we have got a budget that is on time, that is balanced, and maybe on like our -- unlike our cities to the east or to the south, it is one that i think reflects a very solid cooperation with our board of supervisors, with our neighborhoods, with our community-based agencies, and with all our departments. at the beginning of this year -- actually as late as last year, we projected a $380 million deficit. former mayor gavin newsom had set us on a course that we have to be very focused on this, challenging us. we did that. we followed his advice and work with our departments to make sure that they came forth with what they believed would be a balanced budget. closing this defi

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, >> this is the june 21 meeting of the m.t.a. good afternoon and welcome. call the roll, please. [roll call] item three, please be advised that the use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. any person responsible for one going off may be removed from the meeting. cell phones put on the vibrate do cause microphone interference. item four, approval of the minutes. >> is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> item five, communications. i know of none. >> i just wanted to give a congratulations and shoutout to the new express which has been running for a week and two days, one day. i just wanted to say i've been getting tons of rave reviews from my co-workers. one fellow came up to me and said it was the first time he'd been on a bus in the city in about four years. it looks like the numbers of riders are going do continue to

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, >> as you all know, the mayor is here to hear a little bit from the climate action panel that have been meeting. five of them will be presenting their findings today and then we will hear brief remarks from the mayor. so i did first want to welcome mayor lee and explain a little bit about the panels and how we'll be presenting the findings. [applause] >> welcome, mayor lee. today we are pleased to present you with the recommendations of five community panels that have been working with me and the department of environment on the city's climate action plan. and these panels consist of businesses, community organizations, advocates and nonprofits. so they're going to come up and each one of them is going to introduce themselves, read you their short recommendations and hand it to you so that you can keep it in perpetuity. or keep it for reference the next time we come

upwards of about $50,000 was spent just in the two-day project, where san franciscoans donated over 1,100 pounds of pharmaceuticals just in that two days at city expense, which is derived from rate pair expense, money that came from discretionary use to the department of environment of water are garbage rates. since i believe that there should be a practice of shared responsibility with good corporate partners, i legislated that we should insist on there being a public/private collaborative effort. pharmaceutical industry, like in the legislative examples, depeffeded on city hall with great -- descended on city hall with great might and i believe was able to influence previous administration to not go down this road. i held a number of meetings with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry and with representatives of the city government, and we decided instead of legislating this particular mandate, that we would try an 18-month pilot program. the industry has agreed. they are shouldering the cost. that cost is being generated by a consortium known as pharma and then genentech of $