i know because i worked with scott wiener at the time to craft this legislation. i'll read the legislation here, parts of it. it was to provide and expand the range of interesting food consumption opportunities for mobile food facilities in under served, that's a keyword, and less congested areas of the city. those are key points. regarding the under serves area, union square is certainly not under served by restaurants. we have 38 restaurants and caves within a two block area of this permit, including a pinkberry frozen yogurt, and this argument was used by public works in two recent food truck permits to deny them. the spice affair wanted to go into 46 geary, and another food truck was denied recently at 99 post, where there was two restaurants in the area. secondly, we're hardly a congested area. we are a cosmopolitan area. we figure that there are about 146,000 visitors -- 147,000 visitors throughout the year moving in union square. if you break it down by sensor, we have about anywhere between 14,000 and 20,000 pedestrians moving through the sidewalks every d

scott wiener (d-san francisco) "the most comprehensive and the strongest net neutrality protection ine united states."bay area state senator scott wiener -- has made net neutrality a major issue this legislative session. sen. scott wiener "ideally, we would have one national standard for net neutrality but that has not happened."his bill -- sb822-- along with state senator kevin de leon's sb460 - attempts to create a state standard. both bills were approved by the state senate earlier this year.but in the assembly.. the communications committee took out two key provisions in wiener's billtoday.. after weeks of negotiations.. today a compromiseasm. miguel santiago (d-los angeles) "we need to be able to tell these stories. we need to be able to empower people with information that is accurate." wiener says his compromise bill has the same protections as the version which passed in the senate - including a ban on internet providers from using their networks to give preference to selected websites and apps. the idea of net neutrality is that all consumer should have equal and open access

so regarding scott wiener's legislation, how did you determine that this is a less congested neighborhood? less congested? i personally walk on that block regularly as my wife works on the corner, and you can barely get through now. >> so i think the -- the intent of less congested, there's no -- so we follow the rule of the code or what the code says, and that's not specifically in the code, that's in the legislation under the findings for the reason for the code, so that's interpretive, and there's no real reason to say what's congested and what's not congest zbld so why is it in there. >> that's in the legislation. >> that scott wiener did. >> it's not in the legislation -- >> so you're not subject to the legislation? >> i can clarify. >> okay. >> the findings -- >> you're lucky. s.o.s. >> the findings of the ordinance which proceed the actual operative language of the code provision are not the code, and they're interpretive, as he just said. there's a reason for the legislation, but if they don't put it in the operative section of the code, it's not legally binding on the department?

i went to sacramento with supervisor rafael mandelman to support senator scott wiener's bill, sb 245.he is a support of sb 1045, along with other members of the board of supervisors, and it passed through committee unanimously. i am hopeful -- i had a conversation with the governor about it. i'm hopeful it gets through. it got through the senate. hopefully, it'll get through the assembly, and if the governor signs the legislation, he would have to opt in for the purposes of using this tool here locally. and i'm feeling good about this particular legislation taking effect here in san francisco based on the support from the board of supervisors. maybe not all members of the board will support it, but i think that there's sufficient support to get it enacted here. >> in terms of emergency preparedness, were you just briefed or were you -- [inaudible] >> yes. [inaudible] >> i didn't hear the last part. [inaudible] >> so it's not a rumor. ann kroneberg announced last week that she had plans to retire. as far as briefing, yes, there was definitely a conversation about a briefing, but also,

chair of the budget committee fill tape with the support and former supervisor now state senator scott wiener as well as assembly member david chu, the entire local sacramento legislative delegation, have with uber and lyft support agreed to produce a bill, with any luck at all, by a majority vote of both houses in the state, will be law by the first day of january of 2018 -- i'm sorry, 2019. that will allow us to actually go to the ballot in november and do what portland has done and have a per ride sur charge so there's a direction next us between the impact and our fund to transportation improvement this is san francisco. there are details but it is a 3.25% sur charge at its highest. we want to have a. d.a. rides so there's no charge on those. rides where there are multiple individuals that and it's a one and a half percent charge. i will give you all of that. i want to thank assembly member tinge as well as senator wiener and chu as well as the folks at lyft and uber who really, i think, want to turn the page and become a part of the solution and finally, it wouldn't have happened without

it was introduced by assembly member david chiu, coauthored by scott wiener and cochaired by assembly member ting. another state source of funds is the direct appropriation. port requested $50 million direct appropriation in the upcoming state budget. this request has been reduced to 5 million but appears to be moving forward and is likely to take the form of a grant from the california state natural resources agency. and on the federal funding side, as you know, we've already begun working with the army corps of engineers from pier 5 to pier 22 1/2. the big and super exciting news, though, is the new start authority for the entire port, the entire property, that was approved in the u sa's 2018 work plan. this is for a general investigation for flood protection for the entire port and can bring unlimited federal funding. it was one of only six new starts nationwide -- that's wrong, but it was one of -- it was one of six new starts nationwide, one of only two for coastal flood protection. the new start includes 500,000 to include the feasibility study in this year. it included the assi

and i have also been in touch with the officer of the state senator scott wiener but so far i'm not aware they have taken an official position. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other comments or questions? seeing none, open it up for public comment. any members of the public wish to speak on this? mr. brooks, come on up. >> eric brooks, san francisco clean energy advocates and californians for energy choice. so i just want to thank the executive officer for that excellent report. it really hits the nail on the head. i don't think that you need many more reasons to oppose this legislation but i will bring up one other one. and this is much like pg&e that makes its money off of building a lot of unnecessary infrastructure and transmission lines and then charging customers for that stuff. brookshire hathaway that would be controlling this grid makes its money exactly the same way. so this is not just about coal or electricity that they sell, this is about giving a cash cow to warren buffet so that he can make money building powerlines that are unnecessary and cause forest fires.

senators scott wiener and mike mcguire say they decided to bring back the legislation after presidentn. the bill is aimed at forcing president trump to release his tax returns if he runs for re- election in 20-20. governor brown vetoed similar legislation last year -- saying he was worried it was unconstitution ( darya ) in the east bay... an old wedding ring is found and now one man is trying to solve a mystery.( james ) kron 4's gabe slate spoke with the oakland man who found the ring... and hopes to return it to its owner. sound from richard grassetti - found wedding ring on beach"we walked down to the beach and i saw this thing glinting" richard grassetti was on a beach in richmond point near santa fe avenue when he found this gold wedding ring. sound from gabe slate reporterthe inscription inside says "from now to eternity lily 5-1-49"sound from richard grassetti - found wedding ring on beach"the question is who is lily, the owner or their kids should get it back" richard had his social media savvy friend christina toms whip a post on twitter about the ring with close up pictures