we hope to set the priorities with the district over the course of this year.the direction is to have a vision statement of all of the great ideas and plans we have been putting together. we actually have some principles that guide us. that has not always been the case in terms of how we do these partnerships with the surplus and underutilized properties. thank you so much to everybody and the staff that spent time on this policy resolution as well. roll call, please. vice-president mendoza: yes. commissioner norton: yes. president kim: yes. thank you. >> is it possible for me to sever some things from the consent calendar. neither the calendar nor the severed items have been voted on yet. thank you. >> which items would you like to sever? >> i will like to sever k 18 and 256. president kim: we move on to item k which is general public comment on matters. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, members of the board of education. i want to thank the board for reaffirming the educator housing as a goal and a priority. the reason i rose to speak is that we are very

through the traffic analysis, we identified the need is the priority was to keep the vehicular levelof service at what is considered acceptable levels. it comes at a compromise of other important values such as pedestrian safety and on-street parking. to monitor this overtime, should traffic horse and -- worsen, the city will have the opportunity to engage the community at that point tod8 see if the highest priority is to keep traffic flowing or improve pedestrian safety. those choices can be made in the future. but they are laid out in the documents. moving forward, you have heard a lot about the proposed realignment of the m streetcar through the site. there are also questions from the commissioners in the previous hearings about other forms of transit, particularly in buses. it works closely with the mta to come up with a new bus route in plan -- routing plan. just to keep it brief, it would create a new intermodal bus and rail hub at the new transit plaza as well as realign some of the bus routes that run through the sights to better serve the housing as it is proposed. meshing w

the grant is a renewal, but the projects funded change year to year depending on what the priorities are and what the grant guidelines are. the department of homeland security changes every year. two years ago they decided that 25% of the grant had to go to law enforcement. we had never had to do that before. was of that we had to we prioritize more funding for things requested by the chief and the sheriff. they are going more than in the past because that is what we are told to do. supervisor mirkarimi: through the chair, is it possible to get more clarity on that? not now, but in the future. >> do you mean before this goes to the board of supervisors? supervisor mirkarimi: no. any time. obviously the crime lab has been of import to the board of supervisors and the ski government. allocation of funding is important to us and how these funds are being applied. >> sure. supervisor mirkarimi: a renewal, if it is a renewal, i would like to know exactly if that is the case, or is this new for this specific slice of this grant. >> absolutely. we can confirm with the department and get back

toolee also schedule early in the year, her discussion of the priorities for the calendar for issue going forward? he spent considerable time during our retreat setting our objectives and our criteria for priorities and selecting priorities. we made an attempt to put them in order at that time. should we revisit that to make sure that we get these items on the calendar? commissioner hammer: one of these that finished some months ago, are these definitely set in january? that is all i had. >> item 5 is a public comment on all matters relating -- pertaining to close the session, including the vote on whether to go into closed session. >> public comments regarding closed session items? they are disciplinary matters because they are involved with the decision by the california supreme court. call item no. 6. >> a vote on whether to hold closed session? >> we are now moving into closed session. we will stay >> commissioners, we are back in open session. >> item 8 is a vote whether to let any or all discussion held in closed session. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> before moving to line ite

we as a company can be told what is the priority of the policy folks here the decision makers of where do we turn the power on first? where do we put the gas lines back in place. we are trying work together as a time. prior to here i worked with the california highway patrol i had opportunities to be in many emergencies one that stuck with me i was brought over to a structure during the parade earthquake. i was the sdmacommander for a 1w shichlt i'm trying to go through the cries and fear and concern, one of the things that stood out was what i saw were people from the community from west oakland wanting to help the foeblgs stuck on the structure andment to help their neighborhood. there were rat in a maze. they didn't know what to do but want to engage. the involvement in the community and training is critical for everyone to get back on track and recover from a disaster. stay with it it can be frustrating to energize people to say it's coming when it hasn't been here for awhile. >> thank you to our panelists. you heard a great variety of ways that you can take this information and ap

i currently serve and am familiar with many of the priority populations shots as senior -- such as seniors, youth, an unemployed residents. i look forward to contributing to the work of the committee and helping to ensure that the fund's resources are used in the most effective and meaningful way as possible. thank you so much for your time. supervisor campos: thank you, sir. if we could now call thomas temprano. >> hello, supervisors. i am representing renaissance entrepreneurship center, a nonprofit that has been based in south of market for 25 years providing full training support and assistance services to soma small businesses and small businesses throughout the area. i'm applying also for seat 7, having spent the past two years of my life working with a variety of south of market businesses. i feel a strong connection to the varied needs of the very businesses in the neighborhood. i work with everything from restaurants to store fronts to small office space businesses in the south of market. my office is actually located in a small housing incubator run by low to moderate income san

this is one of the region topos two priorities for small start, just like the subway is one of the two regional priorities for new starts for the larger projects. i believe it is the highest rated -- received the highest rating for the brt in the country. we are working closely with mta. commissioner chu: thank you. so we expect to go to the fta around 2011? >> yes. commissioner campos: in looking at the scope of work for stage two in the report, it talks about how the authority will lead the work which will be conducted by the sfmta, department of public works, parsons, and the authorities consultants. i wonder if you could say more about the interaction between these different players? >> the project team is large, but it is effective. authority is the lead at this stage. the handover to mta will happen after the informant the document is certified and position is obtained. after what we are calling stage three. however, the team includes mt a sustainable street planning staff, and now mta capital planning staff, so we have an engineering manager, staff engineer, who will be doing a

some of the lower priority options are like a digital, visual announce the system for cards, along with using their radio system as a means of mapping out the yards. these are lower party options that will be deferred. commissioner campos: commissioner dufty? commissioner dufty: what does that mean, lower priority option. can you go more into what you mean with its? lower priority? i do not know what that means. >> the radius system project is a replacement program read the agency will replace its motorola system with a modern, upgraded system, as mandated. we will be replacing the radio system by 2012. commissioner dufty: and this is a large project? >> it is a large project, essentially replacing all the radio systems within the fleet. we are currently operating under a 1970's-based system. that said, the base effort of that program is fully funded and there are some out-year options that our options in the contract that are listed as whether or not -- sort of enhancements -- to the system. if the agency would like to move forward and assign those options to the program. $10 million w

basically, the pac, we have told you that we have set priorities for this year, and redesigning the middleschool is one of our top priorities. we are very excited about the opportunity to have these conversations, because for us, it is not just looking at one big question, but it is looking at the question of how students get assigned to middle school and what the elementary school to middle school pathway is, and there are bigger questions about what works and what does not work for middle school students in our city. we are seeing how deeply issues connect with a lot of initiatives happening in the district right now, including the superintendent's own school initiative. this is addressing improving dramatically how we provide special education services to the students that need them, changes in transportation, questions about how we serve english lerner students, and how we strengthen our dual immersion programs and are pathways and those in the bilingual programs or those who have not been any kind of language program at all, how after-school programs -- is this still working? ok. how

the past few years whereas well thought out and -- and -- take really -- in to consideration the board's priority of trying it close the at some point gaps. so thank you so much, president kim. >> yes. so i -- just want to also echo this, that particular concern was discussed at the budget committee in depth. that's eighty the whereas has been included. mention the resolution that we have for teacher housing. i thought it was important. i was the commissioner that suggested we added a formal family housing considering we serve main lilo and moderate income families. there are 39,000 families in san francisco with the needs. as 9 largest owner of land in the city, that we have an obligation to also serve our familys by no means does that curtail already pans -- plans we have in motion about teacher housing. i think that's very, very clear. so -- but what i really particularly like about this resolution is that it reinforces the fact that the lapped that is -- that the san francisco unified school district opens is public land. it belongs to the public. it doesn't belong to principles or teachers o

we will talk about the financials and start getting your thinking about budget priorities and the budget situation that we have for the puc. >> good afternoon, todd r ydstrom. as you know, we work on four years at one time. what we have before you write knelt is the last year's financial audit, we do what we have before you right now is the last year's financial audit -- what we have before you right now is the last year's financial audit. i am very pleased to report to show you on the screen the last three years of results for all three financial statements, and, again, in the fiscal year 2009/2010, we have what equates to a very strong that bill of health, and that means that we have had -- there were no findings of any deficiencies, and an audit manager will go well. we time these audits with others. what this also means is that for the first year, what they directed us to do, we created a separate component for the financial statement for hetch- hetchy water and also hetch- hetchy power, so that was part of the steps we took to get independent credit rating because of the hetch-hetch

and thank you for coming to our studio in the hello let's start with the high priority national programs they were the center of attention a few years ago and the newspapers and t.v. were talking about them they were discussed everywhere both officials and deputies paid a lot of attention to them now they're not so what has happened to national programs do they still exist. they do exist and despite the crisis seen two thousand and nine which was a tough year for our economy for many reasons as well as the budget issues the financing of the national program has been increased both last year and this year the programs are underway. in this sphere of health here we are building more than the high tech medical centers and the pira natal centers. there is a program for provision of ambulances. so you know we're just we're quite active on the broker. you know education we can speak about the creation of federal universities. we have so many of them at the moment all of them have been finished and there is a separate program for each one. of got there are about thirty other university is which