the charter requires that the sf m.t.a. board members receive four hours of training annually about their legal and financial obligations as the board, so this training is not designed to satisfy this. the code requirement that all board and commission members receive sunshine training annually, and it is not designed to set aside a state law requirement that board and commission members received ethics and other training by annually. -- biannualy. we're going to talk about the powers and the duties of the board and its members and also just a little bit about open meeting laws. if you have any questions, please feel free to stop me. if you have any questions, i can answer them. let me know if you have questions. i am sorry. the mta as an agency has unique powers, not held by other agencies within the city. the mta has exclusive authority over acquisitions of property, construction, use of this property. it has exclusive authority to contract, to purchase, and to lease. the sf mta can accept and spend grant funds without the

odd numbered years such as this one, the sf m.t.a. was required to submit a budget amendment only if it was seeking an increase in appropriations or fare increases, or things that were not included in the two- year budget that you submitted. the sf mta budget is approved by operational law. this is different than any other agency. their budgets are approved by the board. this is unless it is rejected by a supermajority by the board of supervisors. if the sf mta wants an increase in general fund spending that is over the guaranteed base amount, then you would have to receive the normal, but you would go through the normal budgetary review process and get approval from the mayor and the board of supervisors for increases over your general fund spending. and of course, as you have heard today, the sf mta board with the board of supervisors approval can issue debt without voter reproval. i want to talk about the concept that has two parts that are commonly referred to as interference in administrative affairs, and the first part of that is

moma has already acquired the old college building and acquire fire station number one. sfll demolish both structures and construct a new wing. in return, the museum will build at no cost to the city, a new fire station and a superior location at 935 fulsom. this proposal is win-win for t he city. it allows them to provide for the fire department, a brand new fire station that is superior in its physical layout and location. in terms of the economic benefits of the project, these are only items that can be easily quantified, museum expansion alone will generate 1100 construction jobs. the annual ongoing contribution in terms of property and sales taxes is expected to see $1 million. and the fire station itself, it exceeds the value of what the city gives to the museum by $10 million. the city is basically getting a gift of more than $10 million. the overall schedule for this project, above the museum and fire station is completion of the fire station in 2013. completion of the museum expansion in 2015. i would like to as representatives from planning, real estate, and the f

this supports the occupy wall street movement overall and the goals of the occupiey sf moveme. i can see the consciousness that is changed across the country. this is a very welcome thing occurring create meaningful change in our society about how we can restructure our society and our government's relationship to the economy to promote the welfare of the people. that is the goal. we need to have a government that is truly accountable to the 99% so i wholeheartedly support the movement. this resolution does about support for the movement. this is also about free speech and the right to assembly and their recognition that the occupy wall street movement consists of 24/7 assemblies that happen in public spaces and in some cases private spaces around the country and currently here in san francisco, on market street. i have been at the site and number of times. i've been called to intervene against the police action against the occupation, the first time was about a month ago when the police were about to move on the occupiers and separate their belongings from them. i went to marke

in terms of the occupy sf movement, reading the resolution overall, i agree with 99% of what is being said. there are a lot of folks who feel similarly, who feel very frustrated at the movement or lack of movement we seen nationally. there are policies in place that seemed to create a larger divide. i certainly agree with that message. in terms of free speech, i think it is a fundamental right in the united states. i think that really distinguishes us from any other country. that is something very close to our hearts. but unfortunately for me, i want to express what it is a will not be supporting this resolution, because i think it is important. it has nothing to do with the movement or the message of the movement. it has nothing to do with the free speech right. i do not condone any violence in san francisco with any future action. for me, the area where i have discomfort is what we do around permitting -- term use -- permitting long-term use of public spaces. it could be any other movement. it could be in just herman plaza. it could be somewhere else in the city. i am not sure we ha

and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and say, this is what i want. >> they are finding the same things happening on the phone where people call in and ask, how do i find this information? we say, go to this website and they go and get the information easily. >> a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map the meeting of te municipal transportation authority. please call the roll. secretary: [reading roll] mr. chairman, you have a quorum. item three, devices during the meeting. please be advised that sound producing electronic devi

the occupy sf camp may be moving to a new location. ning about 400 protestors they are still camped out at san francisco's justin herman plaza. many nearby business owners are frustrated as the holiday season gets under way. this tent city is going to kill their business if the city doesn't take immediate action. now we are hearing mayor ed lee reportedly is talking to the occupy protestors about moving their camp to an old school campus. it's on mission street between 15th and 16th street. however many of the protestors say they have no plans to move. meantime dozens of defiant occupy oakland protestors they are still at their new camp this morning. they are gathered outside the lot at 18th and linden. after a very eventful night. 200 protestors voluntarily packed and left after getting word the owner of the property wanted them out. the police were watching quietly from across the street. at least 50 occupy protestors came back a couple hours later. they now seem determined they will stay there. still not clear how oakland police will

>> and the final straw for the "occupy sf" campers. they could be connected out soon. >> a lot of clouds in the sky, showers on the way. we'll have your weekend forecast coming up. >>> and police have blocked lanes on a major freeway in the east bay. how it's affecting your morning commute coming up. >>> good morning. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm grace lee. >>> vallejo is grieving the loss of a popular police officer gunned down in the line of duty. >> officer jim capoot was shot on janice street trying to catch suspects from a bank robbery that happen just a few miles away. >> gil diaz is in vallejo where a memorial is growing. >> reporter: good morning for us, probably a somber morning for vallejo residents who are outside the police station. there is a sign outside the lobby door that says it's closed due to an emergency. of course, referring to what happened yesterday afternoon. right flex to the sign on the floor on the ground, a growing memorial with bouquets of flowers, candles, personal notes to officer james capoot and his famil

. >>> a big move by san francisco police overnight changes the face of the occupy sf encampment along market street. "today in the bay's" bob redell live now with what is going on and the reaction from the protesters. good morning, bob. >>> good morning to you, jon. protesters weren't surprised by this action by police overnight. mayor ed lee of san francisco has tolerated the protesters camping out at justin herman and in front of the federal reserve. he had grown tired of what had grown out in front over here in front of 1 market street, a mini camp in front of the two other sites. it went overboard. protesters said they moved there because they were running out of space. the mayor saying this is a violation of the understanding between both sides. around 1:30 this morning, officers surrounded the protesters in front of 1 market street, removed 15 tents and arrested seven people who refused to leave. those people were cited and released for camping. police officers tell us they received many complaints from people who say it was too hard to get by the tents, that the sidewalk was ge

the other thing i wanted to bring up is that i noticed in the general manager's report that there is no on clean power -- no note on clean power sf. the local power in the grassroots organizers about the test order for the part of the work. grassroots organizers, you can just cut a little bit on where that is at, because there is a commitment very much for that. the task order will give us the full scope of work. and i want to reiterate the full scope of work. we don't need a little of the work for the task order. we need to make sure that local power -- of the work that is being done will be commissioned by the end of this month. if you can touch on that, thank you. once you have stepped in to this process, that is when it started working. i don't want to make it seem like i am on you, i just want an update. >> next item will be communications. if any commissioner has any matters related, now would be the time to look up. we have a speaker card related to the item. there is some public comment. >> can we hear from item 5c2? >> assistant general manager for power. following up on questions we have received from commissioner vieto

now the people for sf, the occupy movement are no strangers to controversy. this is video from the last raid that happened at justin herman plaza it happened exactly one month ago on october 16th and continued into the early morning hours of the next day. several protesters were arrested well after san francisco police gave them a written notice telling them that the park code does not allow tents or camping. the protesters have said that they have the right to assemble and the park and gives them the room that they need for the growing movement. in the meantime, thousands of occupy cal protesters were gathered outside of sproul hall on the campus of uc-berkeley in this happen late into the night. the protesters have again said uptentsw despite being--the protesters set up tents despite being told by the police that that is not allowed. >>reporter: more than 1500 people voted whether they should put tents up in front of the hall, and nearly everyone was in favor. >>reporter: occupy protesters started pitching tents as soon as the vote was over while the unive

the school district. i will start by giving a general overview of hope sf. we will have the principal at malcolm x, which is a elementary school which is adjacent to our first development site. we will talk about the partnerships we have had with her school. we will have somebody come up to talk about the task force recommendations that have come out. it has come up with education recommendations that we would like to share with you. they are going to share a little bit more about an exciting partnership about our choice neighborhoods grant. with that, i will get started. for those of you who do not kow what hope sf, it is the public housing transportation effort that is aimed at renovating that sites. currently have 8 sites. ultimately, at the end of the revitalization effort, which could be a 20-year process because of the scale of magnitude, we are hoping to create 2500 public housing units. we want to bring those back on line. we are going to create 1000 new affordable housing units and new units. we want to create a mixed in common environment where you

the rink has vendors in justin herman stkwa as a buffer between occupy sf protesters and them. vendors say sales are down they don't think the rink will have too many problems and the protesters think things will be fine. >> any time you have an element as unregulated as this and diverse as this, there's going to be problems. it has impacted us. >> more about the image. i think it would make some comfortable. i would be. i don't think there's any real danger. >> families need to see this. this is reality, that's not. this is definitely family-friendly. >> reporter: the city of sf has largely left protest areas loan. some point out lee was in the middle of an election season. protesters have said they wouldn't be surprised if the city turns to the protest once this election is over. also, now all of this holiday traffic could also have city leaders watching all of this and wondering how everyone is going to co-exist in this plaza. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> we'll see. >>> it appears oakland police may be making plans again to clear out the occupy camp outside city hall. a sour

the rink has vendors in justin herman stkwa as a buffer between occupy sf protesters and them. vendors say sales are down they don't think the rink will have too many problems and the protesters think things will be fine. >> any time you have an element as unregulated as this and diverse as this, there's going to be problems. it has impacted us. >> more about the image. i think it would make some comfortable. i would be. i don't think there's any real danger. >> families need to see this. this is reality, that's not. this is definitely family-friendly. >> reporter: the city of sf has largely left protest areas loan. some point out lee was in the middle of an election season. protesters have said they wouldn't be surprised if the city turns to the protest once this election is over. also, now all of this holiday traffic could also have city leaders watching all of this and wondering how everyone is going to co-exist in this plaza. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >> we'll see. >>> it appears oakland police may be making plans again to clear out the occupy camp outside city hall. a sour

speaking of the mayor, one of the occupy sf protesters, the spokesperson we just heard from, tell us they do have a face-to-face meeting with the mayor this morning at 10:00 a.m. they say their main goal is not to ask for permission to stay, but to let them know they'd like to stay. he was even saying their main goal here would be to take over the civic center plaza. reporting live on market street in san francisco, bob redell. jon, laura. >> thank you very much, bob. >>> occupy cal right now gaining some strength as thousands of demonstrators are on the cal campus back there with their tents despite the university dismantling them just last week. christie smith live in berkeley with the latest. christie, what are the occupiers saying right now about yesterday's shooting on campus? rfr right now they're not really talking about that. they're more focused on their movement and what's going on here. there are quite a few police officers here as well. in fact, the school of business is on the other side of campus, but we are expected to learn a little more about that at a press conferen

during that study, the community was interested in what he ended up calling tier 5 improvements, soared above and beyond what was being proposed in parkmerced and sf state. those improvements kind of overlap, and that is the idea. that is some people know this is the tier 5 study. then 19th avenue corridor study was unable to really analyze those tier 5 improvements, and this is what this next level of conversation is intended to be. really to look at some of these a larger improvement and how we might be about fund them. there's a strong emphasis on partners. we expect a partners with the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. of course we expect to partner with sfmta. we also have some local private institutional land-owner partners, including parkmerced, sf state, and stones down. the total budget is expected to be $480,000. we are funded in part by a grant we received by the department of transportation caltrans in the amount of $300,000. our local partners in the study are looking to provide up to about $80,000. we have commitments from sf state, as well as parkmerced. we made inquiries into stones town, and we're hopeful that

i want to thank the board of supervisors for passing the resolution supporting occupy sf. the supervisors who did not vote for the resolution, there needs to be some understanding of public right of assembly. president chiu: as i mentioned before, we cannot talk about issues we already discussed, but if you want to speak about occupy sf, that is ok. >> can i speak about public assembly? president chiu: yes. >> de public rights of way are reserved for public assembly since time immemorial. there are court cases which point to that. i hope in the future that all members of this board and the city government will respect the public right of assembly. it is what government itself comes from. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for speaking about that. that was my first point, the right to assembly. what i was going to speak about is the real importance of this is a public forum for people's voices to be heard. i think a lot of people have really seen that in occupy sf. various citigroup says an individual -- various city groups and individuals have

and through the sf applications we support from the mayor's office of neighborhood services.ou can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. >> we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. >> it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time of a particular employee at the assessor's office. you might be doing things more efficient. >> they have it ready to go and sa

the overall design for this project, the sf mta continues to work on the overall project. we have included in the recommendation section of this request updates on the full project plans and schedule. the estimated dates of this project, as it moves forward. supervisor campos: before you continue, commissioner? supervisor wiener: masonic, there would be no on street parking on either side? >> let me confirm that really quickly. supervisor wiener: there would no longer be any street parking, whatsoever? >> i am with at the san francisco municipal transportation agency. -- i am with the san francisco municipal transportation agency. supervisor wiener: how many spots are there? >> 150. supervisor wiener: the folks that live there are in favor of removing that parking? >> it was approved at one of the local public hearings. supervisor wiener: how many people with her? >> between 75 and 100. -- how many people were there? >> between 75 and 100. supervisor wiener: is there anyone here that can speak to that? >> i do not think so. supervisor wiener: it caught my attention that th