i'm tilly chang with the transportation authority we work for the 11 members of the board of supervisors to administer the half hour penny call prop k we want to extend our congratulations to director reiskin and his team and acknowledge mayor lee's leadership and supervisor tang's in improving the pedestrian safety and transportation authority san francisco has spoken loud and clear are maintaining safety is our priority with the help of our partners across the city family i want to congratulate the community and neighborhood for about advocating for those improvements at yorba but along the crossroad is a high injury corridor we really need to focus in terms of the xevenlgs be not only for the enforcement the traffic signals but also to be supported by enforcement and countdowns and other feevenz we provide to be part of the effort and thank to the community for you're planning support today as well as in the fall thank you. >> (clapping) >> director chang mentioned the community and neighborhoods it's at&t the voices of the people of san francisco that make sure they can get around th

district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015 we'll have the safer in place and several years ago when i was work as a protective stiff aid i worked the volunteers as we plant and installed those mediums you see along yorba we've tried other things approaches and couldn't have done that with the police department command over there thank you for stepping up the enforcement and i also want to give a special recognition to people who worked on installing those i see them in the back thank you for all your response time for the injuries and the fatalities that was mentioned and i want to reiterate it is important in november successfully

the committee met on july 10, 2014, and gave a recommendation to evaluate our tilly chang with an exceptionally good recommendation the board supported the evaluation done after an evaluation process that included several executive director record of acknowledgements and the transportation authority analysis we have rated our executive director as exceptionally good in her performance thank you. supervisor mar would you like to make a motion in terms of what was demolished >> second by supervisor yee if i'm seeing no names on the raufrtd madam clerk call the roll. >> not to disclose the content. >> supervisor avalos absent. supervisor breed. supervisor campos. supervisor chiu. supervisor cohen. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. that item passes. >> okay. that motion is approved. item number 9 >> introduction of new items. >> actually before we get there do we need public comment on item 8. >> okay with that, should we resend that vote and do public comment? okay. there's no public currently in the board chambers is there any

in welcoming district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changingent and w

we have our corridor (calling names) and other at spur and i want to thank assembly member phil tilly chang who's field representative is here or might be here soon. to specifically this allows san francisco to enter into a contract with property owners who's properties are inattentive and provided them a tax reduction they have to keep the land in agricultural use and keep it in agricultural use and open to the members of the public as educational or outreach space as a community garden or food distribution that will be only as a permit use or approval for the conditional use permit and finally the agricultural commissioner can approve this contract if it didn't have a tack loss of $25,000 or one hundred and 25 over the 5 year contract or combined tax use of more than $250,000 per year we have to have adequate oversight while the city may los lose a minor amount of tax revenues revenues the balance is much greater the positives of urban farming helps to improve our environment and teaches important values like st. patrick and provides greater arithmetic's health for the residents. i want t

>> everyone to the tuesday, july 15, 2014, meeting of entertainment commission i'm bryan tilly chang please turn off our cell phones if you're here speak on an item agenda hand your speaker card to our staff we'll let that speak at the appropriate time thank you to sfgovtv for airing this to the public. >> commissioner campagnoli. commissioner lee. commissioner joseph. commissioner hyde. president tan. we have quorum i have note from commissioner perez that he's on his way and commissioner akers will be absent tonight >> all right. so our first item of business is public comment this is for any public item that permanence to the matters of the entertainment commission anyone want to speak on anything not it on the agenda but we should know about. come on up and state your name >> hi, i'm michael i want to congratulate steven lee for being reappoint i wanted to it wake him up over there but thanks. >> great. any other public comment? if not i'm going to close it seeing none, public comment is closed. move on to item two approval the minutes of march 29 our commission retreat. i move t

in welcoming district 4 supervisor tang >> thank you a special recognition to the mta and to tilly changing and accident police department and walk sf and, of course, all the community members and resident who have been so patient serving as an advocate and working to make sure our city vice president hears us loud and clear we need those along sunset boulevard so all our intersection have signals and so in the past evidently years we've worked to slowly being able to install the traffic signals by the end of the 2015

. >> everyone to the tuesday, july 15, 2014, meeting of entertainment commission i'm bryan tilly chang please turn off our cell phones if you're here speak on an item agenda hand your speaker card to our staff we'll let that speak at the appropriate time thank you to sfgovtv

want to acknowledge in particular our funding partners leslie from the transit administration and tilly chang in the transportation arthur i don't know if anyone is here from the metropolitan transportation system but we have one representative here we have caltrain a lot of folks working to make that happen and particularly our federal senators barbara boxer and dianne feinstein and nancy pelosi has been a great champion of this project. we couldn't have done this without her. and i do want to acknowledge the u.s. department of transportation starting from secretary norman who's been that he beginning up to our secretary jonathan fox and a lot of support from our federal leaders to make sure this project happen it is on the ground project it is years of work from a lot of people in the city and county family i'm happy to ask you to join me in welcoming our mayor, mayor ed lee >> thank you edward reiskin and congratulations. i'm sdlltd to be here with our board president david chiu and i'm sure he's 4th of july which successor team a head and supervisor wiener the district supervisor where i

and tillis has been pucking for tax cuts, reforms from unemployment benefits and school reforms. and there's been a big blow back. >> the changesbeen controversial and the legislature isn't popular. >> that's right. kay hagan is running a campaign against the north carolina legislature and trying to run from obama. and it's really interesting to watch her on the same kind of stage with obama as the american legion. >> she's not running on her record. she's running against the state record. james, what are you following? >> it's a consistent theme. all the democrats in red state where is the president is not popular avoid talking about everything they've been doing in washington. and i've been looking at alaska where you have mark begich. some say the most talented campaigner among the democrats defending their seats. he's going against dan sullivan. and the strategy is basically to talk about everything against the big issues. he said the other day on an oil tax question that it was private. but that's a republican leaning state. he should be able to pull that out. >> well, i don't know. right now it's looking tough for him. th

change north carolina's law. being conservative, it's not something you say, it's something you do. i'm thom tillis, and i approve this message. >> the billionaire koch brothers are supporting thom til lifment s. why? he thinks corporations should get tax breaks while seniors pay more for prescription drugs. thomtillis. he may not be a koch brother, but he certainly treats them like family. >> as you watch these ads , how effective are these races. >> i think when there have been millions in spending there will be millions more. i think there is a danger that swing voters get turned off and then there is the base, energizing your base. one thing about hagan that is different from some of her colleagues is she doesn't have that family name to fall back on o. even udall in colorado, they can fall back on this family name. you know my family or brother that serves. hagan doesn't have that. she's trying to define her epublicans to do it for her. >> at the moment mark prior is ahead. >> arkansas is a fascinating race. if you ask both parties how do you feel about arkansas? i think their candidate is in

change in culture at the va. >> a presidential visit is not the only sign democrats may feel optimistic about their party pro pekts. here's how the opposition to medical expansion was characterized. >> tom tillisas a proven record fighting against obamacare. >> he stopped the medicare expansion cold. not happening in north carolina and it's because of tom tillis. >> that medicaid expansion which he stopped cold would benefit 500,000 north carolina residents. these days he is singing a slightly different tune. in an interview earlier this month, he told the washington examiner, any repeal measure needs to be married with how do you provide a landing or transition to some of those on oba obamacare. tom tillis stopped the whole thing cold until he tried to maybe warm it back up on the back burner ahead of election day. what is happening here? larry points out in politico magazine, where's the wave in every single one of this november's toss-up states, alaska, arkansas and louisiana and north carolina, they have not opened up a real polling lead in any of them. democratic nominees have been running hard and staying slightly ahead or close to their republican foes. joining me now is managing editor