willi willis. i love me some willi willis. shoes are the name of the game here at "gt shoe repair." s not all my man greg here can repair. isn't that right, greg? >> i do handbags too. [ laughter ] >> whether it's shoelaces, wallets, or shoe horns, "gt repair" has got it all. [ whistle blows ] "gt shoe repair" is not responsible for shoes lost, damaged by fire or left over 30 days. "gt shoe repair" is an easy lay-up. >> "gt shoe repair," conveniently located at the corner at san vicente and houser, just minutes from the la brea tar pits. [ laughter ] >> i don't repair no athletic shoes. >> so come to "gt shoe repair." their shoe repairs are a -- >> slam dunk. [ laughter ] >> where you going, greg? and remember, all cash, no checks. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, paul pierce. and you're welcome, greg. [ laughter ] how's that man's name greg? [ laughter ] well, one more thing before we forge ahead. anyone who knows me knows i am a great lover of food, but sometimes i get too busy to eat. i just don't have the time to find the flavors i like. so, i asked dikembe mutombo,

reportero: hace unos aÑos willie colÓn sacó un disco llamado willie colÓn legal alien. williede escoger el menos malo. reportero: cuÁl es el menos malo? willie colÓn: es lo que estoy tratando de averiguar. prefiero no votar que votar por hillary, es mentira tras mentira y trampas. me parece cada dÍa mÁs fea la cosa. estoy entre trump y bernie sanders. me parece mejor. yo sÉ que va a modificar su polÍtica con los latinos, va a tener que hacerlo y estoy esperando quÉ a hagas eso, -- que haga algunas declaraciones enrique: una declaraciÓn conjunta en diÁlogo con la oposiciÓn. la secretarÍa del organismo convocÓ la carta democrÁtica, paÍses miembro acordaron un texto que convoca al diÁlogo abierto para favorecer la estabilidad polÍtica, el desarrollo social y la recuperaciÓn económica en venezuela. ilia: hoy se conociÓ un nuevo capÍtulo del niÑo que cayÓ en un instante en la jaula de un gorila, llamado llamÓ al nÚmero de emergencia 911. reportera: mientras el niÑo de 3 aÑos de edad permanecÍa con el gorila, su madre aterrorizada por la situaciÓn realizaba la llamada al nÚmero de e

willy was standing. and the 50 students who were with me and with willy at his funeral came up to me and we were talking and i said, why, why willy? what happened? he said, mrs. davis, don't you know, willy didn't know enough to stop. no, willy was busy trying to be surgeon someday and go on and really be a great person, wanted to give back to his community. some of you may recall, after sandy hook, a lot of us invited people here who came because they wanted to be in the audience after. that they wanted to give witness -- after that. they wanted to give witness and help to the president as he discussed the importance of this congress moving forward and doing something about gun violent. something major about gun violence. and here we're doing something retty simple, i think. willy's fame came here that day. and that was such an incredibly moving opportunity to them and they shared their story of willy and willy's dad walked around with a picture of willy and gave it to everybody that he ran into. these things stay with people all their lives. and we have to give -- we have to give support for that. as we think about what we do,

willie on the white house and air force ones, two places i would never be if people like willie hadn't pushed towards a more inclusive america. his legacy is giant so congratulations my friend on this special honor. [applause]. happy birthday, willie yes, you do that. [laughter] alright, you are very welcome. now for the ceremonial unveiling of the plake rr i need these special individuals to join us, mr. bear and mr. mayor if you would return. did willie brown make it yet? still waiting. we are not going to wait, we will keep it moving mr. mays. tom nolan come up, malcolm hine iky and ed riscon. whenever you guys are ready. [applause]. there we go. cable car number 24, willie mays cable car! give you time to get your photo's in. i think we should all sing, right? i think we should sing. please join me singing happybirth to the greatest ever. happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear willie, happy birthday to you! there you go. [applause]. big round of applause to willie mays! mr. mays has a few comments for us. >> we got it. thank you very much. first of all, i didn't sleep last night to tell you the truth. those guys going to kill me at the ball park. 17 runs. i started to cut it off but said i got to wat

willie, happy birthday to you! there you go. [applause]. big round of applause to willie mays! mr.mays has a few comments for us. >> we got it. thank you very much. first of all, i didn't sleep last night to tell you the truth. those guys going to kill me at the ball park. 17 runs. i started to cut it off but said i got to watch this and watched and went to sleep maybe 1 o'clock and woke up and couldn't hardly see because i was watching hits all the field. this is great honor for me. i have been involved with the city for such a long time, but before i get to that i like to thank larry [inaudible] for doing something for a friend of mine back in new jersey. i think it was a wonderful gesture he goes back, that he read a letter that renee and i happened to write. did a very very good job. just like to thank him because he didn't have >> student to do that but if he didn't i would probably get on him. i like to thank him for that and also like to thank pam for escorted him there to make sure he got there. very much so. when you have a city like this, i didn't come out here until 1958

willie, happy birthday to you! there you go. [applause]. big round of applause to willie mays! mr. mays has a few comments for us. >> we got it. thank you very much. first of all, i didn't sleep last night to tell you the truth. those guys going to kill me at the ball park. 17 runs. i started to cut it off but said i got to watch this and watched and went to sleep maybe 1 o'clock and woke up and couldn't hardly see because i was watching hits all the field. this is great honor for me. i have been involved with the city for such a long time, but before i get to that i like to thank larry [inaudible] for doing something for a friend of mine back in new jersey. i think it was a wonderful gesture he goes back, that he read a letter that renee and i happened to write. did a very very good job. just like to thank him because he didn't have >> student to do that but if he didn't i would probably get on him. i like to thank him for that and also like to thank pam for escorted him there to make sure he got there. very much so. when you have a city like this, i didn't come out here until 195

willy y sofÍa carson. willy: tenemos a sofÍa carson, bienvenida a nuestro rincÓn social, muchas felicidades porque ayer fue la apertura de disney world en shangai. sofÍa: fue un honor. willyonor. willy: tenemos otra fanÁtica que no solo mandÓ un mensaje, enviÓ una foto, cuÁl fue tu primer paso? sofÍa: mi primer paso fue meterme en mi clase baile, en clase de cantos, ya profesionalmente mi primer paso fue en disney channel. willy: alguna vez te visualizaste ahÍ? sofÍa: nunca me imaginÉ que iba a vivir mi sueÑo asÍ. willy: sofÍa se queda con nosotros en despierta amÉrica, gracias por ser un ejemplo para la comunidad joven, despuÉs mucha gente va a seguir sus sueÑos, nos vamos con karla y ana, estamos esperando una gran visita. >> tenemos muchas visitas. karla; muy puntuales. david zepeda: muy buenos dÍas, quÉ bonita energÍa hay. karla: ya habÍas venido? ana: quÉ caballero, trae las tortillas de harina. karla: para hacer sandwich. karla: felices de recibirte, te vemos todas las noches en " 3 veces ana" >> quÉ tal te haz sentido tÚ? zepeda: estamos muy contentos por la aceptaciÓn de la novela, cuando me ofrecen este personaje. la productora me llama y me dice quiero que seas

[ laughter ] i can't bruce willis bruce willis. this only works if i'm the only one doing it. >> yes, i learned very quickly. >> seth: so you are -- you married very young. >> well, kind of, yeah, 26. >> seth: oh, okay. sorry, that's what it was. but you've been with your husband since you were 18. >> yeah. >> seth: and is it -- because obviously this is before being able to video chat. >> yeah. >> seth: and instagram and snapchat. but you would video -- explain what you would do. >> when we first met we were 17 and 18. so this was in the early 2000s, if you recall. and yeah, i would actually -- we would videotape on like mini dv tape and then i would transfer it to actual vhs. >> seth: were you together at the time? >> we were living in separate states. >> seth: got you. >> so we were doing long distance. and i would tape over things. like, my dad wou t of "24." so it would be this really loving message of like, "hi, sweetie, i hope your day's going good." and i would doink, doink, doink, doink. "24." [ laughter ] >> seth: how oft

willy. let's hear willy's catchphrase again. ( whooping sounds ) well-- ( laughter ) there's a second trailer out now now so we get to see where he fit into the scr and because j.j. abrams is a he sent it to me. we have an exclusive look. jim? >> we have a mission for you. a major weapons test is imminent, and we need to know what it is and how to destroy it. ( whooping sounds ) >> what will you do when they catch u?yo what will you do when they break you? if you continue to fight, ( whooping sounds ) y( cheers and applause ) ( whooping sounds ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: fantastic! everybody loves whooping willywhen "rogue one" comes out, be sure to go to the movie dressed like whooping willie and yell his catchphrase throughout the entire film. real "star wars" fans will love it. we'll be right back with david duchovny. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) okawhoa!ady? [ explosion ] ♪ get america's fastest internet. only from xfinity. ♪ double down on your candy and coffee cravings with dunkin's new heath and almond joy candy bar flavored iced coffees. america runs on dunkin'. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: hey! welcome back, everybody. i am so happy that our first guest is back tonight. "the x-files" and "californication." he now stars in "aquarius." >> you are really good looking. i hope you don't mind my saying, but you've got great skin, doesn't he sarge. >> very supple. >> supple, smooth, tight, taught-- it's taut, really, isn't it? i bet the girls pile outside your door like ?o banks. let me ask you, because want sergeant and i aren't get anything youn

willie right now. >> willie? >> we need a hair dryer. >> willie is in the shower. >> we need a big fan and put him in front of it.winning a cool $25,000. we're going to work with our friends at state farm to give away $25,000 in our $25,000 plan. have you graduated, got a new job, retired, having a baby? >> yes. >> we want to offer everyone else, but not savannah, a chance for $25,000 for your transition. go to today.com for rules. to enter, you have until 5:00 p.m. eastern on thursday. i will surprise you at your home with a check for $25,000. >> all you have to do is write in and say why you should have the $25,000? >> we have judges. >> big check with al roker. >> extra. >> nice. >> we may bring willie along so he can sweat along. >> speaking of the weather. >>> mr. roker, what do we have in the forecast? >> so much fun, having you here. this is like the old days. >> this is the old days. >> savannah was part of the original 9:00 hour. >> yay. ♪ reunited and it feels so good ♪ >> okay. >> sorry. >> i don't know any more after that. >> that's the only part we know. >> this is colin. tropical storm colin right n

that's certainly not willie's desk. >> willie wears brown makeup. >> there's willie's desk, the primoep everything shuffled. >> very impressive. >>> swipe it out. we've got more for our friends in sugar land and all over texas, unfortunately. 15 million people under some sort of flash flood watch. we're watching this very closely. funnel system taking its time. the atmosphere, very juiced. all the moisture coming out of the gulf. we have the risk of flash flooding today, tomorrow, right on into the weekend. in fact, this becomes a stationary front. it is just going to continue to rain. look at this, some places may pick up 10 to 15 inches of rain in south central texas. we'll be watching this very, very closely. that's what's going on a >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. a quick warm up today, 87 degrees in philadelphia with lots of sunshine for the suburbs, 85 degrees today in the lehigh valley. upper 80s for bethlehem. to the south, new jersey, the jersey shore, sunny skies, 80s for interior new jersey but right along the coast easterly winds will keep temperatures in

willie sparks and ian bremmer have attempted to synthesize last week's activities at eurasia group. speak tocap -- we willis sparks. willisunited kingdom has broken itself off from europe or has launched the process. it has reduced its info ends. it is essentially a bridge that has been lost between the u.s. and europe so it is going to add to the fragmentation. 12/31/15, you guys hit the ball out of the park suggesting transatlantic tensions were better than anything else. how does the united states of america help europe as a whole he'll through a three or 10 year process? willis: i do not think we can and that is part of the issue we talked about with a hollow alliance. we are going to have to do plenty of repair work after this election. the next president, there is going to be a lot of work done to reconcile sharp political differences. we can help them at the margins but no more than that. opportunitymy great is it hot fair or is there a sense of federalism within brussels in europe? willis: i think it is going the other way and you will see mr. juncker much less involved. i think what we are already seeing in terms

willie clark and this place. >> anthony: what was this space originally? >> willie: this was a little restaurant smaller than this and we were on shop. >> anthony: now it looks like a nondescript barbecue joint, but back in 1963 it was the home of deep city records. willieing local talent. out of johnny's record shop. the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. johnny and the dynamites. >> anthony: everything you've ever been credited for either producing or writing, it is a very, very long list, quite an amazing list. >> willie: it is about 1200. >> anthony: 1200 songs. >> willie: it just flows. i'm like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i'll help you fix it. >> anthony: william and his writing partner clarence "blowfly" reed wrote such classics as "clean up woman" and "rocking chair." deep city was miamis answer to motown. a unique sound. >> anthony: 50 years, 100 years from now, search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, philadelphia, new york? >> willie: the culture was a mixture of bahamian, jamaican, and people came down from g

willis check out the pretty winner. he's pumped up and should be. the home crowd loves it. friends and family. all for marcus willis today. match point. federer. willisoo far here. he wins in straight sets. roger federer, the big story of wimbledon for the first few days. marcus willis comes to an end. hopefully we'll see him again in the future. >> thanks for that. great stuff. >> you're welcome, doug. >> to the verizon center now. camp day. mystics and stars. this is all mystics. check out this pass. she knocks down the three. mystics by five. later in the quarter, making it look easy here. getting it off the glass. she scored 12 points today. more from mistibon. doing work down low. the mystics go on to win 84-67. they now are above .500 for the first time thissen is. tonight. >> good luck to them. that's our broadcast. you won't see that guy ever again in wimbledon. >> he dates a beauty queen and eats candy. wow. man: hey baby, how are you? woman: i have a surprise for you. man: you have a surprise for me? narrator: at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. and when they're away, they miss out on a lot. but they won't miss out on financial supp

willie, happy birthday to you! there you go. [applause]. big round of applause to willie mays! mr. mays has a few comments for us. >>

willy ald -- willy adams is here with us today. >> good day chairwoman and tang and cohen and mar. good seeing you again. and you're right, combass tore kounalakis is in washington dc. she has a standing appointment. since she's been on the commission, he's brought a lot of energy to the commission. he's very poised. very intelligent. her knowledge of real-estate and i know especially for chairwoman tang and supervisor cohen, clearly we have gender balance on the port commission as you know. it is for women commissioners and inthumb -- antrum director and i'm the only male. it's incredible having four intelligent commissioners. we get along well. they talk so much. i never get a chance to speak, but with that being said, i enjoy that. i will say that i wanted to share one thing about the ambassador kounalakis. we have a navigation center and it's about ready to close. and her and her husband, mario went down to peer 8 to do a walk-through and i have been down myself. you would think someone of her statute, but she's very regal and very down to earth. she went down there and she understood about the homeless problem. she reached out. she talked to the tenants down there at peer 180 and that was impressive to me and she understood we got money for wars but not for the poor. she understood that. i'm here and i rise to support her nomination and i tell you, she has been a jewel. she fits in, and i'll say it again, we have the best commission in this city. dynamic, thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. all right. any other members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. come on up. >> good luck with your reappointment on this san francisco bay. [singing] and we got public comment here and here's what i have to say, call in the commissioner ride along through the commission shore, we can change our lives again and be free once more. ride commissioner ride upon the port commission to a world that will be there and we'll make it better still. ride commissioner ride. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 2. seeing none, public comment closed. we had a motion from supervisor cohen. seconded and supervisor mar. we'll take that without objection. congratulations ambassador. >> mr. clerk, call item 3, please. >> motion three is a motion confirms mayor's appoint of lee hsu to the mu nins pal transportation agency board of directors, term ends in march 1, 2019. >> mr. lee for a presentation. >> i'm excited to be here and thank you for your time today and for this opportunity to serve our city. i know this is a big responsibility and i will work hard to be a good listener and thoughtful board member. a little background on me. i like to describe myself as a first generation san franciscan. i was born over seas and my parents brought me over from iowa for a better life. and hard work and luck, i feel blessed to be here before you. i studied economics, law and worked for a judge and i worked in financial and technology and in education as a computer skils teacher at our public schools. i especially working in education because i believe a key to a better life he -- especially people from low income. i think we all believe that. what we have learned is transportation is just as important for upward mobility. there were several research studies last year that hit the point home including one from harvard that suggested that commuting time was the single most important factor in escaping poverty. that's really interesting, right. but it makes sense. we always support education because it prepares you for jobs. but what this research makes clear is getting to those jobs is at least as important. i had doors open for me because of public education. but the reality was my parent his to work their butts off to make it all possible. i remember a time when my mom used to drive an hour to go to her -- the less took it took to get home the less time they had with their kids or catching their breath for the next workday. that's what all people deal with whether families are single especially in a city like san francisco that's denser and more expensive all the time. education matters and so does transportation. i live in west port with my spouse and kids. we believe in doing public work. we feel lucky to live near muni station. before that we lived in mission bay and we were in dog patch and those were our favorite plays to eat and go out. we spent time in the city. we're in the richmond regularly for school or after school events and a lot of great play ground and parks over there. we drive, we take muni, we walk and we bike. our routine centers around getting his kids to skill and our jobs. walking and riding muni is my first choice. i have to drive my kid to school. i haven't tried to uber or lift yet, but friends say that's neat and i can see why people like them. i like good old fashion taxi cabs. i took one over here now. although we don't commute by bike, we do family biking as one of our favorite activities. we bike city streets and anywhere we can find a safe route where we want to explore. we're very much multi mobile. i've taken light rail all the way to san jose and back on many occasions and it's not a bad trip. it takes longer than the car but it's something i do because it's available in case we work on the train. that's why i care a lot about a good balance that keeps opportunities open for everyone who lives or works in san francisco. if we enabled faster commute and better access for those who want to take public transit, it means fewer cars on the road for those who can't give up their cars. that's a win-win. make it better for those who want to take public transit and works better for those who have to take cars. those who have to take cars are kids and seniors. in my area, there's a lot of seniors. the ability to get to where they need is important, that's increasing all the time. so it's very important. as far as kids, it's an issue because we're concerned about keeping families in san francisco especially middle and income and lower income families. some of them can take public transit, but a lot of time when you have young kids, it's hard if you don't have a vehicle to get them around. so for the hard working families and singles who rely on mta to get them to where they need to go for work or jobs or for school or jobs, for seniors and kids and for those who needs cars and especially for those struggling to make ends meet and need public transit to improve their situation, i want to help however i can to make things work for them. the education and transportation, those are the two pillars of upward mobility. so i've been working education for a number of years and i keep on doing that and i would like to ask for your support for my nomination so i can get cracking on transportation as well. thank you very much. i look forward to working with you. >> thank you very much for your presentation and i'm really glad that the mayor's office has finally made an appointment for this vacancy to replace the late jerry lee who was a wonderful director on the mta board of director and when he left i really felt that there was a gap missing in terms of making sure we have folks who are on that board who represent the views of the outer neighborhoods and making sure there's districts 4 and 10 where it's harder for many of us to get around via public transportation, and many of our neighborhoods also have, as you said a lot more seniors, and a lot more families with children and as much as they would like to ride public transportation, do have to rely on driving and so i do appreciate that balance perspective that you bring. but again, one of the things that i think is really important to me and i'm sure to others as well is how it is that we really serve our outer neighborhoods where there's struggles. and so i don't know if you have any requesteds around how it is we can help some of those outlining districts, and i'm sure that's something that my colleagues will ask about as well. but that's something that you hear time and time again that it can't just be transient only. yes, it might be transient first, but it can't be transient only for some families. >> yeah, sure. i think that the options are pretty good going into downtown. i think the challenges are when you have to go from north to south or kind of connect on different directions, but it depends on the area. i think we live really close to muni station, so it's a lot easier for us, but we still have to rely on our cars. i think that's going to be true. i believe the key is to kind of focus on the most heavily use the transient. we look at the lines used heavily. bus rapid transient is good in some areas, but i do think we have to be mindful that some people are going to have to use their cars. the way i like to put it, we want to make transient better so cars are less attractive, but we don't want to make cars less attractive. a lot of good ideas are underway in terms of stream lining access from the furthest distance. the very end going in can be a long trip. the gear brt is very important project in speeding up the commute downtown. i think with district 10, the key challenges is with all the development going on, you have so many projects where there needs to be a lot of attention paid to those coming into the neighborhood because they have to get downtown for work. >> actually i think it's more complex. it's not just addressing the new the mtc. >> but we did go out there, and what i would say is this, i would love for you or anyone on your team to show me what your concerns are. i will go in person and ride trains. >> i can send the e-mails from constituents. they'll show you. >> i figured i'd be getting those. >> fair enough. one of the things that i'm already admire about many of the mta commissioner they're accessible. not only do you see them out on transportation. i've ran into ramos many times on bart, but i would like you to -- i guess -- when you serve in public office whether an appointed position, you have an opportunity to grow. i want to encourage you as personal growth, but there's a professional growth that occurs in the lime light. what's more indicative of a leader is how you recover from the stumbles and acknowledging mistakes. one of the things i would like to encourage you learning from my mistakes and stumbles is to be approachable and accessible so when constituents have concerns about transportation, the movement of the line or the movement of a bus stop, you're able to receive the e-mails and process them in the -- you joked about the change happening in the south eastern kwau drent of san francisco. but it's a real change and you have people living there for generations that's nervous and unsure about the change. so we've got, for example, general hospital, the rebuild of the hospital, it's a beautiful new seismic building, but we did street scaping work on widening the streets and we're talking about hours of public comment potentially moving the 22 line -- is it the 22 line, dylan. or the 33 that runs in front of general hospital. so you mentioned having a lot of seniors in your district. i have a significant enough. we're in the process of doing a ground breaking of a new senior center and campus, and it's really important that we put our self in their position. we want our seniors to be fiercely independent, but it's a challenge when on public transportation. something else to consider when think beginning the southeast is it's hilly and public housing, at least two of my units, patrel hill and hunter's view. you have bus lines bringing those to the top of the hill and i have a big senior population to needs access to the doctor's office and the grocery store. this is not so much of a question, but more of an opportunity just to share with you my experiences and some of my legitimate concerns. mta has been phenomenal at being agreeable and understanding when concerns have come up and i'd love to see the commission, you, also remain in that same way just outside of your own experience, but being able to emphasize and connect with people. and then also needless to say, you mentioned in your personal story about coming to iowa as a child. there's many people in the southeast that speaks -- it goes from san bruno valley into china town and making sure they're safe on those transportations, that they're not victims of crimes of opportunity. and or you're working with my office and other organizations and trying to bridge that barrier, that language barrier that exists, culture barrier that exists and you know, understanding some may be afraid and some may not be and so there's a lot of things that's at play here that i'm just highlighting for you for your attention. >> sure. thank you, i appreciate that. and please know i'm somebody who always -- i'd like to listen. sometimes that can be a bad thing, but i want to be accessible and always look forward to hearing from you -- >> i don't think listening is ever a bad thing. but if you listen and don't respond, that's bad. sometimes a response could be not exactly what the person is asking you to do, but a response is always needed and i think from my experience when you don't respond, that's where people get frustrated and they become -- with local government and you see the frustrations that we see almost everyday. but if we're able to be responsive and say i disagree, here's my perspective, that goes a long way. thank you chair. i'm done. >> supervisor mar. >> just in responding to the dialogue between you and supervisor cohen, i appreciate your listening, but also your thoughtfulness in how you're thinking about not just the outlining area, but the south coast. you have expertise of how tricky west portal is and from the transient station to float which is another nightmare being fixed and the 19th avenue work that supervisor tang is working on, that's in the south south connecter that's forgotten not just from the areas in the southwest part of the city, but all the way north toward through the richmond and supervisor farrell district to golden bridge. i think you have a thoughtfulness that i really appreciate. the mta board is going to be more important as we pass transportation funding measures through t-30. i think your leadership is great that supervisor cohen is mentioning. i appreciate your thoughtfulness. >> i would like to add onto what supervisor cohen said about switch backs. it's one of those things where we understand for mta, it's necessary to do in our system. just imagining you're getting home from a long day at work and kicked off the l-line and you have to wait for the next train or bus to take you home or maybe it's not coming within five minutes and you start walking and your whole day is ruined. i think it's more so than the inconvenience. it's the fact that a lot of our residents feel the fact this can happen in the outer neighborhood means that mta doesn't care about the residents who live far out and i'm one of those, so that's something that even though we know is a necessary part of our mta system, but really trying to make sure that is not occurring during rush hour traffic time or travel commute times and making sure the department is following protocols and announcement and there's a train following within five minutes. that's occurring. taking this opportunity to share that. supervisor and i have been trying to address this. >> i'll work hard on that. >> thank you. >> all right. at this time, then i think there's no further comment from the committee. we will open up item 3 to public comment. and first i want to acknowledge that we have darling choi from supervisor nor man yee's office and a couple of public comment cards. roger ritter. carol eto, george wooding and if anyone else is here for item 3, just please line up right there by that wall. all right. >> thank you, all. >> thank you supervisor tang and mar and cohen. my name is carlene troy. legislative aide to yee. on behalf of the supervisor yee, i'll be sharing his letter of support for the mayor's nomination of lee to the board of directors. supervisor lee has known -- from the neighborhood association. as a parent, educator, driver and bicyclist, lee understands multiple perspectives and needs of our community. mta has the power to effect how all of us move and travel throughout our city. lee will represent a critical and independent community voice on this body. lee is a dedicated, enthusiastic leader who brings those together. he focuses on the fact and facilitates community input. his background on education, financial and technology will serve him well in analyzing and evaluating transportation policies. he's a strong addition to the mta board and supervisor yee echoes the neighborhood association and community members support for lee's nomination to the mta board and hopes the rules committee will approve his nomination as well. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here on behalf of supervisor yee. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is george wooding. i'm a former president of the west twin peak central council and current president of coalition for san francisco neighborhood. and i really know lee to -- i believe he'll be a great appointment to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. i've known him for a long time. and found that he's very honorable, very efficient, a very good communicator. and i think you are all driving to that point. i think he's someone who does listen. i think he is someone who does respond. he's led several school activities. he's led several neighborhood organizations. all volunteerism and when you have children, it is very hard to volunteer. i ran into him the other day as he was taking his son from cariton school, i believe to catch the 44 tara cita 44 is that's the right number. norman lee likes him and i like him. i think he'll be a credit to the board, and i think he'll solve great problems on the west side that have been stalled and i think it also be looking very carefully at the collins area and what can be done and visitation valley. there's a lot to be done, and i think he's the right guy to do it. thank you very much. >> thanks for being here, mr. wooding. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors, i'm roger -- we represent 20 hoa's in the neighborhood organizations in western san francisco. i've known lee for many years. he's a great open, sympathetic, descent man who does listen to people. he's an active member of the council and of our community as we have heard, he's a parent, and he understands the needs of west side residents for transportation, options and alternatives, i and i think he's tuned to the fact that the south western part of san francisco like the south eastern part of san francisco, often seems to be left out of some transportation advancements. supervisor tang was mentioning the switch back problems, supervisor cohen mentioning the same problem and i think lee will work actively not only for our particular neighborhoods, but for the entire city, so our council has unanimously endorsed this nomination and respectfully urges the appointment to the commissioner. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. ritter. next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair tang and mar and cohen. >> my name is carol and i'm speaking as an individual. thank you for referencing jerry lee who is a close friend of mine. it energizes me to be here to support lee. jerry was appointed many years ago when i was serving as a commission and we would talk about our roles and responsibilities so i know he took this position very seriously. i think lee will continue that transition of course from what you have heard, but in addition to that, i want to share my experience getting to know lee and his family and why i believe strongly that he would be excellent appointment. as a west side resident for over 35 years ask a board member of west side -- i share with lee to preserve and enhance the well-beings of our neighborhood. high quality transportation has been spoken to. besides his dedication and leadership as president, he help today reorganization the west portal association and work with the merchant groups to enhance the commercial corridor. lee's personality created more community engagement in the west portal neighborhoods and public schools that has -- during his initial run for a seat on the san francisco school board, i know lee worked very hard to understand city wide issues and improve transportation needs and pedestrian issues. lee and his family are frequent users of transportation services and could be a voice. from the many constituents who care about transportation improvement and meet high quality levels i ask going your support for lee's appointment on the metropolitan transportation agency. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is bez and i'm here today as a parent and a community member. i've lived in san francisco for the past 22 years. and we were one of the lucky families who won the lottery, so our daughter got into claire ton and she completed kindergarten this past year. that's where i got to learn lee on a personal and professional level. i volunteer quite a bit for her daughter's school and i served on parent committees and i volunteer in the classroom and that is mainly where i got to know lee very closely. i worked in the computer lab as a parent volunteer where he was teaching, and there, i witnessed firsthand his ability to connect with all people. the kids loved him. it was a very diverse group of kids. they trusted him. they loved playing with the software. it was the only -- it wasn't really homework, but it was the only time my daughter would do anything after school is play with the program that lee taught her. so, his curriculum resonated with the kids and i watched their confidence build through the year. he was patient and calm and the kids loved him. but he connected well with parents. the teachers and staff. and you talk about -- you mentioned before his ability to listen and sort of respond to issues. i - our daughter had one of the toughest teachers at claire ton and she's a kindergarten teacher, but he's tough and strict, and there were times when in the morning, i would talk to lee, how can i help and what should we do and we would set up and the teacher would say i don't like it like that and we want it that way. lee wasn't attached to his way. he was willing to listen and make accommodations and i saw that in several situations where staff -- staff -- yes, we actually have time limits for each speaker. i apologize. >> if you finish your sentence. that would be great. >> i highly recommend lee. i think he's a great commuter, and an advocate for the community and he cares about people. he connects about everyone and i have confidence that is for the mta he'll do a great job, and i live in amazon next to the -- >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm frank noto of the neighborhood association, but i'm here as a parent, grandparent with kids in the schools and a small business owner in supervisor cohen's district. while lee doesn't live in our neighborhood, we have worked with him on numerous civic issues and we found him [inaudible] of others very thoughtful and a good listener. i think it's very important we have someone representing a variety of the demographics that he addresses in the asian-american community which is not well represented on the board and parents with children that supervisor mar mentioned. i also think his background, you heard from supervisor yee in finance and economics will be helpful on the board. since i work in the community almost everyday to my office in the southeast corner, you can be assure that i will be all over him on issues that are plenty horror stories to the bay view area. and in conclusion, i just want to say i support him and i hope you will too. thank you. >> thank you, mr. noto. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is james rice. i'm a west portal resident and a parent. and i want to speak in support of lee. but briefly i want to start with a quick story about the challenges that mta faces in our neighborhood particularly around communication and perception. so on my street, mta recently removed a street parking spot. there was no alert spot. no notification and my neighbor got a ticket the next day. we talked to yee's office to try and resolve it and they said it's something mta is dealing with. everyone through their hands up in the air and they didn't know what to do. i and my neighbors were frustrated. i think lee has tremendous values in opening up those communication values more broadly. i have seen lee. i've worked with lee on improving neighborhood schools. and i've seen lee in action. he's a great listener and very accessible and i think he'll help sf-mta. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm howard, and i'm pleased to support my neighbor. he lives two blocks closer to the west portal than i do. i asked him at our neighborhood meeting, why do you want this very hard job and he explained to me he wants it to for his boys. and he's dedicated. not just today, but in the future. and i see that as being a very refreshing thing for any board and anything that happens in this city. and he's going to hear from people. i can't walk that extra block. i need this parking place in front of my shop today. everybody is going to talk about today. we have one environment organization that says will you want to live in san francisco tomorrow? lee is saying, well, someone else want to live in san francisco tomorrow. and i'm looking forward to that. he lives closer to me so we can chat about these things in the future. that's an essential thing for this city not to have people say me, me, me, now, now. muni is for this city and lee knows that. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm karen and i'm a resident of west portal. i am a member of the syrian committee of greater portal west neighborhood association and i'm a board member of the west portal merchant association. both organizations strongly and anonymously support lee's nomination and election to this office. excuse me. a few personal notes, he is a man who is dedicated. he's ethical. he's thoughtful. and considerate of everyone's opinion and considers it, hears it, and acts upon them. so that's -- just listening is enough. he needs to take action and lee does in a very responsive and respectful way. he's made a very strong and lasting impression on the west portal neighborhood. and all the west twin peak area and he's the source of person that san francisco needs in his honesty, integrity and ethical values. as i said, the neighbors and the west portal merchants are supportive of his nomination to this position. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, mraesz. -- please. >> my name is ben and i'm a west portal resident and i'm here to speak in support of lee in my previous life, i worked at the city and health zero program. and had the chance to interact with quite a few mta directors over the year and lee has all of the characteristics that we seek. as you know, transportation planning in san francisco is difficult. it involves trade-offs and it involves a lot of groups, but lee understands the basic principals of safety, reliability and how we build that system and to listen, long term thinking. all the traits we want. so i encourage you to support lee for this position. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. my name is suzanne von. i'm member of the sierra club. i haven't been following this appointment process all that well. but i want you -- want to urge you in your questions to emphasize the need to appoint somebody to this vacancy who understands the vital environmental necessity of moving towards a truly transient city. we need to take seriously the warnings of client -- it's a hard task ahead of us from moving away from a car based city to a city based on walking and public transportation. and i just, on my way here, i was on the 38 rapid, and i got stuck in traffic. there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along. it took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issues in the neighborhood, i know i'll get an objective and balanced response. one that has been considered and seen from all sides. and he always responds to me within 24 hours. i think lee would be an addition to the board and to the mta board of directors and a citizen of san francisco. he's the kind of representative i would want on the board. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. at this time, any other members who wish to speak on item 3, come forward. seeing none. public comment is closed. colleagues. supervisor mar. >> i did want to respond to a couple of things mentioned about the leadership of mr. lee. i think the point made by somebody about supervisor yee's office effort to respond to community concerns about the loss of a parking space on west portal, it's a challenge for us as supervisors because we have no authority over those issues and we have to go through the mta board or staff for those issues, but i know supervisor yee worked very hard and his staff to respond, but i think as we appoint mta commissioners, we're looking at people that support strong community engagement like lee does and i know when he met with angelina from my staff, that was a key theme of ensuring that neighborhoods, merchant associates are listened to and that's a key role of the mta board members, but he has the big picture by understanding by maintaining the amount of parking spaces, sometimes has a negative impact on our transient first and issues first. so i like that lee has a bigger picture of san francisco not as an island, but a bigger region we have to improve transient. i wanted to say to have howard from the sierra club and others support him in addition to neighborhood groups and others is significant. he can listen and be thoughtful about many different perspectives. to vaughn's point, sue and i participated in a district 1 grouping of transient and -- sue missed the meeting where we discussed lee's appointment. i'm supporting a number of the cac members and transient leaders. i wanted to thank everyone for the great comments about him and i'm looking forward to working closely with you as well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i concur with statements made here. those who knows lee in a professional capacity. i'm glad that there's finally someone to be filling up that vacancy on the mta board of directors. at this time, do we have a motion? >> i'll move we appoint lee to the municipal transportation board of directors. >> second. >> seconded by supervisor cohen. we'll take that without objection. congratulations. >> all right. if we can call item 4, now >> item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending in the april 27, 2018 to the sunshine ordinance that issing force. two seats and two applicants and they require a waiver. speaker: thank you. we have victoria and eric for these two seats. if you're here, if you can come up and make a presentation. >> i'm one of the journalist nominees for the san francisco sunshine ordinance task force. i'm thrilled to be here today. i've always had a firm belief in public service and i look for an opportunity to serve my broader community particularly on commitments dealing with those that the task force deals with. they come close to my professional interest. it has been apart of my professional interest since i became a journalist after college. i used the new york city freedom of information law to obtain documents about new york city government. afterwards i attended hard ward lawsuit and clerk for the united states second circuit for appeals where i helped propose briefs for my judge rosemary about the federal freedom of information act. after my clerkship, i worked at the new york times company where once again i was a first amendment fellow and worked on numerous information cases both on the federal, state, and city level across the country. i moved to the san francisco region and i worked on these matters. i worked for the press foundation on the pro bono working on the freedom of information reform. and so i'm very interested and engaged on the subject matter and i look forward to the opportunity to work on it further on the task force. >> thank you very much. questions or comments. >> how do you pronounce your last nath. name. >> baranski. >> mr. eldon. >> my name is eric eldon and i'm a returning member to the task force. i was nominated as a replacement candidate last summer and began serving in september. i have been nominated to the seat 2 journalist position for the society of professional journalist. a little bit about myself, i am the cofounder and editor and chief of foot line which is a publication that covers an increasing number of neighborhoods around san francisco. i cover everything from civic news, things like bike lanes and parking, fires, crimes, et cetera, neighbor associations. >> thank you for covering bay view. >> thank you. we're happy to be there. and we cover local businesses. we cover local arts and culture and i think that goes well with my task force because i'm familiar with the groups and people who are coming for the task force looking for information and it has helped me do a better job on hood line. what i hope to bring to the task force and i admit to still getting my -- i'm still getting my head around the nuts and bolts of how it has all works and how it works with the city is to help the task force work with the rest of the city to automate the data and information requests that are coming across regularly. now, some of the requests that we'll get complaints around is for thousands of lines of information, about bus routes or meeting agendas or all sorts of information. and a lot of that seems to be in a parallel tract to what's happening in other parts of this city with data sf and other data, open data projects that the city is working on. what i'm heaping to -- what i'm hoping to see happen is work with city agencies so they can easily in an automated manner is answering questions without taking up time in the city, our time and their time working through the rather complex systems together right now. so, that's the basics of what i'm doing. i'm happy to answer any further questions. >> i'm glad to hear about what you're working on. >> i have made no progress yet. >> at least you're trying. i want to acknowledge that hood line has been just a really wonderful resource, i think for our communities and the day when you can cover all of our districts, that would be wonderful. it has been very thorough coverage and you know, we haven't seen that kind of reporting coverings for example, the outer sunset for i don't know how long. maybe never. >> any other questions. >> your technology industry with sunshine is of interest to me because there's all kinds of new apps and messaging things and i'm wondering if you can talk about sunshine and the new technology that allows much more hiding of communications right now. i'm sorry it's a philosophical question. >> i'm not expert on this. there are people who are. i think you have really great people, joy and jay and data officer of chief technology office for the city. they are very strong. what i think is happening on one hand, the sunshine ordinance when it was first introduced was the software was not in the same place it is now, and but it really addresses the sort of demand that people have to understand the details of how governments work and to get more transparency. it's really a matter of -- i think a lot of city it systems and the whole method of procurement and licensing is typically -- every organization has that problem whether or not they're a government or tech company or anything else. so i think on the one hand what you have happening is sitdys realize the right thing to the public -- that's what the sunshine ordinance was about. there's an increasing understanding to the public, like, hey, i can get this information and analyze it and i can learn from it. you see that like hood for america and you see independent that's software developers and those who have learned the skills on their own experimenting with public information. it's early days for all of this, but i believe the future of local news and the future of local government will be very much about automating and presenting much of what is hidden for technology reasons right now. and i think that's just going to be -- we're heading towards a world where they'll be transparency and i think it will help trust to be built. there aren't that many apps you can use right now that i think is impressive. >> thank you for your service on the task force. >> no other questions or comments. we're going to open up item 4 to public comment. if you have a public comment, please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jeffrey king, and i'm here on behalf of the journalist northern california chapter to express my support of victor year and the renomination of eric to the sunshine task force. i also recognize my colleague on the spj north cal information committee, thomas peel who speaks in support of these well qualified candidates. spj is enthusiastic about both individuals. we're confident that victoria and eric will serve the task force faithfully. vicky comes before this committee as eric following a careful vetting process. victoria has worked with the new york times and the -- she earned her journalism degree. victoria's commitment to transparency is inherent to who she is and she's putting it to practice. eric is a journalist member of the task force served since september of 2015. as editor and chief of the pioneering hyper local journalist hood line and he's familiar with the diverse neighborhoods. many neighborhoods in the mist of profound change as we all know and it prevents -- on the sunshine ordinance task force. where he adjudicate public complaints, fairly and intelligently and with a vital context. we're pleased to nominee -- eric and victoria will serve the people well. i urge this council to send these candidates to the sunshine task force. thank you very much. >> next speaker. we had a speaker card, thomas peel. >> thank you supervisor. good afternoon, folks. i chair the free information committee of our local sp chapter and i just wanted to talk briefly about our nominating process which you know is in the ordinance itself for seats one and two. when a seat is open as the attorney seat was when their ramos stepped down, we offer notice of that broadly to the journalism and legal community. we had another very qualified candidate and frankly they were both interviewed for an hour each and vicky is an outstanding choice. her first amendment background is stellar. her legal education is about reproach. we did not ask journalism to come forward for eldon seat because we're pleased with his reputation on the task force. he has very quickly risen to be a leader there. he is chairing a committee. he is an advocate for change. we all know that the task force needs improvements in the way it does its business, frankly, meetings, backlogs, and we're bringing you two highly qualified professionals who will work toward modernization, change, and efficiency. i ask that you please passion their nominations onto the full board. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members who wish to speak on item 4. come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do you have a motion. >> i have a question question. i would like to bring their eldon back up. eric, you're currently serving on the sunshine task force? >> how long? >> i think i was confirmed in august and my first meeting in september. >> of? >> last year. >> a few months. so so you're new to the task force which is fine. what are your thoughts around the task force. >> that's one of the things i learned about the reputation >> like journalism it self, i think dealing with public information requests and figuring out the right answers is a messy and -- a messy process, but vital for democracy and there's going to be tension between a body like this and various other parts of the city government in the say way there's going to be tension between journalist and the people we write about. but in order for everyone to work together and for us to function as a city and as a society, we have to deal with that. and i look at the task force and i look at the issues that have come up, calendars, agendas, minutes, things like that. and i think you know, an example, you may disagree with me, but i thought the work of michael patrellas and he criticizes us quite often. he does that to other people in the media and he does that to many of you here and to the task force. he brings a large number of requests, but the work he's done on calendars, i think, has really helped a lot of people in this city get information to the public that can built trust about how they're spending their time, who they're meeting with and those kinds of things. i can understand. i wouldn't personally wouldn't want to share my calendar with anyone, but that's an example of -- you might not like petrellas, but the way he operates, but it's good about the sort of request that can lead to improvements to everyone that we can all benefit from. it's messy, but fun. >> we work in politics, we know a little thing about mess. i get that. my concerns are really -- my question isn't about personality, right, although it's interesting that personalities can seep into the type of work that's being done. certainly there's a way to request a calendar without being kond sending and overall over [bleep]. do you agree? >> certainly. >> there's value in the sunshine task force. the reasons it was created. it fills an important function, an oversight and transparency. what's happening is that personality is muddying the water a little bit to where it's becoming unprofessional and i believe overall dysfunctional. how do you see yourself, and if you disagree, maybe you don't see it as dysfunctional. we probably have different views on that, but how do you see yourself continuing service on the sunshine task force, but bringing a since of decor um and respect, a member - any member can come to the sunshine task force and spend hours waiting just to be heard. i have had personal experience, colleagues have had personal experience where they've had childcare challenges. they spent hours waiting and need to pick up their children and there was no flexibility. you're on this body, i would hope to empower you to feel as though you could raise your voice and began to assert yourself in a way that can be yielding positive discourse in conversation so we can get to the task force issues. >> i mean, in terms of the time that is spent on the task force and the time that it takes, for us, for the people bringing complaints, for the members of the city and responding to them, i think everyone wants it to be more efficient. what i'm hoping to do more specifically on that front is get the help -- the support of the task force, develop policy ideas there that we can work with the supervisors, the board, work with other city agencies to say, okay, here's the main kind of complaints that are coming up very frequently. what if we can solve this another way and have a website where calendars are published every month so there's no responding that needs to be done. it's all there. i think -- initially there needs to be more analysis of what are the main types of complaints and if there's low hanging fruit that can be developed for to save everyone time. and i think longer term, i don't know if there's room for another committee or resources for anything else, but i think it's going to take a concerted effort by the task force, perhaps the board and for the various technology offices around this city to really try to get the information requests more stream lined. >> and -- >> decor -- >> i thought you were done. >> the decorum side, i try to connect myself that way. i don't have the historical context to know what things used to be like before last summer. so i can't speak to whether or not it was a more streamline than functional or polite body. i assume it was, but i'm working in that direction and i'll again encouraging other people. >> in the last couple of months you've been on, what's your example of inefficient see on the body? >> there's a lot of different levels to it. the easily solvable stuff, most easily solvable -- i wouldn't say easy, is someone will have an inform request that's large and city agencies will not be sure how to respond and they'll have different ideas of what is correct. and in some cases, the task force will follow different guidelines than what the city attorney is selling city agencies which is an ongoing thing we're trying to resolve. in many cases, there's human errors in putting together the larger requests that are problems that turn into complaints. if you can figure out some solutions to those sort of just like process problems, it will free up more time to get to the backlog and to get everyone through more quickly. in terms of any changes to parliament procedures, things -- the way that's conducted, i don't claim to know enough about that area to have any real advice, unfortunately. i mean, i'm not used to frankly sitting in these sort of committees in a meeting that last more than an hour for me is unusual. but you know, i think that's -- there's an effort right now to amend the ordinance that some of the people here today are working on -- >> are you working on that effort? >> i am not working on that directly. i'm supporting it. i believe the changes are working on have well thought out and should be implemented. i don't feel i'm informed enough to say much right now. >> i appreciate your perspective. >> at this time, do we have further questions or comments or do we have a motion. >> i would like to add a motion that we appoint victoria barneski. victoria to seat 1 on the sunshine task force. and i'd like to make a motion also to support eric eldon for seat 2. >> with residency waiver. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> and a waiver for both. >> congratulations. >>> all right. item 5, please. >> sorry, we're adjoined by supervisor avalos. >> item 5 is a charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to require the department of elections to hold a special election when there is a vacancy in the office of member of the board of supervisors, unless a regularly schedule election be held within 180 days of the vacancy and provide that the mayor shall appoint an interim supervisor to filet -- >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. chair chang and thank you for scheduling this charter amendment. this is an amendment that has been before us in past committees and been at the full board as well. this is a new permutation of it addressing vacancies on the board of supervisors only and setting a time limit for vacancies in all offices on the -- in city government in san francisco. there's one premise that overrides this charter amendment and that is we want to elect our elected officials and elect them from a level playing field where no one has the power of income want see by merely being appointed by the mayor of san francisco. in 2013, lafco conducted a study about how jurisdictions fill vacancies in elected offices and when the striking results was how unique san francisco's appointment is where -- and there's no public process of how the mayor makes the appointments and there's no time restraints and -- she was not appointed to be an assessor until february of 2013. there's no examples of this lab of filling vacancy. the colorado appointees make -- in the district attorney office. the mayor of philadelphia makes appointments to fill appointments on -- this charter amendment will bring us in line with the processes for filling vacancies in other state and federal legislative bodies. i said this is about electing elected officials from a levelling playing field, so really this measure is really about promoting democracy. it brings us in line as i said with other state and federal government and how they - and how they handle vacancies. also strengthens our separation of powers. and reduces to actually expand to a much greater body of people, the voters, of the work of electing and not simply selecting who will represent them in office. and it limits incumbent see for those who win elections. this charter amendment will strengthen separations of powers. we learned about checks and balances, the separation between the executive branch, and the legislative branch, but that separation of powers breaks down when they're in san francisco when there's a vacancy on the board of supervisors. when there's a vacancy on the board, the mayor appoints a new member of our legislative branch. this charter amendment proposes as a solution to this hole in our powers, we'll let the voters elect our elected officials. the lack of checks and balances can create the temptation for unethical deal making. that happens when there's a small select group of people who are political insiders with the mayor. who will determine who gets elected verses the actual voters of this city. the board of supervisors term limits create an incentive for supervisors to look for new jobs before this term expired. we have had a number of vacancies happen when people move to san francisco, to a public office in san francisco, and certainly we have that coming before us, this next year when one of two supervisors will be going to sacramento. so really we want to have a measure that will restore the public's faith in our city government and do ensure voters are given the ability to choose their supervisors and not have their local supervisors selected for them by one person -- a vacancy is not an opportunity to give an incumbent an advantage, but where voters can determine who will represent them from a more even playing field of candidates. the way this proposal is going to work is that the mayor would have 28 days to appoint an interim supervisor who would not be eligible to run and subsequent run-on election. the election would be scheduled -- create a special election for the determination of who will be the supervisor with incumbentcy. that run off would happen between 126 and 140 days in the future of that -- after that vacancy unless it could be consolidated with another election in 180 days or consolidated with election with more than 180 days if the mayor and the board approves board of elections. we want to have flexibility when these elections will occur and if there's -- we can consolidate if we need to. if there's just a special election for supervisor seat, we're not going to be the director of elections would not be able to add any other ballot measures on the election. it would be about the election of the supervisor. i do have an amendment of the whole, so today will not be the day for a final vote on this measure and that's to create the technical amendment and i'll pass these out to members of the committee. it's a technical amendment. thank you. currently, the vacancy election could be consolidated with another regular election, but not another special election that is also scheduled or another special election scheduled after the vacancy election is called. if we didn't change this language that i'm going to provide, we wouldn't be able to schedule a special election even if there's another special election happening. this amendment will allow the special election to be consolidated and the language is here. do i need to read it into the record so i can submit that. we're ensuring if there's any special election that the special election for the supervisor and the supervisor district will be consolidated with that special election in the future. okay. and i have one other amendment and that is on -- i did talk with deputy city attorney john givener and that's on page 1, line 22. i believe that's where we're going to add the mayor shall appoint -- to fill the vacancy within 28 days. that 28 day limit will apply to all vacancies and the mayor making an appointment for all vacancies in elective office in san francisco. and that might trigger a change in the title, and if mr. givener can explain how that would get done, make sure that we can have these all done today, so we can continue this to the next rules committee meeting. >> sure, deputy city attorney, john givener. actually i don't have the final version in front of me, but basically we'll change the short title and long title to reflect that the charter amendment now applies to 28-day window for appointment to all elected vacancy other than a vacancy in the office of the mayor. the other amendment that supervisor avalos mentioned regarding consolidation with a special election doesn't require a change in the title. so after this meeting, the committee adopts its amendments and we'll submit the final version to the clerk with the correct title. >> great, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for bringing this forward after a lot of thoughtfulness with the report from 2014 and analysis, and i wanted to thank aileen. we were at her memorial. aileen from friends of ethics, championed so many different efforts from social justice to hiv and aids, but also cleaning up government and good government changes like this. i wanted to also say that the last coreport as supervisor avalos mentioned that san francisco is an audit and there's only -- identified by the report. although they weren't able to track down the other charter cities in the state, but even the couple of examples when an individual appoints for vacancies are strange, its colorado's governor and the university of colorado and board of regions and also the city of philadelphia, but it only impacts a city commissioner who is appointed by the mayor, so san francisco is really a rarity and this would put us more in line with good government, better checks and balances as supervisor avalos mentioned and it's good for democracy in our city. i wanted to be added as a coresponser, this takes away that incumbent advantage that's clear when we look at the central committee races to many other efforts and then how it has been abused by our city in the past where someone resigns and then it's used to really give that leg up and a huge advantage to people, it really has been an abusive process that's against democracy. this helps set us like other jurisdiction so we have good government and democracy. i support the amendment. >> thank you very much. i wasn't going to say much because i think i've said many comments about this. i will just say that, again, to repeat myself, i do actually support putting on a time cap for when -- that the mayor must make a decision. i think that's a good thing. not putting people in limbo or informations in limbo and making sure that there is someone to fill that spot and there isn't that -- what i guess people would call bathroom dealing going on. i do support that. but i'll stand by and say based on my previous comment, the last comment -- there wasn't a trend as to one type of system that any jurisdiction used to fill vacancy, and so i don't think that report was very conclusive, that what is proposed before us today is the best way to go. secondly, as i've said before, our system right now in terms of filling vacancies is not perfect. i think it does work. we have seen that the mayor, mayor ed lee has a 50% success rate with his appointees actually being able to succeed in the elections that they go through which makes for appointments and two of them have continued in their roles. so again, that shows that even with the potential power of incumbent sees that these appointees could fail at elections. so again, i'm not going to repeat too much of what i said in the past. this proposal sounds good on paper, but in reality, i think that putting someone in an interim role who is not held accountable to constituents because they're not allowed to continue in that position and run in a subsequent election, but who will be able to take votes at the board of supervisors, i think that's dangerous. not to mention the difficulty in finding someone to fill in a role that might be three months or six months or so. so in any case, i still hold my same position as i did before, but i'll be okay with supporting the amendments made today, and we'll look forward to our future discussions on this. so do we at this time -- i think we had a motion to accept amendments is that correct? all right. we'll take the amendments without objection or did we have an issue? i'm sorry. we did not take public comment on the amendments or any of that. we have to take public comment before we make the amendment. >> i don't think you took public comment on the item at all. >> no, we didn't. >> i have one speaker card, but if anyone else is here for item 5, let's have them come up. i have bruce bowen who is here. >> thank you, good afternoon. my name is bruce bowen. i live in district 8 but i grew up in the richmond district. i'm a member of the dolores heights club. i'm speaking on my behalf. i had a number of comments on the proposed -- my comments were expressed by mayor avalos elegantly. this is a great process and it creates an amendment that's fair and more open and more democratic and it's common sense and i respectfully request it's approved by the committee and the board. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, chair, karen here on my own behalf unless the county is a former member of the friends of ethics council. they did send a great letter this morning, so hopefully you can see it before the vote. they send it a little late. i just wanted to say i'm glad -- thank you supervisor mar for bringing up -- aileen wouldn't cry. i do think this measure -- all thoel as you pointed out, the last report didn't say this is the the perfect way to do it. it's an improvement. it doesn't seem fair that one person would get to decide who represents an entire supervisor district. so to me that's the main reason to support this. and that -- choosing one person making that decision carries out. that's the power of incumbent see even if it's a short of time. i would think that would work for me. i think that person has to have time to prove themselves. they seem like they know what they're doing. it does have an effect. i like the -- would not be eligible to run. i urge you to support it and thank you for listening. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm sue vaun and i'm asking you to support this proposal. it's called for special lucks -- no other elections held within 100 days of the notice of the vacancy and as continue excellent job. i wish we had a system in place by the late 1990s when mayor willierown was appointing people to the board of supervisors on an ongoing basis. this proposal returns the power of the appointment quote on quote directly to the people. it was perceived accesses of willie broub that made voters return to district elections and this is going to finish this process. supervisor tang, you started your appointment -- but there are two work arounds to this and one is anyone who wishes to run in a special election or a regularly scheduled one within 180 days can decline the appointment. or two, anyone who wishes to serve as a member of the board of supervisors can accept the appointment and run in some election after the special election or the special or the one within 180 days, so it doesn't end at somebody's political career, just postpones it. so i urge you to support this. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 5. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and just for clarification given somethin

willy ald -- willy adams is here with us today. >> good day chairwoman and tang and cohen and mar. good seeing you again. and you're right, combass tore kounalakis is in washington dc. she has a standing appointment. since she's been on the commission, he's brought a lot of energy to the commission. he's very poised. very intelligent. her knowledge of real-estate and i know especially for chairwoman tang and supervisor cohen, clearly we have gender balance on the port commission as you know. it is for women commissioners and inthumb -- antrum director and i'm the only male. it's incredible having four intelligent commissioners. we get along well. they talk so much. i never get a chance to speak, but with that being said, enjoy that. i will say that i wanted to share one thing about the ambassador kounalakis. we have a navigation center and it's about ready to close. and her and her husband, mario went down to peer 8 to do a walk-through and i have been down myself. you would think someone of her statute, but she's very regal and very down to earth. she went down there and she understood about the homeless problem. she reached out. she talked to the tenants down there at peer 180 and that was impressive to me and she understood we got money for wars but not for the poor. she understood that. i'm here and i rise to support her nomination and i tell you, she has been a jewel. she fits in, and i'll say it again, we have the best commission in this city. dynamic, thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. all right. any other members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. come on up. >> good luck with your reappointment on this san francisco bay. [singing] and we got public comment here and here's what i have to say, call in the commissioner ride along through the commission shore, we can change our lives again and be free once more. ride commissioner ride upon the port commission to a world that will be there and we'll make it better still. ride commissioner ride. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 2. seeing none, public comment closed. we had a motion from supervisor cohen. seconded and supervisor mar. we'll take that without objection. congratulations ambassador. >> mr. clerk, call item 3, please. >> motion three is a motion confirms mayor's appoint of lee hsu to the mu nins pal transportation agency board of directors, term ends in march 1, 2019. >> mr. lee for a presentation. >> i'm excited to be here and thank you for your time today and for this opportunity to serve our city. i know this is a big responsibility and i will work hard to be a good listener and thoughtful board member. a little background on me. i like to describe myself as a first generation san franciscan. i was born over seas and my parents brought me over from iowa for a better life. and hard work and luck, i feel blessed to be here before you. i studied economics, law and worked for a judge and i worked in financial and technology and in education as a computer skils teacher at our public schools. i especially working in education because i believe a key to a better life he -- especially people from low income. i think we all believe that. what we have learned is transportation is just as important for upward mobility. there were several research studies last year that hit the point home including one from harvard that suggested that commuting time was the single most important factor in escaping poverty. that's really interesting, right. but it makes sense. we always support education because it prepares you for jobs. but what this research makes clear is getting to those jobs is at least as important. i had doors open for me because of public education. but the reality was my parent his to work their butts off to make it all possible. i remember a time when my mom used to drive an hour to go to her -- the less took it took to get home the less time they had with their kids or catching their breath for the next workday. that's what all people deal with whether families are single especially in a city like san francisco that's denser and more expensive all the time. education matters and so does transportation. i live in west port with my spouse and kids. we believe in doing public work. we feel lucky to live near muni station. before that we lived in mission bay and we were in dog patch and those were our favorite plays to eat and go out. we spent time in the city. we're in the richmond regularly for school or after school events and a lot of great play ground and parks over there. we drive, we take muni, we walk and we bike. our routine centers around getting his kids to skill and our jobs. walking and riding muni is my first choice. i have to drive my kid to school. i haven't tried to uber or lift yet, but friends say that's neat and i can see why people like them. i like good old fashion taxi cabs. i took one over here now. although we don't commute by bike, we do family biking as one of our favorite activities. we bike city streets and anywhere we can find a safe route where we want to explore. we're very much multi mobile. i've taken light rail all the way to san jose and back on many occasions and it's not a bad trip. it takes longer than the car but it's something i do because it's available in case we work on the train. that's why i care a lot about a good balance that keeps opportunities open for everyone who lives or works in san francisco. if we enabled faster commute and better access for those who want to take public transit, it means fewer cars on the road for those who can't give up their cars. that's a win-win. make it better for those who want to take public transit and works better for those who have to take cars. those who have to take cars are kids and seniors. in my area, there's a lot of seniors. the ability to get to where they need is important, that's increasing all the time. so it's very important. as far as kids, it's an issue because we're concerned about keeping families in san francisco especially middle and income and lower income families. some of them can take public transit, but a lot of time when you have young kids, it's hard if you don't have a vehicle to get them around. so for the hard working families and singles who rely on mta to get them to where they need to go for work or jobs or for school or jobs, for seniors and kids and for those who needs cars and especially for those struggling to make ends meet and need public transit to improve their situation, i want to help however i can to make things work for them. the education and transportation, those are the two pillars of upward mobility. so i've been working education for a number of years and i keep on doing that and i would like to ask for your support for my nomination so i can get cracking on transportation as well. thank you very much. i look forward to working with you. >> thank you very much for your presentation and i'm really glad that the mayor's office has finally made an appointment for this vacancy to replace the late jerry lee who was a wonderful director on the mta board of director and when he left i really felt that there was a gap missing in terms of making sure we have folks who are on that board who represent the views of the outer neighborhoods and making sure there's districts 4 and 10 where it's harder for many of us to get around via public transportation, and many of our neighborhoods also have, as you said a lot more seniors, and a lot more families with children and as much as they would like to ride public transportation, do have to rely on driving and so i do appreciate that balance perspective that you bring. but again, one of the things that i think is really important to me and i'm sure to others as well is how it is that we really serve our outer neighborhoods where there's struggles. and so i don't know if you have any requesteds around how it is we can help some of those outlining districts, and i'm sure that's something that my colleagues will ask about as well. but that's something that you hear time and time again that it can't just be transient only. yes, it might be transient first, but it can't be transient only for some families. >> yeah, sure. i think that the options are pretty good going into downtown. i think the challenges are when you have to go from north to south or kind of connect on different directions, but it depends on the area. i think we live really close to muni station, so it's a lot easier for us, but we still have to rely on our cars. i think that's going to be true. i believe the key is to kind of focus on the most heavily use the transient. we look at the lines used heavily. bus rapid transient is good in some areas, but i do think we have to be mindful that some people are going to have to use their cars. the way i like to put it, we want to make transient better so cars are less attractive, but we don't want to make cars less attractive. a lot of good ideas are underway in terms of stream lining access from the furthest distance. the very end going in can be a long trip. the gear brt is very important project in speeding up the commute downtown. i think with district 10, the key challenges is with all the development going on, you have so many projects where there needs to be a lot of attention paid to those coming into the neighborhood because they have to get downtown for work. >> actually i think it's more complex. it's not just addressing the new the mtc. >> but we did go out there, and what i would say is this, i would love for you or anyone on your team to show me what your concerns are. i will go in person and ride trains. >> i can send the e-mails from constituents. they'll show you. >> i figured i'd be getting those. >> fair enough. one of the things that i'm already admire about many of the mta commissioner they're accessible. not only do you see them out on transportation. i've ran into ramos many times on bart, but i would like you to -- i guess -- when you serve in public office whether an appointed position, you have an opportunity to grow. i want to encourage you as personal growth, but there's a professional growth that occurs in the lime light. what's more indicative of a leader is how you recover from the stumbles and acknowledging mistakes. one of the things i would like to encourage you learning from my mistakes and stumbles is to be approachable and accessible so when constituents have concerns about transportation, the movement of the line or the movement of a bus stop, you're able to receive the e-mails and process them in the -- you joked about the change happening in the south eastern kwau drent of san francisco. but it's a real change and you have people living there for generations that's nervous and unsure about the change. so we've got, for example, general hospital, the rebuild of the hospital, it's a beautiful new seismic building, but we did street scaping work on widening the streets and we're talking about hours of public comment potentially moving the 22 line -- is it the 22 line, dylan. or the 33 that runs in front of general hospital. so you mentioned having a lot of seniors in your district. i have a significant enough. we're in the process of doing a ground breaking of a new senior center and campus, and it's really important that we put our self in their position. we want our seniors to be fiercely independent, but it's a challenge when on public transportation. something else to consider when think beginning the southeast is it's hilly and public housing, at least two of my units, patrel hill and hunter's view. you have bus lines bringing those to the top of the hill and i have a big senior population to needs access to the doctor's office and the grocery store. this is not so much of a question, but more of an opportunity just to share with you my experiences and some of my legitimate concerns. mta has been phenomenal at being agreeable and understanding when concerns have come up and i'd love to see the commission, you, also remain in that same way just outside of your own experience, but being able to emphasize and connect with people. d then also needless to say, you mentioned in your personal story about coming to iowa as a child. there's many people in the southeast that speaks -- it goes from san bruno valley into china town and making sure they're safe on those transportations, that they're not victims of crimes of opportunity. and or you're working with my office and other organizations and trying to bridge that barrier, that language barrier that exists, culture barrier that exists and you know, understanding some may be afraid and some may not be and so there's a lot of things that's at play here that i'm just highlighting for you for your attention. >> sure. thank you, i appreciate that. and please know i'm somebody who always -- i'd like to listen. sometimes that can be a bad thing, but i want to be accessible and always look forward to hearing from you -- >> i don't think listening is ever a bad thing. but if you listen and don't respond, that's bad. sometimes a response could be not exactly what the person is asking you to do, but a response is always needed and i think from my experience when you don't respond, that's where people get frustrated and they become -- with local government and you see the frustrations that we see almost everyday. but if we're able to be responsive and say i disagree, here's my perspective, that goes a long way. thank you chair. i'm done. >> supervisor mar. >> just in responding to the dialogue between you and supervisor cohen, i appreciate your listening, but also your thoughtfulness in how you're thinking about not just the outlining area, but the south coast. you have expertise of how tricky west portal is and from the transient station to float which is another nightmare being fixed and the 19th avenue work that supervisor tang is working on, that's in the south south connecter that's forgotten not just from the areas in the southwest part of the city, but all the way north toward through the richmond and supervisor farrell district to golden bridge. i think you have a thoughtfulness that i really appreciate. the mta board is going to be more important as we pass transportation funding measures through t-30. i think your leadership is great that supervisor cohen is mentioning. i appreciate your thoughtfulness. >> i would like to add onto what supervisor cohen said about switch backs. it's one of those things where we understand for mta, it's necessary to do in our system. just imagining you're getting home from a long day at work and kicked off the l-line and you have to wait for the next train or bus to take you home or maybe it's not coming within five minutes and you start walking and your whole day is ruined. i think it's more so than the inconvenience. it's the fact that a lot of our residents feel the fact this can happen in the outer neighborhood means that mta doesn't care about the residents who live far out and i'm one of those, so that's something that even though we know is a necessary part of our mta system, but really trying to make sure that is not occurring during rush hour traffic time or travel commute times and making sure the department is following protocols and announcement and there's a train following within five minutes. that's occurring. taking this opportunity to share that. supervisor and i have been trying to address this. >> i'll work hard on that. >> thank you. >> all right. at this time, then i think there's no further comment from the committee. we will open up item 3 to public comment. and first i want to acknowledge that we have darling choi from supervisor nor man yee's office and a couple of public comment cards. roger ritter. carol eto, george wooding and if anyone else is here for item 3, just please line up right there by that wall. all right. >> thank you, all. >> thank you supervisor tang and mar and cohen. my name is carlene troy. legislative aide to yee. on behalf of the supervisor yee, i'll be sharing his letter of support for the mayor's nomination of lee to the board of directors. supervisor lee has known -- from the neighborhood association. as a parent, educator, driver and bicyclist, lee understands multiple perspectives and needs of our community. mta has the power to effect how all of us move and travel throughout our city. lee will represent a critical and independent community voice on this body. lee is a dedicated, enthusiastic leader who brings those together. he focuses on the fact and facilitates community input. his background on education, financial and technology will serve him well in analyzing and evaluating transportation policies. he's a strong addition to the mta board and supervisor yee echoes the neighborhood association and community members support for lee's nomination to the mta board and hopes the rules committee will approve his nomination as well. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here on behalf of supervisor yee. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is george wooding. i'm a former president of the west twin peak central council and current president of coalition for san francisco neighborhood. and i really know lee to -- i believe he'll be a great appointment to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. i've known him for a long time. and found that he's very honorable, very efficient, a very good communicator. and i think you are all driving to that point. i think he's someone who does listen. i think he is someone who does respond. he's led several school activities. he's led several neighborhood organizations. all volunteerism and when you have children, it is very hard to volunteer. i ran into him the other day as he was taking his son from cariton school, i believe to catch the 44 tara cita 44 is that's the right number. norman lee likes him and i like him. i think he'll be a credit to the board, and i think he'll solve great problems on the west side that have been stalled and i think it also be looking very carefully at the collins area and what can be done and visitation valley. there's a lot to be done, and i think he's the right guy to do it. thank you very much. >> thanks for being here, mr. wooding. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors, i'm roger -- we represent 20 hoa's in the neighborhood organizations in western san francisco. i've known lee for many years. he's a great open, sympathetic, descent man who does listen to people. he's an active member of the council and of our community as we have heard, he's a parent, and he understands the needs of west side residents for transportation, options and alternatives, i and i think he's tuned to the fact that the south western part of san francisco like the south eastern part of san francisco, often seems to be left out of some transportation advancements. supervisor tang was mentioning the switch back problems, supervisor cohen mentioning the same problem and i think lee will work actively not only for our particular neighborhoods, but for the entire city, so our council has unanimously endorsed this nomination and respectfully urges the appointment to the commissioner. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. ritter. next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair tang and mar and cohen. >> my name is carol and i'm speaking as an individual. thank you for referencing jerry lee who is a close friend of mine. it energizes me to be here to support lee. jerry was appointed many years ago when i was serving as a commission and we would talk about our roles and responsibilities so i know he took this position very seriously. i think lee will continue that transition of course from what you have heard, but in addition to that, i want to share my experience getting to know lee and his family and why i believe strongly that he would be excellent appointment. as a west side resident for over 35 years ask a board member of west side -- i share with lee to preserve and enhance the well-beings of our neighborhood. high quality transportation has been spoken to. besides his dedication and leadership as president, he help today reorganization the west portal association and work with the merchant groups to enhance the commercial corridor. lee's personality created more community engagement in the west portal neighborhoods and public schools that has -- during his initial run for a seat on the san francisco school board, i know lee worked very hard to understand city wide issues and improve transportation needs and pedestrian issues. lee and his family are frequent users of transportation services and could be a voice. from the many constituents who care about transportation improvement and meet high quality levels i ask going your support for lee's appointment on the metropolitan transportation agency. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is bez and i'm here today as a parent and a community member. i've lived in san francisco for the past 22 years. and we were one of the lucky families who won the lottery, so our daughter got into claire ton and she completed kindergarten this past year. that's where i got to learn lee on a personal and professional level. i volunteer quite a bit for her daughter's school and i served on parent committees and i volunteer in the classroom and that is mainly where i got to know lee very closely. i worked in the computer lab as a parent volunteer where he was teaching, and there, i witnessed firsthand his ability to connect with all people. the kids loved him. it was a very diverse group of kids. they trusted him. they loved playing with the software. it was the only -- it wasn't really homework, but it was the only time my daughter would do anything after school is play with the program that lee taught her. so, his curriculum resonated with the kids and i watched their confidence build through the year. he was patient and calm and the kids loved him. but he connected well with parents. the teachers and staff. and you talk about -- you mentioned before his ability to listen and sort of respond to issues. i - our daughter had one of the toughest teachers at claire ton and she's a kindergarten teacher, but he's tough and strict, and there were times when in the morning, i would talk to lee, how can i help and what should we do and we would set up and the teacher would say i don't like it like that and we want it that way. lee wasn't attached to his way. he was willing to listen and make accommodations and i saw that in several situations where staff -- staff -- yes, we actually have time limits for each speaker. i apologize. >> if you finish your sentence. that would be great. >> i highly recommend lee. i think he's a great commuter, and an advocate for the community and he cares about people. he connects about everyone and i have confidence that is for the mta he'll do a great job, and i live in amazon next to the -- >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm frank noto of the neighborhood association, but i'm here as a parent, grandparent with kids in the schools and a small business owner in supervisor cohen's district. while lee doesn't live in our neighborhood, we have worked with him on numerous civic issues and we found him [inaudible] of others very thoughtful and a good listener. i think it's very important we have someone representing a variety of the demographics that he addresses in the asian-american community which is not well represented on the board and parents with children that supervisor mar mentioned. i also think his background, you heard from supervisor yee in finance and economics will be helpful on the board. since i work in the community almost everyday to my office in the southeast corner, you can be assure that i will be all over him on issues that are plenty horror stories to the bay view area. and in conclusion, i just want to say i support him and i hope you will too. thank you. >> thank you, mr. noto. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is james rice. i'm a west portal resident and a parent. and i want to speak in support of lee. but briefly i want to start with a quick story about the challenges that mta faces in our neighborhood particularly around communication and perception. so on my street, mta recently removed a street parking spot. there was no alert spot. no notification and my neighbor got a ticket the next day. we talked to yee's office to try and resolve it and they said it's something mta is dealing with. everyone through their hands up in the air and they didn't know what to do. i and my neighbors were frustrated. i think lee has tremendous values in opening up those communication values more broadly. i have seen lee. i've worked with lee on improving neighborhood schools. and i've seen lee in action. he's a great listener and very accessible and i think he'll help sf-mta. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm howard, and i'm pleased to support my neighbor. he lives two blocks closer to the west portal than i do. i asked him at our neighborhood meeting, why do you want this very hard job and he explained to me he wants it to for his boys. and he's dedicated. not just today, but in the future. and i see that as being a very refreshing thing for any board and anything that happens in this city. and he's going to hear from people. i can't walk that extra block. i need this parking place in front of my shop today. everybody is going to talk about today. we have one environment organization that says will you want to live in san francisco tomorrow? lee is saying, well, someone else want to live in san francisco tomorrow. and i'm looking forward to that. he lives closer to me so we can chat about these things in the future. that's an essential thing for this city not to have people say me, me, me, now, now. muni is for this city and lee knows that. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm karen and i'm a resident of west portal. i am a member of the syrian committee of greater portal west neighborhood association and i'm a board member of the west portal merchant association. both organizations strongly and anonymously support lee's nomination and election to this office. excuse me. a few personal notes, he is a man who is dedicated. he's ethical. he's thoughtful. and considerate of everyone's opinion and considers it, hears it, and acts upon them. so that's -- just listening is enough. he needs to take action and lee does in a very responsive and respectful way. he's made a very strong and lasting impression on the west portal neighborhood. and all the west twin peak area and he's the source of person that san francisco needs in his honesty, integrity and ethical values. as i said, the neighbors and the west portal merchants are supportive of his nomination to this position. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, mraesz. -- please. >> my name is ben and i'm a west portal resident and i'm here to speak in support of lee in my previous life, i worked at the city and health zero program. and had the chance to interact with quite a few mta directors over the year and lee has all of the characteristics that we seek. as you know, transportation planning in san francisco is difficult. it involves trade-offs and it involves a lot of groups, but lee understands the basic principals of safety, reliability and how we build that system and to listen, long term thinking. all the traits we want. so i encourage you to support lee for this position. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. my name is suzanne von. i'm member of the sierra club. i haven't been following this appointment process all that well. but i want you -- want to urge you in your questions to emphasize the need to appoint somebody to this vacancy who understands the vital environmental necessity of moving towards a truly transient city. we need to take seriously the warnings of client -- it's a hard task ahead of us from moving away from a car based city to a city based on walking and public transportation. and i just, on my way here, i was on the 38 rapid, and i got stuck in traffic. there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along. it took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issues in the neighborhood, i know i'll get an objective and balanced response. one that has been considered and seen from all sides. and he always responds to me within 24 hours. i think lee would be an addition to the board and to the mta board of directors and a citizen of san francisco. he's the kind of representative i would want on the board. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. at this time, any other members who wish to speak on item 3, come forward. seeing none. public comment is closed. colleagues. supervisor mar. >> i did want to respond to a couple of things mentioned about the leadership of mr. lee. i think the point made by somebody about supervisor yee's office effort to respond to community concerns about the loss of a parking space on west portal, it's a challenge for us as supervisors because we have no authority over those issues and we have to go through the mta board or staff for those issues, but i know supervisor yee worked very hard and his staff to respond, but i think as we appoint mta commissioners, we're looking at people that support strong community engagement like lee does and i know when he met with angelina from my staff, that was a key theme of ensuring that neighborhoods, merchant associates are listened to and that's a key role of the mta board members, but he has the big picture by understanding by maintaining the amount of parking spaces, sometimes has a negative impact on our transient first and issues first. so i like that lee has a bigger picture of san francisco not as an island, but a bigger region we have to improve transient. i wanted to say to have howard from the sierra club and others support him in addition to neighborhood groups and others is significant. he can listen and be thoughtful about many different perspectives. to vaughn's point, sue and i participated in a district 1 grouping of transient and -- sue missed the meeting where we discussed lee's appointment. i'm supporting a number of the cac members and transient leaders. i wanted to thank everyone for the great comments about him and i'm looking forward to working closely with you as well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i concur with statements made here. those who knows lee in a professional capacity. i'm glad that there's finally someone to be filling up that vacancy on the mta board of directors. at this time, do we have a motion? >> i'll move we appoint lee to the municipal transportation board of directors. >> second. >> seconded by supervisor cohen. we'll take that without objection. congratulations. >> all right. if we can call item 4, now >> item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending in the april 27, 2018 to the sunshine ordinance that issing force. two seats and two applicants and they require a waiver. speaker: thank you. we have victoria and eric for these two seats. if you're here, if you can come up and make a presentation. >> i'm one of the journalist nominees for the san francisco sunshine ordinance task force. i'm thrilled to be here today. i've always had a firm belief in public service and i look for an opportunity to serve my broader community particularly on commitments dealing with those that the task force deals with. they come close to my professional interest. it has been apart of my professional interest since i became a journalist after college. i used the new york city freedom of information law to obtain documents about new york city government. afterwards i attended hard ward lawsuit and clerk for the united states second circuit for appeals where i helped propose briefs for my judge rosemary about the federal freedom of information act. after my clerkship, i worked at the new york times company where once again i was a first amendment fellow and worked on numerous information cases both on the federal, state, and city level across the country. i moved to the san francisco region and i worked on these matters. i worked for the press foundation on the pro bono working on the freedom of information reform. and so i'm very interested and engaged on the subject matter and i look forward to the opportunity to work on it further on the task force. >> thank you very much. questions or comments. >> how do you pronounce your last nath. name. >> baranski. >> mr. eldon. >> my name eric eldon and i'm a returning member to the task force. i was nominated as a replacement candidate last summer and began serving in september. i have been nominated to the seat 2 journalist position for the society of professional journalist. a little bit about myself, i am the cofounder and editor and chief of foot line which is a publication that covers an increasing number of neighborhoods around san francisco. i cover everything from civic news, things like bike lanes and parking, fires, crimes, et cetera, neighbor associations. >> thank you for covering bay view. >> thank you. we're happy to be there. and we cover local businesses. we cover local arts and culture and i think that goes well with my task force because i'm familiar with the groups and people who are coming for the task force looking for information and it has helped me do a better job on hood line. what i hope to bring to the task force and i admit to still getting my -- i'm still getting my head around the nuts and bolts of how it has all works and how it works with the city is to help the task force work with the rest of the city to automate the data and information requests that are coming across regularly. now, some of the requests that we'll get complaints around is for thousands of lines of information, about bus routes or meeting agendas or all sorts of information. and a lot of that seems to be in a parallel tract to what's happening in other parts of this city with data sf and other data, open data projects that the city is working on. what i'm heaping to -- what i'm hoping to see happen is work with city agencies so they can easily in an automated manner is answering questions without taking up time in the city, our time and their time working through the rather complex systems together right now. so, that's the basics of what i'm doing. i'm happy to answer any further questions. >> i'm glad to hear about what you're working on. >> i have made no progress yet. >> at least you're trying. i want to acknowledge that hood line has been just a really wonderful resource, i think for our communities and the day when you can cover all of our districts, that would be wonderful. it has been very thorough coverage and you know, we haven't seen that kind of reporting coverings for example, the outer sunset for i don't know how long. maybe never. >> any other questions. >> your technology industry with sunshine is of interest to me because there's all kinds of new apps and messaging things and i'm wondering if you can talk about sunshine and the new technology that allows much more hiding of communications right now. i'm sorry it's a philosophical question. >> i'm not expert on this. there are people who are. i think you have really great people, joy and jay and data officer of chief technology office for the city. they are very strong. what i think is happening on one hand, the sunshine ordinance when it was first introduced was the software was not in the same place it is now, and but it really addresses the sort of demand that people have to understand the details of how governments work and to get more transparency. it's really a matter of -- i think a lot of city it systems and the whole method of procurement and licensing is typically -- every organization has that problem whether or not they're a government or tech company or anything else. so i think on the one hand what you have happening is sitdys realize the right thing to the public -- that's what the sunshine ordinance was about. there's an increasing understanding to the public, like, hey, i can get this information and analyze it and i can learn from it. you see that like hood for america and you see independent that's software developers and those who have learned the skills on their own experimenting with public information. it's early days for all of this, but i believe the future of local news and the future of local government will be very much about automating and presenting much of what is hidden for technology reasons right now. and i think that's just going to be -- we're heading towards a world where they'll be transparency and i think it will help trust to be built. there aren't that many apps you can use right now that i think is impressive. >> thank you for your service on the task force. >> no other questions or comments. we're going to open up item 4 to public comment. if you have a public comment, please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jeffrey king, and i'm here on behalf of the journalist northern california chapter to express my support of victor year and the renomination of eric to the sunshine task force. i also recognize my colleague on the spj north cal information committee, thomas peel who speaks in support of these well qualified candidates. spj is enthusiastic about both individuals. we're confident that victoria and eric will serve the task force faithfully. vicky comes before this committee as eric following a careful vetting process. victoria has worked with the new york times and the -- she earned her journalism degree. victoria's commitment to transparency is inherent to who she is and she's putting it to practice. eric is a journalist member of the task force served since september of 2015. as editor and chief of the pioneering hyper local journalist hood line and he's familiar with the diverse neighborhoods. many neighborhoods in the mist of profound change as we all know and it prevents -- on the sunshine ordinance task force. where he adjudicate public complaints, fairly and intelligently and with a vital context. we're pleased to nominee -- eric and victoria will serve the people well. i urge this council to send these candidates to the sunshine task force. thank you very much. >> next speaker. we had a speaker card, thomas peel. >> thank you supervisor. good afternoon, folks. i chair the free information committee of our local sp chapter and i just wanted to talk briefly about our nominating process which you know is in the ordinance itself for seats one and two. when a seat is open as the attorney seat was when their ramos stepped down, we offer notice of that broadly to the journalism and legal community. we had another very qualified candidate and frankly they were both interviewed for an hour each and vicky is an outstanding choice. her first amendment background is stellar. her legal education is about reproach. we did not ask journalism to come forward for eldon seat because we're pleased with his reputation on the task force. he has very quickly risen to be a leader there. he is chairing a committee. he is an advocate for change. we all know that the task force needs improvements in the way it does its business, frankly, meetings, backlogs, and we're bringing you two highly qualified professionals who will work toward modernization, change, and efficiency. i ask that you please passion their nominations onto the full board. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members who wish to speak on item 4. come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do you have a motion. >> i have a question question. i would like to bring their eldon back up. eric, you're currently serving on the sunshine task force? >> how long? >> i think i was confirmed in august and my first meeting in september. >> of? >> last year. >> a few months. so so you're new to the task force which is fine. what are your thoughts around the task force. >> that's one of the things i learned about the reputation >> like journalism it self, i think dealing with public information requests and figuring out the right answers is a messy and -- a messy process, but vital for democracy and there's going to be tension between a body like this and various other parts of the city government in the say way there's going to be tension between journalist and the people we write about. but in order for everyone to work together and for us to function as a city and as a society, we have to deal with that. and i look at the task force and i look at the issues that have come up, calendars, agendas, minutes, things like that. and i think you know, an example, you may disagree with me, but i thought the work of michael patrellas and he criticizes us quite often. he does that to other people in the media and he does that to many of you here and to the task force. he brings a large number of requests, but the work he's done on calendars, i think, has really helped a lot of people in this city get information to the public that can built trust about how they're spending their time, who they're meeting with and those kinds of things. i can understand. i wouldn't personally wouldn't want to share my calendar with anyone, but that's an example of -- you might not like petrellas, but the way he operates, but it's good about the sort of request that can lead to improvements to everyone that we can all benefit from. it's messy, but fun. >> we work in politics, we know a little thing about mess. i get that. my concerns are really -- my question isn't about personality, right, although it's interesting that personalities can seep into the type of work that's being done. certainly there's a way to request a calendar without being kond sending and overall over [bleep]. do you agree? >> certainly. >> there's value in the sunshine task force. the reasons it was created. it fills an important function, an oversight and transparency. what's happening is that personality is muddying the water a little bit to where it's becoming unprofessional and i believe overall dysfunctional. how do you see yourself, and if you disagree, maybe you don't see it as dysfunctional. we probably have different views on that, but how do you see yourself continuing service on the sunshine task force, but bringing a since of decor um and respect, a member - any member can come to the sunshine task force and spend hours waiting just to be heard. i have had personal experience, colleagues have had personal experience where they've had childcare challenges. they spent hours waiting and need to pick up their children and there was no flexibility. you're on this body, i would hope to empower you to feel as though you could raise your voice and began to assert yourself in a way that can be yielding positive discourse in conversation so we can get to the task force issues. >> i mean, in terms of the time that is spent on the task force and the time that it takes, for us, for the people bringing complaints, for the members of the city and responding to them, i think everyone wants it to be more efficient. what i'm hoping to do more specifically on that front is get the help -- the support of the task force, develop policy ideas there that we can work with the supervisors, the board, work with other city agencies to say, okay, here's the main kind of complaints that are coming up very frequently. what if we can solve this another way and have a website where calendars are published every month so there's no responding that needs to be done. it's all there. i think -- initially there needs to be more analysis of what are the main types of complaints and if there's low hanging fruit that can be developed for to save everyone time. and i think longer term, i don't know if there's room for another committee or resources for anything else, but i think it's going to take a concerted effort by the task force, perhaps the board and for the various technology offices around this city to really try to get the information requests more stream lined. >> and -- >> decor -- >> i thought you were done. >> the decorum side, i try to connect myself that way. i don't have the historical context to know what things used to be like before last summer. so i can't speak to whether or not it was a more streamline than functional or polite body. i assume it was, but i'm working in that direction and i'll again encouraging other people. >> in the last couple of months you've been on, what's your example of inefficient see on the body? >> there's a lot of different levels to it. the easily solvable stuff, most easily solvable -- i wouldn't say easy, is someone will have an inform request that's large and city agencies will not be sure how to respond and they'll have different ideas of what is correct. and in some cases, the task force will follow different guidelines than what the city attorney is selling city agencies which is an ongoing thing we're trying to resolve. in many cases, there's human errors in putting together the larger requests that are problems that turn into complaints. if you can figure out some solutions to those sort of just like process problems, it will free up more time to get to the backlog and to get everyone through more quickly. in terms of any changes to parliament procedures, things -- the way that's conducted, i don't claim to know enough about that area to have any real advice, unfortunately. i mean, i'm not used to frankly sitting in these sort of committees in a meeting that last more than an hour for me is unusual. but you know, i think that's -- there's an effort right now to amend the ordinance that some of the people here today are working on -- >> are you working on that effort? >> i am not working on that directly. i'm supporting it. i believe the changes are working on have well thought out and should be implemented. i don't feel i'm informed enough to say much right now. >> i appreciate your perspective. >> at this time, do we have further questions or comments or do we have a motion. >> i would like to add a motion that we appoint victoria barneski. victoria to seat 1 on the sunshine task force. and i'd like to make a motion also to support eric eldon for seat 2. >> with residency waiver. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> and a waiver for both. >> congratulations. >>> all right. item 5, please. >> sorry, we're adjoined by supervisor avalos. >> item 5 is a charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to require the department of elections to hold a special election when there is a vacancy in the office of member of the board of supervisors, unless a regularly schedule election be held within 180 days of the vacancy and provide that the mayor shall appoint an interim supervisor to filet -- >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. chair chang and thank you for scheduling this charter amendment. this is an amendment that has been before us in past committees and been at the full board as well. this is a new permutation of it addressing vacancies on the board of supervisors only and setting a time limit for vacancies in all offices on the -- in city government in san francisco. there's one premise that overrides this charter amendment and that is we want to elect our elected officials and elect them from a level playing field where no one has the power of income want see by merely being appointed by the mayor of san francisco. in 2013, lafco conducted a study about how jurisdictions fill vacancies in elected offices and when the striking results was how unique san francisco's appointment is where -- and there's no public process of how the mayor makes the appointments and there's no time restraints and -- she was not appointed to be an assessor until february of 2013. there's no examples of this lab of filling vacancy. the colorado appointees make -- in the district attorney office. the mayor of philadelphia makes appointments to fill appointments on -- this charter amendment will bring us in line with the processes for filling vacancies in other state and federal legislative bodies. i said this is about electing elected officials from a levelling playing field, so really this measure is really about promoting democracy. it brings us in line as i said with other state and federal government and how they - and how they handle vacancies. also strengthens our separation of powers. and reduces to actually expand to a much greater body of people, the voters, of the work of electing and not simply selecting who will represent them in office. and it limits incumbent see for those who win elections. this charter amendment will strengthen separations of powers. we learned about checks and balances, the separation between the executive branch, and the legislative branch, but that separation of powers breaks down when they're in san francisco when there's a vacancy on the board of supervisors. when there's a vacancy on the board, the mayor appoints a new member of our legislative branch. this charter amendment proposes as a solution to this hole in our powers, we'll let the voters elect our elected officials. the lack of checks and balances can create the temptation for unethical deal making. that happens when there's a small select group of people who are political insiders with the mayor. who will determine who gets elected verses the actual voters of this city. the board of supervisors term limits create an incentive for supervisors to look for new jobs before this term expired. we have had a number of vacancies happen when people move to san francisco, to a public office in san francisco, and certainly we have that coming before us, this next year when one of two supervisors will be going to sacramento. so really we want to have a measure that will restore the public's faith in our city government and do ensure voters are given the ability to choose their supervisors and not have their local supervisors selected for them by one person -- a vacancy is not an opportunity to give an incumbent an advantage, but where voters can determine who will represent them from a more even playing field of candidates. the way this proposal is going to work is that the mayor would have 28 days to appoint an interim supervisor who would not be eligible to run and subsequent run-on election. the election would be scheduled -- create a special election for the determination of who will be the supervisor with incumbentcy. that run off would happen between 126 and 140 days in the future of that -- after that vacancy unless it could be consolidated with another election in 180 days or consolidated with election with more than 180 days if the mayor and the board approves board of elections. we want to have flexibility when these elections will occur and if there's -- we can consolidate if we need to. if there's just a special election for supervisor seat, we're not going to be the director of elections would not be able to add any other ballot measures on the election. it would be about the election of the supervisor. i do have an amendment of the whole, so today will not be the day for a final vote on this measure and that's to create the technical amendment and i'll pass these out to members of the committee. it's a technical amendment. thank you. currently, the vacancy election could be consolidated with another regular election, but not another special election that is also scheduled or another special election scheduled after the vacancy election is called. if we didn't change this language that i'm going to provide, we wouldn't be able to schedule a special election even if there's another special election happening. this amendment will allow the special election to be consolidated and the language is here. do i need to read it into the record so i can submit that. we're ensuring if there's any special election that the special election for the supervisor and the supervisor district will be consolidated with that special election in the future. okay. and i have one other amendment and that is on -- i did talk with deputy city attorney john givener and that's on page 1, line 22. i believe that's where we're going to add the mayor shall appoint -- to fill the vacancy within 28 days. that 28 day limit will apply to all vacancies and the mayor making an appointment for all vacancies in elective office in san francisco. and that might trigger a change in the title, and if mr. givener can explain how that would get done, make sure that we can have these all done today, so we can continue this to the next rules committee meeting. >> sure, deputy city attorney, john givener. actually i don't have the final version in front of me, but basically we'll change the short title and long title to reflect that the charter amendment now applies to 28-day window for appointment to all elected vacancy other than a vacancy in the office of the mayor. the other amendment that supervisor avalos mentioned regarding consolidation with a special election doesn't require a change in the title. so after this meeting, the committee adopts its amendments and we'll submit the final version to the clerk with the correct title. >> great, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for bringing this forward after a lot of thoughtfulness with the report from 2014 and analysis, and i wanted to thank aileen. we were at her memorial. aileen from friends of ethics, championed so many different efforts from social justice to hiv and aids, but also cleaning up government and good government changes like this. i wanted to also say that the last coreport as supervisor avalos mentioned that san francisco is an audit and there's only -- identified by the report. although they weren't able to track down the other charter cities in the state, but even the couple of examples when an individual appoints for vacancies are strange, its colorado's governor and the university of colorado and board of regions and also the city of philadelphia, but it only impacts a city commissioner who is appointed by the mayor, so san francisco is really a rarity and this would put us more in line with good government, better checks and balances as supervisor avalos mentioned and it's good for democracy in our city. i wanted to be added as a coresponser, this takes away that incumbent advantage that's clear when we look at the central committee races to many other efforts and then how it has been abused by our city in the past where someone resigns and then it's used to really give that leg up and a huge advantage to people, it really has been an abusive process that's against democracy. this helps set us like other jurisdiction so we have good government and democracy. i support the amendment. >> thank you very much. i wasn't going to say much because i think i've said many comments about this. i will just say that, again, to repeat myself, i do actually support putting on a time cap for when -- that the mayor must make a decision. i think that's a good thing. not putting people in limbo or informations in limbo and making sure that there is someone to fill that spot and there isn't that -- what i guess people would call bathroom dealing going on. i do support that. but i'll stand by and say based on my previous comment, the last comment -- there wasn't a trend as to one type of system that any jurisdiction used to fill vacancy, and so i don't think that report was very conclusive, that what is proposed before us today is the best way to go. secondly, as i've said before, our system right now in terms of filling vacancies is not perfect. i think it does work. we have seen that the mayor, mayor ed lee has a 50% success rate with his appointees actually being able to succeed in the elections that they go through which makes for appointments and two of them have continued in their roles. so again, that shows that even with the potential power of incumbent sees that these appointees could fail at elections. so again, i'm not going to repeat too much of what i said in the past. this proposal sounds good on paper, but in reality, i think that putting someone in an interim role who is not held accountable to constituents because they're not allowed to continue in that position and run in a subsequent election, but who will be able to take votes at the board of supervisors, i think that's dangerous. not to mention the difficulty in finding someone to fill in a role that might be three months or six months or so. so in any case, i still hold my same position as i did before, but i'll be okay with supporting the amendments made today, and we'll look forward to our future discussions on this. so do we at this time -- i think we had a motion to accept amendments is that correct? all right. we'll take the amendments without objection or did we have an issue? i'm sorry. we did not take public comment on the amendments or any of that. we have to take public comment before we make the amendment. >> i don't think you took public comment on the item at all. >> no, we didn't. >> i have one speaker card, but if anyone else is here for item 5, let's have them come up. i have bruce bowen who is here. >> thank you, good afternoon. my name is bruce bowen. i live in district 8 but i grew up in the richmond district. i'm a member of the dolores heights club. i'm speaking on my behalf. i had a number of comments on the proposed -- my comments were expressed by mayor avalos elegantly. this is a great process and it creates an amendment that's fair and more open and more democratic and it's common sense and i respectfully request it's approved by the committee and the board. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, chair, karen here on my own behalf unless the county is a former member of the friends of ethics council. they did send a great letter this morning, so hopefully you can see it before the vote. they send it a little late. i just wanted to say i'm glad -- thank you supervisor mar for bringing up -- aileen wouldn't cry. i do think this measure -- all thoel as you pointed out, the last report didn't say this is the the perfect way to do it. it's an improvement. it doesn't seem fair that one person would get to decide who represents an entire supervisor district. so to me that's the main reason to support this. and that -- choosing one person making that decision carries out. that's the power of incumbent see even if it's a short of time. i would think that would work for me. i think that person has to have time to prove themselves. they seem like they know what they're doing. it does have an effect. i like the -- would not be eligible to run. i urge you to support it and thank you for listening. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm sue vaun and i'm asking you to support this proposal. it's called for special lucks -- no other elections held within 100 days of the notice of the vacancy and as continue excellent job. i wish we had a system in place by the late 1990s when mayor willierown was appointing people to the board of supervisors on an ongoing basis. this proposal returns the power of the appointment quote on quote directly to the people. it was perceived accesses of willie broub that made voters return to district elections and this is going to finish this process. supervisor tang, you started your appointment -- but there are two work arounds to this and one is anyone who wishes to run in a special election or a regularly scheduled one within 180 days can decline the appointment. or two, anyone who wishes to serve as a member of the board of supervisors can accept the appointment and run in some election after the special election or the special or the one within 180 days, so it doesn't end at somebody's political career, just postpones it. so i urge you to support this. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 5. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and just for clarification given somethin

willis. >> gypsy jillian willis. >> yeah. i mean, at first, we had no idea, like gypsy, what kind name is gypsy? we thought maybe a stripper, i don't know what. but anyway, my mom, with that information, with the lady's name, went to my dad and confronted him. >> martin denied everything, said alexis. and then the very next day, he made a curious suggestion. >> my father came to my mom and told her that she needs a face lift. >> that is -- i mean, lots of women decide they want face l t lifts. >> yeah. >> but when their husband comes and says, you need one. >> it was really out of the blue. >> the face lift that preceded michelle's death. and now here was gypsy jillian, martin's choice for a live-in nanny, someone he just happened to find. >> so she got the job. she moved into the house just a couple weeks after my mom's death. >> martin's daughters were furious. they wanted to know what other secrets their father hadee keeping. they expanded their investigation. >> my sister put a blog up and asking for any with information about my father to contact her. we discovered he had had so many different affairs. there was a lot of different things that came out. >> with their aunt linda, they took all the information they gathered on martin and brought to it the authorities. >> pushing and pushing, yeah, to get them to investigate. >> the local police had never investigated michelle's death as a crime, not from the very first day. remember that coroner's report? michelle's death was caused by heart disease. >> for us to be able to overcome together like a medical examiner's office that said she died of natural causes is a huge task. >> but the women were relentless. they met with jeff robinson and doug whitney who worked for the county attorney. >> you took them seriously right off the top, the daughters? >> not really. >> then they started to look at some evidence the amateur eu evidence of murder but still -- >> they started to challenge a lot of things that their father, who he was, what he was, what he was doing. >> i said, you know what, i'd like to really find out if he was a doctor. >> yes, martin did really have a medical degree. >> but he fraudulently got into medical school by faking the results? >> he obviously took someone else's, there was a different date of entrance and different date of graduation and all of them were straight as. >> then he dug deeper and found before he faked his college transcri transcripts, martin was convicted of forging checks. now, to investigators the respected doctor was looking anything but respectable. >> it tells me that this is not the guy that goes to church every sunday with his family. >> so there are two martin mcneils. >> there's two martin mcneils? still, it didn't mean he murd murdered his wife, did it? >> no, no. >> martin's daughter, they offen offenses, the fraud, infidelity, how he encouraged their mother to have surgery and take so many drugs afterwards, they were certain their father killed their mother. >> he betrayed us to our very core. everything we thought in our life was all shattered. >> all a sham. >> it really is, it's been a whole sham. >> but not everyone in the family felt that way. damien, martin's only son, stuck by his father. >> he had a hard time after my mom died. i talked to him about my concerns and he didn't want to believe that my father was capable of killing my mom. >> but alexis' conviction was absolute. every time she set foot in her parents' home, only one thought went through her mind. >> here's where he killed her. >> and yet there was still no hard evidence that martin killed michelle. almost two years went plain sight. then, in january 2009 -- >> suddenly, they're both arrested. >> yes. >> but not for what people might have thought. >> no, no. >> r. >>> coming up, two lovers cook up a secret crime. >> he stole gisele's identity? 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willy ald -- willy adams is here with us today. >> good day chairwoman and tang and cohen and mar. good seeing you again. and you're right, combass tore kounalakis is in washington dc. she has a standing appointment. since she's been on the commission, he's brought a lot of energy to the commission. he's very poised. very intelligent. her knowledge of real-estate and i know especially for chairwoman tang and supervisor cohen, clearly we have gender balance on the port commission as you know. it is for women commissioners and inthumb -- antrum director and i'm the only male. it's incredible having four intelligent commissioners. we get along well. they talk so much. i never get a chance to speak, but with that being said, i enjoy that. i will say that i wanted to share one thing about the ambassador kounalakis. we have a navigation center and it's about ready to close. and her and her husband, mario went down to peer 8 to do a walk-through and i have been down myself. you would think someone of her statute, but she's very regal and very down to earth. she went down there and she understood about the homeless problem. she reached out. she talked to the tenants down there at peer 180 and that was impressive to me and she understood we got money for wars but not for the poor. she understood that. i'm here and i rise to support her nomination and i tell you, she has been a jewel. she fits in, and i'll say it again, we have the best commission in this city. dynamic, thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. all right. any other members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. come on up. >> good luck with your reappointment on this san francisco bay. [singing] and we got public comment here and here's what i have to say, call in the commissioner ride along through the commission shore, we can change our lives again and be free once more. ride commissioner ride upon the port commission to a world that will be there and we'll make it better still. ride commissioner ride. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 2. seeing none, public comment closed. we had a motion from supervisor cohen. seconded and supervisor mar. we'll take that without objection. congratulations ambassador. >> mr. clerk, call item 3, please. >> motion three is a motion confirms mayor's appoint of lee hsu to the mu nins pal transportation agency board of directors, term ends in march 1, 2019. >> mr. lee for a presentation. >> i'm excited to be here and thank you for your time today and for this opportunity to serve our city. i know this is a big responsibility and i will work hard to be a good listener and thoughtful board member. a little background on me. i like to describe myself as a first generation san franciscan. i was born over seas and my parents brought me over from iowa for a better life. and hard work and luck, i feel blessed to be here before you. i studied economics, law and worked for a judge and i worked in financial and technology and in education as a computer skils teacher at our public schools. i especially working in education because i believe a key to a better life he -- especially people from low income. i think we all believe that. what we have learned is transportation is just as important for upward mobility. there were several research studies last year that hit the point home including one from harvard that suggested that commuting time was the single most important factor in escaping poverty. that's really interesting, right. but it makes sense. we always support education because it prepares you for jobs. but what this research makes clear is getting to those jobs is at least as important. i had doors open for me because of public education. but the reality was my parent his to work their butts off to make it all possible. i remember a time when my mom used to drive an hour to go to her -- the less took it took to get home the less time they had with their kids or catching their breath for the next workday. that's what all people deal with whether families are single especially in a city like san francisco that's denser and more expensive all the time. education matters and so does transportation. i live in west port with my spouse and kids. we believe in doing public work. we feel lucky to live near muni station. before that we lived in mission bay and we were in dog patch and those were our favorite plays to eat and go out. we spent time in the city. we're in the richmond regularly for school or after school events and a lot of great play ground and parks over there. we drive, we take muni, we walk and we bike. our routine centers around getting his kids to skill and our jobs. walking and riding muni is my first choice. i have to drive my kid to school. i haven't tried to uber or lift yet, but friends say that's neat and i can see why people like them. i like good old fashion taxi cabs. i took one over here now. although we don't commute by bike, we do family biking as one of our favorite activities. we bike city streets and anywhere we can find a safe route where we want to explore. we're very much multi mobile. i've taken light rail all the way to san jose and back on many occasions and it's not a bad trip. it takes longer than the car but it's something i do because it's available in case we work on the train. that's why i care a lot about a good balance that keeps opportunities open for everyone who lives or works in san francisco. if we enabled faster commute and better access for those who want to take public transit, it means fewer cars on the road for those who can't give up their cars. that's a win-win. make it better for those who want to take public transit and works better for those who have to take cars. those who have to take cars are kids and seniors. in my area, there's a lot of seniors. the ability to get to where they need is important, that's increasing all the time. so it's very important. as far as kids, it's an issue because we're concerned about keeping families in san francisco especially middle and income and lower income families. some of them can take public transit, but a lot of time when you have young kids, it's hard if you don't have a vehicle to get them around. so for the hard working families and singles who rely on mta to get them to where they need to go for work or jobs or for school or jobs, for seniors and kids and for those who needs cars and especially for those struggling to make ends meet and need public transit to improve their situation, i want to help however i can to make things work for them. the education and transportation, those are the two pillars of upward mobility. so i've been working education for a number of years and i keep on doing that and i would like to ask for your support for my nomination so i can get cracking on transportation as well. thank you very much. i look forward to working with you. >> thank you very much for your presentation and i'm really glad that the mayor's office has finally made an appointment for this vacancy to replace the late jerry lee who was a wonderful director on the mta board of director and when he left i really felt that there was a gap missing in terms of making sure we have folks who are on that board who represent the views of the outer neighborhoods and making sure there's districts 4 and 10 where it's harder for many of us to get around via public transportation, and many of our neighborhoods also have, as you said a lot more seniors, and a lot more families with children and as much as they would like to ride public transportation, do have to rely on driving and so i do appreciate that balance perspective that you bring. but again, one of the things that i think is really important to me and i'm sure to others as well is how it is that we really serve our outer neighborhoods where there's struggles. and so i don't know if you have any requesteds around how it is we can help some of those outlining districts, and i'm sure that's something that my colleagues will ask about as well. but that's something that you hear time and time again that it can't just be transient only. yes, it might be transient first, but it can't be transient only for some families. >> yeah, sure. i think that the options are pretty good going into downtown. i think the challenges are when you have to go from north to south or kind of connect on different directions, but it depends on the area. i think we live really close to muni station, so it's a lot easier for us, but we still have to rely on our cars. i think that's going to be true. i believe the key is to kind of focus on the most heavily use the transient. we look at the lines used heavily. bus rapid transient is good in some areas, but i do think we have to be mindful that some people are going to have to use their cars. the way i like to put it, we want to make transient better so cars are less attractive, but we don't want to make cars less attractive. a lot of good ideas are underway in terms of stream lining access from the furthest distance. the very end going in can be a long trip. the gear brt is very important project in speeding up the commute downtown. i think with district 10, the key challenges is with all the development going on, you have so many projects where there needs to be a lot of attention paid to those coming into the neighborhood because they have to get downtown for work. >> actually i think it's more complex. it's not just addressing the new the mtc. >> but we did go out there, and what i would say is this, i would love for you or anyone on your team to show me what your concerns are. i will go in person and ride trains. >> i can send the e-mails from constituents. they'll show you. >> i figured i'd be getting those. >> fair enough. one of the things that i'm already admire about many of the mta commissioner they're accessible. not only do you see them out on transportation. i've ran into ramos many times on bart, but i would like you to -- i guess -- when you serve in public office whether an appointed position, you have an opportunity to grow. i want to encourage you as personal growth, but there's a professional growth that occurs in the lime light. what's more indicative of a leader is how you recover from the stumbles and acknowledging mistakes. one of the things i would like to encourage you learning from my mistakes and stumbles is to be approachable and accessible so when constituents have concerns about transportation, the movement of the line or the movement of a bus stop, you're able to receive the e-mails and process them in the -- you joked about the change happening in the south eastern kwau drent of san francisco. but it's a real change and you have people living there for generations that's nervous and unsure about the change. so we've got, for example, general hospital, the rebuild of the hospital, it's a beautiful new seismic building, but we did street scaping work on widening the streets and we're talking about hours of public comment potentially moving the 22 line -- is it the 22 line, dylan. or the 33 that runs in front of general hospital. so you mentioned having a lot of seniors in your district. i have a significant enough. we're in the process of doing a ground breaking of a new senior center and campus, and it's really important that we put our self in their position. we want our seniors to be fiercely independent, but it's a challenge when on public transportation. something else to consider when think beginning the southeast is it's hilly and public housing, at least two of my units, patrel hill and hunter's view. you have bus lines bringing those to the top of the hill and i have a big senior population to needs access to the doctor's office and the grocery store. this is not so much of a question, but more of an opportunity just to share with you my experiences and some of my legitimate concerns. mta has been phenomenal at being agreeable and understanding when concerns have come up and i'd love to see the commission, you, also remain in that same way just outside of your own experience, but being able to emphasize and connect with people. and then also needless to say, you mentioned in your personal story about coming to iowa as a child. there's many people in the southeast that speaks -- it goes from san bruno valley into china town and making sure they're safe on those transportations, that they're not victims of crimes of opportunity. and or you're working with my office and other organizations and trying to bridge that barrier, that language barrier that exists, culture barrier that exists and you know, understanding some may be afraid and some may not be and so there's a lot of things that's at play here that i'm just highlighting for you for your attention. >> sure. thank you, i appreciate that. and please know i'm somebody who always -- i'd like to listen. sometimes that can be a bad thing, but i want to be accessible and always look forward to hearing from you -- >> i don't think listening is ever a bad thing. but if you listen and don't respond, that's bad. sometimes a response could be not exactly what the person is asking you to do, but a response is always needed and i think from my experience when you don't respond, that's where people get frustrated and they become -- with local government and you see the frustrations that we see almost everyday. but if we're able to be responsive and say i disagree, here's my perspective, that goes a long way. thank you chair. i'm done. >> supervisor mar. >> just in responding to the dialogue between you and supervisor cohen, i appreciate your listening, but also your thoughtfulness in how you're thinking about not just the outlining area, but the south coast. you have expertise of how tricky west portal is and from the transient station to float which is another nightmare being fixed and the 19th avenue work that supervisor tang is working on, that's in the south south connecter that's forgotten not just from the areas in the southwest part of the city, but all the way north toward through the richmond and supervisor farrell district to golden bridge. i think you have a thoughtfulness that i really appreciate. the mta board is going to be more important as we pass transportation funding measures through t-30. i think your leadership is great that supervisor cohen is mentioning. i appreciate your thoughtfulness. >> i would like to add onto what supervisor cohen said about switch backs. it's one of those things where we understand for mta, it's necessary to do in our system. just imagining you're getting home from a long day at work and kicked off the l-line and you have to wait for the next train or bus to take you home or maybe it's not coming within five minutes and you start walking and your whole day is ruined. i think it's more so than the inconvenience. it's the fact that a lot of our residents feel the fact this can happen in the outer neighborhood means that mta doesn't care about the residents who live far out and i'm one of those, so that's something that even though we know is a necessary part of our mta system, but really trying to make sure that is not occurring during rush hour traffic time or travel commute times and making sure the department is following protocols and announcement and there's a train following within five minutes. that's occurring. taking this opportunity to share that. supervisor and i have been trying to address this. >> i'll work hard on that. >> thank you. >> all right. at this time, then i think there's no further comment from the committee. we will open up item 3 to public comment. and first i want to acknowledge that we have darling choi from supervisor nor man yee's office and a couple of public comment cards. roger ritter. carol eto, george wooding and if anyone else is here for item 3, just please line up right there by that wall. all right. >> thank you, all. >> thank you supervisor tang and mar and cohen. my name is carlene troy. legislative aide to yee. on behalf of the supervisor yee, i'll be sharing his letter of support for the mayor's nomination of lee to the board of directors. supervisor lee has known -- from the neighborhood association. as a parent, educator, driver and bicyclist, lee understands multiple perspectives and needs of our community. mta has the power to effect how all of us move and travel throughout our city. lee will represent a critical and independent community voice on this body. lee is a dedicated, enthusiastic leader who brings those together. he focuses on the fact and facilitates community input. his background on education, financial and technology will serve him well in analyzing and evaluating transportation policies. he's a strong addition to the mta board and supervisor yee echoes the neighborhood association and community members support for lee's nomination to the mta board and hopes the rules committee will approve his nomination as well. thank you. >> thank you very much for being here on behalf of supervisor yee. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is george wooding. i'm a former president of the west twin peak central council and current president of coalition for san francisco neighborhood. and i really know lee to -- i believe he'll be a great appointment to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. i've known him for a long time. and found that he's very honorable, very efficient, a very good communicator. and i think you are all driving to that point. i think he's someone who does listen. i think he is someone who does respond. he's led several school activities. he's led several neighborhood organizations. all volunteerism and when you have children, it is very hard to volunteer. i ran into him the other day as he was taking his son from cariton school, i believe to catch the 44 tara cita 44 is that's the right number. norman lee likes him and i like him. i think he'll be a credit to the board, and i think he'll solve great problems on the west side that have been stalled and i think it also be looking very carefully at the collins area and what can be done and visitation valley. there's a lot to be done, and i think he's the right guy to do it. thank you very much. >> thanks for being here, mr. wooding. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors, i'm roger -- we represent 20 hoa's in the neighborhood organizations in western san francisco. i've known lee for many years. he's a great open, sympathetic, descent man who does listen to people. he's an active member of the council and of our community as we have heard, he's a parent, and he understands the needs of west side residents for transportation, options and alternatives, i and i think he's tuned to the fact that the south western part of san francisco like the south eastern part of san francisco, often seems to be left out of some transportation advancements. supervisor tang was mentioning the switch back problems, supervisor cohen mentioning the same problem and i think lee will work actively not only for our particular neighborhoods, but for the entire city, so our council has unanimously endorsed this nomination and respectfully urges the appointment to the commissioner. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. ritter. next speaker. >> good afternoon, chair tang and mar and cohen. >> my name is carol and i'm speaking as an individual. thank you for referencing jerry lee who is a close friend of mine. it energizes me to be here to support lee. jerry was appointed many years ago when i was serving as a commission and we would talk about our roles and responsibilities so i know he took this position very seriously. i think lee will continue that transition of course from what you have heard, but in addition to that, i want to share my experience getting to know lee and his family and why i believe strongly that he would be excellent appointment. as a west side resident for over 35 years ask a board member of west side -- i share with lee to preserve and enhance the well-beings of our neighborhood. high quality transportation has been spoken to. besides his dedication and leadership as president, he help today reorganization the west portal association and work with the merchant groups to enhance the commercial corridor. lee's personality created more community engagement in the west portal neighborhoods and public schools that has -- during his initial run for a seat on the san francisco school board, i know lee worked very hard to understand city wide issues and improve transportation needs and pedestrian issues. lee and his family are frequent users of transportation services and could be a voice. from the many constituents who care about transportation improvement and meet high quality levels i ask going your support for lee's appointment on the metropolitan transportation agency. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is bez and i'm here today as a parent and a community member. i've lived in san francisco for the past 22 years. and we were one of the lucky families who won the lottery, so our daughter got into claire ton and she completed kindergarten this past year. that's where i got to learn lee on a personal and professional level. i volunteer quite a bit for her daughter's school and i served on parent committees and i volunteer in the classroom and that is mainly where i got to know lee very closely. i worked in the computer lab as a parent volunteer where he was teaching, and there, i witnessed firsthand his ability to connect with all people. the kids loved him. it was a very diverse group of kids. they trusted him. they loved playing with the software. it was the only -- it wasn't really homework, but it was the only time my daughter would do anything after school is play with the program that lee taught her. so, his curriculum resonated with the kids and i watched their confidence build through the year. he was patient and calm and the kids loved him. but he connected well with parents. the teachers and staff. and you talk about -- you mentioned before his ability to listen and sort of respond to issues. i - our daughter had one of the toughest teachers at claire ton and she's a kindergarten teacher, but he's tough and strict, and there were times when in the morning, i would talk to lee, how can i help and what should we do and we would set up and the teacher would say i don't like it like that and we want it that way. lee wasn't attached to his way. he was willing to listen and make accommodations and i saw that in several situations where staff -- staff -- yes, we actually have time limits for each speaker. i apologize. >> if you finish your sentence. that would be great. >> i highly recommend lee. i think he's a great commuter, and an advocate for the community and he cares about people. he connects about everyone and i have confidence that is for the mta he'll do a great job, and i live in amazon next to the -- >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i'm frank noto of the neighborhood association, but i'm here as a parent, grandparent with kids in the schools and a small business owner in supervisor cohen's district. while lee doesn't live in our neighborhood, we have worked with him on numerous civic issues and we found him [inaudible] of others very thoughtful and a good listener. i think it's very important we have someone representing a variety of the demographics that he addresses in the asian-american community which is not well represented on the board and parents with children that supervisor mar mentioned. i also think his background, you heard from supervisor yee in finance and economics will be helpful on the board. since i work in the community almost everyday to my office in the southeast corner, you can be assure that i will be all over him on issues that are plenty horror stories to the bay view area. and in conclusion, i just want to say i support him and i hope you will too. thank you. >> thank you, mr. noto. next speaker, please. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is james rice. i'm a west portal resident and a parent. and i want to speak in support of lee. but briefly i want to start with a quick story about the challenges that mta faces in our neighborhood particularly around communication and perception. so on my street, mta recently removed a street parking spot. there was no alert spot. no notification and my neighbor got a ticket the next day. we talked to yee's office to try and resolve it and they said it's something mta is dealing with. everyone through their hands up in the air and they didn't know what to do. i and my neighbors were frustrated. i think lee has tremendous values in opening up those communication values more broadly. i have seen lee. i've worked with lee on improving neighborhood schools. and i've seen lee in action. he's a great listener and very accessible and i think he'll help sf-mta. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm howard, and i'm pleased to support my neighbor. he lives two blocks closer to the west portal than i do. i asked him at our neighborhood meeting, why do you want this very hard job and he explained to me he wants it to for his boys. and he's dedicated. not just today, but in the future. and i see that as being a very refreshing thing for any board and anything that happens in this city. and he's going to hear from people. i can't walk that extra block. i need this parking place in front of my shop today. everybody is going to talk about today. we have one environment organization that says will you want to live in san francisco tomorrow? lee is saying, well, someone else want to live in san francisco tomorrow. and i'm looking forward to that. he lives closer to me so we can chat about these things in the future. that's an essential thing for this city not to have people say me, me, me, now, now. muni is for this city and lee knows that. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm karen and i'm a resident of west portal. i am a member of the syrian committee of greater portal west neighborhood association and i'm a board member of the west portal merchant association. both organizations strongly and anonymously support lee's nomination and election to this office. excuse me. a few personal notes, he is a man who is dedicated. he's ethical. he's thoughtful. and considerate of everyone's opinion and considers it, hears it, and acts upon them. so that's -- just listening is enough. he needs to take action and lee does in a very responsive and respectful way. he's made a very strong and lasting impression on the west portal neighborhood. and all the west twin peak area and he's the source of person that san francisco needs in his honesty, integrity and ethical values. as i said, the neighbors and the west portal merchants are supportive of his nomination to this position. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, mraesz. -- please. >> my name is ben and i'm a west portal resident and i'm here to speak in support of lee in my previous life, i worked at the city and health zero program. and had the chance to interact with quite a few mta directors over the year and lee has all of the characteristics that we seek. as you know, transportation planning in san francisco is difficult. it involves trade-offs and it involves a lot of groups, but lee understands the basic principals of safety, reliability and how we build that system and to listen, long term thinking. all the traits we want. so i encourage you to support lee for this position. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor. my name is suzanne von. i'm member of the sierra club. i haven't been following this appointment process all that well. but i want you -- want to urge you in your questions to emphasize the need to appoint somebody to this vacancy who understands the vital environmental necessity of moving towards a truly transient city. we need to take seriously the warnings of client -- it's a hard task ahead of us from moving away from a car based city to a city based on walking and public transportation. and i just, on my way here, i was on the 38 rapid, and i got stuck in traffic. there's no better example of why it's important to move brt along. it took me so long to get down here. i want to remind everybody including the nominee, it's against the law for operators to -- it's against the law to operating. it's a good reason. endangering our senior citizens and children to preventing the current eviction and displacement prices ruling san francisco. there should be a study -- somebody should be commissioning a study from the mta to find out the nexus between the private shuttle and housing crisis. thank you. >> thank you very much. next singer, please. >> and speaker. >> and speaker. >> looks like the ayes have it for lee from iowa. free, only one muni free. and good luck with your appointing, mta board member lee. on the bus, and on the train, glad you came today. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is mike young and i live in park measure said. in the short time i have known lee, i found him to be a man of intelligence, integrity and generosity. he shares his knowledge freely and when i ask him a request about issues in the neighborhood, i know i'll get an objective and balanced response. one that has been considered and seen from all sides. and he always responds to me within 24 hours. i think lee would be an addition to the board and to the mta board of directors and a citizen of san francisco. he's the kind of representative i would want on the board. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. at this time, any other members who wish to speak on item 3, come forward. seeing none. public comment is closed. colleagues. supervisor mar. >> i did want to respond to a couple of things mentioned about the leadership of mr. lee. i think the point made by somebody about supervisor yee's office effort to respond to community concerns about the loss of a parking space on west portal, it's a challenge for us as supervisors because we have no authority over those issues and we have to go through the mta board or staff for those issues, but i know supervisor yee worked very hard and his staff to respond, but i think as we appoint mta commissioners, we're looking at people that support strong community engagement like lee does and i know when he met with angelina from my staff, that was a key theme of ensuring that neighborhoods, merchant associates are listened to and that's a key role of the mta board members, but he has the big picture by understanding by maintaining the amount of parking spaces, sometimes has a negative impact on our transient first and issues first. so i like that lee has a bigger picture of san francisco not as an island, but a bigger region we have to improve transient. i wanted to say to have howard from the sierra club and others support him in addition to neighborhood groups and others is significant. he can listen and be thoughtful about many different perspectives. to vaughn's point, sue and i participated in a district 1 grouping of transient and -- sue missed the meeting where we discussed lee's appointment. i'm supporting a number of the cac members and transient leaders. i wanted to thank everyone for the great comments about him and i'm looking forward to working closely with you as well. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i concur with statements made here. those who knows lee in a professional capacity. i'm glad that there's finally someone to be filling up that vacancy on the mta board of directors. at this time, do we have a motion? >> i'll move we appoint lee to the municipal transportation board of directors. >> second. >> seconded by supervisor cohen. we'll take that without objection. congratulations. >> all right. if we can call item 4, now >> item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending in the april 27, 2018 to the sunshine ordinance that issing force. two seats and two applicants and they require a waiver. speaker: thank you. we have victoria and eric for these two seats. if you're here, if you can come up and make a presentation. >> i'm one of the journalist nominees for the san francisco sunshine ordinance task force. i'm thrilled to be here today. i've always had a firm belief in public service and i look for an opportunity to serve my broader community particularly on commitments dealing with those that the task force deals with. they come close to my professional interest. it has been apart of my professional interest since i became a journalist after college. i used the new york city freedom of information law to obtain documents about new york city government. afterwards i attended hard ward lawsuit and clerk for the united states second circuit for appeals where i helped propose briefs for my judge rosemary about the federal freedom of information act. after my clerkship, i worked at the new york times company where once again i was a first amendment fellow and worked on numerous information cases both on the federal, state, and city level across the country. i moved to the san francisco region and i worked on these matters. i worked for the press foundation on the pro bono working on the freedom of information reform. and so i'm very interested and engaged on the subject matter and i look forward to the opportunity to work on it further on the task force. >> thank you very much. questions or comments. >> how do you pronounce your last nath. name. >> baranski. >> mr. eldon. >> my name is eric eldon and i'm a returning member to the task force. i was nominated as a replacement candidate last summer and began serving in september. i have been nominated to the seat 2 journalist position for the society of professional journalist. a little bit about myself, i am the cofounder and editor and chief of foot line which is a publication that covers an increasing number of neighborhoods around san francisco. i cover everything from civic news, things like bike lanes and parking, fires, crimes, et cetera, neighbor associations. >> thank you for covering bay view. >> thank you. we're happy to be there. and we cover local businesses. we cover local arts and culture and i think that goes well with my task force because i'm familiar with the groups and people who are coming for the task force looking for information and it has helped me do a better job on hood line. what i hope to bring to the task force and i admit to still getting my -- i'm still getting my head around the nuts and bolts of how it has all works and how it works with the city is to help the task force work with the rest of the city to automate the data and information requests that are coming across regularly. now, some of the requests that we'll get complaints around is for thousands of lines of information, about bus routes or meeting agendas or all sorts of information. and a lot of that seems to be in a parallel tract to what's happening in other parts of this city with data sf and other data, open data projects that the city is working on. what i'm heaping to -- what i'm hoping to see happen is work with city agencies so they can easily in an automated manner is answering questions without taking up time in the city, our time and their time working through the rather complex systems together right now. so, that's the basics of what i'm doing. i'm happy to answer any further questions. >> i'm glad to hear about what you're working on. >> i have made no progress yet. >> at least you're trying. i want to acknowledge that hood line has been just a really wonderful resource, i think for our communities and the day when you can cover all of our districts, that would be wonderful. it has been very thorough coverage and you know, we haven't seen that kind of reporting coverings for example, the outer sunset for i don't know how long. maybe never. >> any other questions. >> your technology industry with sunshine is of interest to me because there's all kinds of new apps and messaging things and i'm wondering if you can talk about sunshine and the new technology that allows much more hiding of communications right now. i'm sorry it's a philosophical question. >> i'm not expert on this. there are people who are. i think you have really great people, joy and jay and data officer of chief technology office for the city. they are very strong. what i think is happening on one hand, the sunshine ordinance when it was first introduced was the software was not in the same place it is now, and but it really addresses the sort of demand that people have to understand the details of how governments work and to get more transparency. it's really a matter of -- i think a lot of city it systems and the whole method of procurement and licensing is typically -- every organization has that problem whether or not they're a government or tech company or anything else. so i think on the one hand what you have happening is sitdys realize the right thing to the public -- that's what the sunshine ordinance was about. there's an increasing understanding to the public, like, hey, i can get this information and analyze it and i can learn from it. you see that like hood for america and you see independent that's software developers and those who have learned the skills on their own experimenting with public information. it's early days for all of this, but i believe the future of local news and the future of local government will be very much about automating and presenting much of what is hidden for technology reasons right now. and i think that's just going to be -- we're heading towards a world where they'll be transparency and i think it will help trust to be built. there aren't that many apps you can use right now that i think is impressive. >> thank you for your service on the task force. >> no other questions or comments. we're going to open up item 4 to public comment. if you have a public comment, please come forward. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is jeffrey king, and i'm here on behalf of the journalist northern california chapter to express my support of victor year and the renomination of eric to the sunshine task force. i also recognize my colleague on the spj north cal information committee, thomas peel who speaks in support of these well qualified candidates. spj is enthusiastic about both individuals. we're confident that victoria and eric will serve the task force faithfully. vicky comes before this committee as eric following a careful vetting process. victoria has worked with the new york times and the -- she earned her journalism degree. victoria's commitment to transparency is inherent to who she is and she's putting it to practice. eric is a journalist member of the task force served since september of 2015. as editor and chief of the pioneering hyper local journalist hood line and he's familiar with the diverse neighborhoods. many neighborhoods in the mist of profound change as we all know and it prevents -- on the sunshine ordinance task force. where he adjudicate public complaints, fairly and intelligently and with a vital context. we're pleased to nominee -- eric and victoria will serve the people well. i urge this council to send these candidates to the sunshine task force. thank you very much. >> next speaker. we had a speaker card, thomas peel. >> thank you supervisor. good afternoon, folks. i chair the free information committee of our local sp chapter and i just wanted to talk briefly about our nominating process which you know is in the ordinance itself for seats one and two. when a seat is open as the attorney seat was when their ramos stepped down, we offer notice of that broadly to the journalism and legal community. we had another very qualified candidate and frankly they were both interviewed for an hour each and vicky is an outstanding choice. her first amendment background is stellar. her legal education is about reproach. we did not ask journalism to come forward for eldon seat because we're pleased with his reputation on the task force. he has very quickly risen to be a leader there. he is chairing a committee. he is an advocate for change. we all know that the task force needs improvements in the way it does its business, frankly, meetings, backlogs, and we're bringing you two highly qualified professionals who will work toward modernization, change, and efficiency. i ask that you please passion their nominations onto the full board. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members who wish to speak on item 4. come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, do you have a motion. >> i have a question question. i would like to bring their eldon back up. eric, you're currently serving on the sunshine task force? >> how long? >> i think i was confirmed in august and my first meeting in september. >> of? >> last year. >> a few months. so so you're new to the task force which is fine. what are your thoughts around the task force. >> that's one of the things i learned about the reputation >> like journalism it self, i think dealing with public information requests and figuring out the right answers is a messy and -- a messy process, but vital for democracy and there's going to be tension between a body like this and various other parts of the city government in the say way there's going to be tension between journalist and the people we write about. but in order for everyone to work together and for us to function as a city and as a society, we have to deal with that. and i look at the task force and i look at the issues that have come up, calendars, agendas, minutes, things like that. and i think you know, an example, you may disagree with me, but i thought the work of michael patrellas and he criticizes us quite often. he does that to other people in the media and he does that to many of you here and to the task force. he brings a large number of requests, but the work he's done on calendars, i think, has really helped a lot of people in this city get information to the public that can built trust about how they're spending their time, who they're meeting with and those kinds of things. i can understand. i wouldn't personally wouldn't want to share my calendar with anyone, but that's an example of -- you might not like petrellas, but the way he operates, but it's good about the sort of request that can lead to improvements to everyone that we can all benefit from. it's messy, but fun. >> we work in politics, we know a little thing about mess. i get that. my concerns are really -- my question isn't about personality, right, although it's interesting that personalities can seep into the type of work that's being done. certainly there's a way to request a calendar without being kond sending and overall over [bleep]. do you agree? >> certainly. >> there's value in the sunshine task force. the reasons it was created. it fills an important function, an oversight and transparency. what's happening is that personality is muddying the water a little bit to where it's becoming unprofessional and i believe overall dysfunctional. how do you see yourself, and if you disagree, maybe you don't see it as dysfunctional. we probably have different views on that, but how do you see yourself continuing service on the sunshine task force, but bringing a since of decor um and respect, a member - any member can come to the sunshine task force and spend hours waiting just to be heard. i have had personal experience, colleagues have had personal experience where they've had childcare challenges. they spent hours waiting and need to pick up their children and there was no flexibility. you're on this body, i would hope to empower you to feel as though you could raise your voice and began to assert yourself in a way that can be yielding positive discourse in conversation so we can get to the task force issues. >> i mean, in terms of the time that is spent on the task force and the time that it takes, for us, for the people bringing complaints, for the members of the city and responding to them, i think everyone wants it to be more efficient. what i'm hoping to do more specifically on that front is get the help -- the support of the task force, develop policy ideas there that we can work with the supervisors, the board, work with other city agencies to say, okay, here's the main kind of complaints that are coming up very frequently. what if we can solve this another way and have a website where calendars are published every month so there's no responding that needs to be done. it's all there. i think -- initially there needs to be more analysis of what are the main types of complaints and if there's low hanging fruit that can be developed for to save everyone time. and i think longer term, i don't know if there's room for another committee or resources for anything else, but i think it's going to take a concerted effort by the task force, perhaps the board and for the various technology offices around this city to really try to get the information requests more stream lined. >> and -- >> decor -- >> i thought you were done. >> the decorum side, i try to connect myself that way. i don't have the historical context to know what things used to be like before last summer. so i can't speak to whether or not it was a more streamline than functional or polite body. i assume it was, but i'm working in that direction and i'll again encouraging other people. >> in the last couple of months you've been on, what's your example of inefficient see on the body? >> there's a lot of different levels to it. the easily solvable stuff, most easily solvable -- i wouldn't say easy, is someone will have an inform request that's large and city agencies will not be sure how to respond and they'll have different ideas of what is correct. and in some cases, the task force will follow different guidelines than what the city attorney is selling city agencies which is an ongoing thing we're trying to resolve. in many cases, there's human errors in putting together the larger requests that are problems that turn into complaints. if you can figure out some solutions to those sort of just like process problems, it will free up more time to get to the backlog and to get everyone through more quickly. in terms of any changes to parliament procedures, things -- the way that's conducted, i don't claim to know enough about that area to have any real advice, unfortunately. i mean, i'm not used to frankly sitting in these sort of committees in a meeting that last more than an hour for me is unusual. but you know, i think that's -- there's an effort right now to amend the ordinance that some of the people here today are working on -- >> are you working on that effort? >> i am not working on that directly. i'm supporting it. i believe the changes are working on have well thought out and should be implemented. i don't feel i'm informed enough to say much right now. >> i appreciate your perspective. >> at this time, do we have further questions or comments or do we have a motion. >> i would like to add a motion that we appoint victoria barneski. victoria to seat 1 on the sunshine task force. and i'd like to make a motion also to support eric eldon for seat 2. >> with residency waiver. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> and a waiver for both. >> congratulations. >>> all right. item 5, please. >> sorry, we're adjoined by supervisor avalos. >> item 5 is a charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to require the department of elections to hold a special election when there is a vacancy in the office of member of the board of supervisors, unless a regularly schedule election be held within 180 days of the vacancy and provide that the mayor shall appoint an interim supervisor to filet -- >> supervisor avalos. >> thank you very much. chair chang and thank you for scheduling this charter amendment. this is an amendment that has been before us in past committees and been at the full board as well. this is a new permutation of it addressing vacancies on the board of supervisors only and setting a time limit for vacancies in all offices on the -- in city government in san francisco. there's one premise that overrides this charter amendment and that is we want to elect our elected officials and elect them from a level playing field where no one has the power of income want see by merely being appointed by the mayor of san francisco. in 2013, lafco conducted a study about how jurisdictions fill vacancies in elected offices and when the striking results was how unique san francisco's appointment is where -- and there's no public process of how the mayor makes the appointments and there's no time restraints and -- she was not appointed to be an assessor until february of 2013. there's no examples of this lab of filling vacancy. the colorado appointees make -- in the district attorney office. the mayor of philadelphia makes appointments to fill appointments on -- this charter amendment will bring us in line with the processes for filling vacancies in other state and federal legislative bodies. i said this is about electing elected officials from a levelling playing field, so really this measure is really about promoting democracy. it brings us in line as i said with other state and federal government and how they - and how they handle vacancies. also strengthens our separation of powers. and reduces to actually expand to a much greater body of people, the voters, of the work of electing and not simply selecting who will represent them in office. and it limits incumbent see for those who win elections. this charter amendment will strengthen separations of powers. we learned about checks and balances, the separation between the executive branch, and the legislative branch, but that separation of powers breaks down when they're in san francisco when there's a vacancy on the board of supervisors. when there's a vacancy on the board, the mayor appoints a new member of our legislative branch. this charter amendment proposes as a solution to this hole in our powers, we'll let the voters elect our elected officials. the lack of checks and balances can create the temptation for unethical deal making. that happens when there's a small select group of people who are political insiders with the mayor. who will determine who gets elected verses the actual voters of this city. the board of supervisors term limits create an incentive for supervisors to look for new jobs before this term expired. we have had a number of vacancies happen when people move to san francisco, to a public office in san francisco, and certainly we have that coming before us, this next year when one of two supervisors will be going to sacramento. so really we want to have a measure that will restore the public's faith in our city government and do ensure voters are given the ability to choose their supervisors and not have their local supervisors selected for them by one person -- a vacancy is not an opportunity to give an incumbent an advantage, but where voters can determine who will represent them from a more even playing field of candidates. the way this proposal is going to work is that the mayor would have 28 days to appoint an interim supervisor who would not be eligible to run and subsequent run-on election. the election would be scheduled -- create a special election for the determination of who will be the supervisor with incumbentcy. that run off would happen between 126 and 140 days in the future of that -- after that vacancy unless it could be consolidated with another election in 180 days or consolidated with election with more than 180 days if the mayor and the board approves board of elections. we want to have flexibility when these elections will occur and if there's -- we can consolidate if we need to. if there's just a special election for supervisor seat, we're not going to be the director of elections would not be able to add any other ballot measures on the election. it would be about the election of the supervisor. i do have an amendment of the whole, so today will not be the day for a final vote on this measure and that's to create the technical amendment and i'll pass these out to members of the committee. it's a technical amendment. thank you. currently, the vacancy election could be consolidated with another regular election, but not another special election that is also scheduled or another special election scheduled after the vacancy election is called. if we didn't change this language that i'm going to provide, we wouldn't be able to schedule a special election even if there's another special election happening. this amendment will allow the special election to be consolidated and the language is here. do i need to read it into the record so i can submit that. we're ensuring if there's any special election that the special election for the supervisor and the supervisor district will be consolidated with that special election in the future. okay. and i have one other amendment and that is on -- i did talk with deputy city attorney john givener and that's on page 1, line 22. i believe that's where we're going to add the mayor shall appoint -- to fill the vacancy within 28 days. that 28 day limit will apply to all vacancies and the mayor making an appointment for all vacancies in elective office in san francisco. and that might trigger a change in the title, and if mr. givener can explain how that would get done, make sure that we can have these all done today, so we can continue this to the next rules committee meeting. >> sure, deputy city attorney, john givener. actually i don't have the final version in front of me, but basically we'll change the short title and long title to reflect that the charter amendment now applies to 28-day window for appointment to all elected vacancy other than a vacancy in the office of the mayor. the other amendment that supervisor avalos mentioned regarding consolidation with a special election doesn't require a change in the title. so after this meeting, the committee adopts its amendments and we'll submit the final version to the clerk with the correct title. >> great, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank supervisor avalos for bringing this forward after a lot of thoughtfulness with the report from 2014 and analysis, and i wanted to thank aileen. we were at her memorial. aileen from friends of ethics, championed so many different efforts from social justice to hiv and aids, but also cleaning up government and good government changes like this. i wanted to also say that the last coreport as supervisor avalos mentioned that san francisco is an audit and there's only -- identified by the report. although they weren't able to track down the other charter cities in the state, but even the couple of examples when an individual appoints for vacancies are strange, its colorado's governor and the university of colorado and board of regions also the city of philadelphia, but it only impacts a city commissioner who is appointed by the mayor, so san francisco is really a rarity and this would put us more in line with good government, better checks and balances as supervisor avalos mentioned and it's good for democracy in our city. i wanted to be added as a coresponser, this takes away that incumbent advantage that's clear when we look at the central committee races to many other efforts and then how it has been abused by our city in the past where someone resigns and then it's used to really give that leg up and a huge advantage to people, it really has been an abusive process that's against democracy. this helps set us like other jurisdiction so we have good government and democracy. i support the amendment. >> thank you very much. i wasn't going to say much because i think i've said many comments about this. i will just say that, again, to repeat myself, i do actually support putting on a time cap for when -- that the mayor must make a decision. i think that's a good thing. not putting people in limbo or informations in limbo and making sure that there is someone to fill that spot and there isn't that -- what i guess people would call bathroom dealing going on. i do support that. but i'll stand by and say based on my previous comment, the last comment -- there wasn't a trend as to one type of system that any jurisdiction used to fill vacancy, and so i don't think that report was very conclusive, that what is proposed before us today is the best way to go. secondly, as i've said before, our system right now in terms of filling vacancies is not perfect. i think it does work. we have seen that the mayor, mayor ed lee has a 50% success rate with his appointees actually being able to succeed in the elections that they go through which makes for appointments and two of them have continued in their roles. so again, that shows that even with the potential power of incumbent sees that these appointees could fail at elections. so again, i'm not going to repeat too much of what i said in the past. this proposal sounds good on paper, but in reality, i think that putting someone in an interim role who is not held accountable to constituents because they're not allowed to continue in that position and run in a subsequent election, but who will be able to take votes at the board of supervisors, i think that's dangerous. not to mention the difficulty in finding someone to fill in a role that might be three months or six months or so. so in any case, i still hold my same position as i did before, but i'll be okay with supporting the amendments made today, and we'll look forward to our future discussions on this. so do we at this time -- i think we had a motion to accept amendments is that correct? all right. we'll take the amendments without objection or did we have an issue? i'm sorry. we did not take public comment on the amendments or any of that. we have to take public comment before we make the amendment. >> i don't think you took public comment on the item at all. >> no, we didn't. >> i have one speaker card, but if anyone else is here for item 5, let's have them come up. i have bruce bowen who is here. >> thank you, good afternoon. my name is bruce bowen. i live in district 8 but i grew up in the richmond district. i'm a member of the dolores heights club. i'm speaking on my behalf. i had a number of comments on the proposed -- my comments were expressed by mayor avalos elegantly. this is a great process and it creates an amendment that's fair and more open and more democratic and it's common sense and i respectfully request it's approved by the committee and the board. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hi, chair, karen here on my own behalf unless the county is a former member of the friends of ethics council. they did send a great letter this morning, so hopefully you can see it before the vote. they send it a little late. i just wanted to say i'm glad -- thank you supervisor mar for bringing up -- aileen wouldn't cry. i do think this measure -- all thoel as you pointed out, the last report didn't say this is the the perfect way to do it. it's an improvement. it doesn't seem fair that one person would get to decide who represents an entire supervisor district. so to me that's the main reason to support this. and that -- choosing one person making that decision carries out. that's the power of incumbent see even if it's a short of time. i would think that would work for me. i think that person has to have time to prove themselves. they seem like they know what they're doing. it does have an effect. i like the -- would not be eligible to run. i urge you to support it and thank you for listening. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm sue vaun and i'm asking you to support this proposal. it's called for special lucks -- no other elections held within 100 days of the notice of the vacancy and as continue excellent job. i wish we had a system in place by the late 1990s when mayor willierown was appointing people to the board of supervisors on an ongoing basis. this proposal returns the power of the appointment quote on quote directly to the people. it was perceived accesses of willie broub that made voters return to district elections and this is going to finish this process. supervisor tang, you started your appointment -- but there are two work arounds to this and one is anyone who wishes to run in a special election or a regularly scheduled one within 180 days can decline the appointment. or two, anyone who wishes to serve as a member of the board of supervisors can accept the appointment and run in some election after the special election or the special or the one within 180 days, so it doesn't end at somebody's political career, just postpones it. so i urge you to support this. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item 5. all right. seeing none, public comment is closed. and just for clarification given somethin

willis. both are listed at 5'10" and born in 1971. the wrong michael willis was released last night, but this morning they found him and took him back into custody. the michael willis supposed to be released was given his freedom. >> the party bus driver that faced a judge for the first time today, this is the driver, james greene arrested on monday after receiving a tip that drugs and booze on his bus full of teenagers that he was driving. on board the party bus they found 33 minors with 30 bottles of hard liquor and a jar of marijuana. before drug charges, he will be arraigned on friday. >> it's a work in progress for many big cities and late tonight, san francisco's use of force policy was voted on at city hall. nbc's jean elle was there. what was decided? >> reporter: they proved this new use of force general order said police officers will strive to use minimal force. deescalating events to become the focus. the police officers's association said they agree on 80% of the document. they attempted to get them to approve that part of the policy and begin training immediately. >> this is such an important thing to move forward on. the fact that that will be held h

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willis saying he has earned a beer. yesterday, willis played roth federer. he had plenty of fans to cheer him sets. he calls the experience maesing. it was his girlfriend who convinced willishe telegraph of britain reports that an indian couple is accused of faking a mt. everest climb. a photo claims to show the woman at the peak of everest. the climb was reportedly shown nepal's government. the country stand by the couple's claim. >> entertainment weekly has a from you trailer for "sully." tom hanks plays sully sullenberger who landed a jet in an emergency landing on the hudson river years ago. the movie hits theaters on september 9th. >>> the world's largest investment firm this morning is calling for calm at the recent financial turmoil. stock markets are still stabilizing after last week's brexit vote in the uk. the dow has rebounded. blackrock chairman and ceo larry finks says people less willing to make long-term investments and afford cash. blackrock manages 6.47 trillion dollars in assets. that is a lot of money! we are pleased to welcome back larry fink to studio 57. >> why are you smiling? >> you have a huge responsibility, if you don't know. >> we know that ever

willis' fairy tale run at wimbledon coming to an end yesterday. willis who still lives with his parts is ranked 722nd in the world. lowest ranked player to win a match in a grand slam in nearly 30 years. federer easily beat him, but willisad his moments winning multiple games, so a win in itself. >> amazing. not my standard. >> willis has only earned about $350 on tour this week. this week at wimbledon, he madeoff $66,000. so definitely an awesome week for him. and he may have a book deal in the making after this. >> and then can he move ohe can the parents' house. thank you, andy. >>> breaking news this morning, 13 people in police custody in turkey. overnight raids linked to the istanbul airport attack. we're live with new details next. have pain medicine but zzzquil is different because why would you take a pain medicine when all you want is good sleep? zzzquil: a non-habit forming sleep-aid that's not for pain, just for sleep. the possibility of a flare was almost always on my mind. thinking about what to avoid, where to go... and how to deal with my uc. to me, that was normal. until i talked to my doctor. she told me that humira helps people like me get uc under control and keep it under control when certain medica