[gavel] we are back from recess. Seeing other names on the roster a chance to review the amendment i just want to say a couple things. I think the whole point forward trying to publish youras you get this language out of the charter and in the hands of the board. I think this is adding another layer that are not comfortable adding. I think we could accomplish what were trying to accomplish by doing it separately from this Charter Amendment and separately from this process. Im definitely committed to that and looking at grandfathering, and looking at feasibility and the kinds of things that are important to make sure that we put the appropriate number forward looking for. With that, colleagues, unfortunately im not comfortable supporting the change in this capacity but i am comfortable with alternative legislation that is language of the statement included in it in the future. With that madam clerk seeing other names on the roster please call the roll on the amendment supervisor tang ay
Control or that we lack the power to allow the shuttle to use the muni stops and there is a dispute about the interpretation about the state, vehicle code and that will be ultimately out by the courts. But if you support it and the people mean what they say, and then having the local, explicit local control to make a decision in San Francisco, whether or not to allow the shuttles to use the muni stops seems to make a lot of sense and so i move that we change the finance committee recommendation, on these from an opposed to a watch position, back to the original staff recommendation. Thank you, commissioner campos. Thank you very much. I will respectfully but strongly suggest that we vote against that motion. You know this kind of brings back memories of muni for youth, and supervisor weiner and commissioner weiner at the time went out of his way to kill that program. Op ed after op ed at the regional level, everywhere that he could he tried to destroy that program and he could not do i
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President ial race continues tuesday night for the new york state primary. Join us at 9 00 for viewer reaction and speeches, taking you on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio, in cspan. Org. Monday on of the communicators, george ford, chief economist of the Phoenix Center for Public Policy studies and mark cooper, Research Director for the Consumer Federation of america, debate the secs proposal allowing consumers to buy their own settop boxes instead of renting them from cable providers, a move to open up competition in the settop box market. They are joined by lydia bay ude. We think we need competition in the settop box market, and we want competition, competition, competition. Someplace who has worked; some places it hasnt. This is one where it really hasnt. We the lower prices and more choices with vigorous competition. The first question is is there a market for settop boxes . The answer really, in terms of what has been over the cable network, is no, because they
I would like to call to order, the finance committee to order. Our chair, spurp mar will be here shortly, and im lon down breed and we are going to get this started. To my left supervisor norman yee and jane, kim and we should call the record. Commissioner breed . Snechlt here. Compos . Absent. Kim present. Mar . Snechlt absent. Yee. Here. Could we approve the minutes, without objection, those are approved. We will take the Public Comment. When Public Comment has been completed. All right. Lets get to item number, 3. And we are now joined by commissioner mar. Who is the chair of the committee. Item three. State and federal leg sislativep date, this is an action item. Welcome. Happy to be here today. I thought that i would give this a brief, overview of where we are at the capitol and where we are. Could you identify yourself . I am sorry, yes. Mark watts, advocate for the transportation, authority in sacramento. The legislature welcomed the new Assembly Speaker yesterday, when he was s