Good afternoon. Everyone welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority finance committee for tuesday, may 13, 2014. My name is mark farrell im joined by supervisor chiu and supervisor tang and well be joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen. Madam clerk, any announcements . No amendments okay. Would we have roll call supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen absent. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Absent. We have quorum okay could we call item 2. The second item is the consent calendar items 2 to 3 are considered routine are considered routine all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine. Do we have to open this up for Public Comment. No. Can i have a motion to approve wojs. Well need a roll call supervisor chiu. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Absent. The consent calendar is approved you item 4. It the state and elective update an action item. Good afternoon, commissioners a quick repo
Here theres a photograph let me show you the photograph. President chiu. Sir why dont i suggest, sir. Why dont i suggest rather than you trying to present this consider asking both parties to present the information and bring back the hearing three weeks from now to give the departments time to respond any only question who shall and i i direct this information to. This board of supervisors and actually we did that i dont know who screened them but well be happy to provide them again. Okay. I i understand may 20th i want to give our city departments to review the information and give feedback unfortunately, theres not a meeting over is 27 so it will be june 3rd so supervisor breed we transparence a motion to get the information by the 20th and the city departments can provide us with any analysis on the third make sense. Yes seshtd by supervisor kim. Any discussions i want to concur it will be significant to get more information from dpw when were making decisions it is very difficult
Them with the equipment and the proprietary software so thats what went bankrupt and their international in canada the international portion of the company was purchased were waiting to determine whats going to happen with the systems but the same Companies Support of the negotiation system so hopefully, a a lot of big players. Im pleased for our brothers and sisters in the east bay theyve been waiting partially as we expand to the peninsula and the 2014 capitalization will not be detailed too much and good news about the mta seeking funds. I have a question about the private sector sponsor arresting and your recommendations when sdme supervisor avalos and a number of staff visited mexico city there were a number of sponsors with other cities are we luke pretively with a sponsor right now i can led chief maddox speak about that weve look at institutionally theres biking no new york that do the whole thing we dont thinning think thats a good model. Hell talk about the efforts sfmta is d
I had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put together a team of people to help me get through this. Im a Structural Engineer and im thrilled at the quality of the contractors and engineers weve taken one civic awesome and put all the vendors in one place. You have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every were rebuilding are that the office of the city of administer and the depth thought i environment and other partners. All those things one little piece of a resilient piece of and i felt more positive about things i thought about how to pay for this. We didnt want to have one financing option it didnt work. We found information about financing they are different options for different types property owners. Weve seen them offering financially and a pool of styles for a complicated way of saying theyll be able to pay back their loans over the next two years. We have 3 options and secondly, to get a loan for the ry
Irresponsible, and is continuing to give threats not only to the United States, but to all of their allies. Something is going to have to be done. This morning the president alluded to recent sanctions placed on the rogue nation and took a swipe at the north korean dictator saying i spoke with president moon of south korea last night and asked him how rocket man is doing. Long gas lines forming in south korea. Too bad. Athena jones live from the president s golf club where he is spending a good part of today wherever he heads to manhattan. The president has been critical of the un in the past. Might this message change the tone at all . You are right. The president has been quite a skeptic of the United Nations. He made no secret of that and we heard him on the campaign trail delivering harsh criticisms and we called the utter weakness and incompetenc incompetency. The he said the un is not a friend of freedom and democracy and not a friend to the United States. We should hear the pres