Good afternoon. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting for wednesday december 3, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor tang and supervisor campos. The clerk today is alyssa samara. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online, so happy post thanksgiving. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silent cell phones and Electronic Devices and speaker cards to be part of the file somebody committed to thed clerk and will be on the december 9 board of supervisors agenda innocence otherwise stated. Okay. Can we have item number one. Item number one is an amendment to amend the administrative code to establish the duties of the office of early care and education and create the office of early care and education Citizens Advisory Committee. Thank you. So let me speak a little bit on this item. Our city establis
Here and communitybased organizations whether its united players or the so cam are the residents like ms. Jones to join the city agency and the opportunity Transportation Authority and mta and the Mayors Office our vision zero director and the supervisor staff agencies like walk sf and others we really have to come together literally on everyone every one of the intersection if we dont do Something Different more accidents will occur if anything we have to slow down traffic and make all people from all sides aware whether in their walkers or bicyclists or industrial folks everybody that is using our street have to be that much more aware and watch out for each other i myself these device when crossing the street i dont cross because ive got the green light i try to make eye contract and look both ways especially, when youve got families members that are looking at the wonderful sites in our city weve golden got to be careful with our growing population if the city weve got to do more w
About that . I am very pleased today to stand here on this project. I have talked to you several times about the importance of your water supply level, and the commitment that this body made to your customers built in staoet and your wholesale customers to limit rashing to no more than twebt 20 percent and this is one of those projects that will enable you to meet that commitment and so that purpose it will provide a 7. 2 million gallons of water a day during a dry year and i have said rntion would it be great if i had that today and it would make a huge difference for the current water supply, and so it is critically important, and i enthusiastickly support it on behalf of my agencies and i appreciate the efforts of the puc staff, to bring this project to fruition and it has been a long time in coming and my member agencies and the three of them who are the Partner Agencies who are supportive of this and really excited about this project moving forward. I urge you to vote yes on it. T
Okay. So i can use words. No, i asked specifically. Thank you very much ms. Short rebuttal. Thank you, carl Short Department of public works i want to address one point mr. Johnson kugd what dpw could have been done is to hold the hearing open and allow for the time to review the additional sites at t could have submitted more than one site at the outset there was nothing in the process that prevented at t from submitting more than one and it the language used the plural in addition the sites that were identified as the box walk if at t would have allowed the populations the time to review what was being proposed we might not feel ourselves obligated to deny but as argued the state law does allow us to look for a site that is at least butch on the population so we have the populations weigh in on it the hearing officer is left to deny those applications. The applications were properly denied. And again, because our new ordinance requires that any permit that is not final in the Effecti
Carries. Okay. Item 12. Item 12 approve the warnerville substation project and authorize the general manager to release of 3,143,000 in funds on reserve with the board of supervisors. Any questions on this . I thought ritchie had left. Move to approve. Second. Additional comments . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Item 13. Would you like Public Comment . Oh Public Comment. Seeing none item 13. Item 13 authorizelet general manager to review the Treasure Island Development Authority and the puc. Any questions, comments . Move to approve. Second. Is there Public Comment on had one . All in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. I have a question about Treasure Island. Has that gone through yet . Actually theres an Economic Development memorandum of agreement between the navy and tida to be transferred later this year and bob beck was here and he is not he will be back. He could explain that in more detail but basically this year there will be transfer of the property