Good afternoon. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, december 11th special meeting of government audit and oversight committee. I am the chair. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor peskin. Thank you to the committees clerk. I would also like to thank jim smith and matt at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silenced your cell phones. Your speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items today will appear on the december 17th agenda unless otherwise stated. Do i have a motion to excuse supervisor brown. So moved. Thank you. Mr. Clerk please call item two. Resolution authorizing the Planning Department to confirm existing and create new and resized designtions of Priority Production areas by the association of bay area governments and the metropolitan Transportation Commission as part of the planned bay area 50 update. Thank you. I am proud to expand this citywide alongside supervisor fewer.
The south of market neighborhood i am deeply appreciative and know how high quality the services are that you provide to kids and families. I want to thank the families who are here and the kids who are here who are already enjoying what is just a wonderful, beautiful, colorful home for children and families. I cant wait to come in here and see 60 plus kids running around, having fun, learning, being supported and valued and loved. This is what it is all about. This is what every child in our city deserves and i want to put a myth to rest right now, which is when you look around this neighborhood, a lot of what people see are lots of highrises and New Buildings and law firms and Tech Companies and when you see that, sometimes you dont recognize that this is also a neighborhood of families. This is also a neighborhood of children. This is a residential neighborhood. And in order to have a neighborhood of families and children and residents, you need Early Childhood education. And so we
The big story today is the weather. Its been raining much of the weekend. Its caused a number of week. This video was sent in. Flooding south bound 280 just before the Mission Street exit. Gingerly driving through that mess. Drivers had to navigate the big puddle, causing some mighty big traffic backups as well. The weather really cause problems all around the bay all night and all day. So whats in store for today . Rosemary orozco with more on how the state is shaping up for us. Perhaps just a few scattered showers. It started out a little slow, but then the sky opened up. Outside our doors at this hour, a slick roadway over the Golden Gate Bridge. Mostly cloudy skies, and we are going to remain mostly cloudy at least until the afternoon. Will get some breaks in the cloud cover as the system continues to wind down. Outside our doors at this hour, widespread scattered showers reported over the bay area. There is a look at the radar. You can see the north bay done really dry at the mome
All right, so lets talk about the weather. Just like this mug, well get some sunshine, but not today. So right now in San Francisco, 55 degrees. The wind speeds are at about 6 Miles Per Hour and could you see how gray and cloudy it is. Notice we are blue, which means we are no longer under a microclimate weather alert. The last of the storms should be trickling out by this afternoon but still busy storm ranger is scanning, a couple of pockets of rain moving into san mateo. San jose get ready, youre likely going to see some rain as well within the next ten minutes. Storm ranger got some rain pushing through ukiah but santa rosa is pretty dry. Current temperatures not that cold but mild, 56 degrees in san jose. Ill go over the timing of the storm when exactly it moves out and of course what you can expect head edded into the work week in 15 minutes. Already the work week again tomorrow. All right well see you around 7 15, vianey, thanks. It is the calm after the storm, and the cleanup af
Interference. Item 4, approval of minutes. Directors, any comments or additions to the minutes from the 1s 19th . No Public Comment. Communications . Item 5, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Directors, any items to address at this time . No, seeing none, well move on. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon, directors. So im going to start by asking my colleague, nadine tahere to come up and give an award. I dont see him, ill ask my colleague to come up and ill give an award to him. [ laughter ] so mr. Lee has been an employee of the city of the county of San Francisco for 20 years and has been here since construction began. Serves as the resident engineer for the chinatown station, the most complex station and part of the subway that is most in the public eye during the construction phase and he is a native deciding to take on this project pa because of his love r the city and chinatown community. This will be a Critical Link in integrating chinatown m