Good morning ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you to the Transportation Authority finance Commission Good morning i am not your regular chair our chair is here shes ill ill be stepping in and supervisor cohen i think im the vice chair of this committee laughter to my left is supervisor ronen and to my right is supervisor yee want to recognize sfgovtv Charles Kremenak and Jennifer Lowe for broadcasting this Committee Meeting happy valentines day to you all my valentines day gift to you will be a swift yet thorough and efficient meeting lets start with roll call. Item one supervisor cohen commissioner fewer commissioner kim is present commissioner ronen commissioner yee. We have quorum. Excellent thank you very much please next item, please. Items 2 through 3 comprise the consent calendar their countered route not prepared e prepared to present but if unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Colleagues is a approval for the minutes. Ill move. Motion by
Meeting like im sure you have been i want to make that bridge as beautiful as possible and make sure that it is more than just a fungal bridge connecting from one point to another it is incorporated into the community that it is aesthetically pleasing maybe i dont have my other details other than i want beautiful it is the beauty is in the eyes of the Budget Committee holder but plant that seed were any exceptions are not something that is a swlab about that is functional but have aesthetic value that communicates the culture of the neighborhood that the gwyneth street the bridge well have limited ability but something that is powerful a piece we have a lot of development happening in the Wastewater Treatment a 2. 9 million project and talking about the expansion of the produce mart in the area so this is really important connector and want to make sure that we give the aesthetic process just as much thought and discussion as we do for the other processes that will go into creating a b
Probable are a robust packet for you next month so the bills were recommending e recommending positions on the main one is are ab one and the transportation funding bill youve probably heard about 6 billion and passages being negotiated the governor has indicated his own passage that is 4 billion a year and that he expects it to be resolved by april 6th i think is what was said so expect to be taken up on that soon were r were recommending a support position on ab 28 the urgent bills for the corrections to reinstate caltrans authorization to be signing on behalf of the permit holder Highway Administration for the documents that is critically important for the Construction Projects especially in Southern California so near the top of peoples priority lists and finally a core position on the bill 342 that is celebrated earlier this week with the automated enforcement legislation and then ear recommending one position on ab 65 there is one bill that one bill trying to kill high speed rail
Valentines day gift to you will be a swift yet thorough and efficient meeting lets start with roll call. Item one supervisor cohen commissioner fewer commissioner kim is present commissioner ronen commissioner yee. We have quorum. Excellent thank you very much please next item, please. Items 2 through 3 comprise the consent calendar their countered route not prepared e prepared to present but if unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Colleagues is a approval for the minutes. Ill move. Motion by supervisor yee and without objection. Public comment. Oh, youre absolutely right ladies and gentlemen, time for Public Comment please step up two minutes to in the center seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Roll call vote. Commissioner cohen commissioner fewer commissioner ronen commissioner yee consent calendar is approved. Thank you next item. Federal, state, and local an update. Welcome back back with the deputy City Attorney in the Program Division
We have questions about the u. S. Spy program. President obama said hes looking into whether changes are needed in u. S. Intelligence gathering. His comments come one day after he revealed that two civilians were killed in a drone strike several months ago. We all bleed when we lose american life. We all grieve when any innocent live is taken. We dont take this lightly. We all know each and one of you understand the magnitude of what we do with the stakes involved. And these arent abstractions. We are not cavalier about what we do. Italy is demanding more information about the drone strike that killed two alqaeda aid workers. He was killed along with warren weinstein. They said it took too long to identify that laporto had been killed. Said the country needs much more information about what went wrong. Thank you for coming. Thank you its good to be here. I ask you is it too much to ask that we know who we are targeting when we fire one of these drones strikes. Its very difficult to fin