Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the tuesday, november 15, 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors mr. Clerk call the roll. Thank you madam president supervisor avalos supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor wiener not present supervisor yee, supervisor yee not present madam president we have quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, madam clerk any communications. Yes. Madam president were in resident of two communications the first from supervisor wiener and supervisor yee dated november 1st and 14 con seismically both supervisors will be absent and requests the board excuse them from the meeting and okay. Colleagues a motion to excuse supervisor w
Sponsored that development over and over again and saying we committing to high levels of Affordable Housing im not just depending on a positive optimistic outcome into the future but guarantee with the marketrate. I dont the redevelopment agreement didnt have triggers we stop or pause with the open agreements in the way the agreement was structured tmc hats the infrastructure to move forward in the city to have the obligation to delivery the Affordable Housing subject to 9 financial structure that was included isnt financing plan. Okay. So the plan didnt include any conditions that will stop or reopen the terms of the agreement. If i may add supervisor another schufrn of the funding solution involves the local Share Participation what weve tried dpa make a commitment at that level but allow us opportunity to get a consensus how we should work with the board and the mayor to think through strategic upstairs steps without over burdening the general fund in ways to secure the projects ga
As well. Of the cooler will make it all the way out to sacramento. The northbay temps are quite cool, 40s for kelseyville, the dega bay and napa and the whole area is looking quite cool. We are going to be on the cool side for sure, 50s, 60s and some 70s. We have an issue at the maze you said, sal. Yes, the first motorcycle officer came up and then called for a tow truck. Now csp chp and the bridge two are there. It has been there bridge crew are there. It has been there for quite a while. Let me use the right arrow here. There you go. If you could pull back a little bit on this picture, you can see that traffic is backed up here at the macarthur maze and it is going to start to affect the traffic coming into berkeley. Its very crowded because of that stalled vehicle coming toward the berkeley curve and the macarthur maze. That traffic is really backed up. We dont need this. You can see it here. You can see people backed up where the ready to get on the bridge as well. We see so traffi
Item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. Any comments . Any member of the public that would like to comment. Seeing none, we will close. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Chiu. Aye. Cohen . Absent. Ferrill. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Absent. Yee. Aye. Item passes. Okay. Lets go to the next item. Item three, three chairs report, this is an information item. Colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87yearold, mr. Louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. And this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the Police Department and the department of Public Health and other agencies supporting the citys vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potent
That we must continue to invest in the infrastructure in earthquake preparedness and resilientcy planning and this will take levels of eninvestment and coordination and public involvement and i am pleased by several key initiatives that they are already under way, and including the transit core, capacity study, freeway, Core Management strategy and the neighborhood, transportation, Improvement Program and on the issue of capacity, i want to add my support to many other colleagues, and including commissioner kim, cohen and weiner, who are calling for cal train to purchase, compatible electric vehicles with future Blended Service with california high speed rail. This is a very important Investment Decision that will determine the capacity and Operational Flexibility of the system for years to come. With that, colleagues, icon include my remarks. Public comment is open if any member of the public, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and go on to the next item. Item four. Directors r