Order. This is the regular meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for thursday, july 7, 2016. Im supervisor norman yee vice chair of the committee todays meeting im joined by supervisor scott weiner good the Committee Clerk is erica meijer. The committee would also like to acknowledge the that that sfgov tv winnowed the asus and jim smith who recorded each of its meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to sounds all cell phones electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 19 board of supervisors agenda. Okay. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin and supervisor breed . So we will with no objections the motion passes [gavel] mdm. Clerk these item the first item yes. Item number one, [reading code] it thank you. I would like to hand this off to supervisor weiner the sponsor of this legislation. Thank you very much mr. Chairman and thank you for agenda icing
Well so i think this is an exciting time this is an excited project and it is signals a trofrpgs and is perfect opportunity to talk about the trofrpgs that happens over the past 20 years as you may know our director john martin is retiring on 21 years as airport director a big round of applause for john, please. clapping. and you know talk about transformers that airport over the past 21 years has seen essentially redevelopment of every facility under johns leadership a tremendous thing for the airport and the traffic light public as well as the city and county of San Francisco and you know, i think about the 1990s and the transformers that occurred in the 90s and john lead a 3 billion dollars renovation a master plan expansion for the rim and a new International Train system and bart to sfo new cargo facilities we also have a new rental car center you think the transformers of the 90s and impactful to the customer dmrerns a positive way and the revenues of this airport i think about a
You can visit in person at the city hall or visit us online so lets get started. Okay per to me e item call to order and roll call commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is excused. Commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley commissioner zouzounis mr. Vice president we have quorum. Item two. Our speakers is not here perhaps go to item number 4. A yeah, since the pertinent is the same for items two and three. No, no action item and well call those together the draft minutes november 23, 2015, june 22, 2015. Commissioners any comments on the minutes. June 22nd item Leona Helmsley Vice President report we put down commissioner dwight that is commissioner white that was for the june 22nd. Yes. Any other comments art is there any Public Comment on item those Meeting Minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I motion the approve the minutes of june 22, 2015, november 23, 2015, and june 2, 2015. All in favor, say i. I. Or t
Cowling, what i mean is that theres a tight figtting metal covering and allows the air to flow over more efficiently. So, mark burket of the spanish Swiss Company has designed a very important series of automobile engines in the prewar era. He adapts this to the aeronautical application by taking two of his inline four engines, makes it into a v8, and what he does thats very unique is instead of having separate cylinders attached to the crank case, he casts a row of cylinders out of a solid piece of aluminum. And he has cooling packagssages those aluminum blocks that allows improved cooling and more power. So instead of a rotary engine, you know, doing 110, 120 horsepower, youre looking at 200 or 220 horsepower with these engines by the time theyre introduced in the spad xii. Theres always a technological pushpull over the western front in world war i, in which the germans have an advantage with their thick air foiled tubular steel fuselaged aircraft like the folker d 7 that you can se
Theyre part of the original collection here in fact, and we were provided those during the period where we were destroying those launch vehicles in both russia and here. We have another call from steve in new york. Steve, go ahead, please. Caller hello, general . Is anybody on the other end there . Yes, we are. We can hear you. Caller hello . Go ahead, steve. Hello. Caller you know, when columbus sailed for america, he didnt know it at the time, but Queen Isabella funded his expedition. And they were looking for known treasure, a shorter way to the orient to get spices, and he collided with the American Continent by accident. And we know for a certainty that there on the moon and on mars theres not a blade of grass, theres not a glass of water, theres not a breath of fresh air. So, you know, you risk life and limb to go to a better ace. But we have that right here on earth. Why would we want to go there, moon or mars . Can someone explain that to me . Thank you for the call. Well, you