The hearing will come to order. First of all we want to thank all of you for being here today. I want to thank my friend, Ranking Member card and his staff for the possibility with the scheduling of todays hearing. Its interesting because been card and i i maybe three of the last remaining of the class of 1987. We have smith in a couple of more. Its funny, were on opposite sides and a lot of issues but we are always together in friendship as well as in infrastructure. Et is this weeks infrastructure week its a great opportunity to highlight the critical needs in this country. Tomorrow the committee will have a chance to question secretary chad on the administrations priorities and i hope todaysin hearing will be a productive lead into her visits. Last congress the Pediatric Committee led the charge to pass the past act a six highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This was the largest since 1998. Nobody believed we could get it done and others that would only get an 1
Together in friendship as well as in infrastructure. As this weeks infrastructure week, its a great opportunity for us to highlight the critical needs we have in this country. Senator inhofe tomorrow we will question secretary chao on the administrations priorities and its my hope todays hearing will be a productive lead into her visit. Last congress, the e. P. W. Committee led the charge to pass the fast act, the sixth highway reauthorization bill that i personally worked on. This was the largest one since 1998. Nobody believed we could get it done. Others thought wed get an 18month bill but senator boxer and i as the chairman and Ranking Member insisted on five years and it shows people of opposite different philosophies can get along and make wonderful things happen. However, the current investment is not enough to fully address our needs. The fast act authorization is about 305 billion over five years. Yet, according to the United States d. O. T. Report from this year, the backlog
And over the past 30 years we have built and expanded in the neighborhood around us has changed dramatically. So what used to be a Light Industrial district is now a late Retail District and we are surrounded by wonderful places like anthropology and starbucks for reuse to be surrounded by auto repair shops and ball bearing manufacturers. This is symbolic of all the things we have here at powells books. The base of it says four things in latin. It starts off with vending lieberman sell the book and on the side it says carpeting the room, sees the book. And over here it says leave room, read the book and finally our favorite, by the book. What makes us unique is a combination of several things in one of the most important ones is we started out as a used bookstore so we sell used and new right next to each other and to us its the content that is king and it doesnt matter where it came from so out of our million books, half of them are used, half of them approximately new. That makes us
Good morning and welcome to the march 15 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. My name is jane kim and im joined by our vicechairman supervisor aaron peskin and present london reed. I want to of knowledge and think our community clerk erica meijer and also think the folks at sfgov tv Jessica Larson and jim smith for the courting our meetings and making them available to the members of the public. Mdm. Clerk any announcements . Yes these make sure to sounds all the phones and electronic vices. Complete speaker cards and any documents as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items acted upon today will appear on march 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Im clerk please also the matters of the committee are here. If you would call item number one and two yes item number one resolution receiving an acuity and or board for the Noe Valley Community Benefit District for fiscal year 201516s amended as required by the property Busine
Further commissioners under the discretionary review receive calendar a request for item 17443 everson street discretionary review for continuance to april 6, 2017, no other items proposed for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Okay. Thank you any Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Open up to commissioner comments proposed to continue item one as noticed and item 17 for april of. Second. Second. Thank you, commissioner on that position to continue commissioner fong commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commissioner moore and commissioner president hillis so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero and commissioners that places us under our consent calendar all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the