For thursday, january 5, 2017, happy new year everyone id like to call roll at this time. Or actually please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Now im not commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner koppel commissioner melgar and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson and commissioner hillis to be absent firefighters is proposed for continuance at leeland avenue discretionary review to january 12, 2017, and item 2 conditional use authorization is proposed until january 26th no other items proposed for continuance there are no speaker cards. Okay any Public Comment on the two items proposed continuance not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Move to continue as noted. Second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to continue both matters and proposed commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commis
3016. Today is election day and the polls will be open until 8 pm. In your neighborhoods as well as 8 pm at city hall. Mdm. Clerk, please call the roll clerk thank you. Supervisor avalos , here. President breed , here. Supervisor campos , here. [adjournment], here. Supervisor farrell , here. Supervisor kim pier, here. Supervisor mar , here. Supervisor peskin , here. Clerk supervisor tang , present. Supervisor wiener , present. Supervisor yee , present. Clerk you have a quorum all members are present president breed please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] prident breed all right. Mdm. Clerk any Communications Clerk none to report mdm. Pres. President breed any changes to the april 26 or may third 2016 Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is a motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Colleagues, can we take that without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comments. [gavel] president breed please lead lead the
Director brinkman director rubke director ramos and director nolan so director heinecke is expected and director borden is also expected item 3 amazement of please silence all electronic devices. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Thank you. Next item. Approval of the minutes may regular meeting minutes. Motion to approve second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you very much okay item 5 communications and i do have one item item 11 regarding the contract for the van ness Improvement Project has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. So ladies and gentlemen, what that means if youre here for that item you my 1956 during general Public Comment and if it comes back youre welcome to come back as well Board Members new and Unfinished Business. We talked about the better Market Street plan that was need did configuration of the street was in consideratio
Next item. Approval of the minutes may regular meeting minutes. Motion to approve second any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you very much okay item 5 communications and i do have one item item 11 regarding the contract for the van ness Improvement Project has been removed from the agenda at the request of staff. So ladies and gentlemen, what that means if youre here for that item you my 1956 during general Public Comment and if it comes back youre welcome to come back as well Board Members new and Unfinished Business. We talked about the better Market Street plan that was need did configuration of the street was in consideration with bikes share a baseline and several directors indicated it was more safe to have the bikes straight and want an update and let me know about the decision they prefer as a frequent bus rider on Market Street i see the operators have a lot to do and take that in consideration and distraction will that would be gre
About how the talks fell apart, it becomes more and more clear why they fell apart in the first place and how this led to the second shutdown in months. Much of it comes down to work rules, and thats where this disagreement spins offer the rails. The walkout left hundreds of thousands of bart riders looking for alternatives and wondering what went wrong. The bargaining, bart sort of did what we call a switch. Reporter pete, spiu says there was economics and language to protect you in situations of how work is assigned, to protect people around health and safety, around preventing sexual harassment, nepotism, favoritism, and practices to insure that that happens. Bart completely wanted to dismantle that. Reporter he called it a poison pill that blew up the talks after a marathon session. They still cant even agree on that. How they can think this is a surprise is simply not credible. Reporter according to bart they would like to bring their technology uptodate, modernize the system, but