Pallia in a secure a deal will come to order lifted to have a workforce of 60,000 employees with Security Operations of 450 airports and railroads and masstransit systems. I now recognize myself. Today we are meeting to discuss the role of keeping Transportation Systems and before we begin of a bite to welcome to thank the administrator for joining us this morning the range of important topics we have just been briefed in a classified setting by the d. A. Justice director general about specifics owner abilities of security and quite frankly i think i speak for all of us when they say we find that everything disturbing. We have to do more to confront the threat and i want to work with you to remedy the situation as soon as possible i am hopeful tsa is successful to implement those recommendations that should improve that effectiveness while all members of the committee share concerns i do want to remind the members the information shared must remain classified. Today 16 years past be ho
Good morning today is march 10, 2015 welcome to the finance committee of the San Francisco Transportation Authority im commissioner avalos the chair the committee and today is clerk is steve stamping most and Committee Meeting is broadcast to everyone by sfgovtv staff Nona Melkonian and Charles Kremenak thank you for your service and mr. Clerk any announcements. No announcements. Okay. If you could call the roll. Commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar we have quorum. Okay. Very good go on to our next item and item number 2 approval of the minutes of the february 10, 2015 an action item. Okay. Colleagues im sure you had a chance to review the minutes and no one on the roster to speak open up for Public Comment Public Comment is closed and we can have a roll call vote and item 2. Commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar this item passes. Great this item passes next item, please. Item 3
Of the San Francisco Transportation Authority im commissioner avalos the chair the committee and today is clerk is steve stamping most and Committee Meeting is broadcast to everyone by sfgovtv staff Nona Melkonian and Charles Kremenak thank you for your service and mr. Clerk any announcements. No announcements. Okay. If you could call the roll. Commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar we have quorum. Okay. Very good go on to our next item and item number 2 approval of the minutes of the february 10, 2015 an action item. Okay. Colleagues im sure you had a chance to review the minutes and no one on the roster to speak open up for Public Comment Public Comment is closed and we can have a roll call vote and item 2. Commissioner avalos supervisor campos supervisor cohen supervisor kim absent supervisor mar this item passes. Great this item passes next item, please. Item 3 state and federal update an action item. Mr. Watts here to present. G
Okay any other reports . Seeing none well move on to the next item north america item 9 new business we want to add scott a discussion of scott ab 12 e i didnt mean to cut him off it needs to be an agenda item a proposal for a Small Business tax holiday a single day it has of if passes at the the state level it has an implementation because we have an credential well have that discussion whether to recommend to the city and county of San Francisco for them to honor that as well and there recent all kinds of logical issues for the tax holiday many businesses have many online point of sales you can track this as a single transaction it is great but not without complications so may i ask one particular. Uhhuh. I dont know if its one or a couple of questions ill jaundice it as new business ill check with our chief confinement to make sure we have the timeline and all of that do i need me to check in with the Small Business community to sort of gage their level of interest as well. It expli
Not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis because that project cost was something we wanted to see if we could lower and minimize the risk of construction and frankly, weve done just that we went to the analysis study that exclude the contractors as well as engineering experts they are recommendation to shift Hillcrest Road to the north and frankly push the roads into the hillside and build a tiered retaining wall this will approve the retrofitting and tida it will require additional jerry and an environmental analysis but the good news we over all project cost lore we see it 66 million and we believe that the Contracting Community will be very anxious more of the contracts to bid the job just the pictures here show whats in right the shifting to the north this is a Cross Section showing where in essence were going to build one bridge out of the 3 by shifting the roads into the hillside more retaining walls thirty to 50 f