Good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of december 8, 2015. Clerk please call girl thank you. Avalos, breed im a campos campos, cohen farrell, present. Kim, here. Mar, present. Peskin speed tang tang speak wiener yee present. Met pres. All members are present thank you. Ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you. Mdm. Clerk are there any communications yes i have three. Up first to medication from Julie Christiansen resigning from her seat as district 3 supervisor dated today december 8, 2015. Additionally, my office is in receipt of a resolution that is a return to the board signed by the mayor certifying and declaring that their peskin received a plurality of votes cast at the election held on november 3, 2015 and has been duly sworn in. Welcome supervisor peskin. [applause] the third communication is from our controller mr. Ben rosenfeld city controller. Concerning the newly elected member o
Session. Welcome back, members. Mdm. Clerk, please call the roll thank you madame president supervisor avalos present; pres. Breed here;; compost present; christiansen present cohen, present farrell, present; kimpresent some; mar not present tang present wienerpresent emacpresent you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you madam clerk are there any communications or yes mdm. Pres. This medication is meant to inform the public that the board of supervisors has expanded its existing Language Access Services Program by authorizing the office of the clerk of the board to enter into an abortive partnership with the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. For an 11 Month Pilot Program beginning september 1, 2015 and lasting through july 31, 2015. During that time, the staff will provide spanish and Chinese Interpretation Services upon request and every regular and special board of supervisors
Some breakdowns and other mechanical problems. So, we need to know with the Current Situation is, what the plan is to get us out of this Current Situation, and how muni sees the next 3, 4, 5 years going in terms of not just angel writers dont worry at some point in the future its going to be all fixed but how is it going to function the next number of years as we continue to grow as the city and is more more people are relying on this transit system. I look forward to the conversation. Thank you thank you supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee thank you. To become i like to adjourn the memory of in memory of state senator john for rent, who passed on september 11. At his home in district 7. Senator for ram shape californias transportation policy over 22 years career in legislative state legislation. He also played a major role in acting california clean air act. After his retirement from the state center in 1986 the San Francisco section of the interstate [inaudible] 280 as you know the 280
Also established the metropolitan Transportation Commission in the bay area. Some of you are members of that. Which became the countrys 1st regional Transportation Authority. Legislation that allowed [inaudible] orange district to conclude does include very transit systems. Several of us are also on that particular board could his work continues to make an impact on Bay Area Transportation and will for the long into the future. Senator for ram has a lifelong interest in politics and law. He graduated near the top of his class at usf school of law and served as a Deputy Attorney general before running for public office. He retired in 2004 and traveled extensively and enjoyed spending time with family and friends. Senator for ram is survived by his friend of his wife of 56 years his 2 sons and 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren assessment thank you supervisor you. Resident should thank you colleagues of a couple of items today. 1st i want to start with the difficult memorial. I want to reco
Question im glad supervisor wiener spoke line of questioning is clarified that theres consequences in this. Im just curious, and i dont know how much we can divulge on this, but what happened but it fell apart . Can you clarify . I guess rather than mean any specific names, i think that the issue is that the compromise were the new payment plan as a preferred to call it requires from the beginning that all 6 developers were agreeable. Otherwise if we dont get promises not to sue from all 6 its pointless because of one sues its the same as as if they all sued. So, we werent able to get that. There were 2 or 3 that were on board from the beginning and a couple that we couldnt get in the end. We thought we had assurances. We do have assurances in the beginning but minds change or something changed. So thats pretty much what happened. By late last week and began became clear we were not going to get the agreement from all the. Again, avoiding any names, there were several that were on boar