Good morning everybody, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee feeth mooekt for. Wednesday april 15, 2015. My name is mark farrell and i will be charg this committee and i am joined by linda. I want to thank linda cain for covering this meeting. Do we have any minutes today . Yes, sir, all items will appear april 21st unless otherwise stated. Okay. Thank you, can you call item number one. Will be authorizing the recreation and Park Department for the amount of approximately 800,000. Thanks for coming. Good morning Committee Members and chairman. My name is tony ma ran, i am the joint manager for the rex and Parks Department. The item we have before you is an item itemizing the Parks Department to accept and sieve a grant to the community for the amount of 800; 054. I put a little over slide just to give a if youre interested in seeing this part of the concept. So basically what we have is the project is located between University Avenue and du
Change and raises expectation we do that better and faster to reach the vision zero goal so over the loose 6 week weve trained 60 mta staff or project managers in a immense two day management courses alongside the colleagues of sfmta to bring everyones management skills up and prepare for the roll apples to apples and call c pa the Capital Project control systems it is great it the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and mta is trained together so the agencies are speaking the same languages and many the miss steps might potentially occur in the programming phase are 13450g9d out by that common understanding of what a project scope may look like the other exciting thing weve announced last week were going to be bringing out a highlevel director that reports circle to me to reengineer and streamline the process across the division this will result in streamline processes and shortened timelines and help me and my colleagues to reach the goal delivering more and better and fast
Choice. I want to read this statement. During my own recollection, she says, i made a difficult decision than our coo should leave the company. I appreciate his contributions and wish him the best in his future endeavors. And makes you wonder what happened. She did know what she was getting. Today have to do with the personalities . Does that have to do with the numbers . The numbers do not help the situation. The ad revenue has been down yearoveryear. The share is down to five percent this year from 5. 8 . Google andike facebook have seen their fair share increase. Something was not clicking. I will give her points for calling it like she see that. Sometimes you see reorganization. Maybe the guy goes to lead innovation or something. Creative differences. She is admitting that it was the wrong decision. Moving on. That is to her credit. What might be to her or the boards demerit is what he is walking away with. 14 months on the job. Get this. 109 million. He is making 109 million for 1
It makes you wonder what happened. She did know what she was getting. Yahoo has been down year overyear. Their share of the market is projected to be down to five percent from 5. 8 . Meanwhile, Companies Like google and facebook have seen their shares increase. Dearly, something wasnt clicking. I give her points for calling it like she sees it. Sometimes you see reorganization. Admittingdit, she is it was the wrong decision and moving on. What might be to her demerit is what he is walking away with. Job, 109 on the Million Dollars. He is making 109 Million Dollars for 14 months on the job. This includes what they paid him to leave google, severance from yahoo , his valerie, bonus. Is hisough he salary, bonus. Maybe yahoo sales arent looking good because they are paying people to much. It is clear Marissa Mayers big money. Ome she is focused on talent has been one of her top priorities. Should be. In order to attract these people, they have been paying them a lot of money. It makes you
Are rising after the fed indicated it wont raise rates. We are going to learn later today whether alibaba will be the biggest ever ipo. Pricing tonight and they start trading tomorrow. Bayer has from decided to focus on his crop chemicals unit. Their ending years of speculation as to what they would do with the unit. But to stay, or to go . That is the question. Voters in scotland will provide that answer. The 307yearold union with the u. K. Will come down to a ballot. We cant give you all results to avoid swaying voters that we can check in on the state. Nna edwards has more when should we start to see results . Were here on carlton hill looking over the city of edinburgh. We expect to get the early results around 2 00 a. M. Local time 9 00 in the evening for you in new york. That wont be the end of things at all. Some of the smaller constituencies will be reporting first. Likely to hear from the western isle councils. Small inhabited areas will be giving us their results first. We mi