Is Supervisor Malia Cohen and committee vicechair jane kim will be joining us shortly. Our clerk is andrea ausberry and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. Madame clerk, are there any announcements. Please silence all Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included in the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the december 16, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, item no. 1. A resolution granting permission to occupy a portion of a public rightofway at 15724th avenue. The department of public works is here for item 1. Good afternoon chair wiener and supervisor cohen, nickelsen with the department of public works. This is a request to basically construct portion of a garage in the public rightofway. This is a very unusual portion of the public rightofway. Its on 24th avenue between lake and west clay streets. There are two other properties, which have a very similar si
From public works this project was into our office i have sorry. Take your time. All right. All right. Thank you again, this project came to public works back in june and were reviewed it and were into the regular process and this is the light rail market from van ness to embarcadero about two miles illuminating the city which was described and it is the works first sculpture of its kind and the entire route has one hundred 42 lights that is going into the city through the tubdz and this is an example that joined obituary us we got from the sponsor which is the illuminate our of the arts this is the same thing that shows the ride this is typically what the future will look like on both sides of this is a Cross Section of Market Street which is not clear but youll have two lights running with the traffic this is a temporary project approximately 4 years and will be installed by illuminated art and deemed by them the installation will be. All done by sponsor. But approximately that 4 yea
The full board of supervisors with positive recommendation . Second. Without objection, that will be the order. Madame clerk, could you please call item no. 2. A hearing on the Transbay Transit Center and downtown extension platform compatibility. Thank you, supervisor kim is the author and i would like to add my name as cosponsors to the request. Thank you, chair wiener and im glad its becoming before the Land Use Commission because it impacts transit for the region and certainly for San Francisco, but also because on Land Use Committee we have members of the caltrain board and the mtc as well. I think its quite appropriate that this is going to be heard before this committee. So as many of our transportation players know, as we move forward with highspeed rail and electrification of caltrain, there has been a lot of discussion on how we can ensure shared compatibility of vehicle and also platform heights. In the nearterm procurement to help us supplement and drive capacity and operat
It so requires. Dont be fooled, she said. Only the Supreme Court so required. The federal arbitration act was never meant to produce this outcome. In the hands of todays majority, arbitration threatens to become more nearly the opposite, a mechanism easily made to block the vindication of meritorious federal claims and insulate wrongdoers from liability. The court thus undermines the federal arbitration act no less than it does the sherman act and other federal statutes providing rights of action. So, commissioner wright, in your written testimony you argue that the courts should set the rules of the road for internet openness through antitrust law. But how could a complaint of anticompetitive behavior even reach the courts if its lawful to force every consumer, Small Business and employee to arbitrate their claims in a foreign venue that is secret, thats for profit. Youre familiar with the arbitration process . No jury trial, no right to appe appeal. How does your opinion about how th
Meritorious federal claims and insulate wrongdoers from liability. The court thus undermines the federal arbitration act no less than it does the sherman act and other federal statutes providing rights of action. So, commissioner wright, in your written testimony you argue that the courts should set the rules of the road for internet openness through antitrust law. But how could a complaint of anticompetitive behavior even reach the courts if its lawful to force every consumer, Small Business and employee to arbitrate their claims in a foreign venue that is secret, thats for profit. Youre familiar with the arbitration process . No jury trial, no right to appe appeal. How does your opinion about how the internet should be regulated fare in comparison to, or in light of that Supreme Court ruling . I appreciate the question. Im going to give you two quick answers. One is there is nothing in that decision that would preclude the ftc or the doj from bringing in a case. We are not in arbitra