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valentine s day gift to you will be a swift yet thorough and efficient meeting let s start with roll call. item one supervisor cohen commissioner fewer commissioner kim is present commissioner ronen commissioner yee. we have quorum. excellent thank you very much please next item, please. items 2 through 3 comprise the consent calendar their countered route not prepared e prepared to present but if unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. colleagues is a approval for the minutes. i ll move. motion by supervisor yee and without objection. public comment. oh, you re absolutely right ladies and gentlemen, time for public comment please step up two minutes to in the center seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. roll call vote. commissioner cohen commissioner fewer commissioner ronen commissioner yee consent calendar is approved. thank you next item. federal, state, and local an update. welcome back back with th ....
sfgov tv meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for tuesday, february 28 2017 will begin shortly. [gavel] good morning welcome to the san francisco transportation authority meeting for today february 28, 2017. mr. clerk please call the roll call item one roll call breed present cohen present, farrell absent, fewer here, kim present, peskin present, ronen present, safai present, sheehy present, tang absent, j yeast present. we have a quorum thank you mr. clerk please read the next item item 2 chairman s report information item good morning colleagues want to open up this month report with some good news. i have the honor of joining my colleagues from districts nine, 10 and 11 commissioners ronen ronen and safai that sums up the importance of community funding the transportation authority as we finally cut the ribbon last month on the one-mile stretch of pedestrian and bicycle goods on man s out that the committee has been ....
is well-informed about the issue having worked in and around health care for a good part of his life and we ll have i think some good to guess to share joined by department heads directly involved in the affordable health care act and our overflow room healthy san francisco and now, of course, our covered california for san francisco barbara garcia who is our head of our department of health and jerry mcfattening the department the of aging and joined by some very important partners in our on and on to make sure that everybody is health women s health and protected and immigrant health are outlined cost planted parent hood thank you and our communities consortium clinic consortium it here we re in a fight we re in a fight with the administration and congress over saving health care for millions of people and i m here to express that san francisco wants to save health care for all people not just in san francisco but the entire state of california that has over 5 million ....
will be on the file should be submitted to the clerk. all items acted on today will be on the march 17, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. great. thank you very much want mr. clerk. again supervisor tang, supervisor peskin be absent today. can we have a motion to excuse him? move to excuse supervisor peskin. we will take that without objection. with that mr. clerk can will call item number 1. item 1. ordinance amending the administrative code to require that all cash-out proceeds received by an owner for an affordable housing development supported in whole or in part for taxpayer funds shall be used for the creation, development and preservation of affordable housing. colleagues our housing persists within our city and make sure every penny for affordable housing is solely used for affordable housing needs. recently here in san francisco a developer refinanced an affordable housing development which was funded with a mix of public resour ....
we re partner with community based organizers and faith base organizations and to provide groceries at 200 locations throughout san francisco. as of tv 60% of the 30,000 people that attend our pantries are seniors. despite operating 200 pantries we still have 800 plus people on our wait list. 66% of the people on the wait list are seniors. with the anticipated growth of the number of ?eerns the next ten years we just like to request that dases considering supporting this incredible network of farm style distributions. thank you so much. thank you. thank you supervisors. i i m a member of senior disability action. i worked at the presidio and there when the government over it over to the trust and that s a piece of land in this city that s 1600 acres that the taxpayers of this country paid for over and over again but it was given to the rich as a playground. lucas of star wars fame built a studio there are a sweet all right heart deal and he can live there and it s ....