good morning, everyone. this is the tuesday, december, 13, 2016 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority. my name is eric mar i m the acting chair of the transportation authority. our clerk is mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? item one, avalos? here. present. breed. present. campos. present. cohen npresent. ferrill, absent. kim? absent. mar? present. peskin? present. tang absent. commissioner yee. present. we have quorum. item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for re
in the is that 5-gallon or less include does that 5-gallon or less is what we see in our offices, in a lot of the offices in the city. the dispensaries. when former mayor implemented his executive order reducing the use of single use plastic water bottles, i know our office eliminated the water, the big water container in our office. in our city, our best source tap water come from our hedge reservoir, not from imported plastic jugs. with the city, we spend somewhat some where around $98,000 a year on this type of water in our offices. what i do in my office is we have pitchers of water that s provided to folks so that we re not using more and more plastic and that we are being consistent in policies like this. this policy was strongly urged by our department of the environment and i would strongly urge support for it. and i guess the question this is considered a single use container then? that s why i m confused. i thought they keep on using it. so it would
okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. do you have any announcements? silence all cell phones and devices completed cards and documented to be included as part of the file should subm submitted to td clerk. call item one. hearing on the recent updates regarding the city s financial position, including the mayor s budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. and requesting the mayor s budget director and the controller to report. thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here
elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination through 2017, 18, when the voters will have the opportunity to approve much needed funds for transportation, i am hopeful that our local communities will also come together next year to develop a companion local transportation funding measure that can integrate closely with the regional measure in 2018. to fund our local contributions to bart caltrain and high speed rail, as well as to fund critical local investments in infrastructure repair and main nens, and safety, and paving and transit and neighborhood, traffic management ci
francisco county transportation authority. my name is eric mar i m the acting chair of the transportation authority. our clerk is mr. steve stamos, could you please do the roll call? item one, avalos? here. present. breed. present. campos. present. cohen npresent. ferrill, absent. kim? absent. mar? present. peskin? present. tang absent. commissioner yee. present. we have quorum. item two, chair report, as our director will be recounting the accomplishments of the year and we will hold our chair elections in a moment, i am going to make my remarks extremely brief. with the adoption of plan bay area preferred scenario by the mtc and abag we are well posed to advocate for the priority projects in the bridge toll talks, which commence this week at the mtc. that is the met political transportation commission. thank you, so much, commissioner david campos for representing us in those discussions tomorrow and we look forward to see the culmination thr