September 23, 2014, welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority im supervisor avalos the chair of the authority and todays clerk is erica chang and the broadcasting is brought to us by jonathan and Jessie Larson thank you for your work madam clerk call roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee we have quorum. Thank you madam clerk next item. Item 2 approval the july 22nd, 2014, item. Colleagues, any questions seeing none, on our minutes from the Transportation Authority meeting and seeing none, well close Public Comment. Good morning the commission function bart from all of the el sincerity to the center seeing inside the train i was business the passengers this whole years of 3 hundred and 65 days talking about the goeveng area to the passengers you know this is my way of making friendship to the passengers a
Thank you for your work madam clerk call roll. Supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos absent supervisor chiu supervisor cohen supervisor farrell absent supervisor kim absent supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee we have quorum. Thank you madam clerk next item. Item 2 approval the july 22nd, 2014, item. Colleagues, any questions seeing none, on our minutes from the Transportation Authority meeting and seeing none, well close Public Comment. Good morning the commission function bart from all of the el sincerity to the center seeing inside the train i was business the passengers this whole years of 3 hundred and 65 days talking about the goeveng area to the passengers you know this is my way of making friendship to the passengers and i think that also on to San Francisco see i think the seat wise everything is a new changes this year somehow the city has undue a common trend that is changing everything from weve got the Police Department and Fire De
Have these contractors these contractors under the jok. I think thats a good point and having the 50,000. We had the safety valve. Yeah, so the obligation to the contractor is three years of 50,000 . Thats the minimum. The other thing we were trying to do which the contractors is saying okay if you use 50,000 but i am concerned about you tying up 3 million or 5 million in my bonding capacity for three years. Thats for them is a big thing because they cant pursue anything because we tie that up so we talked about ways of reducing that down so those are the things we have been working on. Would we get more bidders do you think if the catalog of biddable items was smaller . I think in this case the limit tends to be geographical because we use the same catalog for local work in the city and typically get three or four contractors interested in the same line of work. Its just the work as the director was saying its not only its up in hetch hetchy but if youre a contractor in that area and
And loving our water front and looking at how much that we have done and figuring out the best ways to move forward and so i want to thank you for your report and the time to make the suggestions and also, for all of our staff for looking at those, and figuring out any misconceptions that have been out there but also acknowledging things that we have been working on that are completely in sync with the suggestions that are contained in the report. Thank you. Item 9, new business. Thank you. Pardon me. Thank you, commissioners, and the public in the staff for a very good meeting. We have only one item of new business and a couple of other follow up items that probably dont rise to the new business level, but that was to work with commissioner brandon, as an adviser to staff on a souther water front master planning effort. I am sorry . And commissioner adams. Commissioner adams wanted to join me. But that is okay. I dont mind, joining, i can be the alternate. Okay. I dont think there was
So it will limit our face well have a barbecue; right . The deck extends further and we dont want it to be 12 feet out that will block her view were trying to tell compromise we dont want to propose. I understand youre married to this. Im not married to it at all. It sound like it. Anything else from the department . Just one thing on 4 spiral stairs on the design after everything i hope that weve taking a look at the head stair the way it wraps around it the posts youre coming under the deck and this is sometimes a problem the design is great but when we get but out to get the inspectors then the door has to be move forward someone else commissioner fung as a architect you know its very well on the paper but it is a big problem for inspection maybe the permit holder has an answer but it becomes an owner we end up moving the stairs someplace else because of the head issue. Commissioners. Were fine. Were fine. Ill start. Well, you start. You know i is it so hard to tell people what they