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The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon, everyone. Its monday, november 19, 2012. This is the land use and Economic Development committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor scott wiener. Supervisor maly a cohen is absent today. Our clerk is derek evans. Mr. Evans, can you please give us the announcements . Yes. Please make sure all Electronic Devices are off, copies submitted to the clerk. Items acted upo...

For the years of my service, that is not enough for my family. I was promised a peaktime medallion. In the end they missed the again. Why am i being so hated . What am i doing wrong here . Why am i not heard . Its not fair i protest i protest i protest. You forsake me. You pushed me against the wall to take legal action against youand sfmta staff. If i have to do it alone, im going to do it. The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon, everyone. Its monday, november 19, 2012. This is the land...

City as possible. Im going to go through a couple of slides here. Just to give you some background. The San Francisco Transportation Plan does a few things. It is a longrange, citywide planning effort, looking from now until 2040, just under 30 years, at all of the transportation funding. And try to prioritize between different needs that we have. And balance those needs and prioritize funding accordingly. We are also looking at Different Things that we can do is additionally and with policy to ...

But instead of collecting on it, we will abol an offshoot ofl street has launched a new limit to about the people, not the banks by buying up distressed debt from Financial Firms and canceling it so that borrowers do not have to repay. Then, tasing ice. 1984, the glacier was 11 miles away. Today, is back here. The glacier is retreating but it is also thinning at the same time. The new documentary looks at how photographer james balog captured Climate Change on film by placing two dozen time laps...

You are looking at live pictures of air force two in beijing china. Vice President Joe Biden landed, days after the b 52 flew no disputed airspace over the south china sea, and questions about the disputed islands between japan and china. Thats what the Vice President is talking about in budget after leaving japan. Well have more on that in a moment. We begin with this the deadly Train Derailment. Investigators say it was travelling at 82 Miles Per Hour, three times the limit before the crashing...

That concludes my directors reports. Julian parsons, this is my last directors report to you, it is an honor to be here with you for that. Great. Especially to hear that the giants celebration was so much more accessible than that of 2010. We discussed this in detail in committee. Congratulations to those who made that happen for everybody. Theres actually two things i forgot if i could add. We were proud to offer an mod wheelchair to willy mays here at city hall. For the event. And also, are Co...

Contracted. He left the hospital and he thought his life might be ending and he didnt want to pass away in the state of florida. He wanted to come back home to San Francisco to be surrounded by a community that he loved so dearly for the last 2 decades. He took a bus all the way from florida to San Francisco so that he could be with his friends and community when he passed away. Many of you have had the opportunity to hear lionel sing or maybe he grabbed your hand as you walked down chambers as ...

Present, supervisor kim, present, supervisor mar, present, supervisor tang, present, supervisor wiener, present, supervisor yee, pre. Mr. President you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you join us on the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance. Madam clerk, any communications . Speaker there are no communications. This week representing the even districts specifically district eight and 10. The mayor may address the board up to 5 minutes. The president will recognize the sup...

But in the stand your ground case that now we are all very well aware of, i think it goes back to what we spoke about earlier. And that is the pressure. Guess what . If people started to make phone calls and putting the pressure on, it would be different. And then that would help encourage you as a legislator help encourage Law Enforcement to speak out. Because now they are not alone. As long as youre going behind and whispering and say hey, im with you. But, you know, what . Every day we are lo...

Reporter that warning is to be very careful in these conditions. The marin county Coroners Office is not identifying these victims until their families are notified. However in the last few minutes i did speak to southern marin fire. It confirms these men and a boy were standing on some rocks when they were swept away by a wave when they were fishing just beyond the golden gate. Chopper2 had our first view of the scene as boats with the coast guard responded to a 911 call of two people swept out...