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Good afternoon. Everyone welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority finance committee for tuesday, may 13, 2014. My name is mark farrell im joined by supervisor chiu and supervisor tang and well be joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen. Madam clerk, any announcements . No amendments okay. Would we have roll call supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen absent. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Absent. We have quorum okay could we call item 2. The second item ...

Here theres a photograph let me show you the photograph. President chiu. Sir why dont i suggest, sir. Why dont i suggest rather than you trying to present this consider asking both parties to present the information and bring back the hearing three weeks from now to give the departments time to respond any only question who shall and i i direct this information to. This board of supervisors and actually we did that i dont know who screened them but well be happy to provide them again. Okay. I i ...

Them with the equipment and the proprietary software so thats what went bankrupt and their international in canada the international portion of the company was purchased were waiting to determine whats going to happen with the systems but the same Companies Support of the negotiation system so hopefully, a a lot of big players. Im pleased for our brothers and sisters in the east bay theyve been waiting partially as we expand to the peninsula and the 2014 capitalization will not be detailed too m...

I had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put together a team of people to help me get through this. Im a Structural Engineer and im thrilled at the quality of the contractors and engineers weve taken one civic awesome and put all the vendors in one place. You have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every were rebuilding are that the office of the city of administer and the depth thought i environment and other partners. A...

Irresponsible, and is continuing to give threats not only to the United States, but to all of their allies. Something is going to have to be done. This morning the president alluded to recent sanctions placed on the rogue nation and took a swipe at the north korean dictator saying i spoke with president moon of south korea last night and asked him how rocket man is doing. Long gas lines forming in south korea. Too bad. Athena jones live from the president s golf club where he is spending a good ...

Have influenced at least in part that terrorist attack. I think we have toned it down. These are people that are looking for political gain. I dont think theyre getting it. And as much as possible, ive tried to stay out of that. I think my rhetoric is a very it brings people together. All right, the u. S. Attorneys for the Southern District of mississippi insisted that the timing of the operation and the president s visit were purely coincidental while the tragedies this weekend around the count...

Says this doesnt move forward from here? why not just do that? >> so, we actually already have. the background check bill was a bipartisan bill that actually passed the house very comfortably and is not controversial. this should be an easy bill for the senate to take up. its just closing loopholes in an existing law that says if youre a felon, if you are a domestic violence misdemeanant or if youre deemed to be mentally defective by a court, you shouldnt be allowed to own a gun. >> i understand...

Question, and, bob, why was he on -- why was he put on this committee in the first place? theres an interesting back story here maybe you could tell people a little bit about it where tom cain jr., the republican leader in the state senate in new jersey. and right after last novembers election, chris christie and kevin otoole basically teamed up to try to oust tom cain as the leader and they failed. and then tom cain appointed kevin otoole to this committee. what am i missing here? how did this ...

Member of the assembly just a few minutes ago, actually, and he said basically time is of the essence here. theyre worried about a couple of things. one thing that members on the assembly side are worried about is that you have this parallel investigation that is going to be run by the state senate. the state senate is also going to be issuing subpoenas, also going to be asking for records. there is some concern here that this is going to be chaos, and that this is going to create an opportunity...

This is after he said he will cooperate fully with all the investigations. lets listen to this. >> if you were to get a subpoena for whatever reason, what would you do? >> im not going to speculate on that. matt? >> theres the governor saying if you give me a subpoena, i might comply, i might not. obviously hes going to be very legalistic about it, and he doesnt sound there like someone whos going to cooperate. >> well look, i think talking about sending a subpoena to the governor of the state o...