Breed. Cohen present. Commissioner farrell. Farrell absent. Commissioner fewer. Fewer absent. Commissioner kim. Kim absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai. Present. Commissioner sheehy present. Tang present. We have quorum. Chair peskin all right. Could you, please, read the Consent Agenda and then well take Public Comment on the minutes. Clerk items two to three compromise the Consent Agenda. Item three was approved at december 12th Board Meeting and considered for final approval. Staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. If a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. Chair peskin is there anyp on item two, the minutes of december 2017 meeting, mr. Rice . Public yeah. I want to point out and explain part problem is transportation roads are deteriorating. Next time you talk to caltrans, charge them. They spend billions of dollars tearing down the bay bridge when all it needed
Aye. Ok. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag, of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Item eight, Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Ok. Item nine, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, Vice President adams, members of the commission, members of the public and port staff. Im Elaine Forbes, t
No major problems. A quick look at the toll plaza shows you the cash lanes starting a little wait. We are following breaking news this morning out of San Francisco. This morning fire crews are working to figure out what started a fire that burned two homes overnight. Flames roque out about 3 00 in the morning on fulton street right by alamo square and the famous painted ladies. A threestory victorian home went up in flames that was under construction. The flames spread to a house next door forcing a family out of that home. No word on injuries and no word on a cause. Pete suratos is at the scene gathering new details for us right now. We will check back in with him in half an hour. Now to a developing story this morning, local businesses bracing as i. C. E. Agents are zeroing in on northern california. Today in the bays kris sanchez is live in san jose with the immigration sweeps expected to happen soon. Kris, good morning. Reporter a lot of folks might be going to work feeling apprehe
Chairman brinkman i do appreciate how we solve for one place and other people are affected. Director borden . Director borden would think i would imagine because what theyve described, does the program not apply to people that are already in the pipeline . A couple of months we approved for a reduction in fees for people to be able to pay that was for the parking tickets, but im just wanting to understand if that program is applicable. That gentleman is 600 behind in parking fees. Im just wondering if the new regulation we enacted would be able to be applied. Yes. At your january 6th meeting, you did approve changes to the Community Service program for unpaid citations. That makes it very accessible. I think its a very low requirement to get into that program if you have a backlog of citations. I was hoping wed have james for the reco ford here. He was living in his bus and got about 1600 in citations and had his vehicle towed. I was on the phone with miss lu friday, talking about mr.
Commercial or residential builds as much Residential Housing as possible. We have huge crisis here not just in San Francisco but throughout our region. We need to make sure were not just building faces for more jobs but housing for our existing residents and new residents as well. I just wanted to take a moment to thank a number of people that helped bring this decade to fruition today at the board of supervisors and first, i want to start with our community. I want to recognize those that were, i think, in our 5 00 a. M. Session with the giants, the council of Community Housing organization, peter cohen and fernando, teresa imperial, ian lewis and mike casey of local 2 who brought the lollypop rings so we could have our own World Champion rings at the table and united educators of San Francisco and finally, shes no longer with us today but april from my office who spent quite a bit of time working on the negotiations and this deal. I also want to thank our residents that have been act