Secretary of state john kerry vows the Obama Administration will continue to battle the Climate Crisis in the remaining two months before donald trump takes office. But will obama stop the Dakota Access pipeline . Thats the demand by thousands of activists who took to the streets across the country tuesday from los angeles to just outside the white house where senator Bernie Sanders unexpectedly joined the rally. We beg president obama in any way you possibly can, stop the pipeline. Amy we will air Bernie Sander speech outside the white house, then speak to his former advisor economist, jeffrey sachs, as well as tara houska of honor the earth and First Nations leader kevin hart. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from marrakesh, morocco, the u. N. Climate summit. Actions were held in hundreds of cities worldwide tuesday to protest the 3. 8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would c
Good morning, everyone. This is the finance committee of the San Francisco county transportation authority. It is tuesday may, tenth, 2016. Our clerk is mr. Steve stamos could you please do the roll call . Sure. Item one, roll call. Commissioner campos . Absent. Cohen . Absent. Kim . Here. Present. Mar. Here. Present. Yee . Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. I wanted to thank josh and charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today and as always. Please call the second item. The consent calendar, 2, 3, comprise, the consent calendar, considered routine and the staff is not planning to present on these items if a member objects any of the item may be removed and considered separately. I see no questions, lets open this up for the Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about consent calendar . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, could we approve the consent calendar, or do we need a roll call . The consent calendar. Commissioner campos . Ab accident. Cohen, absent. Commissio
All right. Good afternoon, everyone id like to call this meeting to order the regulars meeting of the Land Use Committee my name is supervisor cowen the chair of the committee to any right is supervisor wiener the vice chair of the committee and supervisor peskin will be joining us and sitting on the left clerk victor young thank you, mark and phil jackson from sfgovtv for brovrt this meeting marry mr. Clerk, any announcements . All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the may 17, 2016, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you call item 2. Carrying on the first sewer place property to the transferred to the Mayors Office for identifying the properties under loyalty for the department of real estate under the requirement of the administrative code and rigging the port San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and San Francisco public works and the San Fra
Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner moore commissioner johnson and commissioner wu are present expect commissioner hillis to arrive late commissioners, that places you under your is consideration for items proposed for continuance 79 castro discretionary review and various are property to july and items 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 cases bush street, ellis and Market Street and sutter street Fourth Street discretionary review 19 are proposed for indefinite continuance as under departmental matters at Market Street the informational presentation is proposed for continuance until june 9th and under the discretionary review calendar we did receive a letter signed by both parts for 23 ab at grant avenue and place discretionary review and variance request for june 2nd continuance. Okay opening it up for Public Comment on any items on the continuance calendar okay comment is closed. Commissioner Vice Pr
Thank you supervisor. Supervisor farrell just to be clear there wont be kit cat bars in the machines. To quote my colleague you can get the candy before you get here in the morning. Now were doing this. Supervisor peskin youre recognized. There are no shortage around the area and i appreciate what supervisor farrell says about the children visiting but there are adults that can make their own choices of foods to consume and i for one believe we should believe able to get a candy bar out of the vending machine. Thank you supervisor peskin. Seeing no other names on the roster madam clerk on item 18 please call the roll. Supervisor peskin. No. Supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor wiener. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor avalos. Maybe aye. Supervisor breed. A very, very hesitant aye. Supervisor campos. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Anesthesiatic aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. There are ten ayes and one no with supervisor peskin in dissent. [gavel] the ordi