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Good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Economic Development committee. Im scott wiener the chairman of the committee and to my left is Supervisor Malia Cohen and committee vicechair jane kim will be joining us shortly. Our clerk is andrea ausberry and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. Madame clerk, are there any announcements. Please silence all Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included in the file ...

Is Supervisor Malia Cohen and committee vicechair jane kim will be joining us shortly. Our clerk is andrea ausberry and i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting. Madame clerk, are there any announcements. Please silence all Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards and documents to be included in the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the december 16, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madame clerk, item no. 1. A ...

From public works this project was into our office i have sorry. Take your time. All right. All right. Thank you again, this project came to public works back in june and were reviewed it and were into the regular process and this is the light rail market from van ness to embarcadero about two miles illuminating the city which was described and it is the works first sculpture of its kind and the entire route has one hundred 42 lights that is going into the city through the tubdz and this is an e...

The full board of supervisors with positive recommendation . Second. Without objection, that will be the order. Madame clerk, could you please call item no. 2. A hearing on the Transbay Transit Center and downtown extension platform compatibility. Thank you, supervisor kim is the author and i would like to add my name as cosponsors to the request. Thank you, chair wiener and im glad its becoming before the Land Use Commission because it impacts transit for the region and certainly for San Franci...

Friends and family members that were there with us doing this because based on what ive read, human memory is pretty fallible. Eyewitness testimony for example, is notoriously sketchy. Rather than assuming that they have a perfect memory of the past decade, i went out and if you could of the people who were there to get their perception of what happened and check it against my own. And tried to use so the combination of my own members, things i wrote at the time, and interviews of other people t...

No matter whether you abreed with his views or not. He will be missed by both sides of this house and our thoughts are with the right honorable member and other members of his family at this time. Im sure the house would also join ming tribute to the pgb Paralympic Team following Great Success at the sochi games. Kenny gallagher won our first ever gold medal at the paralympics. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meeting with ministers and colleagues and in addition to my duties to the house i will h...

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There are any communications today from Board Members . Any new or old business. I did want to know that the special meeting for march 25th in this hearing room. Thank you. Seeing none, lets move on to the executive directors report. Good morning, directors and members of the public. I wanted to begin by dedicating our bimbo, rain heart and she passed away on march sixth. We knew her for 15 years and she was a friend and a constant supporter and a valuable asset to the state and she was a native...

[closed session return] excuse me, at this time, we are reconvening back into our regular meeting. Then we have an announcement of our closed session items. As to item number 9, conference with legal counsel, existing litigation under government code 54957 b and 54975. 6 and the tjpa board of directors there is no items to be report. And 54957 b and,. The board did designated jane kim. And at this time, could we go to item number 12. Authorizing the executive director to execute israel paout res...

In this conclusion of a two-part series, Jim Hoecker and Steve Griffith of the Rail Electrification Council talk about the transition away from fossil fuels.