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Modernizing our Transportation System to meet the future needs of the bay area is a strong caltrain and that includes electrification, it includes highspeed rail and of course it includes extending caltrain and highspeed rail to the transbay terminal. And, so, were going to hear an update today and well, colleagues, if there are no introductory remarks, well hear from john ram, director of planning. Thank you, supervisors. John ram with the Planning Department. Im very much pleased to be here to...

As youd expect, this number breaks heavily along partisan lines. Howard dean was a president ial candidate. Michael steele was the president of the Republican National committee, and also served as Lieutenant Governor as maryland. Governor, this is a ripe conversation, front page of the new york times. My question, its a biggy, has it changed . Everybody knows that incomes have been stagnant for the middle class now for 25, 30 years now, at least. But now is there a new attitude, not only are we...

Thank you. Thank you jonathan. To sum up a unique opportunity at this wonderful location and we believe that we have the right project before you today. It is going to improve over the next several months and years, as we go through the entitlement process it has improved since it was proposed in the rfp er a and we have a great partner and a good team and we are very excited to move forward. Again the location, we could not ask for a better location, we think that is going to take advantage of ...

Agency and so that is one of the main reasons that we are trying to do this. Before i move on to port rent, i want to talk about the numbers behind what we think that the infrastructure and costs will be and the source of the funds, if you will. To get this month ject done right now when we look at the project per form a analysis, it looks like there will be 100 million of the developer that will be needed to get the project done, this is a lot of at risk money, 15 million of that will be happen...

Type of First Amendment rights. Many members of this board were saddened by this decision and spoke out in opposition of it, but despite that, we did have to make changes in our current public in our previous Public Finance program in order to be legal under this new Supreme Court ruling. This legislation passed last spring in april of 2012, thank you, supervisor cohen for your support last year so that we could continue this very important program, but have it be under the guidelines of the Sup...

According to a new New York Times cbs poll a huge majority of americans now say income inequality is getting worse and it must be dealt with now if 75 of americans say corporations have too much influence on American Life and politics. And nearly 7 in 10 want the uber wealthy to pay more taxes. Twothirds say wealth should be more evenly divided here in america and 57 say governments should be doing more to reduce the income gap. As youd expect this number breaks heavily along partisan lines. How...

First off, the cold war between russia and the west over ukraine is getting worse. Ukraines leader says his military must be ready for a fullscale invasion from russia. Ill talk about putins plans for the summer with the American Ambassador to the united nations, Samantha Power from kiev. Then this week the white house announced plans to beef up operations in iraq. More troops more training more weapons, maybe more bases. Will it work . Is it the right way to take on isis . Also how to get peopl...

Supervisor Must Withdraw their statement and specifying the dates by which all other candidates Must Withdraw and many of you remember this conversation from last year when we were reforming public finance, there was a concern that the way the previous deadline had been that we often trapped candidates into continued to run for a race because they had already received Public Financing disfigurement, the ghost candidate issue, and we had found that candidates who not knowing who other candidates ...

Welcome to our regular rules Committee Meeting for thursday february 21, 2013. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing the meeting. To my right is supervisor london breed and the clerk today is linda wong. The committee would also like to acknowledge a staff of sfgtv who are mark bunch and nona makonian who recorded each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair, please make sure all cell phones an...

Hello. It is the first big break in the manhunt for those two escaped killers in upstate new york. The convicts dna turning up inside a cabin sending hundreds of officers scrambling t to a new search site. That according to several reports which indicate the killers leveled the dna traces during the breakin within the last couple of days and police would not talk about the evidence they found other than calling it the first confirmed lead in the search for the savage murderers. That cabin breaki...