Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180124

SFGTV Government Access Programming January 24, 2018

Said. You know, and step back from the nomination, but i do want to thank supervisor fewer for that generous nomination. I also, chair, president tang, if i may, wanted to address one nominee that i heard from many members of the public and in fact she was my first choice and i would have really liked to have nominated her today and that is city administrator naomi kelly. She is someone had has served at the helm of the city for decades and is a great public servant. And would have been a perfect fit for the interim mayor role. For very similar reasons as to why the board in 2010 had shr selected then city administrator ed lee. I know she is close to ed lee and would have carried his principles and policies forward. Ed lee is the mayor that the voters have voted for and in many ways it makes sense to honor that by nominating naomi kelly, but i did not want to create a show by nominating her and asking her to come down here. I did ask her and she said she would not be able to accept this position and that the best way she can continue to serve the city is as city administrator. But i did think it was important for members of the public to understand why a formal nomination was not done, because we received many emails on behalf of ms. Kelly. And i want to thank ms. Kelly for her service and it says a lot about your leadership that so many members of the public had asked on this board to nominate you for interim mayor. Supervisor tang thank you, supervisor kim. Colleagues, any other nominations that you would like to make . Ok. Seeing none, then thank you. Madame clerk, would you please read the names of the formal nominees who have accepted in the order they were presented to us. Clerk supervisor cohen has nominated president breed. Supervisor yee has nominated supervisor farrell. Supervisor tang so we have two nominees before us. So colleagues, before we proceed on voting, i wanted to share the procedure. So according to our process, the vote on the nominations will be in the order that the nominations were received when the nominees name is called stay aye or no. The first nominee to receive a majority vote of all members will be selected by the committee of the whole and well forward it out to the full board of supervisors for appointment as successor mayor. Again, just to kind of very have you and repeat. Given were voting on nominations in the order which they were received, a nominee higher on the list could receive a majority vote before we vote on names lower down the list. Once a nominee receives six votes, voting on all other nominations will cease. And then we will reconvene to appoint the nominee as the mayor. With that said, colleagues, any questions . On the procedure . Ok. Seeing no questions, then madame clerk, please call the roll of the nominees in the order in which they were received. For round one, supervisor cohens nominee. I want to be clear supervisor peskin this is not like a board president vote, we dont say a name, we vote aye or no. Individually. For president breed, supervisor cohens nomination for president breed. Kim no. Peskin no. Ronen no. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Tang aye. Yee no. Cohen aye. Fewer no. There are four ayes and five nos with supervisors kim, peskin, ronen, yee and fewer in the dissent. Thank you, madame clerk. No nominee has received a majority of the votes. I wanted to ask if we could call a vote on a second round and that would be the second candidate, supervisor farrell. Yee nomination of supervisor farrell. Kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai no. Sheehy aye. Tang aye. Yee aye. Cohen no. Fewer aye. Clerk there are 7 ayes and two nos with safai and cohen in the consent. Supervisor tang the selection is for supervisor farrell. I would like to now ask is there please, if we could ok, colleagues, i would like to ask if there is a motion to amend item 42 to include the name of supervisor farrell. So moved. Supervisor tang moved by peskin, seconded by supervisor yee. Colleagues, can we take that item and motion without objection or do we need a roll call . No roll call, ok, well do that without objection. Item 42 amended to include the name of supervisor farrell. The committee of the whole is held and closed. Colleagues will now reconvene as the board of supervisors. At this point, the committee of the whole has selected supervisor farrell to be the successor mayor. Will be now ask for the members to return to chamber. Madame clerk, i would ask that we this meeting is back in session. Colleagues, earlier we had reconvened as a full board of supervisors, but i would like to ask for motion to go back to the committee of the whole . Supervisor cohen, second by supervisor peskin. Were reconvened as committee of the whole. With that, madame clerk, i would like to actually ask colleagues if we can rescind the vote on supervisor farrells nomination . Second. A motion would be in order. Ill make a motion to rescind. Supervisor tang thank you. Thank you can colleagues, i think i was caught off guard as many of us were, so i would like to recast my vote. With that, madame clerk. Just to be clear, presiding officer, this is a vote on the motion made by supervisor yee and yay or nay motion. Supervisor tang correct. So a vote in the affirmative would be in favor of appointing mark farrell to be the interim mayor, that is correct . Supervisor tang yes, that is correct to my understanding unless madame clerk states otherwise. That is the selection by the committee of the whole and recommended to the board. So were still in the committee of the whole . We just took a motion to reconvene as committee of the whole . Madame clerk, please call roll. Yees nomination of supervisor farrell, kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai no. Sheehy aye. Tang no. Yee aye. Cohen no. Fewer aye. Clerk there is six ayes and three nos with supervisor safai, tang and cohen in the dissent. Supervisor tang thank you, madame clerk, the outcome has not changed. Supervisor farrell has still been nominated as the successor mayor. Colleagues, actually madame clerk, ask if we have to go back to item 42 to amend supervisor farrells name clerk we should. Supervisor tang moved by peskin, seconded by yee. Item 42 will include farrells name as successor mayor. Without objection, item roll, call please. On the motion to amend item 42 to add the name as successor mayor, supervisor mark farrell, supervisor kim . Kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Tang no. Yee aye. Cohen no. Fewer aye. There are 7 ayes and two nos. Supervisor tang item 42 is amend and passed with supervisor farrells name as successor mayor. Now, colleagues id like to welcome back our president london breed. Im sorry, i apologize, first i see if we will now reconvene as the full board of supervisors. Welcome back, president breed. Acting mayor breed thank you. So we are we have a couple of more items to a couple more things to take care of. And so madame clerk . Clerk madame president , the committee of the whole has selected supervisor mark farrell to be the successor mayor and has amended item 42 to amend supervisor farrells name to the item. If you are rejoining the conversation, as we spoke of you would withdraw your nomination. But we were pulled out of the committee of the whole and i didnt vote on that item and were no longer in the committee of the whole. No, thats correct, but for you to rejoin the conversation, you have to withdraw your nomination to participate in the process. The item is to approve item 42 as amended. Acting mayor breed it was my understanding that you all just did that. The committee of the whole amended item 42, recommended that to the board. Acting mayor breed ok got it. Got it, thank you. So now were going to approve item number 42. Clerk we will consider 42. Acting mayor breed at this time, i withdraw my name from consideration and i will be voting no on item number 42. Madame clerk, please call the roll. Clerk item 42 as amended, kim aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Sheehy aye. Tang aye. Yee aye. Breed no. Cohen no. Fewer. There are eight ayes and two nos with breed and cohen in the consent. Acting mayor breed the motion is approved. Please stand by. Madam clerk, please call the first i mean lets see, the mission rock were going to continue them. Why dont we call both items and then well take Public Comment for them both and then do the continuance. 3537, sitting as a committee of the whole for a public hearing on the project area one mission rock and subproject areas 11 through 113. Infrastructure district number two financing and items 36 and 37 the ordinance for the project area and 37 is the resolution to approve the issuance of bonds and 38 and 39 is the board of supervisors for a public hearing to consider an ordinance approving amendments to the Development Plan to remove a parcel known as p20 and item 39 is ordinance to approve amendments to the mission bay plan. Supervisor kim. Thank you as president breed mentioned, im asking the board to continue the items to tuesday february 13th to hear the items then. Supervisor kim has made a motion to continue. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor yee. Any Public Comment specifically on the continuance . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam clerk on the continuous, please call the roll. On the continuance of items 3539 supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Those items are continued to what date is that madam clerk . February 13th, 2018. Without objection. All right. That brings us to the end of the agenda. Can you please read the end . Todays meeting will be adjourned in follow in honor of the following individuals, on behalf of supervisor aaron peskin for the late mr. Peter overmier. Mr. Tang qualm sang and from supervisor tang Charles Alexander and miss lease an m coleman. Any other business for today . That concludes the business for today. Thank you. We had adjourned. Hi. Welcome to San Francisco. Stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. Lets look at common earthquake myths. We are here at the urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco. We have 3 guest today. We have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. I want to talk about urban myths. What do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance . Hes sleeping during those earthquakes . Have you noticed him take any special . No. He sleeps right through them. There is no truth that im aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. You hear the myth all the time. Suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something i hear they are aware of small vibrations. But yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. Today is a spectacular day in San Francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. Is this earthquake weather . No. Not that i have heard of. No such thing. There is no such thing. We are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. There is no relationship. I have heard its hot or cold weather or rain. Im not sure which is the myth. How about time of day . Yes. It happens when its least convenient. When it happens people say we were lucky and when they dont. Its terrible timing. Its never a good time for an earthquake. But we are going to have one. How about the ground swallowing people into the ground . Like the earth that collapsed . Its not like the tv shows. The earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but its not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. Its not going anywhere. We are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. Southern california is moving north. Its coming up from the south to the north. You would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. Maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. For better or worse. Yes. This is a tough question. Those other ones werent tough. This is a really easy challenge. Are the smaller ones less stress . Yes. The amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. I think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4. 7. So small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future . Not anyway that you can count on. I have heard that buildings in San Francisco are on rollers and isolated . Its not true. Its a conventional Foundation Like almost all the circumstances buildings in San Francisco. The transamerica was built way before. Its a pretty conventional foundation design. I have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. Is there anything of value to that . Yes, if you are in your room. You should drop, cover and hold onto something. If you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. If you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, its not a bad place to be. The reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. You are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. You are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. You want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. Where can i buy a Richter Scale . Mr. Richter is selling it. We are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. They are not available. Its a rather complex. In fact we dont even use the Richter Scale anymore. We use a moment magnitude. The Richter Scale was early technology. Probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. Is that true . Loma prieta was different. The ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. So anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. We are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to San Francisco and a fault totally independent. Much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. So people who were here in 89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isnt really the threshold of damage. When you triple it you cross that line. Its much more damage in earthquake. I want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for and chair of this committee and i want to acknowledge charles kreminek at sfgov tv for broadcasting our meeting and making sure theyre available to members of the public. Mr. Clerk, would you please call the roll . Item one, roll call. [roll call] we have quorum. Thank you very much. And may we take a motion to excuse commissioner cohen and commissioner fuhor. Mr. Clerk, can you please call the next item . Item two, chairs report. This is an information item. Thank you. And i do not have a report today. And may we take Public Comment on this item . Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Item number two. Can we please call the next item. Item three, executive directors report. This is an information item. Chair kim, commissioners, im pleased to report on some recent developments at the policy level. Weve been track federal and state Autonomous Vehicle legislation with interest and with some concern in late last year of october. Sfmta director sent a letter for the deployment of driverless vehicles in california. We are appreciative of the incorporation of several of our prior comments but remain concerned about several aspects of the proposed regulation, including training requirements being inclusive as our interactions between pedestrians and bicycles with these new driverless vehicles, were concerned about the ability of local Law Enforcement and First Responders to have access to crash data as well as the potential to allow the vehicles in testing to offer commercial services for higher services. In addition, in november, the u. S. House of relatives and Senate Passed their respective bills on federal legislation governing development of Autonomous Vehicles. Were appreciative of the federal role in regulating the vehicles themselves. We are concerned, however, that the legislation in both houses, as drafted now, preempts state and local governments from legislating the performance of those vehicles. Which we believe has always been the per view of the states and the enforcement of the performance, local Law Enforcement would also be preempted. We continue to work with a coalition of state and jurisdiction and other stakeholders to try to move that in the right direction. We really appreciate senator feinstein and others who have raised this issue and put a hold on the legislation and proposing some amendments to deal with the preemption provisions. We continue to work with partners on various aspects of the funding plan. We also await the final approval of our federal grant, which will allow us to build the toll system as well as pilot Autonomous Vehicle shuttles on the islands. Over the recent holiday break, by the way, my family and i were able to ride one of these shuttles that is being offered and operating in las vegas. The vehicle did have an operator on board who was able to take over, if needed. But the half mile loop was very smooth. The ride was smooth and the vehicle did operate quite well. If needed, the pilot on board would be able to take over the service as i mentioned. Interestingly, we learned that the city of las vegas did not contribute to the operation. It has been privately sponsored by a. A. A. , but did put out did prepare some of the plans and install some equipment to support the pilot. Locally, weve been working on the transit pass and the Affordability Programme i mentioned earlier and friended these to the Transportation Research board annual conference in washington, d. C. There are many, many agencies and Companies Working on past solutions, and by now the technology is quite advanced so we want to continue to work to integrate transit, ferries, car share, bike share and toll roads and parking all in

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