i want to thank sftv specifically john madam clerk, are there any announcements? >>. yes chair wiener. please silence all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any files should be submitted to the clerk and agenda will appear on the 2014 nools otherwise stated >> thank you and to members of the public at the 345 we'll be taking a 15 minute recess so we'll be briefly recessings. madam clerk, please call item one >> it's an ordinance amending the transportation code are inform the division of parking meter and president chiu is the author of this measure. >> is that working now? >> you might want to turn it off. >> great this is a measure that i'm carrying at the request of the department to a state law that needs to go both effect jan marcason could you please present. >> good afternoon sxhirgz janet mary ton from mta. the ordinance will revise a overnight parking at the meters. we need this local amendment to come into inclination assembl bill was signed into law by the governor when it goes to o into effective it will change the mta to permit vehi

smith and john ross. i knew i'd do that. madam clerk, would you please call the first item. >> item number two, approval of minutes. this is an action item. >> this is an action item and why don't we go to public comment. any member of the public who'd like to comment on our minutes? seeing ing none, we'll close. seeing no comments from committee -- >> i'll move approval. >> we have a motion to approve the minutes, second by commissioner cohen and we'll take without objection. >> item number three, approval of executive directors performance goals. this is an action goal. >> thank you. this is the first time we're discussing the performance goals of the executive director of the transportation authority. we just hired our executive director and she is here to discuss, which we have worked on together, her performance goals for the coming year and we'll have a closed session for that so we'll need to prepare the room so we can go into closed session. >> we are back in open session. i do want to allow anyon

. >> thank you madam clerk can you start by calling item number 2? >> extend existing roadway. >> okay john from the department of public works. good afternoon. the department received a request from an applicant to reconstruct that portion to install a privately maintained drive way that will lead to his new garage. at that point the applicant was not ready he was working with neighbors and they are now currently ready and that's why this application is in front of the full board with recommendations for full approval. >> colleagues if there's no questions or comment we'll open it up to public comment. is there any public comment on item number 2? okay seeing none public comments is closed. colleagues do i have a motion to forward item 2 to the full board with positive recommendation. take that without objection that will be the order. madam could you please call item number 1. >> the bay area bike share program plannings for expansion for city wide roll out. >> thank you i requested this hearing on bike sharing in san francisco to receive an update

madam clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll call. >> commissioner avalos? >> present. >> commissioner breed? >> here. >> campos? >> absent. >> chiu? >> present. >> cohen? >> present. >> ferrill. >> present. >> commissioner kim? >> kim absent. >> commissioner mar? >> mar absent. >> commissioner tang? >> present. >> commissioner weiner? >> present. >> yee. >> present. >> commissioner kim. >> present. we have a quorum. >> item two, approve the minutes of the minutes of october, 22, 2013. this is action item. >> any comments on the minutes? >> seeing none, any member of the public like to comment, we will close public comment. and quickly, we will have a roll call vote. >> commissioner avalos? >> aye. >> breed? >> aye. >> campos >> absent. >> chiu? >> chiu, aye. >> cohen? >> aye. >> far ill. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar, absent. >> tang? >> aye. >> weiner? >> aye. >> commissioner yee? >> aye. >> that item passes. >> the item passes. >> the last page? madam clerk, could you call the next item. >> chair's report, this is an information item. >> good morning, co

thank you. >> richard bolingbrook. >> madam commissioners. i'm a working artist. i wanted to acknowledge the artist. if you can stand up please. we have a newspaper of the star board members here and working artist from the shipyard. i wanted to speak in support of the recommendations of the ocii staff regarding the disposition of the new shipyard artist to the replacement building and i want to thank the oci staff who have been wonderful to work with and very helpful with this process. this is a specific use building and it has been a long time in development. shipyard artist and star -- have been integral in developing here. this building is going to be an essential part of the new art center out of the shipyard. i wanted to just direct the commission's attention. i'm not going to be providing but to the general plan and specifically goal 3 to support individual artist and organizations and an art environment and it specifically states that it needs to enhance the artist to create san francisco is the producing artist. it goes on to say that it has continued dev

madam clerk will you call the roll. >>

i'm john avalos, the chair of the transportation authority. our clerk of today will be vanessa and i want to thank sfgtv staff for broadcasting the meeting. that's charles and thank you for your service. madam clerk will you call the roll. >> taking roll call. >> commissioner avalos. >> present. >> commissioner wiener. >> absent. >> commissioner breed. >> here. >> commissioner campos. >> here. >> commissioner chiu. >> here. >> commissioner cohen. >> here. >> commission are farrel. >> present. >> commissioner kim. >> mr. kim absent. >> commissioner mar. >> here. >> tang. >> present. >> commissioner yee. >> yee is absent. >> thank you very much. colleagues, commissioner wiener has had to go back east for a family matter and would like to excuse his absence. can i make a motion from supervisor farrel and campos and we'll take that out objection. thank you: madam clerk please call the next item. approve the minutes of the september 24, 2013 meeting.. >> colleagues any comments on the minutes. >> seeing none. we'll go to public comment. anyone of t

secretary john kerry, and other leaders of the united states are seen as, madam, real friends of our country. essential support is , thature that these goals were emphasized today, are reached and the afghan government is committed towards the advancement of women in the enshrined in our constitution alongside our partners. i thank you. [applause] span, "washington journal" live with your calls and tweets. and the 2014 federal budget. later, jeh >> if you are a middle or high school student, c-span student cam student competition once in a while is the most important issue congress should address next year. .k five to seven minute video of $100,000.ze 20.deadline is january >> in a moment, washington journal live with newspaper headlines. followed by a discussion on national security threats. the president's nominee for homeland security secretary. our guest is stephanie sanok kos than a look at health and human services rule. we are joined by ronald honberg. later we will talk about aid to the philippines and what role the u.s. should pay in the international crises. washington jour

secretary john kerry, and other leaders of the united states are seen as, madam, real friends of our country. essential support is , thature that these goals were emphasized today, are reached and the afghan government is committed towards the advancement of women in the enshrined in our constitution alongside our partners. i thank you. [applause] machine. sunday at 7 p.m. now national republican congressional committee chairman representative greg walden. he spoke today at the christian science monitor breakfast in washington, d.c. for about an hour. >> here we go. thank you for coming. we have representative greg walden. his last visit with our group was in may 2012. we welcome him back. he was born in oregon where his family came to the state by wagon train in 1845. he grew up on an 80 acre cherry orchard and graduated from the university of oregon. early on he was a disc jockey he and a talkshow host and worked as a press secretary and chief of staff for a member -- as -- remember of congress. he was elected to congress himself. in 2010, speaker been asked them boehner asked him

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i think that was the promise of john kennedy. i am glad that many of both parties decided to follow that same promise. i just wish more would. madam president, i thank my colleagues for letting me have all this time. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: madam president, i want to thank the distinguished senator from vermont for his remembrance of those days that are so special to him and are also to really commemorate them so they will be special to all of us. and i thank him for his comments. madam president, i'm going to speak as the ranking member of the senate rules committee, and i'm going to speak in regards to the rules changes that have occurred today. under the rules of this body, it takes 67 votes to end debate on 0 a rules change. as a continuing body, our rules carry on from one congress to the next, or at least they used to. and can only be changed pursuant to these rules. our rules have always ensured a voice for the minority in this body. unlike