Right back in to the swing of things after last week's recess, and we've got some looming unfinished business before the board: The results of CEQA's environmental study on Treasure Island are ready to be reviewed, the Parkmerced plan will need to get a final vote after it passed on first reading two weeks ago, and Fatted Calf in Hayes Valley will be so much better if the board lets them sell booze. Our items of interest on tomorrow's agenda:
[Brief editorial correction: Mayor Lee will be appearing before next Tuesday's board meeting, not at tomorrow's meeting as we mentioned last week. Our bad! Hope you didn't get too excited.]
Item 2: Liquor License for Fatted Calf's Hayes Valley location. Everyone loves Fatted Calf's line of fine charcuterie, right? But wouldn't you enjoy it more if you could also purchase beer and wine to go along with it? Of course you would. Vote "Yay!" on item 2.
Item 3: $696,000 for Transportation Development. A Chiu-sponsored accept and spend grant that gives $341,000 to DPW and $355,000 to various pedestrian an bicycle projects.
Items 8 - 17: Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Development Project. The first item relates to CEQA's findings for the project, the rest of the tag-along items deal with the Treasure Island general plan, zoning codes and the transportation plan.
Items 18 - 21: Parkmerced Project. Passed on first reading two weeks ago and needs a final vote. Let's hope nobody gets tricky here.
Item 22 - 23: Redistricting Task Force. Chiu and Kim are calling in the task force to slice and dice our voting districts. Cross your fingers you don't end up with a crap supervisor. (Just kidding, none of them are crap!) Item 23 adds the task force to the list of things that could be a conflict of interest. Good to know the rules committee has their eye on this stuff.
Item 29: Adopting the Five-Year Financial Plan. Sounds important, but what are the odds we're sticking to it in three years?
Item 30: $248 Million for Road Repaving and Street Safety. The Public interest and necessity demand we repave and reconstruct the roads! (Note: slight paraphrasing of the agenda text.)
Item 31: Certification of Contracted-Out Services. If you're a City and County Employee in one of the following occupations, your job will most likely get farmed out to a contractor: 1) employee and public parking
management services; 2) general security services; 3) information booth services; 4) airport shuttle bus services; and 5) Port janitorial services and security services.
Item 32: Maximum 2-hour time limit for parking at Broken Meters. Self-explanatory. You'll have a two hour limit at broken meters at which point you'll have to circle the block and come back for another two-hour limit.
Items 36 and 37: Official Newspapers for City Advertising and Outreach. Item 36 names the Chronicle and the Examiner as the official newspapers for the City and County's official advertisements. Item 37 names the official papers for neighborhood and community outreach. The SF Bay View is the official paper for African American outreach, for example. El Mensajero and El Reportero are the official Hispanic outreach papers, etc. Several neighborhood papers get the official nod from the city, but there's absolutely no mention of the Nob Hill Gazette. How gauche!
Items 45 - 54: Joe DiMaggio Playground Master Plan. This thing just keeps getting tabled. Can we fix up the playground and the library yet?
Items 55 - 58: Treasure Island Environmental Impact Report Findings. If it goes to public hearing, we'll see which of the NIMLOS stand up to comment on the evil, lower-than-originally-planned apartment buildings on Treasure Island. Or maybe people are genuinely concerned about people getting off the island in a tsunami.
From the clerk's mailbag:
- One letter from the department of elections, certifying Initiative Ordinance, "Male Circumcision."
- 35 letters calling for an end to Sit-Lie Ordinance.
- One letter from Ruth Snow submitting public safety questions regarding cell phone towers.
- Roughly 100 letters supporting AT&T Network upgrades
- Roughly 2,000 letters supporting the elimination of $2 million in fees charged to City College
- Letter "From Tim Giangiobbe, regarding Greg Suhrs’ camera idea for the Police Department."
- Letter from Jean Barish opposing Parkmerced, AT&T upgrades and 2009 Housing Element update. [Note: Curmudgeon alert!]
- "From Tim Giangiobbe, regarding a homeless baby boomer."
The full board agenda is available here and the meeting thing kicks off at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays. For those of you who like to follow along from home, you can stream it live on SFGovTV.org.
