Board Meeting - October 7, 2016 (Special)
TRANSBAY JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AND CALENDAR
Friday, October 7, 2016
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 416
San Francisco, CA
This meeting is also being conducted by teleconference at the following location: Hotel Maya, 700 Queensway Dr., Long Beach, CA 90802, Lobby [Director Jeff Gee attending via teleconference]. The teleconference location is open to the public and any member of the public has an opportunity to address the Board from this teleconference location in the same manner as if that person attended the regular meeting location.
SPECIAL MEETING
1:30 p.m.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Greg Harper, Chair
Mohammed Nuru, Vice Chair
Jeff Gee
Jane Kim
Edward Reiskin
Bijan Sartipi
Interim Executive Director
Mark Zabaneh
Secretary
Nila Gonzales
201 Mission St. #2100
San Francisco, California 94105
415-597-4620
415-597-4615 fax
ACCESSIBLE MEETING POLICY
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority meeting will be held in Room 416, at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA. The closest accessible BART station is the Civic Center Station at United Nations Plaza and Market Street. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: Muni Metro Lines J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Oceanview, N Judah, and T-Third at Van Ness and Civic Center Stations; F-Market; 19-Polk, 47 Van Ness; 49-Mission-Van Ness; 5-Fulton; 6 Parnassus; 21-Hayes; 9 San Bruno; and 71 Haight Noriega. For more information about MUNI services call 311. The meeting will also be conducted via teleconference from the publicly accessible location noticed on page 1 of this agenda.
The meeting room is wheelchair accessible. Accessible curbside parking spaces have been designated on the Van Ness Avenue and McAllister Street perimeters of City Hall for mobility-impaired persons. There is accessible parking available within the Civic Center Underground Parking Garage at the corner of McAllister and Polk Streets, and within the Performing Arts Parking Garage at Grove and Franklin Streets.
If you require the use of an American Sign Language interpreter, a sound enhancement system, or a reader during the meeting, such person or system can be made available upon request; please contact Nila Gonzales at (415) 597-4620 or NGonzales@TransbayCenter.org, at least 72 hours prior to the meeting. Late requests will be honored if possible. Calendars and minutes of the meeting may be available in alternative formats; please contact Nila Gonzales at (415) 597-4620 or NGonzales@TransbayCenter.org at least 72 hours in advance of need. Written reports or background materials for calendar items are available for public inspection and copying at 201 Mission St. Suite 2100 during regular business hours and are available online at www.TransbayCenter.org.
To assist the City’s efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illness, multiple chemical sensitivity or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City to accommodate these individuals.
The ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the Chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices.
1:30 – SPECIAL MEETING
ORDER OF BUSINESS
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Public Comment
Members of the public may address the Authority on matters that are within the Authority's
jurisdiction and are not on today's calendar.
THE FOLLOWING MATTERS BEFORE THE TRANSBAY JOINT POWERS AUTHORITY ARE RECOMMENDED FOR ACTION AS STATED BY THE INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OR THE CHAIR.
RECESS SPECIAL MEETING AND CONVENE CLOSED SESSION
CLOSED SESSION
4. Call to Order
5. Roll Call
6. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL—EXISTING LITIGATION
(Paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Gov. Code Section 54956.9)
Name of case: John Eng, et al. vs. Millennium Partners I, Inc., et al., San Francisco County Superior Court, Case No. CGC-16-553574
and
Name of case: Laura S. Lehman, et al. vs. Transbay Joint Powers Authority, et al., San Francisco County Superior Court, Case No. CGC 16-553758
7. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL—ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 54956.9: (1 potential case)
ADJOURN CLOSED SESSION AND RECONVENE SPECIAL MEETING
8. Announcement of Closed Session.
ADJOURN
The Ethics Commission of the City and County of San Francisco has asked us to remind individuals that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Lobbyist Ordinance [Campaign and Gov't Conduct Code, Article II, Chapter 1, § 2.100, et seq.] to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 220, San Francisco, CA 94102, telephone (415) 252-3100, fax (415) 252-3124 and web site: www.sfethics.org.