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is there any further public comment >> mr. bryant did you give a copy to amber with the transportation authority. >> (inaudible). >> so we'll pass it on to amber. >> next speaker >> hello commissioners. i was hearing sponsoring and pilot programs. and clipper cards. so with those 3 issues insurance would be a great way to pilot with the clipper card. to help bicyclists with insurance. because i'm sure you're aware of we have a lot of different accidents with pedestrians and
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bicyclists and audibles. i love riding a bicycle but if we're going going to sponsor have insurance companies have types of information on the bicycles or the key that support the bicyclists with insurance >> are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, we have this action item before us on the strategic analysis report i believe mr. swaerts and ms. crab are looking at is language ms. crab recommendations >> yeah. we'll work with the speaker on the language and bring a revised version to the board. >> and there's not a hurry to
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adapt this today but bring the restoration to the board and are you recommending us to continue this item until - >> i think supervisor campos i'll suggest i'll make a motion to accept this and approve the report move forward this with a positive recommendation to the full board understanding the time it maybe some amendments along the lines. >> i think that's a great motion and i think that bike sharing is different from bicycle rebels i appreciate park wide and the expansion throughout the city but bike sharing is about people in neighborhoods or people that really use the bikes in san francisco for businesses for residential and other types of use. i think that bike rentals are more of a tourist focus that
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many of the people's that come into town i think the city needs both i'm appreciative that we have so much bike sharing and rentals and the toufrts that don't know the area that's an issue of providing some information they need to make a rational choice >> are there any other comments colleagues. can we have a roll call >> sxhood. supervisor campos. supervisor kim absent. supervisor mar. supervisor yee. that items approved >> next temazepam 9. >> allocation of prop c. k funds and prop double funds
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subject to the tax fiscal year and the amended part of our programs this is an action item. >> the sfmta is requesting the funding for a little bit over 8 thousand fund for the prop k. all of those requests are intended to approve the street safety from planning to construction. the first project as a matter of fact, is requesting over 980 thousand to design the pedestrian signals as well as the larger overlayed and larger are arms for availability at different intersection and you can find the more detailed breakdown between the locations
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of the company treatments on page 4 of the enclosure. mta acceptance to complete the design by july of next year and construction to be concluded by the following year 2016. the current proposed ground changes will not necessitate the construction of the roadways. the next project that sfmta is requesting 21 thousand in improvements why the mission go district and the specific spending is upgrading the walking and maps and developing the conceptual be designs and finding the designs to be
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acceptable. and the exciting part is mta wants to implement the low cost treatments as part of the implementation effort. mta will begin the planning by october of this year and expects to complete by the february 2015 and the early implementation projects by june of this year this will position the discretionary rents for the full implementation. on next the traffic survey project the matt is requesting money for bicyclist and norm in favor of riding to major changes from pedestrian safety and mta anticipates to start the surveys
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for the bicycle projects from july that's been updated to start as early as july and the prop k funds to cover the surveys wore one and a half years. the next mta is requesting 54 thousand prop k opportunity the design of 8 locations and 4 of them on lake street has been constructed with prop b bond and mta anticipates beginning the construction in june of this year and completing by september of this year that's a taller than and they're requesting 80 thousand for the landscaping in interests in the eastern neighborhood improvement study for the 7th and 8th street are
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or north of the freeway with high traffic volume and speeds. the current features as proposed include removing the traffic lane and this planning effort refinances the oppositions and the streets improvements on howard and folsom. mta will start the planning will complete the planning by march of next year and with that, joining from mta is here to answer any questions >> i see no questions and thank you for being here all the time too. let me open this up for public comment oh, we have several cards as well. i have gilbert, asia those are
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the two cards >> hi i'm a central city democratic's i oppose any more funding for the mta this committee should freeze the money until citizens can ride mta for free until they have a plan for people with disabilities. the mta board has left the citizens and disabled in limbo tell them to wait until after the november election why should we wait while the mta has a budget surplus of $22 million. citizens and people with disabilities need to ride muni for free today. we have a crisis in the city a transportation crisis a housing crisis and an affordability
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crisis the mayor has a pr disaster on his hand when we gave away free parking. i urge you to say no and don't pass this out of committee >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, again commissioners. i would ask you to vote no or wait to vote because spending spending spending is good to spend we all love to spend but i just think for your going to do stuff especially the bicycle racks the bicyclist and all that stuff we have to do it at one time that should be done
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together with the pedestrians and automobiles and everything i happen to be part of a neighborhood survey and i was wanting to focus also on bicyclists and the harm it does to the pedestrians when they did bicyclists don't stop with the crosswalk they keep on riding through. i was told it's the automobile that the - no, no the bicyclists that need to be focused on. but the thing is if we're going to spend money spend it wisely and the right way. thanks >> thank you are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. i wanted to thank the staff ms. kim for the presentation and the slides. and say those 5 projects are critical for our city especially save routes to school making
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franklin and the other boulevards safe and say that the speed and volume surveys will be helpful in their analysis and for the pedestrians refugee island i know first-hand that they need the small improvement to make it safer and the neighborhood groups have been advocating for small improvements that will make a difference as well the other areas that will be helped and lastly the 7th and 8th streetscape are critical in the eastern neighborhoods as well. any other comments >> supervisor campos. >> thank you to the members of the public that have spoken i appreciate what's been said and i share the fact that the mta has not moved with the free public transit for low and
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middle-income citizens many including supervisor yee will work hard to push this forward with the affordability crisis. that said those promotions are critical and in my district district 9 looking at the prop k requests to approve the safety around caesar chavez school that's an important issue for the families that go to school there i don't want to delay that because of inaction by an agency i'll be supporting those stermz i think that the safety of the city requires that we move quickly not to not push hard for the transportation for our citizens >> thank you supervisor campos
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seeing none, other comments. >> supervisor breed absent. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. supervisor yee. this item passes >> thank you. please call the next item >> introduction of new items an informational item. >> colleagues, i want to jump right in and requesting an informational item for our next agenda regarding the clipper 2.0 our clipper cards allow for the regional transit to encourage people to move out of cars like muni and bart and caltrain i'd like an update from our transportation authority and the magnifying about the possibility as the clipper contract expires in a few years concluding the uniform transfer fairs and
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others go allocations a robust discussion. any other items that colleagues want to raise. let's open this up for public comment thoibz seeing none, public comment is closed. ms. chang would we call the next item >> item 12 public comment. >> i have one card. >> yes. gilbert from the district 8 and a central city democratic's. i wanted to invite the to staff and the director to the board of supervisors budgets committee meeting on thursday at the toujs that is a call to action with disabilities concluding people with hiv and aids we need free muni today, we don't need to
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wait for a november election before we get justice so thank you >> thank you, mr. gris well. seeing none, public comment is closed ms. chang any other business before us >> no other business. >> thank you, everyone this meeting is >> hi i'm a assembly member ting i'm running for re-election representing districts 19th street which includes the western neighborhoods of san francisco and daily and part of south san francisco thank the league of women voters and the voters of districts 19th street by electing me. upon my swearing in john appoint
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me the caucus chair i'm pursuing proud to put san francisco business owner back on track when democratic's one the two hours the legislation working with governor jerry brown we've spent our tax dollars wisely by paying off our debts and the results speak for themselves. our states economic is approved our unemployment is going down and revenues are up my priorities are vesting in public education and jobs and building a clean and green economy and giving the money to state governments to insure the equal rights and opportunities for every californian. in any first year in the motional 8 of my bills were
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signed by governor jerry brown my bills created a tax center for the upper center in yerba buena gardens and the health benefits for the same sex couples and made our streets safer for pedestrians for sign and saved accident tourism business and in my roll on the budget subcommittee own finance i'm fooirthd for more money because our categorically system is the key to our strong economy i lead the fight to reallocate sources to non-english is it so. starting in of all the local control that about empower student population and they're fighting to keep city college open. city college has touched the
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lives of almost every san franciscan to help people it must stay open. as the chair of the committee on asian promotion i'm continued to work in china sf bringing people here we go to create jobs. additionally my office we're proud to be part of the history to enroll people in california. the states program to offer quality equality of affordable housing. i'm working to make it better for the bicycling structure by allowing them to install bike lanes that are safe. oakland i'mic to increase the use of working vehicles and increase health care and
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streamline financial add for high school students. and lastly we must do everything to make sure that housing is assessable and affordable i'm working with the landlord to assist protecting citizens and tenants during the changing times. my background in finance making multiple government work for citizens has allowed me to hit the ground running in my first term it's being a privilege to serve as your representative i'm looking forward to work together in my second term if you give him the honor of realecky me i hope you join the nursing and firefighters and public safety officers support my re-election. invest wwwphillip ting.org and
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follow me on facebook and twitter in the 189 district. thank you very much so much for your9 district. thank you very much so much for yourday. >> okay. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. . >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. oh, i like what an active crowd superintendent do you want to come up and join us, please. thank you. good morning. i'm hyde draw mendosa the advisors and an elected member to on the brvks this one off my favorite fester
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we get to thank the amazing teachers and principles. can we start by acknowledging our folks (clapping) i whether those want to start by acknowledging some of our electives i've happy to have our electives to sale hello to our honor the passenger seat of the board of education a my other colleagues imperative joe winning and (clapping) commissioner emily will be joining us and from the board of supervisors we have our wonderful supervisor wiener from districts 8 and eric mar from district one and the others will be joining us as we roll along.
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i also want to acknowledge susan solomon in the educators association additional natalie from be molecule school and this event privileges many amazing donors a so as you look around each table is filed with stuff the one table is per honorary necessity not a table with everyone's stuff each honorary is getting getting gives gi i was i want to rattle off about your sponsors you guys up front gets to go really arrest alcatraz and california academy
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of sciences my the "x" platform and the gap warriors and health and school board and international art museum of america and microsoft and peer 24 and san francisco 49ers and sincerely monday nights mall and starbuck's thank you all for abstracting to our really cool pact. i want to thank the department of the children youths for putting on the events and san francisco educational fund for our wards and captioned every year and our united educators and administers i want to thank the blue ribbon panel they've narrowed down our 3 hundred
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nomination to 5 it's a huge task i want to thank you from the mayor's office that's tremendous responsibility and they divorced and angie and from the school district and our did not schools and stefan and we added a youth this year so restraining order anyone gomez from our youth dimension so thank you (clapping) and i couldn't have done this without the tremendous help and support of florence i hope you'll all had a skfgs with neutrons thank you and every year she ranched it up theirselves this year we'll have $30,000 and let me tell you how this works everyone goes and we
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start the nomination process so the nomination come from parent and students and community members they tell us been pa wonderful way to get people involved we go through a rigorous vesting process including the numbers years and having an "x" last year evaluation so we run 0 through the mill and send them to the unit u union and see about red flags and bring them through our blue ribbon panel and talk to the students and teachers sometimes classroom visits how close things are and take them to the mayor and is okay. here's your 20 choices bic 2 and he gets an opportunity to look
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at our amazing counterparts educators so we chris choose 5 maiming teachers from pre k to middle and one high and the same for the principles. that's kind of how the process works this year 3 hundred nomination for our teachers which made it extremely difficult and over 60 nominatess for you're a principles. and who helps me make all this happen is our amazing leader in san francisco so at this time i want to chat a mom how the mayor connects the dots it's not just about tang teachers or principles but we is a city to partner with the school district to do the work so i wanted to
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quickly reflect around preschool and our college and baby accounts our pre k and our middle school grades initiative this e which already raised $8 million for our mimdz and the technology devices into the hands of the students. he was with the prnltz and will be with the middle east grade teachers to thank for the initiative he does thirty to:30 individual scholarships for our high school students and college students to make the e funds possible and our bridge to success doubling the number of protecting students to go to city college we're excited about
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the looirp there is no doubling doubt he's serious about the public leadership please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you hydra isn't that a wonderful logo that's a beautiful logo i'm excited to be here to join you. let me say there's united educators and united administer i represent the ientdz mayors for education i want to start that conversation. it's a delight to be here and hydra said it's touch to pick out of this but we're glod glad and happy to do that i think every year we look forward to this opportunity that's the unique times why instead of talking about the challenges
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that we have we should be celebrating the advances we're making in education and i want to say this this pick is part of an overall appreciation for the best sdmuths the the country san francisco (clapping) and we're going to keep doing what i initiated with initial talks with hydra and last night with the members of the school board and certainly our superintendant we're going to love you to perfection i think that's the way to do it rather than point the finger at what we can't do we can actually builds on the things we're doing here why not we're in the innovation part of the world all i have to
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