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recommend an expenditure plan which reflects a balance of needs we have in the city, so i think -- i feel comfortable advancing the program we have at this time. we did have a total of $33 million and we still do and we're in the second year of our capital budget that anticipated the vehicle license fee being on the ballot and getting approved this year, the two year delay does mean that we have a $33 million gap to fill in the second year of our budget and we'll likely have a gap in the next two years. we have plenty of time between now and fiscal year to work with the board the mayor's office to figure out how to best close that gap, and that's what i would recommend. >> and i'm going to be supportive of moving the bond forward today.
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it has to sit for a week, is that right? but i did have questions and i know many others would like to know, one is there are a number of projects within the dlf funds allegations that are bond eligible and the question is, is this bond flexible enough to accommodate those dlf projects and how deeply can we search for projects like cal trans like mel assessment district for downtown and they pay their fair share given that they'll benefit from the transit improvements in the transit center area. number three, what commitments can the mta and the mayor can back field the gaps by the blf given the mayor
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stated support. lastly, i'll do my best that my office and i are following up with you and fill the hole, but thank you for the presentation. >> thank you. in terms of flexibility of the different projects, there are some thing that's were proposed for the funding that are not go-bond such as fleet. state law -- everything else or most of the left of it is somewhat flexible and the ordinance is awarded that we do on have that flexibility. with regard to the cal tran contribution, we as the city, i believe also the transportation authority signed an mou committing to $60 million worth of funding. this is a possible source for that funding. it doesn't preclude us exploring other sources but i think we do want to send a strong signal to our regional partners
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that we'll absolutely honor the terms of that mou, that we signed onto. in terms of committing to fill the gap, what i can commit is to work with the board and i appreciate your offer to work with us on that, and with the mayor's office to close that gap, again, both in fiscal 16 and in fiscal 17 because it's two years of impact from the two year delay of the vehicle license fee, but we're committed and my board was the first to dopt vision zero and we want to make sure we're doing what we can to raise the revenues so we can implement it as fully as possible. speaker: i look forward to the conversations. thank you. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on a few comments and questions from supervisor mar. in terms of cal trans and cal
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trans success in terms of its ultimate extension to the trans bay transit center, it's in san francisco interest to make sure we keep up our commitment of a $68 million contribution but we make it work. a lot of san franciscans rely on cal trans and it's all of benefit. so we need to make sure we keep that commitment in the bond. it makes sense to make that capital investment. we know the reality of how things work with mta's budget. that's going to come out of mta's operation budget and that's going to be a detriment of muni and street projects. in terms of the mello rus, that was intended to provide funding to the downtown extension if the -- downtown
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extension. that money is being divert today the trans bay center, so the mello rus money, that will be coming to the board and we'll talk about that. it's a disappointing occurrence in my view. finally, i'm in agreement in terms of the need it figure out how we're going to fill the hole in the 2015 and 2016 fiscal years that were left by the two year delay. that's $33 million for mta that was delayed two years. i'm not saying we're going to figure out a way through that entire $33 million, but we have to make a good faith effort and we can't kick the can the next year. we need to figure out
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how we're going to do that. colleagues, i hope in our add-back project, we'll be generous with vision zero and the mayor has to be involved. so i think over the next few weeks, this is going to be an important conversation as a board and with the mayor as well. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. any further comments? okay. at this point, we'll open it up to public comment for 6-8. anyone who wish to publicly comment on these items. >> good afternoon, superviseers. my name is leah with the bicycle coalition. thank you for the support and the mayor. as apart of the task force, we were involved in these discussions. i want to remind everyone as you have here, that
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there is a hole. that we all expected the go-bond to move forward with the vehicle license fee. we're one of the groups that's disappointed, but it does leave a hole. we look forward to it moving in 2016. i would emphasize that points have been made by the supervisors, this is a real hole next year in our safety priorities. the mta budget assumed $13 million for bicycle and pedestrian -- thanks for the support from this board, vision zero, almost every agency we know from the planning commission to the public health department, have committed to vision zero. the only way we'll do that is if we fund vision zero. we have a $13 million hole thanks to the mayor's $3 million in the proposed budget. we look to you to think
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creative whether it's assessing go-bond or creative solutions and we hope you'll live up to that for vision zero. thank you. >> any other members of the public who wish to comment? >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is nicole. i wanted to express our strong support. right now it's going to fund a lot of different pedestrian safety and vision vision traffic safety improvements. i think there's also -- echoes what leah said, there's a big hole left now that the vlf has been postponed to 2016. the problem with this hole is that the longer we wait to make vision zero improvements, the more people
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on our streets suffering from traffic collisions. the improvements and investments now will last generations. there's an urgency. it is not on other projects where the funded isn't needed right away. echoing leah's comments, i encourage you to take a strong look at the different options to fund vision zero looking at the go-bond and other avenues through add backs, et cetera. and i'd like to say we're completely supportive of transit, investments and investments in multi transportation safety. so i think vision zero is about making our streets safe for everyone and preventing injuries and fatalities and we look forward to continuing to work with you and
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continuing to follow your leadership on this. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment? seeing none. public comment is closed. supervisor tang. >> i want to thank everyone, especially those who came out to testify. i hear you loud and clear. i want to also restate what has been presented to us from the mta. i think that $300 million out of the $500 million out of this bond is going to be funding some level of improvement that will help with pedestrian safety and i really -- although there has been a hole that has been identified or that wear aware of, i want to remind everyone that this is one of most significant investments we have seen in history. think possibly about this. we're making investments for this bond that will help us for future generations so i
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want to encourage everyone in seeing it that way and support the go-bond. >> thank you supervisor tang. we have the amendments circulated previously. can i have a motion to receive these. we can take them without objection. colleagues, we're going to close out today's meeting. just a couple of house cleaning items. have a motion to continue 4, 5, 6 by friday. >> we can take that without objection. >> and then our regular scheduled meeting today, can i have a motion to continue items 3 and 5 to friday. we can take that without objection. and continue items 6, 7, and 8 into next meeting. we can take that without objection. madam clerk, is there any other business before us? >> no, mr. president. >> okay, everyone. see you
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inform we toward is two folks and now opting 6 hundred with our commitment and have the pleasure of this beautiful building because of you the employees in the for you part of the spirit is the technology is a start up and this event helps to catch this this is part of the culture we want to have going into the future. (clapping.) we're in san francisco because it's as toxic place our business technician is a daily war for top talent and even though people want to be in a beautiful city coming out have to integration i've lived in second amendment and new york and miami and los angeles san francisco is
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the place to be. >> yeah. (clapping). >> so his our great honor and pleasure we have the honorable mayor, mayor ed lee here to see a is a few words about the city of san francisco as well and jerry congratulations and thank you very much how sufficient riverbed team? well, your wearing great colors because there's only two team that concludes my report i know is the world-class giants champions and the riverbed team. yeah. >> yeah. >> well, i want to say emigrations again, it was almost a year jerry that we kicked off the construction of the building now to be here open opening day for riverbed on of the united
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states street this wonderful sign we're a city that's strong how about 4.4 percent in unemployment we've been a part of the nation capital of the world san francisco i want to thank you because right here there's going to be over 4 nine hundred jobs at the site thank you for a being a great community partner as well not only are you celebrating the success of our company you've joined me in making sure our youth of the future begin this summer with 7 thousand 7 thousand paid jobs thank you riverbed for obeying being a partner. and as part of this wonderful announcement i want to say thank you, again four showing you your great community and passion for this city by making sure our
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workforce is part of my workforce in helping people in this city succeed by nominating to our san francisco food bank that's a wonderful contribution $68,000. 69 that is >> 6 hundred 80 cans of food and cash my i got the numbers all right. that's a great way to celebrate our food bank needs it you're showing your graciousness in doing this thank you, thank you on behalf of the city and if i may take the honor, you know, the mayor gets to proclaim days when i know it's special to the city and on behalf of the city that recognizes community passion and growth we would like to proclaim today riverbed day in san
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francisco. >> (clapping) >> i proud to say thank you to supervisor jane kim who's here that will be recognizing this always with you i'll be proud to we are wear the orange shirt and orange hat the next time i go to the giants. >> i didn't think he was going to wear orange anyway, i get to introduce supervisor kim who's the supervisor in our district thank you, ms. kim (clapping) >> thank you. well i'll keep it short i was here a couple of weeks ago but thank you to raise your hand to join south of market community it's high honor to represent this district where we are this is all part of the
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amazing growth it's happening here we're creating jobs and building how's this is where san francisco is dynamic dynamic and exist that is a beautiful edition i don't know if you remember the building that was here before fwhu is a amazing attraction f to fultd and south of market it's not about just creating jobs but kickoff engagement so thank you for your volunteering and being a part of a larger community we have diversity we have low income residents and high income residents we want to build one san francisco and go giants. thank you >> (clapping) thank you supervisor kim fantastic and now before we cut the ribbon we have one chairperson of the san francisco
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blue bank we've been involved that the food bank for almost 10 years now and our employees volunteer there and in fact, i was a boy scout master for 12 years i would take my boy scouts to the food bank and we thought it was woody allen a great thing to do since what we have new officers on 640 faculty we/have 6 hundred and 40 cans of food there's a marketing brand and another check one in a long series of many checks that we've presented to the food bank so - >> gary why don't you get not middle (clapping)
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now know that looks like the accomplisher sweepstakes but it's really, you know. >> well, thank you jerry and mayor it's a pleasure on behalf of everyone i want to thank jerry and riverbed let me hit you with some facts this year, the sf food bank will distribute 46 million pounds of food it's fresh produce some that's the eventual of one hundred and 5 thousand meals each day. it's a one hundred and 47 thousand people get food from the food bank every week (clapping)
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11 thousand school children everyday get a healthy snack every school day thanks to the food bank and more importantly thank you to the folks like you and riverbed. there's one last thing to mention i heard the volunteer word a second ago. the food bank is blasz blessed to have 25 thousand volunteers every year and its people like jerry and many of you i've seen you at our facilities thank you very much that's incredibly important to our mission (clapping.) so one last shout out to the riverbed team we're glad our calling san francisco your home (clapping) and thank you tim for that opportunity >> all right. the big moment we have an orange ribbon.
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