geary brt is also making progress. i wanted to point out, as a segue from the chair's remarks about high-speed rail, there was a session on high-speed rail at the focus on the future conference happening right now in san francisco, and i was intending that this morning. a member of the high speed rail authority board clarified the schedule for comment on the business plan that is out there now, that was released on november 1. the idea is that the authority, the high-speed rail authority, will take comments at a hearing today in palo alto and then on december 6 in san francisco. then they will consider incorporating all of those comments and directing the mine some fashion. then at that yuri one, are the first week of february, the intention of the meeting to approve the revised plan that might incorporate those comments. only after that, the 60-day timespan, will the legislature kick in. so there's time to organize commons, even beyond the two hearings that are already scheduled. i think that is time that is welcome t

is focus on -- it's my impression that the special use district will encompass gary and be the gary brt. i don't see mention of it being at least some allowance and assigning of support for the gary brt either. i hope the concerns will be well-noted. and it is a little more robust about the surrounding or a bit of what it is. i greatly appreciate the features that are moving east words in the plan itself. >> if i could quickly respond to a couple of your points, it may have gone over too quickly, but on the request to support construction of the facilities, he requests is both. we would be asking them to help build facilities. certainly, folks traveling from the west towards downtown would be benefiting. and we did not get into an of detail, of some of the requests, support for clinics, we have a list of neighborhoods we are looking at. it does include the western addition as well as the south of market and the mission. we are actually asking for support for primary-care clinics that would be in the western addition for district 5. supervisor mirkarimi: the impact of this corridor where

how you issued in the -- you issued the eis to the brt and the -- i look and see that if you do everything right, you can reduce running time by 33%. -- quick boarding. i put out a 45 page set of comments. it is more important than changing routes here and there, to really see what you can do to keep cars away from the buses. i went through all sorts of detail as to how that might be accomplished. we must do it. and when we're looking at 33%, that is a quarter of a billion dollars. you can easily consume some of that in extra service, but you might save problems into the future and they also show. and when you take a lame, you don't really slow down the cars. all this kind of stuff has to happen. the other thing that has to happen, i hope you guys have the power to say what goes into the study. the thing is, it took four years. i don't know where the time winter. we have got to get this done much more quickly so we can see some of the good stuff happening. [chime] you can stop consolidation, and i have a lot of pages on that. >> had good afternoon, i am a proud member of the yellow cab, it

an amount not to exceed $250,000 before program management and technical support of the van ness and brt program with an option to extend for two additional years. supervisor mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? seeing none, public, disclosed it is in house, col. next item. >> three. robbers would surge of the citizens advisory committee for a two-year term. this is an action item. -- reappoint robert salatin. discussion? >> public comment? take this without objection. some lived. next item. >> item a, appropriate up to $126,827 for the 19th avenue transit corridor investment study, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule, and in the transportation/land use coronation five-year prioritization program. action item. supervisor mirkarimi: discussion? public comment? and seeing none. take this without objection but also moved. clark, please read item number nine. we will skip this. then we will turn back. >> i will remind the last item 9 to report on the limited scope performance audit of the sentences the municipal transportation agency. phase ii. action item.

aside from that, in the past week, i had discussions with people regarding geary brt, if that ever comes to pass. the item on our calendar today, the at&t towers on 14th avenue, some of the aspects of america's cup and the project that is proposed for the old site at california and hyde. president olague: i just wanted to ask that we close the meeting, and in honor of michael goldstein, he was an activist in the lgbt community, and he watched our broadcast here all the time and spend a lot of time educating me, at least, on issues that pertain to the need for affordable housing for different low-income communities and medical cannibus issues as well -- medical cannibis issues as well. it was a huge loss. he passed away last friday. i would like to close in his memory. commissioner moore: i assume that everybody has read in the paper that the w hotel filed an appeal on the museum. and on another point, the aia is created website to connect tall projects with architects and investors bid aren't up that was a very interesting thing, actually a nationwide thing, and i thought that was projec

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