. >> director hsu? spee what i just want to chime in because i remember back to the original -- original date -- days of s.f. park and your point that it works. it may seem like pricing and sort of a blunt tool, but any price changes the behaviour of the drivers who are going to go and park there. whether it is 25 cents an hour, whether it seven dollars an hour, which i'm not even sure we have anything that tie except maybe civic centre. it does. it changes the nature of the use of the parking. again, through s.f. park, i remember those original surveys that it was availability of parking that was the number 1 concern. ease of payment was a second concern, and place was the third concern. when you were going somewhere and you want to do something, you just want to park the car and you want to get your task down or get your visit done or you want to have your dinner or your lunch and then you move onto the next thing you will do. i'm not as sceptical as vice chair heinicke. i think this permit plus paid

director hsu? >> director hsu: question on the race crosswalks. >> director brinkman: i don't think his mic is on. >> director hsu: on the race crosswalks can you talk about why they were not ultimately done or at this point in certain areas that they might have been considered initially? >> following the public comment about the traffic diversion p lan, we did meet at the second time. compton element we were on ninth and seventh avenue. we came up with a plan to j udging from the expected pretty large diversion to those streets to install race crosswalks to their intersections to account for school children walking to schools. we are still including those in our tool kit for the future. we think that it is worth an effort to put these first wave of improvements in and measure the impacts before we move through what can be an expensive and impactful project on the street. there are other considerations like drainage. it's an expensive improvement. putting first wave in and seeing what happens, if t

>> director hsu: thank you. i have a quick question. i don't see a huge case for the mission bay alignment based on the cost on the fact that there are these other issueswith it. is that something that's, at this point, thought of as being, well we have to consider it, but it's not really that much in the mix? >> i will tell you, i am an engineer and i was a rail engineer for five years. when i look at the mission bay alignment, that is the one that got me interested. it is a straighter shot, it connects to an area that is not well served by transit, but once we got into the analysis, it didn't pan out. i'm sorry to say it didn't. there was a few reasons. one, the unknowns drive the cost up significantly for two because it is a totally different alignment, we don't get trains into the salesforce transit centre for many years after we possibly could. three, the ridership of the new alignment, if you draw a capture area around that new station, and i've got it up on the presentation, if you were to draw a half mile around the fourth and t

there were fresh elections it would probably explode into even more support for the populists. john hsuquery. well, we sought an answer to that from bbc news and they told us:

. >> director hsu: you all covered pretty well. looking forward to seeing how this gets played out. especially vice chair heinicke's comment about the perception we'll do it this way. that is really good issue we can get out in front of that as much as possible. it will go a long way. >> we are human beings, there will be mistakes. no matter how much we try as an agency. staff will sometimes miss a mark and what we should do is correct that and acknowledge it. it takes a long time. we're changing the culture of an agency. we are being looked at from a national level across the country. lot of organizations have not attempted to do this. without leadership like director reiskin and what -- hsu behind, this would not be happening this takes time. we'll be traitor and acknowledge when -- transparent and acknowledge when mistake is made. it's really difficult job for them to talk to the public. sometimes it's very i ntimidating. not for me but other people. >> director brinkman: thank you so much. director reiskin thank you for your support for this. we're going to have citizen who are

seamounts we're going to keep the conservative political commentator also in new york we have sarah hsu she's an associate professor of economics at the state university of new york and an exit or we have macleod he is head of research for gold money all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you let me let me go to sarah first in new york on skype here. it's not hard to find the term trade war in the in the mainstream media of corporate media here are those overblown expectations because i've been looking at a lot of c.e.o.'s reporting on bloomberg and they're keeping their forecasts more or less the same their investment projections moving forward of course they're mindful of this but i sometimes wonder if it's being a bit overblown you know donald trump is a larger than life figure go ahead sara in new york. well right now we're not entirely sure what president trump disappointed you but that the senate he has stated that he's going to implement fifty billion dollars in tariffs goods imported from china and this is going to

the conservative political commentator also in new york we have sarah hsu she's an associate professor of economics at the state university of new york and an exit or we have. and he is head of research for gold money all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you let me let me go to sarah first in new york on skype here. it's not hard to find the term trade war in the in the mainstream media of corporate media here are those overblown expectations because i've been looking at a lot of c.e.o.'s reporting on bloomberg and they're keeping their forecasts more or less the same their investment projections moving forward of course they're mindful of this but i sometimes wonder if it's being a bit overblown you know donald trump is a larger than life figure go ahead sara in new york. well right now we're not entirely sure what's president trying to schooling to you but that the senate he has stated that he still want to implement fifty billion dollars in terrorists goods imported from china and this is going to result in retaliato

seamounts we're going to accuse the conservative political commentator also in new york we have sarah hsu she's an associate professor of economics at the state university of new york and an exit or we have macleod he is head of research for gold money all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me let me go to sarah first in new york on skype here. it's not hard to find the term trade war in the in the mainstream media of corporate media here are those overblown expectations because i've been looking at a lot of c.e.o.'s reporting on bloomberg and they're keeping their forecasts more or less the same their investment projections moving forward of course they're mindful of this but i sometimes wonder if it's being a bit overblown you know donald trump is a larger than life figure go ahead sara in new york. well right now we're not entirely sure what president trying to slate you but that the senate he has stated that he's going to implement fifty billion dollars in terrorists and goods imported from china and this is going t

brian hsu who will be presenting on each of these items. >> good morning, brian chiu with the s omar'ice of housing and community development. i come here with our annual request to allow us to accept and expand our hud allocations in these four different funding streams. as you see attached in your packet, we are moving into the fourth year of our five-year funding cycle. we are grateful that we will be able to maintain all of our grantees at the same level to which they were previously entitled this year. as you may recall, even though the president chose to zero out the community development block programs, congress saw fit not only to renew that program but actually to increase it a little bit more, which means that for us, we have a little more money to provide for our affordable housing and a little bit more money to rehab our community facilities. in the black grant program, we also received a little more money for our home funding. that's the dollars that allow us to build new construction for our affordable housing. our emergency solutions grants program was renewed at about the

director hsu. >> we said it all. >> in recognition of appreciation of rams dedication to improving quality of life for sfmta employees and customers and residents of san francisco and san francisco bay area. >> oh, thank you so much. [applause] >> you want to comment on this? do i have any new or unfinished business. >> why we celebrate director are ramos. the taxi community lost tara housman. i wanted to point out, condolences to her family and friends. she was such a passionate advocate herself. she conveyed information to us, we listened to it. i had several conversations offline to her. she'll be missed. >> thank you very much for that. nice to recognize her. one more thing i want to add, i had the privilege going to the new operator graduation j une 8th. it's along the theme of d edicated employees. this was a batch of new o perators starting out on their journey here in san francisco. it was heart-warming. it was a great reminder of how difficult the training that they go through is and what they go through to get to the point where they have the honor, privilege and huge responsibil

director hsu, comments or questions? thank you so much for the report. fascinating to hear about the increases in service, the new rail cars, i know these are things really making the system overall much easier for everyone to use. the children on muni presentation was fantastic and i really look forward to continuing to work on how we are going to flush that out. great thing to teach the kids how to behave civilly and safely on the system, a lesson a lot of the adults could use as well. so, having said that, we will move on to public comment. >> we do have several speakers, an opportunity for members of the public to address the board on matters addressed by mr. riskin only, not on matters of the jurisdiction of the m.t.a., that would be item nine. so alita would start, and herbert and then terry. >> alita dupre for the record. good report, a lot mentioned. i'll weigh in on scooters, i just got back in. and i hope that we can get this program on the road. i've been watching these meetings. scooters of which i don't really have much experience with i bel

i also serve as the humane society international president, which is the hsus' global arm, so i'm keenly aware that the u.s. is lagging behind other nations with racehorsing tradition. in particular, we have offices in the uk and australia, where the horse racing industry is successful without the use of race day medication. the ethical issues in horse racing are closely related to concerns raised about doping and a variety of olympic competitio competitions in professional sports. these industries all have policies against certain types of drug use, and the high-profile incidents have left the public concerned about the extent of the problems in these sports. the racing industry continues to lag behind, because too many stakeholders want to maintain the status quo. and the use of illegal substances is not the only problem. legal therapeutic drugs are also problematic as they can allow a horse to push through pain, intensifying injury, which can lead to breakdowns, can allow a horse to push through pain, intensifying injury, which can lead to break downs, career ending injuries and death