clerk cheng: recommend third amendment of san francisco's 2008 lifeline transportation program project priorities to include $1,691,391 for the municipal transportation agency's bus service restoration project. >> we have items that need to be resolved before we are ready to recommend this item. i want to acknowledge the importance of the item, because we are talking about additional money. so i would have the importance of doing committee work at committee, but also i would respectfully suggest you hold a meeting at 10:00 a.m. next tuesday of the committee so you can act on this item and get the future resolved in time to feed into the process of restoring service at the mta. commissioner campos: thank you,k commissioner. i don't have a problem holding a special meeting, but there is already a special rules committee meeting scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on tuesday. the committee can preside -- precede with out me being here. until later into timber? >> some -- in september? >> some of the allocations would fit into the process. i think it is important to clarify what your asking here. sup

cheng, is inappropriate to call item 6? could you read item 6? >> recommend increasing the amount of the professional services contract with aecom by $9,200,000, to a total amount not to exceed $15,935,000, to complete preliminary engineering and design of the i-80/yerba buena island interchange improvement project and authorizing the executive director to negotiate contract terms and conditions. this is in action item. commissioner mar: we have both items before us. >> we tend to work through these things and get them done, which is the right thing to do. i've come to believe in the ritual. i think we need to take a second to recognize the work that eric has done. essentially, having worked through an amazing collection of obstacles to get to essentially $100 million in money from outside san francisco to deal with a problem that is a significant access issue and a priority in san francisco. if we did not get to this point by now, the critics would be asking why we allowed the bay bridge to be built without these ramps. they were not included as

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new citizen cheng, who came from taiwan, brought her daughter to witness her swearing-in. >> they were born as american. they don't know how lucky they are. and for all those people who want to be american citizen and how many things they have to go through and how difficult it is. >> reporter: the ceremony took place in the shadow of the old barracks where mostly chinese immigrants spent months and years waiting to join loved ones in the u.s. >> so it's sort of a fitting occasion to be at a place where historically people were excluded but today are being included. >> reporter: but as much as the ceremony reflected changing times, the hardships some face to get here were as difficult as ever. >> sometimes you eat, sometimes you don't eat. >> reporter: mohammed sent years in a somalia refugee camp before getting the chance to come to the u.s. >> today you can say my shoes tied and cell phone on my waist. i mean, i never thought i would have this in my life. >> reporter: for felicia lowe, whose father was detained at angel island, the chance to see new sit tenths make a new start in the

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