we have two presenters, one is kate breen, director of government affairs,sfmta and john knox-white, planning programs manager, sfmta. welcome. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. i'm kate breen, the director of government affairs for the san francisco municipal transportation agency. and i have today here my colleague john knox-white, and john is not planning on making a presentation and he's here as a resource for any questions that your council may have. so the issue today is an issue that has a long history in california and the issue of accessible parking. related to that, accessible parking isn't just about disabled placards but what you read about in the news typically and some of the background information that we share with you is really about the disabled placard program and how effective -- it isn't working as it was intended to, and that is to provide access for those who need it. so about four years ago, san francisco launched its own effort, stakeholder-based effort, with a wide range of interested parties on this issue, including -- chaired, co-chaired by the mayor

so tonight you're going to hear from john knox, our colleague from the m.t.a. spearheading this effort, as well as our colleague liore milgrom-gartner who will share specific details about what the department is doing to achieve that tedious plan today. with that, turn it over to john knox white to run through our programs. >> can we have the power point please? >> good evening. i'm john knox white, the program's planning manager at mta. thank you for having all of us here. it's a real pleasure. the team from the department of the environment is a real pleasure to work with. we're all excited to be here finally. so really quickly, just wanted to provide a quick overview of kind of how this document came to be and what this document is. not going to get too deep into it, but happy to discuss anything that is in it. essentially this document provides an overview of the work that we as the city and not just mta or the planning department or whatnot or the city feel we need to engage or continue or start engaging in in order to maintain a consistent travel time in

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