mr. harrington and his staff listening to us that talking to us, and all coming to a place in the middle that really works well. congratulations to all of you, thank you for doing all of this for all of us in san francisco. >> is the flow to follow. you should've seen her 20 years ago at city college where i first met her. i want to appreciate this move, i think it is helpful to the community, of fulton of the project forward the otherwise would have stalled over these kinds of concerns. i did this year from steve about $2 million for rerouting a different part. i am not clear on the overall and the to the project budget and to schedule. i am sure we will hear more about that, and he has not seen the last of me for today. i am sure we will hear more about this in the future. >> anything on public comment? gosh i should particularly mentioned suzanne the husband many hours with the community and coming up with a different thoughts and suggestions. >> moving done, the report of the general manager. >> public comment on items seven and b? >> we called for a while ago, and i did not. >> we'r

mr. harrington was gracious enough to come out to our meeting and line up some of the things that were important from his perspective that we might be able to comment on so that we have meaningful input in

mr. concannon, i'm old enough to remember some ground breaking books like nick cass's promises, michael harrington's, the other america, and the ground breaking work done by united states congress especially by then senator george mcgovern on a bipartisan basis with then senator bob dole to establish the food stamp program to address a pervasive problem of hunger and malnutrition in the united states. has the food stamp program, in fact, successfully addressed the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the united states. >> i believe the food stamps program has been one of the most effective first line efforts to reduce hunger in the country. it also has reduced poverty. we know in the census bureau last year pointed out last year alone 4 million additional americans would have sunk below the poverty line absent the food stamp program. as has been mentioned here today, almost half, 47% of the beneficiaries of food stamps are children, another 8% are senior citizens over 60. about 20% of the households have people with disabilities. increasingly these days the food stamp program are serving households i