. >> thank you mr. nolan. i'll talk about 4 things quickly at your last meeting you talked about these single operator permits and the med alions in the taxi industry. you said in the future you will charge rent to people who get these and that will take away the purpose and insent centive i heard you backed off of that idea charging single operator permit how hold ers. i tried to pay my business tax this year it says you have to go online. most of the drivers don't have computers so there's a long line of people down there trying to be trained on how to use a computer and in fact i couldn't pay without the form and so i'm going to have to go and print one out after this. so i hope it won't happen this way next year. so i'll put this up on the over head briefly -- what it is now you can go online and buy a pink mustache and put it on your car so we've seen people cruising around pretending to be fake cabs people have gypsy cab operations and ride share these people make 30 dollars an hour and have 10 hour shif

. >> good afternoon mr. nolan and members of the board and director riskin i'm here to urge you to slow the progress of the tunnel boring machine at washington and stockton and prevent it from moving forward to north beach perhaps you want to hold a hearing on this. what's interesting is that we've learned today that m u.n. i has an operator deficit of 70 million dollars and we know there's a structural deficit of 5 hundred million it just so happens that the tunnelling between washington and north beach will cost about 70 million dollars and if you eliminate that and stop the line where it was originally intended which is chinatown and stockton street you will be able to save the agency 70 million dollars and give all the residents of north beach a second chance on how they want transit to be brought into their neighborhood thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> next speaker please? >> good afternoon. >> hi my name is -- thank you for -- when i talk with the families in the community they are happy about this

mr. nolan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 90 seconds. mr. nolan: i rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill, and i lament the fact, because i support the keystone pipeline for the many reasons that have been stated here. i know people have concerns about oil stands -- sands, tar sands production processes, but that's a canadian decision. these oils will be moved by tens of thousands of railroad cars or trucks through the states or a pipeline to the west. pipelines are proven environmentally safe and sound way to move oil around north america and the country. i am in opposition to the bill because in committee it became apparent that the bill relieves a foreign corporation from all the same obligations that domestic corporations are expected to honor. they're exempted from having to comply with the e.p.a., with the army corps permits for construction and maintenance, they're relieved of the responsibility to pay taxes on the oil flowing through those pipel

. >> chair nolan: members of the public, on the directors report? mr. weiner [sounds like]? >> herbert weiner; one thing though, if you can gauge the number of bicyclists on market street, you ought to be able to gauge the number of bicyclists who go through the red light, and that is very important because that is the source of revenue for mta. if there were 100 dollar fines for each bicyclist that went to the red light you would be out of the red. you should really consider it. as far as public satisfactionwith muni goes, uh uh, you don't get a pass on this; it's getting worse and worse and people are getting fed up. that is why the muni task force was formed and we hope it is not a whitewash because the friends of muni are charing it; and also the controllers office, friends of muni, you have not reached out to the community on this. this is certainly a flaw that you have. you don't get a pass from me, and you don't get a pass from a lot of other people who are very angry at the bus stop. >> chair nolan: thank you. anybody else care to address the directors report? >> com

contract 1300 -- station surface station surfacetrack - (reading item 11, regular calendar) >> chair nolan: mr. fungi? >> good afternoon, john fungi central subway program director. item 11 request to award contract no. 1300 to tutor perini corporation and the amount not to exceed 839,676,400 and authorize the director of test addition to exercise 490,000 in optional work and further authorized director of transportation to prove up to 20 million dollars in contract amendments. contract 1300 presents the final contract award for the separate program under percent of the work for chinatown subway station, union station market street station, essentially everything to bring it into revenue service which is currently projected at the end - of december, 2018. under this contract that you will be reviewing today, is scheduled to be completed prior to april thirtieth of 2018. central subject construction began in 2010, and it is scheduled to be completed in early 2018. the first two advanced utility relocation contract has been let and completed; preliminary work under the tunneling contract is not

. >> good afternoon president nolan and members and director and -- would you spell your name again. >> i did want to spopd respond to the objections and i'll start with mr. kopel these findings are absolutely accurate they were reviewed with the land use attorneys. and i do want to emphasize that the addendum that's referenced in the findings are absolute ly adequate. the file is in the addendum and the final environmental impact report and the findings were done with meticulo u.s. care. and returning to miss weiss's objections this is a project to be clear only for the height of the project nothing else is subject to referendum for example the dcw hearing officer issued an order so that's already been done this is normal course of business if you will for a construction project public improvements like this take a long time to get. certainly when we do them these will be wonderful public imovagaiyou want to be mindful these are not taxpayer funded they were offered up. i would highly recommend you do this and this is an adequate approval motion. >> okay members of the board? >> okay any further discussion on it? all in favor say aye. thank you very muc

school -- nolan catholic high school, taylor at dunbar high school, kimberly at temple christian school and david at poly tech nick high school and sierra wilson in northside high school. mr. veasey: created to serve the needs of the east fort worth community, it helps students pursue their dream of higher education. scholarships are awarded to students atending four-year institutions as well as those attending two-year colleges. the funds can be used for college tuition, educational feese, equipment, supplies, as well as on campus housing. the eight students chosen will spread their talents across different prestigious institutions in the great state of texas. i'm sure they'll continue to succeed in their pursuit of higher education. mr. speaker, again, i would like to congratulate these students on their accomplishments an the honors plened -- parened to them. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. who seeks recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: today was one of the saddest day this is house of representatives