and a trip to sacramento to organize the advocacy for the city and the mayor's office and mtc and the other organization to advise you and we will be bringing to get a legislative platform to you next month and those of you who may be interested, the dates are march 9th, and i believe march 9th through 12th at the mtc trip and followed by the chamber of commerce trip and i encourage you to come and join the delegation. >> thank you. >> all right. madam clerk, you can take public comment on item five. >> let's open the floor for public comment on item five. the information that was presented. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam clerk, could you call item six? >> introduction of new items this is an information item. >> are there any questions? >> comments? introductions? >> none. and are there any members of the public that would like to speak on item six? >> okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam clerk sh there any other item to call. >> item 7, public comment. >> general public comment at this time. >> okay, public comment is closed. thank you. >> madam cle

quality of the network in the eastern neighborhood needs to be something that is a partnership with mtc and mta and, so we can come back to you, in the future, with >> commissioner kim, thank you. >> and i will pose in questions today but not to get them answered, but maybe for the next time that we have this conversation there are differences in how the funding is prioritize td over the next years and i am sure that both will be evolveevolving as we have further discussions. >> there is a lot of conversation about how to fund the needs through 2030 and it really drives home how important our existing local funding sources. and i am glad to see that there is a vision for the south of market and that is elevated to an action item and i appreciate to that and i am looking forward to the implementation of the programs and this is not an exaggeration to say that the worst in the south of market can be difference between life-and-death and so it is important that we are able to fund these safety improvements for the safety of our residents >> thank you, commissioner kim. >> i could just actu

here region ly the cap and trade discussions will be happening tomorrow at mtc continuing on the framework that was introduced last month that we discussed in my last report talks about a very significant investment in the 3 major transit operators bart and muni and ac transit and the change since that time has been a proposal to change the core capacity formulas to savor some of the smaller operators proposes 30 percent to the big 3 and seventy percent to the other operators. the regional transit ridership is about eighty percent carried by the big 3 operators and the balance carried by the other operators so that will continue and hope there will be more time to make that formula more equitable across the region. so we're monitoring the transportation california and alliance for jobs proposal for statewide vls and if passed the fifty percent threshold could generate the estimated 25 billion dollars statewide and for san francisco slightly less about 57 million per year compared to 73 if we were to pass it locally. the active transportation program we've reported on in the pass past this

that has been very supportive and you know i served with supervisor and commissioner weiner on the mtc and i know that he is very committed to the issue of transportation. so, i am happy to nominate commissioner scott weiner to be vice chair. >> very good. thank you. >> so commissioners scott weiner has been nominated or is there a second to that? >> second from commissioner breed? >> and are there any other nominations out there for vice chair? >> and seeing none, we can close the nominations. >> and any comments from any from mr. vice chair weiner? >> thank you, chair avalos, and congratulationss on your reelection. i think that it is and i would be honored to continue with vice chair and it is an exciting time in san francisco, and in the bay area. when it comes to transportation, we have some huge, looming challenges in terms of the reliability, and capacity of a number of our public transportation systems. dealing with congestion in our streets. and making our streets more walkable, and more bikable and safer in general and in light of our own work with the transportation and with

. >> mtc would be, i think that maybe a forum. >> and maybe, i know it. and they would have to be involved. >> and what is coming out on the study about the p3 is just looking on the dbfm on the securing of the funding and in order to start the project earlier than might be with other mods. >> what other funding. and in terms of the cost benefit. and just something for later discussion. >> and director and, any closing comments? >> they are commented >> and i wanted to thank the board and i just wanted to direct and it was very, important and we need to have the discussion on governorans and we are going to do that, and we are going to talk about the operation and we have been talking about this as well as the ta in san francisco, and something that it is important to keep in mind, and that is just like doyle drive and they had a gaurantor in order to move forward, and you need to vaul of the funding sources committed. >> and we also need as a board to be working together, and to be making sure that the dtx is fully fund and that the commitments are there

where were the mourn tours at the mtc prison in arizona where three prisoners escaped and systemic gross violations of guards ignoring fence alarms and so on. just having monitor is his not enough. the public prison system literally every employee in the public prison system is a monitor over that facility. if you have one or two state monitors at a private prison, history has shown that that's inning such they are not doing a sufficient job of monitoring. the thousand or 2,000 prisoners that are actually held at that facility. >>> big district attorney bait in the united states. there is a lot more ahead including another major retailer has its customers private information stolen. that story coming up. and closing guantanamo bay in cuba. president obama promised it back in 2008, yet six years later, the prison remains open. activists show the ♪ ♪ >>> and welcome back to al al jazerra america, i am jonathan betz with the headlines this half hour. vice president joe biden will lead the u.s. delegation for the memorial service for ariel sharon he should died this morning after eight years

. >> i think one of the things that is different about this plan than past plans, mtc has been doingnal transportation plans. this is the fourth plan that has been integrated. so if you look at the kind of growth, really focused growth by transit, it's really incumbent on us to come up with a plan. there are a couple of ways that has been done. the plan goes to maintain the existing system. we want to know when our children and grandchildren are trying to get on the train or drive down a neighborhood street that it's in good working order. we also have a performance based plan that looks at projects and does a cost benefit assessment and really tries to maximize the use of public tax dollars and come up with an interconnected system that serves this growth pattern. a couple of the key projects in the system. one is something called bart metro. it's the highest scoring project. it would provide a lot more capacity in the core of the bart system that lead into this segment talks about our job growth. we are fort naunate to be bring in so many jobs. to support that, people have to get t

the top three private prison management companies cca, geo group and mtc operate more than 130 facilities nationwide. idaho isn't the only place where private prisons have run into controversy. a little more than two years ago dozens of inmates were injured when a fight run by at a prison run by cca turned into a riot. the state board of corrections just voted to expand privately owned prisons to help reduce overcrowding. california is under pleasure to do the same. we are talking about perhaps less than 10% of the total american prison population. >> i spoke with martin horn former commissioner of prisons in pennsylvania. >> there are as many bad stories coming out of public prisons as private prisons, maybe more. >> another reason states may be turning to privately run prisons lobbying and political spending. these companies spend tens of thousands of contributions in key states. despite any controversy it doesn't look like they are going away any time soon. >> that cast courtney kealy reporting. cca settled several lawsuits but still made billions in profits last year. we reached out t

we worked with mtc to create a survey and they facilitated giving the link to their riders. and we got about 1500 responsive to that survey. and what we found is that shuttles are part of a travel behavior for san franciscans that is multi-modal and in general sustainable. so, the people who are riding shuttles for their communities are also taking transit and walking both to get to the shuttle, bull for their noncommute l trips as well. this way it's useful to us at mta because we're driving to have 50% of our trips be made by sustainable rides. as you all know, our commute where we are over capacity and it's more difficult for us to add capacity. so, knowing these are right people who are using the rest of our system during the times we have the most capacity to accommodate them give us a good picture. we also found that many of them said that they would be driving alone if they didn't have the shuttle, so that half of the folks who are taking the regional shuttles would be driving alone and about 30% of those who take the intra-san francisco shuttles would be driving alon

i am a member of the mtc -- and we need to get bicycle safety on the agenda and we get get it on the agenda. we passed two resolutions and recommendations to the board of directors. one is that the most dangerous intersections for bicyclists and we didn't specify which ones they were and needed to be mitd gaited immediately and the collisions constitute a public health crisis, and the second one was that we recommended that the board of directors investigate changes that would need to be made in state and federal law in order to make san francisco intersections like copenhagen and amsterdam compatible with the americans disabilities act. however, i encourage members of the board of supervisors to do this also and investigate changes that need to be made. two simple things could reduce our carbon footprint making roads and intersections safe for bicyclists and to creating safe secure bike -- indoor parking places that are staffed. imagine how much people we could get on the bikes if we could do these things? thank you very much. >> thank you ms. vaughn. next speaker. >> hi supervisors

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even the key to the tennessean and critiquing the mtc the ludicrous me. the call first if passage above the line financial consumer protection at a professional session of the national assembly and that gary to prevent similar crises from camping again. what seems to editing needs. for its first take of the country's disastrous data breach and how the government is scrambling to enhance security. we bring in professor kim bum soo associate dean of graduate school of information act against a university pay so much for joining us. it occurred to me yet. my professor can delay is there for each may be the largest in scale but it's not the first we have seen and the country how her balance for his feeder breaches in the country with seems to be the cause behind such filings in korea as me know. tonight the industry has been one of the pub in the wool as a result. men fear of rituals this is the big culprit all of the psyche the straw like the country. well the reason why the halcyon days i will probably come to see it as the culture of the shoe phone bill co

board will consider as a whole range of funding from the state and the state that flow through the mtc that come to the program directly and the state program last year we got a small amount to allocate, 12.4 that went to the central subway and our other approved priorities are shown here as well as for the future shares that will come to us and it is a small amount and they are committed to the subway and the parkway and cal train, and i will note here that the active transportation program at the state level is still being hashed and we are providing our input to shape the pedestrian and bicycle funding program guidelines and of course, our work here is to prepare the decision zero focus application based on the resolutions and the leadership of kim and yee and others to help us move to the other agencies and the police department, and other stake holders and groups forward on a strong application to that program this year. the life line transportation program focuses on improvements for low income minority community and last year the activities included awarding the funding to the t

analysis, and discussion between at least the two boards, if not, others that i don't know, where if the mtc or other kind of regional bodies might have a role in helping this. and i was also, wondering whether we see a role for fta and fra in advising through their pmos, on maybe not so much on governor ans, but at least on the delivery method part and be even between from the design build to cma risk and to design build and kind of maybe leaving from design build off to the governor ans discussion and i am wondering if we see the potential value in the pmos or otherwise. >> yeah, the fra and fta have guidelines and they have not done a lot of pthree to get to the extreme and i don't know if they have done it, and they have done the design build work that i am aware of and it has been more of the traditional than anything else director. so, i think that because they are a vital partners you will, and there is going to be some of what i called the strings shs and that are attached and we want to make sure that we are partners with them and so when you talk about talking to the two boards, i