last but not least, i am asking you for the resignation of birds -- bruce oka. you have a duty when you speak to staff, not to tell that information to anybody regulate and in force. i filed a complaint against commissioner oka, because you do not go and lab investigations to other people being investigated as a board member. you go to the person who reports to you. that is the director. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i have been driving a cab in the bay area since 1979. i have been driving since 1987. i received a medallion three years ago. i am president of the cab drivers association. i would like to welcome you to the new transportation director. i would like to convey the importance of the taxi industry, have its own division within the mta as it did when we moved into it. it makes no sense to me that entire industry which includes 1600 vehicles, around 10,000 drivers and support personnel be folded into the administration division and now in the finance division of the mta. the director has done an incredible job educating you

i would like to follow-up on bruce oka's comment on taxis. i am also a taxi user. sometimes i do find that we cannot board on the current from the back, and oftentimes, there is not enough ramps to board, so having sideways taxis will benefit most of the people who use wheelchairs, so i am hoping to support the idea of finding more sideways ramp taxis so they will be more accessible for us. thank you. director nolan: thank you. >> the last person who has turned in a speaker card. >> greetings, directors. speaking of recognitions, greetings. i would like to present you with my report on the taxi industry that i wrote last month, a copy that i set aside for you. there are a lot of meetings, and pretty much every one of these board meetings, there are zero words that go up. i do not expect an answer, but i do not meet my question to be rhetorical. when are you going to acknowledge a taxicab driver? thank you. director nolan: thank you. next item. >> peter witt. he is the last person to express an interest. >> welcome to our new executive director. i understand that yo

director oka: i direct you to have the staff report back on what effect the bicycle lands on motor street and other parts of the city are having on our bus zones. particularly people with disabilities who have complained to me that they cannot get to their calves or close enough to the buses to ride, so i wanted to see why those barriers are constructed the way they are and whether we can do something about the access problem. >> thank you. that with a report on that. director heinicke: this is not merely a request for action but a follow-up on something we discussed earlier. mr. haley i know has been working on addressing some of the issues we have seen with the metro service, particularly the problems that have risen out of the infants and the system. one of the things we all have discussed was notification to customers that previously was really going only to the stations. hopefully, these will be few and far between. but in a few delays i have been caught in recently, there has been communication in the trains themselves. i think that is very good. i am have a that was implemented as

director oka: there are several members of the board, supervisors, that are very interested in what happens to the individual that turns 18 and the next day has to shell out $62, that has to be left out, too. -- looked at, too. [applause] >> is that a reasonable time frame to come back? >> lee can come back and we would be prepared to frame the issue, identify the variants. some youth versus all youth, the 18-year-old that is still in school. the only thing i can't commit because it is out of my control as if we would have a full financing plan for it. we know of $1.4 million the year of the board could decide to direct towards this. this would need to be an ongoing source of revenue, which expect to get information back in the next week or so. we will be ready to present as much as we have in the october meeting. >> supervisor campos talked about funding with the transportation authority as well. the more information, the better for the decision we can make. how does that work for members of we do it at 4:00 on the eighteenth? i don't know what the agenda is for that day, but possibly in t

cheryl brinkman and bruce oka. the director would have been year, but he was away on business in oakland. thank you, directors, for being here. we really appreciate the input we got -- over 650 responses to the questionnaire, which we put through the citizens advisory committee and other interest groups, and we are very pleased. we believe we of dawn and else standing at job. -- we believe we have done an outstanding job. [applause] i think that was the honeymoon right there, guys. [laughter] before we talk about today's event, i want to meet -- i want to mention debra johnson, who unfortunately had a medical appointment this morning. she wanted to extend our congratulations. ms. johnson has served this agency so incredibly well. particularly, our work with the union negotiations recently, successfully completed. she is an outstanding, dedicated member of the team here. we look forward to working with her for a long time in the future. i want to say one thing in particular. i think a lot of people from staff are he

director oka, no. director ramos, aye. chairman nolan, aye. six to one. chairman nolan: we will continue after a short break. chairman nolan: consent calendar. members of the board that wish to take any of consent. ladies and gentleman. >> mr. chairman, you have requested that we go to the consent calendar. these items are considered routine and thus a member of the public or a member of the board wishes to have an item severed and considered separately. you have a request from the public to sever item 10.2 l. that is the only request that this point. chairman nolan: the consent calendar except for item 10.2 l. all in favor? so ordered. 10.2 l. >> it has to do with removing a bus zone at ocean avenue and establishing a bus zone in a similar location. >> good afternoon. please excuse my glasses, i have an eye disease. i can't see, but three of my neighbors wrote something, but i can't hardly see it. they want to put a bus stop in front of my house. that is fine. but some of the bus in front of our house, we don't want it. there are three houses that don't

>commissioner oka: i know for a fact if i don't have to reach in my pockets to get money out to pay the fair, it makes it easier. the clipper card has made it much easier for me to do with boarding. even though this -- [unintelligible] everybody is going to have to, i think the instruments that people with disabilities and others with dexterity problems, handling small coins and that kind of thing, we would make it easier by making it faster for people aboard -- who board. there are some ideas on that, too. i would support going to a no cash eventually. commissioner ramos: thank you for following up on this and bringing us this today. i know there are a few people, some advocates who have been pushing on this for a while. i have been pushing on this, dreaming about it every time i see or sitting on a bus waiting for folks to single file to the front door. and to help people realize what this might mean -- and now imagine the kind of restriction being put on our buses. and something that we have the power to lift. just like that. i do not see what would be so confusing. what the concern

>commissioner oka: i know for a fact if i don't have to reach in my pockets

oka >> in the south bay temperatures in the '80s and '90s. why much warmer for our inland valleys. tomorrow we will be in the upper 90s. places like pleasanton and antioch, 97 in those locations. '70s and '80s for the east bayshore is. '70s and '80s for the peninsula. close to the coastline we will see fall in the late morning and early afternoon. upper 80s and 90s. a look at your extended forecast, the warm weather is sticking with us tomorrow, wednesday and into thursday. a cooling trend through the latter half of the week. the inland valleys will stay pretty warm. >> i am back with another edition of take a look at this first picture. it is amazing. it is the 1 t saltwater crocodile caught in the philippines. it took dozens of villagers and experts and a three week hunt to capture this 21 ft. crocodile. the enormous reptile killed a water buffalo last month and is suspected of having attacked a fisherman who went missing in july. check this out, a less of lethal group of animals, a pot of blue whales spotted in the santa monica bay. there are between 8,100 ft. long. among the po

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. >> that was the thing about it, they kauls called thoho they loved and making sure they were oka okaythe moment the second plane hits the world trade center. >> gary eugene byrd. >> george, john bishop. >> jeffery donald. >>> president lincoln not only understood the heartbreak of his country. he also understooded cost of sacrifice and reached out to console those in sorrow. in the fall of 1864, he learned that a widow had lost five sons in the civil war, and he wrote her this letter. "dear madam. i have been shown in the files of the war department the statement of the general of massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. i feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine, which should attempt to beguile you of a grief of a loss so overwhelming, but i cannot refrain from tendering to you, the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic, they died to save. i pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn