was not allowed to join when i finished any residecy as a trained doctor so if you're a brown and tom nolan's doctor that takes blue shield and he e you happened to have our office on webster street that's right being next to 0 sutter hospital you as the doctor has specialists at that hospital that you use all the time and their your relationships on how to manage our patience so patients do exist in a volume they have to deal with lots of people especially with a lot of problems if you're a blue shield patient that sees a doctor that used the sutter familiarity and the doctor can't use the sutter facility to get paid your blue shield patient at brown and tom nolan doctor has to go to a non-sutter facility i'm a sutter doctor and if i send you over to the hospital i'm basically saying i don't know anybody and hope they call me back it's a k345ishg9d endeavor to increase score it's trickier you have your doctor and don't worry you can use my facility you hope the one hundred works just as they did with the specialists i have the cell phones and i know the staff this matters when our taking car

the yosemite national park i work with engineers and city attorneys and scheduled and we all work tom nolan e together on the project. >> the excavations are in red we'll have the interference to go under the street. >> my next project is the largest project in the water system improvement program this is the southeast plan that involved a lot of kworpthsdz with the community groups and public when 9 commissioners such the planning commission and the board of supervisors or this ftc commission they help us in city hall this is a beautiful building it really is the inner workers of the building you feel you're in the heart of government and it's exciting to be part of thatyou. >> what do you think about working at an airport and i love it is busy all the time. >> we want it to be an those away was this is a venture if i didn't love it i'll be an accountant. >> we want the experience that is a non-airport experience the negative stigma we're trying to erase that. >> everything is in a bad food to excite them about the food and they have time to learn about us. >> people are imitated by travel

our loss and congratulations to jerry for his retirement i wanted to acknowledge the hard work of tom nolan and the staff of the mta and really appreciate the thoughtful in-laws my office has seen many of the rights organization that have been working on this issue inform a roonth it's been a pleasure it work with them and it was mentioned that you really are going to hit the ground running youth and grassroots organizations it a is is a critical step making muni for seniors and low income folks and folks with disability free ridership for the free muni for youth it is really expanding our safety net for people that are finding it hard to live in the city i think that providing equitable services like muni and transportation is critical in making sure that seniors are not isolated and to maintain themselves as valuable members of the community the policy i know you're going to draft a little bit later is accomplishing the issues but especially about the safety net for people that really, really need it i want to thank the mta staff and lisp if this board and especially the grassroots and ma

room to come up here mostly thank you to the mta for supporting this critical program particularly tom nolan that is a champion as well as director reiskin and supervisor mar and others so many community groups that came out to support we have too long a list but the housing alliance and the senior center and living progress center and on house and walk san francisco and veterans equate center have worked and thank you for free muni for youth paving the way and starting to talk about the issues of justice with the widening gap between rich and poor we see the entire community community of color and poor communities are pushed out the city this is a critical step for seniors and folks with disabilities can play a critical role i think the last time i saw this lady she was talking about how important to get free muni for seniors and folks with disabilities we are proud to work with her and look forward to working with everyone in this room an implementing free muni for seniors and people b with disabilities. >> thank you all very much anyone else care to address the board no one else has turne

i was reminded by the chairman of our board who just left tom nolan, that the item will be called at the beginning of the agenda so regardless of where it may fall on that he will be calling it at the beginning to be able to hear from all the folks who are supportive of this program at the beginning of this meeting. at this point i want to turn the presentation over to emmet nelson who is our project coordinator. thank you. >>good morning, commissioners, i'm the program manager for free muni at sfmta. i'm here to present to you the free muni for seniors and people with disabilities. as we've heard today the sfmta board of directors is set to review this program to seniors on january 20. this program will provide free muni to low and median seniors. is there will be a one time pass that will be loaded on to an existing clipper cards. that just means that once the free pass is loaded on to the clipper card it's a one time pass. the customers will not need to reload every month. it will be sitting on their card for use. one thing we want to stress is that this program, much like muni fo

i am going to give a little bit of the director report time to tom nolan. he is going to talk about the free muni for seniors and what is happening for that and he can speak to it better than i can. so he is going to talk about that. >> good morning madam chair and members of the board, members of the commission. it's kind of nice to be on this side of the commission. we sat here yesterday for almost five hours in mine. >> oh, my. >> it's a really good chance starting in the new year to offer free muni for low-income seniors and persons with disabilities. it's something that i have wanted to do for a long, long time and we're finally able to do it. it's not fully set yet. we have a lot of advocates out yesterday and we appreciate that. i ride the bus all the time and i can tell you that the need is so great and you can tell how difficult life is for seniors with low-income and persons with disabilities. the third tuesday at 1:00 in the afternoon we'll hold a hearing and make the decision at that point and expect it to be implemented very quickly, because we