Good morning, everyone. In is the Transportation Authority finance commission of San Francisco county meeting of thursday, march 17, 2016, my name is eric mar the chair and our clerk steve stamos. You roll call commissioner campos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim absent supervisor mar commissioner yee we have quorum thank you. I wanted to thank from sfgovtv for televising us for every meeting leo davis and nona nicoles from sfgovtv item 2 the minutes of the april 2016 meeting. No questions open up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed can we approve the minutes well take that without objection. Or roll call. On minutes commissioner campos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim absent supervisor mar commissioner yee the minutes are approved. Thank you next item please item 3. State and federal update an action item. A presentation. Yeah. Good morning mark presents sends his regrets hes in sacramento ill step up if you have addition
I believe is here commissioner stansbury a quorum is present thank you well start with the announcement first of all, we will go into closed session be our first item for the day any members of the public here okay. Good on the ground well go into Public Session after the closed session any members of the public will be letting you know well go into closed session so the chair will entertain a motion to go into closed session commissioner confirm Public Comment. With any members of the public like to comment to into closed session to discuss the matters hearing none. Public comment is closed. A vote is not required okay. So well go into executive sessions any members of the public your excused we will reconvene what w when were done if youre session. Okay good afternoon, Everyone Welcome back mr. Clerk can you tell me what item. On item 4 general Public Comment oh, yes general Public Comment how could i forgot mr. Roth man, i have a card for you were going to go into general Public Com
Loudly to go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge oerage nobody is loudly to go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge ra to go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge ag to go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge geo go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge e go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge of go to the bathroom if youll please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Mr. Superintendent you, you have an announcement about the agenda we are withdrawing the resolution in support felt inclusion of the history of the comfort women into the statewide curriculum considered at a future meeting. Thank you mr. Superintendent we have approval of board minutes of march 8 and october 27, 2015, can i have a motion and a second . Any corrections roll call please. Thank you mr. Chin mr. Totiano ms. Fewer ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and mr. Haney thats 4ize. But want
The additional eyes and ears to prevent the fact violence if happening we had a number of Community Ambassadors that lived and worked and raised the bayview to come and work with us vufrl over a period of time they knew everyone on the street and say high to folks and they were coming to tourists and they couldnt get to a police or get just basic information how to assess 911 or p. I. And basic information and the best routes to get to home or work those ambassadors became very big connectors to ordinary people everyday to what was going on and basic information theyve become invaluable to people that havent been in community before and so valuable that the crime rates around those areas became lower people that walked to work and saw the ambassadors saw them on the streets Walking Around became a lot more comfortable with theyre afraid experience on the streets we rolled this out beginning in the bayview now successful we brought it to Mission Street and Visitacion Valley and ambassad
You you know as you may recall i wanted that makes sure we have been knows the fact history that the Fact Community Ambassadors Program was born out of a lot of conflict that occur began in the bayview we knew that has roots about peopleism safe in theyre afraid community and at this point we had a number of seniors and some them taking muni and doing the work or visiting theyre afraid families that suddenly became victims of street violence selfinterest the interviews and the aftermath and the interviews with our Police Department that were trying to prevent this from happening and with any Community Leaderships we felt in cooperation with the fact organizations lifework chinese affirmative action and selfhelp for the fact elderly a number of communitybased organizations like the awe alive and free program we felt if we can have additional eyes and areas working with the fact seniors, working with people going to work particularly on muni stops we can have the fact kind of assistance