Books on marriage equality, the obamas vs. The clintons and he autobiography of marion barry jr. Bob woodward interviews john scandal. He watergate and anthony marx sheds light on the librarys past, present and future. Book tv, television for serious readers. Political strategist from both sides of the aisle recently discussed the potential impact of the latino vote in the upcoming mid term elections. Speakers include head of the hispanic Libre Initiative. Is hourlong event is from the latino elected and appointed officials. Its an exciting year politically as well. As you all know, in 131 days, well be will be election day in terms of the mid term election. What wed like to do to start off the Conference Today is to put this in the political context as to how we expect the latino vote and the latino candidates to do in the mid term elections. Its one of the major themes of this conference, the chair discussed some of the other major themes. Well be working on. But certainly the electi
Responsible currently would daylight all of the issues regarding the funding and the impediments to it spreading in the same way that they did sort of a crowd sourced map for the preferences regarding the distribution of the bikes. And there is a lot of talent out there and there is also a lot of money out there and a lot of brain power to figure this out is moung the people as well. And i am an advocate for the port corridor and so i would like to note that the corridor transit is the most density populated and relatively flat and new to the recycling connector between the destinations and in terms of equity, it aced the transit for many of the workers going both north and south and the workers go north, really being the back bone of the economy, and of the entire corridor and then, west and east along the water. And going south, of course, for the people that live in the region who are going down to other further challenges of the cal trans, and so whatever that or the offices downto
Learned about how they placed it in areas that lacked connectiveness to the Transportation System and they could see that there would be significant use immediately as opposed to other areas where they will have to do more education and i see the richmond as one of those areas that is hard to get out to and along the core and i would like to see the analysis that looks at how we can plan for the future for the west side of city as well and one of the key questions that chair avalos mentioned too, is finding a sponsor or sponsors like other metropolitan and the cities or we are an area that is not just one city but a number of cities and we even have more challenges that the bay area and the management district which i sit on with chair avalos, and the challenges of managing a system where they have the 50 percent of the sites but there are cities with many other sites and we have to look at the interests of the other cities as well. Thank you. Commissioner weiner. Thank you. And i woul
Provide that and but with the great interest on the commission to be able to and across the city to be able to expand to the neighborhoods and mine is not part of the process yet and yours should be as well and i think that we are committed to commissioner lee has expressed to the board and looking at expansion across the city as well. Commissioner mar did you have comments . Yeah, our microphones are not working here, or the button to alert you. I just want to say that i think that this analysis is important so that we can look at how to spread it. And more strategickly and i know that when supervisor wean and her avalos and i and your staff and president xh us staff visited mexico city we learned about how they placed it in areas that lacked connectiveness to the Transportation System and they could see that there would be significant use immediately as opposed to other areas where they will have to do more education and i see the richmond as one of those areas that is hard to get ou
That the residents can walk and while it is true that we live in walkable neighborhoods, it is important that we invest in the infrastructure that is needed as we move more residents into this part of the city and explore the Large Scale Development whether it is lot, 337 and the giants parking lot, pier 7, or pier 3032 and that we are able to show our commitment to the neighborhoods today and can address the Transportation Needs and, if would like, or if we want support for future growth and development in this area. I want to introduce peter from the sfmta who is going to give a presentation on the assessment. And i also welcome, i know that we have ken rich from the Mayors Office of economic and workforce development. And we also did invite the Planning Department as well. To sit in. And i know that commissioner, or vice chair, scott weiner also has other comments before we begin the presentation. Thank you, chair avalos. And also at the time that our commissioner kim requested this