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Good morning, everyone. Ed meeting will come to order. This is the tuesday, december tenth, 2013, meeting of the plans and Programs Committee of the San Francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll . Roll call, commissioner breed . Here. Commissioner campos . Absent. Kim, absent fp mar. Present. Yee . Yee, present. We have a quorum. Thank you, and i would like to thank, jim smith and johnson gramwhack from sfgtv for tell vicing us today. Item ...

More people that can get in to Affordable Housing. Thank you have youer mfp. High name is don seno and i just want to say and i want to thank everybody for the services that are in place i was homeless for ten or eleven years i did not want even want a place and i finally ended up through the chp. And with the lori there that was just speaking and her son but they were great and the services and you know as soon as weed a kid and then they moved us into a better place and they always had a Suppo...

From me. First i want to really thank and applaud all the work of the Mayors Office and mayors disability counsel for putting together what we think is a really excellent resolution and i notice theres some talk about softening some of the language and it looks like its pretty clear about what needs to happen not too soft to make a difference so thank you for your work on that. We talked about this resolution yesterday and car la johnson brought it up and a couple of excellent points raised and ...

An opportunity to participate if thats something that interests you i thank you for your attention to my directors report and at this point id like to turnover the microphone and she would like to tell you about some of the trends that shes seen in these last few months so thank you. Good afternoon councilmembers. In september and october our office received about 270 inquiries about 85 percent of these inquiries were from the public and 15 percent from city departments. We received 8 compliants...

Some of the new arrangements with with bart with the bart agreement is that the rate will increase from 1. 21 to 1. 27. The cap is currently at 10. 5 million and the cap will have increase of 5 over the next six years. And the agreement also will expire to coincide with the feeder agreement. Okay, thank you very much. Colleagues, any questions . Okay, mr. Rose. After a few hours, can we go to your first report, please . Absolutely, mr. Chairman, members of the committee. On page 10 as shown in t...

Now battery trains bart trains do open from both sides. Its almost like i need to do 2 cases. If it opens from the bottom of that drawing, the left side of the car, as you board, you would have a double side ways facing green on the left and that would be for seniors and people with disabilities. A little bit to the right is a tripod pole right in the middle of that area but offset a little bit off center to open up a wider aisle. Sort of diagonally to your left about 45 degrees will be the whee...

Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have Jessie Lorenz executive director, senior disability action San Francisco. All right. Thank you council and thank you mr. Wine stein for the wonderful presentation. My name is Jessie Lorenz and im the executive director of the independent resource living San Francisco. Im here to talk about an issue about but of the critical avenues of the issues of our center and also for the California Foundation for independent Living Centers. A stat...

Barts got a problem in this community. Im hoping when all is said and done, we can get to a place where we are all talking to each other an listening to each other with more clarity and more insight and more respect. The Disability Community is broad, vast and the movement of folks with disabilities who sought independent disability rights started here in berkeley. I think one of the things that is not being stated clearly is process. Just on a personal note, several of us, myself included was p...

Really do not want we want to have a place in this city everybody be calm and nice to other people. I know this is not about the strike nothing about that but and i want to say thank you for helping out the bart and bart was on strike i have to interrupt you im sorry in the interest of time we were talking about the housing resolution at this time. Oh im sorry i didnt know. Its okay. Were past number 3 but theres additional Public Comment later. Oh im sorry i didnt know what number we were on. W...

Both of these staff are assigned to our bayview office which is located at 1315 evans and all the clients that are served on that caseload reside in that district. The caseload is capped. This is a specialized caseload assigned to a probation officer. Its capped at 40 and consists of solely highrisk Domestic Violence offenders. This grant has enabled us to collaborate very closely with San Francisco Police Department and weve had this grant for three years prior. We are required to submit an add...