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It will help s. F. P. U. C. In its future budget problems, not hurt them. So, we dont want to be penny wise and pound foolish and take away our ability to grow this program at a key time when it could provide the key to salvaging whats going on over at the s. F. P. U. C. , especially if the drought continues and hetch hetchy doesnt produce as much electricity, we need other electricity sources to fill in. So, i just want to put that point in there that this is the whole point of this program is ...

Our neighborhoods, were providing 18 minutes of services. If were making tradeoffs for transit that were doing it on the routes that has the heaviest ridership and when were making decisions on how to make a community route, were not comparing it to the 28 gary, but comparing how its performing in terms of other routes and passenger effectiveness and cost effectiveness matrix. We also, in the transit effectiveness project are looking at stop consolidation. But its important to highlight were sti...

Of Asset Management. I spoke to the head of the behavioral economists. It has been exciting to you. People will no longer be racing to be firsttime buyers anymore. We know this has been going on for many years now. Why do people Pay Attention to this . Biggestave some of the Financial Gurus in the market here speaking. People have been up in the markets. Longterm equity guys are struggling. 19th annual. Is dollarsay thousands of to get an understanding of what the year will apply the head. Earli...

Were you satisfied with what he said . No. That was no action or plan. It has taken three weeks. We expected to hear news. We thought he would tear into the issue with the severity it deserved. We did not hear it. I immediately heard from our brothers nationwide saying, is that it . We are disappointed. Should general shinseki go . We will talk to our members. We pulled our members and we will make a decision based off of that. Well talk about it and make sure we talk to our members nationwide. ...

Committees of jurisdiction such as commerce and banking to pass legislation with the same bipartisan support we experience experience with map21 so we are going to marcus bell up at the end of april. We must move it forward and i know that members on this committee on both sides including senator carper and senator barrasso working with senators vitter and i are all committed to this. I hope hope what youll do today is speak from the heart about what it means to you if in fact it is as important...

I come from my home state. That would be one of the final four. May be. Maybe so. Im happy to see all of you. Thank you for pulling together this good group and we look forward to hearing from you. I will be very brief to help draft the last transportation bill and im so happy to have a chance to work with all the senators, senator boxer and senator john brasso. Hopefully we come up with a five or six year bill. So that we have a chance to help out a little bit on that front as well. We are real...

Veterans scandal. Were you satisfied with what he said . No. That was no action or plan. It has taken three weeks. We expected to hear news. We thought he would tear into the issue with the severity it deserved. We did not hear it. I immediately heard from our brothers nationwide saying, is that it . We are disappointed. Should general shinseki go . We will talk to our members. We pulled our members and we will make a decision based off of that. Well talk about it and make sure we talk to our me...

And this increase is a line with inflation to ensure that the level of funding will keep pace overtime. The reason i say these things is we stressed this morning the absolute criticality of a strong federal partnership, predictability of funding and significantly increased federal funding to help, to earn the tide to turn the tide on this. I want to make a clear we appreciate and respect at the local level we need to step up and do our part as well. So thats what you see on the part of our commo...

Health and dental benefits continued growth there. We are as i mentioned hopeful that through the good work of the Health Service system they will be able to negotiate more favorable rates with kaiser and with blue shield. And then our retirement cost continuing to grow through the next fiscal year to account for the loses that we experience in the pension fund during the last economic recession. This number, the 42 million im expecting based on the rates that retiree, retirement board just adop...

Were approaching a five year high and rider ship. Our january number s the bus side showed for the first time were out of the recession in terms of the impact on transit and the service is going to grow. Investment likes the five limited where we increase service by 30 percent have been critical to eliminating pass ups and attracting customers out of their car. The tep has three key sections and the first is the policy framework and how theyre structure and the second is the service increase its...