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Other counties doing the same. San mateo is also looking at this so there would be a coordinated facility all the way from San Francisco to san jose. Finally capacity. I cant tell you how many meetings were at that this came up in the last months, the capacity of the network, the transit network, in particular a major need in face of all the existing crowding we have as well as the new Development Going up in the city. This is something that i know director reiskin and other transit leads are aw...

And other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward an...

Points. I think with regard to the capital investment, a couple of things. One, while this Equity Analysis focused on transit. We are looking at our whole capital portfolio and getting more detailed information and report out more publicly in terms of investments by neighborhood or by supervisor district. Specifically with regard to muni Capital Improvements and what we call the Muni Forward Rapid Network improvements, implementing that came out of the transit analysis. And we have looked at Cap...

Yesterday, the budget includes the elimination of sunday parking. And briefly on the Capital Budget. People wont be able to park in San Francisco on sunday . There is a huge outcry to take away of parking. I was not happy to see the repeal of sunday metering i said before. We had it implemented and the sky did not fall. Its a mixed bag of what peoples thoughts are about it. And how it affects commercial corridors and businesses. I think the chamber of commerce was supportive of sunday metering. ...

Prior planning . Thats right. Okay so the additional half cent is like 1. 7 million . The additional half cent will be directly on the general fund about 1 dot 4 or 1 dot 5 million for electricity and in addition the mayors proposal full reimbursement then the additional cost to go solar . The additional cost to go solar would be to go solar would be 3 million a year over the next 2 years. Okay so basically most of the half cent goes to go solar . Thats the equivalent, yeah. Thank you. So again ...

Benefit the public dollar if you will . I know im not saying that right but arent we subsidizing a Residential Program right . It is a Residential Program and its a program thats not directly our customers currently but its a policy prerogative and so it really is a policy choice. So it doesnt need to be a direct transfer from a certain source of money . My reason for raising the point is that it is sometimes viewed that that hetchy funding a program like go solar is free money, its not. So that...

There. I still want to be a taxi business, but soon i wont be. Thank you. Good afternoon directors. [inaudible] i love fly wheel. Its a great attempt, but its still not successful. When i drive my fly wheel phone is on, then ten hours, two, three calls. Some of the calls are two miles away. I cant take them from lombard and [inaudible] and gary and [inaudible] street [inaudible] how can i [inaudible] fly wheel. So information given by chris is not correct. Now, coming to the yellow, yellow colle...

That the situation can only get more acute. Even though we had great deal of success after 2011 adoption of street bonds of fixing our streets. We are still in a situation that over 50 of our streets are in need of paving. That has impact in safety and costs. People spend several hundreds dollars a year repairing their cars from our streets. And as people move around on foot and bicycle they have difficulty. On the transit side we know that our reliability issues stem from the infrastructure. We...

Next week on may 21st and and also may 28th and well have the boards budget hearings and review the budget now in detail with the boards budget budget analysts and the Financial Plan as a number of sheets included in it going through all the various scenarios and so that when we do we do go to the bond market, we go through all the key risks as well as all the key, flexibilities that we have in the enterprise. Summarized on page 8 and also the solving of a very large fiscal imbalances and the Ke...

Against competition that doesnt have to pay that. All the drivers that dont want to go to a taxi school, dont want to pay anything, dont want to go through any bureaucracy and they are taking their personal cars, downloading the app and servicing the city. The driver pool is getting smaller and smaller and soon the taxiCab Companies will not be able to lease half the cabs. Drastic measures have to be done now to save the industry. Theres some great ideas out there. I still want to be a taxi busi...