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That would, allow for a veriable toll for the toll to go up and down, as congestion vary and to reduce the toll for the bay bridge toll payers who are already paying a 5 fee from the east bay. This is how it will look like, in terms of toll structure one and where the toll will go up and down with the peak period of travel at five dollars, and the toll and scenario two will allow for the tolling throughout the midday, where we are seeing and expecting in the future, especially more midday conges...

Cheng, i am pleased to offer a update for Treasure Island in coordination for the request of 150,000 of prop k funds to support the conceptual design and the next stage system manager and engineering for the over all toll program and you should have the slides and hand outs in front of you and if could get them, great, thank you. That might not be quite the right. That is. Sorry this is the slide that presents the appropriation for 150,000. And if i dont, if you dont mind pulling up the Treasure...

Concern, and so i would be concerned because as you probably are aware, there are a number of low income residents, who are on Treasure Island, and yes, many of them use the Public Transportation system, but, there are some who sometimes use the vehicles, and so, i would be really concerned about some level of congestion pricing on Treasure Island and i am not sure if i would be supportive of that effort. Understood, and we are certainly in touch with the island residents, and one of the things ...

But are going to propose it. Well, the city identified this as the policy framework for the island development, and to support the over all Development Goals of the island and, that is something that the city by city policy and it is in the Development Agreement that we should do some form of demand management to compliment and to help to pay for the transit that we need. And i guess that the concern is someone who used to live there, who used to work there, and it is very difficult to get a tra...

Packet and the first one was taken from the original plan and it involved the total peak hour toll and the five dollar range for the weekdays oebl and we found that this one does not pencil in terms of the Financial Performance and we identified two other options and that will be to price the periods for all congestived periods and all days of the week and keeping the toll around 5, and on and off the bridge and then, finally a third option was identified that would, allow for a veriable toll fo...

City, culturally and economically, and i think that it is also clear that the city is not doing enough and i agree that i do believe that the city agencies want these events to happen to succeed and there is some really terrific people in the City Government who are working to help make these events succeed and so this is not about the city not caring, it is about the way that we structure the system where there are too many departments that are involved or too many fees, involved, and there is ...

I started contacting the city departments in november. And i kept getting put off and, finally to the middle of january about whether or not we could have that festival or not. I was about to go into a Board Meeting so i had to call somebody in a position of power to notify them that i was walking into a meeting embarrassed to say that nothing had been done. That got the ball rolling and we finally able to get this. There is just a lot of bureaucracy, when i was in the department i didnt notice ...

Hear kind of the political dynamics i guess is what is going on in sacramento and how the opposition might be able to push that and i guess that the question that i was not able to ask you was how much further, is mtc, and some of our stake holders here trying to push on that definition of disadvantaged communities, and in a way that can help to give us a leg up on the cap and trade funds that you know we need, particularly around Affordable Housing . Or what are smf the specific amendments that...

Day a year outside of the house and they get very upset. We will explore some of those issues and interested to know what the data is around the permit fees and i want to thank, ted and the Controllers Office for putting together a useful report and to the Entertainment Commission and everyone who helped to engage the community and get the surveys out there and the good data and i think that this is a long lasting policy tool that will help us achieve positive change and so w that, chairman i no...

Lets see, this is the last . The last category proposed is for the street tree mainting and maintenance they have planted the trees and have done a significant amount of maintenance, the locations for dpw is proposing to plant the trees over the next five years are empty tree basins on dpw maintain streets and then also to do the main nens of the established trees and so Going Forward is to present these six for adoption today. And next month, we will be bringing the remainder of them for you to...