Its the statists largest inland city and serves as a major hub for agricultural production. Theyre flying me back the Mexican Border it comes from Woody Guthries lyrics. It story goes when the plane crash happened in 1948 and the news reports went across it country Woody Guthrie was in nuvg at the time and of course one of the great sort of rebellious folk icons that he is, he heard the news reports and he really was upset at the omission of the names. He himself had traveled to the valley, so he was familiar with the plight of migrant farm works at the time. And he was upset by the omission of the names. He said thats no way to treat our brothers and sisters, and so he wrote a poem about it. And in his poem he attempts to restore the dignity of those anonymous passengers by giving them fake names, assigning them names. And he says in his poem, goodbye to my juan, goodbye, rose litta, you wont have a name, all they will call you will be deportee. That really caught my attention, and is
Chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, january 9, 2018. Happy new year. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll. Clerk item one, commissioner breed. Cohen present. Commissioner farrell. Farrell absent. Commissioner fewer. Fewer absent. Commissioner kim. Kim absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai. Present. Commissioner sheehy present. Tang present. We have quorum. Chair peskin all right. Could you, please, read the Consent Agenda and then well take Public Comment on the minutes. Clerk items two to three compromise the Consent Agenda. Item three was approved at december 12th Board Meeting and considered for final approval. Staff is not planning to present, but presenting if desired. If a member objects, any items can be removed and considered separately. Chair peskin is there anyp on item two, the minu
Was supervisor ronen. We need to have a fair democratic process that goes along with this. This is not about identity, this is about fair process. Right now, San Francisco has seven out of ten Homeless People that once had a roof over their heads, one of the worst income inequalities in the world. The average latino family in the district making 25,000 a year, yet we have white people making 150 k a year. We can house all of these people, but we need to have a fair process, and right now theres a lot of trauma that goes on with the residents of San Francisco because they dont feel they can trust that democratic process right now. We need to appoint an incident ram mayor and get a legally binding contract with the city and county of San Francisco so that way we dont have this caretaker mayor that can actually run in the future, so thats all im saying with that. But i really urge the city and county of San Francisco to have a fair process. That way, its unbiased, with the three candidate
It was fantastic. There was a transit inspector, there was a muni service planner, there was a Security Guard and a pco, and several buses. And my wife was a bit reluctant to join, but after she saw the smiles on everybodys faces, we held a little Ribbon Cutting ceremony. So i know that the real Ribbon Cutting ceremonys going to be awesome, but we couldnt let this go without a little celebration. So had a Little Christmas ribbon leftover from one of the present. The six of us held the ribbon. My wife turned to the director the production director, and she said well, lets take this picture, lets take that picture. That evening, i posted it on facebook, and guess how small the world is . One of my inlaws husbands cousins was the director was the muni driver whos in that picture, so the guy on the the guy on the right is is a cousin of one of my relatives. Crazy. World small. So it was really fantastic. And the pride i just want to share with you, the pride of the folks that was there, it
Be necessary before an actionable plan is put together. And the document includes some Lessons Learned on how to collect that data in the future. Just a couple of examples of those 45 recommendations include Student Transit pass similar to what sf state passed last year. Shared parking project on the balboa reservoir for student parking as well as residents, as well as senior ride matching programs and other Services Like Escort Services to serve the neighborhoods in city college itself. And the final chapter gets to one of the communitys most clear concerns and that is the first mile access along ocean avenue. And their recommendations about improving pedestrian and Bicycle Safety on ocean avenue. And so, ultimately, this is the start of an ongoing conversation and there are many public venues to continue that conversation. Primarily at the balboa reservoir cac, which will be reviewing the reservoirs own future Transportation Plan and tdm strategy. There will be coordination necessary