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To ride a bike. He would rather ride muni and complain about it. There is a big untapped market of people who can be enticed out of their cars and can reduce their living expenses, can reduce all the negative effects of driving. If you are spending more on paper than bike lanes, i think there is still a lot of opportunity to shift around some of the funds. Even though im not an expert in that area. I guess thats it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [speaking foreign language...

Supervisor mar and commissioner yee will join us short she. Mr. Clerk do we have any announcements. Yes please silent all cell phones and devices and speaker cards somebody submitted to the clerk. Thank you. Can you call the item on the agenda today . The item is review the Tenderloin Hunger Task force and assessment for the tenderloin and the Food Security task forces annual report. Thank you. This has been cosponsed by mar, kim, cohen, campos and yee and i know this is a very important issue, ...

The city could have some proclamation or a letter that went in the paper, some bold statement that was on letterhead, that would be very helpful. Thank you. Any other questions . Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you and now we will hear from linda lowl and improving Food Security for seniors and adults with disabilities. Good afternoon everyone. I the nutritionist with the department of aging and adult services. I wanted to give you an overview of the major nutrition programs our department s...

Want to express my appreciation for your leadership on the issue and the supporters of the Food Security task force for highlighting the opportunities that lay before us. Although i support all of the recommendations i would like to speak on the need for a city wide home gresh grocery delivery program. We serve over 30,000s a week and the majority of the pantry participants are older adults and whom receive ssi and ineligible for benefits. Many are frail and disabled and struggle to attend food ...

This is an issue that has brought together really a Wide Coalition of folks from environmentalists to industry, to workers from many different communities, from the bayview to asian neighborhood design and others, from my perspective, i think when a program like this for the low dollar amount that were talking about has had that kind of impact, we really need to we really need to take that seriously. And then the last thing i want to ask for is i think part of why its difficult to talk about a f...

Personally, you know, when i think about the friends and the comrades who gave their life in the city of fallujah, i try not to think that they gave their life for anything that we were doing in iraq but they gave their life to the man to the left and right and that does help me and has meaning that we lead our own lives each day and what we do with the rest of our lives but i try not to tie that to anything that is geopolitical in nature or to the future of a country that we really have no cont...

President david chiu thank you supervisor yee. Our next is by supervisor cohen and myself. Supervisor cohen do you want to make introductory comments. Supervisor malia cohen thank you very much. Please come to the podium. Thanks. So, happy mentor ship month, everyone. January is National Mentor ship month and we are taking a moment to recognize big brothers and big sisters in the area. Earlier today supervisor chiu ands i announced a partnership with big brothers and big sisters of the bay area ...

Improved the Response Time for if i fixing broken lights there is more work to do and focused on streets and not sidewalks. The legislation im introducing today will establish city streetlights in a number of way. First a uniformed shared standard for streetlight repairs so that simple outages need to be corrected within 48 hours of being reported. Too often we hear about lengthy delays of a report of a burned out streetlight and streetlight being repaired. The legislation will require that city...

From here to orange county, three different cities today. To me ambassadors you are doing a great job. I often think that San Francisco should get comments. Good thing we sit here between 6 ,0007,000 homeless on the streets. I think we need to educate people some type of knowledge. Too many people while they are on the streets or sro hotels come here and stay here are literate. Ill iterate brings fear. You dont know nothing, the only thing is what you see and you dont understand it. Illiteracy i...

President david chiu with that, at this time why dont we go to general Public Comment. Madam clerk . City clerk sf Public Comment. Public comment at this time, members of the public may address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the board will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting with one exception. When the agenda item has already b...