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Predicted to go higher but for how long . And rip off from a multimillion dollar house to the big house, we have the story of a woman who defrauded taxpayers like you in a medicare scheme so brazen, its hard to believe. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for thursday, july 11th. Good evening everyone. A day of milestones on wall street today. Stocks surged and the major averages hit new records thanks to a broad based rally. All ten of the s p 500 sectors were up. What happened...

The count down gains. The uninsured will have to buy coverage or face a fine. Now the socalled secretary of explaining stuff is kick starting the campaign to get people enrolled. Especially young people. I think if young people can afford the coverage they should buy it. And contribute to a wellfunded system with lower rates if for no other reason they will not always be young. The goal is to get 7 Million People signed up by next spring. To make obamacare work, it has to get Young Healthy peopl...

I will echo what director ramos said. We talk about this a lot and we as a city and county and as a Transit Agency have control over the streets and we need to take advantage of that to make the system run better and this say fabulous step in the right direction and we are looking forward to this project moving forward. Its going to be fabulous. Thank you. Moving on to the next item, item 12 and changing the definition and disparate impact policies. Directors no members of the public have identi...

Strong support i suspect from the board of supervisors and the ta commission and strongly supported by the mayor, by this board, by the planning commission, so i think this will be similarly coming with a lot of broad support from all the key policy makers in the city which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know...

Impact because the percent minority using the two pass types are more than our city wide average plus the threshold. The threshold developing the thresholds as i said they need to be sensitive enough to distinguish between differences and disparate impact on minority and non minority populations. We essentially set the threshold at 15 and brought them down to 8 based on analysis of all of the spectrum of minority and low income populations on each of our routes. We also compared ourselves to pee...

Department i believe has some jurisdiction. The puc has significant infrastructure, so theres a lot of patients of the city family. And other agencies such as utilities need to be coordinating with during the construction to make sure it goes smoothly. And the example of the pagoda theater and how they Work Together when there is urgents and i hope that and some are outside yeah, i spent six years here developing relationships and how to work with other city departments so we will absolutely wor...

The pagoda theater was one parcel, 2mile stretch of a state highway so it maybe more complex but i think youre right the same principles. Very strong support i suspect from the board of supervisors and the ta commission and strongly supported by the mayor, by this board, by the planning commission, so i think this will be similarly coming with a lot of broad support from all the key policy makers in the city which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . ...

Of the upcoming Budget Dialogue they anticipate will start this fall. The title six Program Update as i said is happening this fall as well and we will be bringing that to you in november or late october for your approval. Were also really excited as i said to get the Demographic Data to really find out if the demographics of the neighborhood is indicative or reflective of the dem graph ikts of the routes. In some cities it is and some cities it isnt. For example los angeles is 70 minority but t...

Which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know where we are in the very near term and the final environmental document is available and as director reiskin said it will be certified by the board and we will bring it to this board in september and approval and adoption of the findings. Anyone that wants to review t...

Which should get us all moving quickly. Thank you. Members of the board anything else . Any final comment . [inaudible] michael schwartz. Good afternoon. I am with the sfmta and based on Public Comment want to make sure people know where we are in the very near term and the final environmental document is available and as director reiskin said it will be certified by the board and we will bring it to this board in september and approval and adoption of the findings. Anyone that wants to review t...