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Ive been public in my skepticism of the free muni for youth program. My skepticism has been based on and my belief the program would come from munis operating money. Were now seeing thats the case that muni is considering using some of this Maintenance Program rather than to invest that money in the system to purchase more vehicles, to rehabilitate vehicles and otherwise make the system more reliable. Once the free muni Pilot Program ends there will be enormous pressure to extend the program and...

The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon, everyone. Its monday, november 19, 2012. This is the land use and Economic Development committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor scott wiener. Supervisor maly a cohen is absent today. Our clerk is derek evans. Mr. Evans, can you please give us the announcements . Yes. Please make sure all Electronic Devices are off, copies submitted to the clerk. Items acted upo...

Efforts, San Francisco voters were able to make a very thoughtful choices at the ballot box this past couple of weeks, that have helped fund infrastructure, move to job creating tax policy, and invest in critical Housing Needs in our city. Collectively helping San Francisco families and businesses. With that id like to take your two questions, supervisors. Thank you. President chiu thank you. Our first question will be provided by our district 6 colleague, supervisor kim. Supervisor kim thank yo...

Programs. To the extent thatmine is failing or hasjpn,1 to address those issues, it is not because of somehowqpihb making Public Transportation more accessible to poor kids in this city. I think its simply unfair to place that responsibility on that group. We all have ajr n responsibilito make sure that we have a reliable system, and the working families and the poor families of this city are as interested in increasing the reliability as any. But to simply say that we have to choose one or th...

Parking meter expansion, a number of other issues that i brought up is that meters do start at 7 a. M. , they start at 7 a. M. At the tenderloin, i want to look at i mean, how much revenue do we generate from that and do we penalize people that cant get rpp in the tenderloin and have to get up earlier to move their cars if fe have a car to get to work which is a lot of our working class family ins the tenderloin, how can we move meters back to 9 a. M. And how can we rethink that evening meters, ...

Regular committee on september 21 and sent to the committee, its to appoint mr. Harlan kelly junior as a four year term. Colleagues, inhouse, incall, this resolution is adopted. Item 31. Item 31, item 3133 were considered by the land use and Economic Development committee at a regular meeting on monday november 25, item 31 was recommended as a amended by the same title, sent to the board as a committee boardbacker report, its to amend the administrative planning code to receive assistance under ...

And our safety nets already strained by years of state cuts and it cannot sustain these additional reductions in federal funding. In addition to the cuts i have just detailed, there are also competitive grants and state passthroughs that will also see cuts, and totals for which we really cannot estimate at this time. Although this is serious business, and we need to get engaged although this is serious, we need to get engaged as a city to advocate against request ration sequestration taking plac...

Across the board are completely under attack and for us, this, conversation is yet another attack. And we have the department of public works and the police department, and engaging in massive sweeps from Tuesday Morning to friday morning at 4 30 a. M. And down the major corridors in San Francisco. And we have police, really relentlessly harassing people who are leaving in their vehicles whether they are large or small vehicles. We have, you know, we just had today, a huge opposition to a shelte...

With the senior and disability action and i am also with the town Heritage Foundation and i appreciate you the supervisors and bringing this to the forefront and i appreciate the task force and the findings and the hard work. You have a good view on the dots that connect housing crisis and the food crisis and we are looking at food gentrification you go around the city and find the places where they sell the good food and you cannot afford that. Not to mention, monsanto that is trying to monopol...

Make sha clear and because they are above ground structure and they vent smoke. They may never vent smoke. We may never have a train fire. I prefer that to be the case. But certainly a lot of transit projects and other cities have had problems with vent structures and people, and we have done our best to provide some preliminary designs which we think will get rid of those concerns. Those are good examples. I was just curious, thank you. Director metcalf . I am really glad that we are talking ab...