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Other member of the public would like to comment . Okay. Well close Public Comment. And colleagues commissioner wiener. Id like to respond to ms. Hodges comment. Absolutely. We very clearly support the bicycle strategy implementation. Implementation of that plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and communities really allowing those projects to go in efficiently we can accelerate it with a concerted effort by the community by sta...

Plan development articulate how this is going to be able to reach the promised goal by 2020 thank you. Thank you very much. Any other member of the public would like to comment . Okay. Well close Public Comment. And colleagues commissioner wiener. Id like to respond to ms. Hodges comment. Absolutely. We very clearly support the bicycle strategy implementation. Implementation of that plan requires a lot of funding as well as increased project delivery strategies partnerships with the mta and comm...

Wanted to see if they really liked the carpenter program. So this is a replicable hiring program that were going to try to push out and we have been pushing out to other employers, other subcontractors on this project, as well as the Construction Industry in general. I think its important to note that its not just about hiring veterans. Its about retention. And making sure that they succeed. And so on that note we have actually been looking at ways to ensure that they are going to succeed. Just ...

Believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta staff that they would like to move forward with the allocation today and they are ...

Million dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 Million Dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is not a concern i dont believe for us because its really about can we get it done quickly in a timely way and to really discuss how were going to do that neighborhood by neighborhood and corridor by corridor its a whole new paradigm of delivery and Community Involvement in ...

Approved the plan with continuations and it looks like the various conditions i believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta st...

Them in the ground faster and i believe theres no reason why we couldnt keep the pace of that investment but at the moment were deliverying five Million Dollars per year and the new investment levels represents a large multiple of that about 38 Million Dollars per year if we were to do it by 2018 as was discussed at the hearing so this question of how much investment is not a concern i dont believe for us because its really about can we get it done quickly in a timely way and to really discuss h...

Clear that these projects are priorities, that we finally have more funding to do complete street projects to improve pedestrian and bike safety to make our streets safer we finally have more funding we have various policies in place and better streets plan and the mayors pedestrian strategy prop b i dont know how many more times the voters and the mayor can say we want safer and complete streets. And yet we have this push back and sometimes it seems like the political will is not there to say w...

This morning on this last Board Meeting of the year by dedicating our Board Meeting in the memory of mike nevin, who recently left us. Mike was one of our founding Board Members way back when we created the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and was very supportive over the years. He served as our first chairperson and was there with us in the initial years of moving the project forward. Mike was a member of the caltrain board of directors and also a former San Mateo County supervisor, mayor of dal...

Continuations and it looks like the various conditions i believe have been met and i was going to ask if staff could brief us on what our options are. Commissioner mar thank you for the pointing this out we have actually just received the Maintenance Plan for mta staff we had worked out with them to receive it and its reflected in the resolution before you that we would receive it by friday. We can forward it electronically to the board right now. We understand from mta staff that they would lik...