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Really frustrating project for you and staff and we have talked a few times about it and itthere isnt much i can say now that can change what happened in the past. My best response is at the land use and Transportation Committee we talked about all the things we are doing to approve project delivery and all those effortss are focused ovision zero project. Stream line acontability and using [inaudible] the way we communicate with the public. These are things that you will see us doing much better...

Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i...

Presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year Round Program and they allow students to get to activities year round including jobs. So just to spend a moment on vision zero. This is such an enormous part of our work at the mta and specifically on the sustainable streets side and i thought it was important to talk about this and i will say that december 2013 was a really, really bad month for Traffic Safety and there was a lot of tragedies t...

Right. And how is that related to the persistence i mean how Many Employers what kind of evaluations do we have from the employers . Are they offering more summer jobs . I dont have hard data on it but we have more private sector than we can fill and when talking about entry level and there is a lot now and its a buyers market in the economy and we often dont have enough work ready and past muster with the employers and thats what door ways is screening the people and i dont have a number for it...

And coordination is one strategy what are the other strategies in terms of delivering projects faster . I talked about the coordination with dpw and last time we came here we talked about theres a monthly principals meeting between mta and public works staff were literally going line by line that list of 24 projects and troubleshooting where they are and identifying whether its its its its its a contractual issue or permit issue and all the things that can trip up a project and its not just for ...

Them travel safely two and from school and i would like to provide some context for all of what we do including those on the Pedestrian Safety side starting with vision zero but also talking about our safe routes to school program, the School Crossing guards program and Accessible Services and then im going to turn it over to julie from our Transit Operations Division to really dive into the Transit Services component as well as free muni for youth. I will note that just having listened to the p...

Summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over t...

And coordination is one strategy what are the other strategies in terms of delivering projects faster . I talked about the coordination with dpw and last time we came here we talked about theres a monthly principals meeting between mta and public works staff were literally going line by line that list of 24 projects and troubleshooting where they are and identifying whether its its its its its a contractual issue or permit issue and all the things that can trip up a project and its not just for ...

I had a couple questions as well. I thought i would start with Education Campaign. This is quite a small budget, but a significant budget and agree we need to invest in education in the city, that is a key component of vision zero. Im curious if we looked at other city to learn from them in terms of what they funded and invested and what worked for them and if we based this off what we have seen this modeled in other cities versus throwing darts on the board for what we think may work . That is ...

This list was developed before i got here. Yeah before you got here. My understanding it was mutually agreed upon by this committee and the citys Vision Zero Task force so yes, those projects were not invented in the spring of 2014 many of them were projects that had been under consideration may be stalled in design and others were things that we did develop and accelerate. What i think they all have in common is they are being delivered a lot faster than they would have had we not had that comm...