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Good afternoon. Good morning, sir good afternoon, sir hi, im am with the santa fe San Francisco arc i want to talk about the free ride you muni for the seniors and for adult go disabilities and it will help my family a lot and helping me so i you know im using thank you. Thank you good testimony. calling names . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is is rem ma im a member of power and we worked long years for free muni passes i want to share some of the reasons why free muni was a success it...

Disability well, i think we should earner free muni passes why minimal our deaf and youre getting on muni and your struggles with communication and money you want to meet our deceive friends and its important 2, 3, 4 San Francisco i hope i get a free muni pass thank you very much. Thank you clapping. thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names good afternoon. Hi good afternoon bob from urban habitat i want to thank all the unanimously advocates and the folks with disabilities out here for all...

Is the gap were seeing the economic gap were seeing really hits people with fixed income even more its important for us as a city and stand up and support in notation is president noel was recalling to support this afternoon im here to stand by them he want to commend this Commission Im feeling confident hell be supporting it and thank you very much. Any more members of the board. I definitely will support this proposal it is a great step forward were here to provide transportation for the entir...

That burden is off their shoulders the child rides for free it gives vicinities so for the youth myself included when i didnt have money for the bus i would have to ask folks for money or try to do other things to get the money i also wanted to say the youth avoids crimtion youre not being has he would by the police for not paying your fair i know, you know in the death of kenneth harden he died because i didnt have the money to show he paid for his muni the principle if you have free muni you c...

That burden is off their shoulders the child rides for free it gives vicinities so for the youth myself included when i didnt have money for the bus i would have to ask folks for money or try to do other things to get the money i also wanted to say the youth avoids crimtion youre not being has he would by the police for not paying your fair i know, you know in the death of kenneth harden he died because i didnt have the money to show he paid for his muni the principle if you have free muni you c...

Stay one step ahead of illegal migration on the southern border and to stay one step ahead of our weather conditions, to closely monitor our weather conditions in a very harsh winter. If we shut down, that staff is cut back to a skeleton. Third, approximately 80 of femas permanent appropriated workforce, 80 is for load is for load furloughed. Fourth our ability to grant money to state and local Law Enforcement which they rely upon for their own missions grinds to a halt, either because there is ...

As we build buildings tall er were creating shadows and dark spots and we cant see things. When the city changed to gray muni buses i said hey you cant see the buses and the bicycles against the gray pavement i said and thats how the red reflective stripes got on the buses a citizen speaking proactively so i learned to legislate and talk to to you guys so what im saying thank you. We have to ask you to wrap up. I am wrapping up. Tweak this part and get this kind of a thing done with aaa and the ...

Are we still including projects that had begun before the 24 that you are talking about . The list of 24 ill confess 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...

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 the 24 projects but were learning some blessings on ...

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 commitment. And coordination with the mta and better communication and coordination is one strate...