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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 . ...

Build. The Transportation Authority has been working very closely with us that they will hand it over to us at the record of decision but they have done an extraordinary amount of outreach to the Blind Community and others but many stakeholders up and down the corridor and because of their outreach there is the level of support as you say for the project. There is a lot of i mentioned Michael Schwartz because hes the lead on the environmental and i want to acknowledge the project manager, sherri...

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...

2017. Youre watching live coverage, on cspan 3. [inaudible] the committee will come to order. Today, we are considering the nomination of David Pekoske to be the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration at the department of Homeland Security. Administrator pekoske, welcome back to the committee. And congratulations on another nomination for this position. And thank you for your willingness to continue to serve in a challenging and Important Role in the federal government. Over...

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