To people that can claim their own bike in the system so this legislation will work in partnership with the registry program. I know mr. Crudo has some remarks and we want show the video showing the work in the communities. Thank you mr. Supervisor. I will keep my comments brief. David crudo for the Human Services agency. I would like to commend supervisor avalos on sponsoring this change in the ordinance. Historically Want Department is the recipient of unclaimed bikes for kids programs and we have a program with the presid presidio cwca and transfer the bikes to them and they would teach kids to work on the bikes, how to properly ride the bike and get the bike at the end of the program. However the vast majority of the bikes recovered are adult bikes so we havent been able to move that many into the Childrens Program but created a surplus of adult bikes so were happy no pun intended to recycled bikes back into the community for low income San Francisco and transit challenged individu
Partnership with the registry program. I know mr. Crudo has some remarks and we want show the video showing the work in the communities. Thank you mr. Supervisor. I will keep my comments brief. David crudo for the Human Services agency. I would like to commend supervisor avalos on sponsoring this change in the ordinance. Historically Want Department is the recipient of unclaimed bikes for kids programs and we have a program with the presid presidio cwca and transfer the bikes to them and they would teach kids to work on the bikes, how to properly ride the bike and get the bike at the end of the program. However the vast majority of the bikes recovered are adult bikes so we havent been able to move that many into the Childrens Program but created a surplus of adult bikes so were happy no pun intended to recycled bikes back into the community for low income San Francisco and transit challenged individuals. Great. I appreciate your work on that and now were looking to grow the program and
Future and it will expand the program for larger bikes for low income and transit challenged adults laz and expanding the programs and others can benefit and more generations can benefit as well and this will enable bikes to really make a difference in peoples lives. Lastly today we have related the discussion about the bike Registry Program as well. That will enable people that lost bikes to reclaim them through the registration process that is available so thats another tool to people that can claim their own bike in the system so this legislation will work in partnership with the Registry Program. I know mr. Crudo has some remarks and we want show the video showing the work in the communities. Thank you mr. Supervisor. I will keep my comments brief. David crudo for the Human Services agency. I would like to commend supervisor avalos on sponsoring this change in the ordinance. Historically Want Department is the recipient of unclaimed bikes for kids programs and we have a program wit
Increased but the outer neighborhoods and excelsior and bay view and parts of the mission are behind the city core and we want to expand the opportunities to these areas that dont have the greatest access f were going to reach our goal of 20 bike trips by 2020 that president chiu supported and all of us promoted we need to increase access to bikes especially low income neighborhoods in the outer neighborhoods and this is a Great Program and partnership we am hear about it in a second with the video from the Police Department that support this legislation make sure that unclaimed bikes, bikes that are sitting in a warehouse for a number of months and years can find a home and be useful and change lives around. When i was a young person i didnt have a bike from the age 12 to 18 and the bikes i had were lent to me by friends and having the opportunity to get around on a bike changed my life dramatically. I was able to see my town, go to games, go to work, and i had a much greater sense of
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