These public investments are not enough. Particularly when it comes to equity investment. Thats what were going to talk about today. In particular, want to bring to light a set of investments from treasury through states, the state Small Business Credit Initiative. This is a unique opportunity with public funds to connect communities of color and other underserved communities with the highgrowth Equity Capital. How do we do it . We know that the pipelines are not there. We do that this market is not serving communities of color very well. You all know the statistics im sure the folks watching online show the statistics that black founders are getting 1. 2 of venture funding that latinx companies are getting 2. 1 and women founders 2 . Of that 2 , only 1. 8 of that went to women of color. Keep in mind, Venture Capital is just a small slice of the Equity Capital that is available yet we know that these early infusions particularly from low wealth communities that are already starting fro
Ive evolved in my understanding about transit work, i also started to figure out this is one of the most expensive systems to run and the way to move our transit, to move folks around the city. When i learned about this particular project, i couldnt be more excited. The member that stood out for me more than anything else was the 30 percent reduction of operations cost and the way that we would run service along this line. As you all know very well, this particular project has tremendous potential to be a parodyne shift for the way we run transit in San Francisco. The kind of shift Something Like the bart system itself was or like any of the streetcar systems in the past and or the light rail Vehicle Systems that we have. This system itself effectively could become the way that we redo the way that we move around San Francisco and im thinking about van ness, im thinking about 19th avenue, maybe lombard, mission, all of these corridors that are yearning that we really need to improve or
Document also includes a mitigation monitoring program. Finally, in the document are staff initiated changes. So just a little bit about notification for the final environmental document. We did mail cds to all commenters on the document who provided physical addresses. Public agencies received responses and cd and hard copies. The document is available on the website on july 5 and we have multiple [inaudible] and a mailing to 17,000 plus addresses so everyone who lives on van ness avenue over the 2 mile corridor, as well as all buildingings fronting franklin and [inaudible] street. We made multilingual news announcements in multiple newspapers. Just for the overall project, we had three major proupbdz adds part of this project. The first was with the notice of spwepbts and preparation where we did radius mailing, fliers on buses, and really tried to take input on the scope of the alternatives and impact areas. The second major push was during the public speculation of the draft and th
Situation where everybodys trying to get off at one time and theres not enough room for people to stand and wait for the signal to change. Okay, great. I know that commissioner mar had [inaudible] so commissioner mar. Thank you chair avalos. I wanted to thank Michael Schwartz and the mta staff. Im very anxious to make sure our Rapid Network and the brt systems are moving forward as quickly as possible. Chair avalos mentioned our visit to mexico city brts and they were surprised how long our approval process was. I also wanted to say i think the Rapid Network were creating in San Francisco is critical for many areas that lack strong Public Transit support like the west side of the city. So with the van ness brts hopefully speedy imelementation that we can work towards the gary brt networks as well. I wanted to say im appreciative that the center lane alternative has been the one thats going to be proposed. I think its the superior brt, the more effect ive ones according to the transport
Martin omalley called for the repeal of the Death Penalty, asking for tougher gun control laws increasing our jobs in maryland. This 35 minute event is part of the maryland public television. Thank you. Thank you all. Got bless you. Thank you very, very much. Bannermr. Speaker, mr. President , distinguished minority leaders, lieutenant brown, governor hughes, attorney general gensler, colleagues and city colleagues, mayor vincent gray from our neighbors and new columbia. [laughter] ambassadors, members of fema of these United States. [applause] Katie Omalley and the men and women of the maryland general assembly, there is more that unites us than divides us. This year, one of those things is the mighty, mighty baltimore ravens. [cheers and applause] my goodness. Also bipartisan agreement. Look, all of us are familiar with the ravens story, but their are also a number of remarkable people who are with us. I want to share a few of their stories with all of you. First, one of our nations