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Disproportionate number of munis riders are very low income. In fact 25 percent of munis riders earn less than 15,000 per year. So very very low income. So, taking that into consideration the mta board has started to look at ways to make muni more accessible from an income standpoint. We had a Pilot Program in place offering free muni for youth and low and motion tion moderate income use to expand the program to people up to age 18 just this past july and were now in the process of also in krorp...

Directly earlier last month but i havent had a call since then. The simplest way to put this, the one thing i heard i think you answered the question. As we move forward what im proposed is not a delay. 23 weeks is not going to destroy the planet. If there is no common ground, i get that and then im ready to vote. I this i the answer is there is opportunities for everybody to look at this as a job and environmental benefit. I dont think that recs even in the shortterm accomplish that. Thank you....

Said that consistently until the point that he retired. What was passed by the board last september was not a recs based program. Recs are energy, they dont create energy, they are not renewable in the sense that energy is not generated through recs. In fact, we, the ibw and labor in general has worked very hard to eliminate recs as much as we can because they dont produce electricity. In california where we have 20 percent of our energy coming from renewable sources currently and we are on our ...

Tariff, option, for their customers and i can report today that we are expecting a proposed decision, in the green tariff proceeding any time now. And the law requires the commission to have a decision, by july, of 2014. And we are actually expecting a proposed decision, and it could be issued this afternoon, or monday. And so, stay tuned on that. We, are expecting further activity after the proposed decision, of course, the way that the puc and the california puc process works and there is a pr...

That we maximize the benefits from work that has already been done. We, as an agency, have invested a lot of money in work by entities like public power and local power how do we make sure that their work is incorporated into whatever happens. Because we do are have work that has been done that provides a potential framework and i dont know what that looks like in terms of an rfp but i think its important for us to make sure that work consult ants have done for lafco is a part of what is done an...

Be diligent in making sure this actually happens. The department of technology, its a new thing for the department in terms of having to navigate all the different departments and utilities involved in these road projects. And as weve learned in term of pedestrian projects and other street design projects, it is sometimes like navigating an obstacle course. Every department or someone within the department has a reason to say no. Its not feasible, its not doable. Its too expensive, its too diffi...

Employment and our economy is back up. We have many more people in cars, particularly in our neighborhoods as they circle around the 80, 101 and 280 freeway to get in and out of the city. And i know that more and more of our residents are asking what we as a city are doing about the quality of air. For them and also many of our families that are raising their children in these neighborhood so im really glad we are going to be putting into place an air filter system for all of our new constructio...

I think it would be both to talk about the process and it would be helpful to hear about other jurisdictions where auto return works,. Let me start with the later because i have it at my fingertips. We went out and spoke to each of our Service Managers that work in each of these jurisdictions. If San Francisco you understand administrative fees are being waived. In inaudible there are no fee waivers. In concord they also waive the administrative fees but they do that for all people who are towed...

David. Al left. Thank you. Im sue. First of all i want to agree with miss vetore. I think this is a global issue. We have a very sad i think lack of reducing emissions globally and i think as americans and especially san franciscans as we tend to lead the state and the country and the world we need to stop global emissions. I did calculations for expenses. For 2013, the Median Income is 71,000. Average rate in San Francisco one bedroom 2500 per month. If you take this out and subtract the state ...

Other part of the state has played a critical roll in keeping the project a mega project to keep it moving forward. Hes played a key roll from the negotiations every step of the way. The approval process the Community Process working with the Advisory Committee and drafting the benefits plan resulting in 83 million in benefits for San Francisco. He played a key really in the adaptation of the streetscape plan but ultimately it moved in a great direction because of wells work and leadership. Well...