Especially from new riders and family, slower speeds in the sense of safety are very important factors in getting people to walk and bike and were thrilled to see progress in these areas just a few weeks after the project went up. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to comment on the general managers report . Yes. Please come forward. Merry christmas, commissioners, members of the public, interested individuals, listening to the managers report, i found it hollow, empty and kind of disrespectful due to the fact that it just comes off like a dictatorship, you really have nothing as far as a relationship with the city and county of San Franciscos residents, and that is so clear with the way you operate in this city. Its almost exclusively to the detriment of traditional san franciscans, and clearly its a sign that our community as a Victorian Community was much better equipped to preserve itself, its community and its culture and something happened after the Victorian Communit
More 25 more time added to get their job done, and that to me says were not staffed correctly, one, or were managed improperly. Well, i think that the staffing at the in the Academy Locations is adequate for the mission at hand. At the headquarters in my environment, the staff i manage, we have a very lightfoot fri fo. If you bring somebody in to train, they know how to train or you wouldnt have brought them in to train, and to sit here and make the point that they got to have two extra hours at the end of the day to prepare for tomorrow in terms of training when theyre not consuming the whole eight hours during the training anyway just doesnt make sense. It doesnt pass the smell test to me. Again, i dont want any cut in pay. I want this stuff restored. My question is, is the assumptions under which were doing all this dont pass muster for common sense. Your testimony is that everybody at the Border Patrol needs an extra two hours a day to get their job done, and thats whether theyre o
These items and see if we cant get a happier new year. Thank you very much. Just as a reminder, this is only on items that is upeder the general managers report. We do have general comment right after this. Good morning, commissioners, my name is [inaudible] hernandez gill, im the Community Organizer with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, i would like to thank the commission for their support last year for the jfk driveway, the city has Ambitious Goals with the yearly results were seeing on jfk drive and with other projects, were confident the goals will be met, although we at the Bicycle Coalition were very encouraged by the sfmtas preliminary evaluation as you heard, we at the Bicycle Coalition looks forward to seeing the final report to ensure the roadway is safe. Ive heard many Great Stories of people feeling safer, especially from new riders and family, slower speeds in the sense of safety are very important factors in getting people to walk and bike and were thrilled to see pr
The revised base line budget included cost estimates based on our 50 percent designed development documents from pelly clark pelly and estimates compared from their consultants as well as the web corp and the additional that we received through value engineering and it reflected the actual costs of constructing the temporary terminal and the bids that have been received on the demolition contract and some advancement of the design of both the bus ramps and utility relocation and the ac transit bus facility and they had elected to conduct their own facilitis which removed them from our program and our budget. We also the phase one budget reflected a new schedule for construction, with demolition beginning in august of 2010. And completing of construction in october of 2017. At the time, we were still looking at relatively low escalation rates particularly in the very near term, 2010, 2011. And of course, there were additional advancements in the design that were reflected in the cost es
Transit center in particular to provide, to switch from amulonless glad to amulon glass allowing us to reduce the cost of what is a significant architectal element of the building in the area and volume. We also simplified along with the architect, the floor in the light column, to provide a glass floor at the base of the light column that will continue to allow the light from primary light column to extend into the rail levels and opening up the circulation in the grand hall and reducing the cost from the skylight seating type of feature that had been proposed at that location. In addition to the hard changes that we have made in the construction documents, and we have had the architect as they were required under their contract to incorporate a number of bid alternates, which will provide us with flexibility as we move forward to the award of the individual trade packages to make the decisions if additional Cost Containment measures are needed. And these are just a sampling of the me