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P all right, good morning, welcome to our plan and Programs Committee meeting of our sfgta, for may 12, 2015, and im katie tang and to my right is christensen, our vice chair and commissioner breed to my left. And we have our clerk with us today and sfgov tv. And i think that our other colleagues will join us shortly and so with that, we can proceed to item one. Item one, roll call. Commissioner breed. Here. Commissioner christensen. Here. Commissioner farrell absent. Tang. Present. Yee. Absent....

Screeria nigeria. Rs staffing and then the white house news briefing and then recent Data Security breaches at banks and retailers. A hearing today looked at staffing shortages at Veterans Affairs hospitals. Witnesses representing va doctors and nurses talked about the need for more medical professionals. This house Veterans Affairs subcommittee hearing is two hours. This subcommittee will come to order. Before we begin, i would like to ask for unanimous consent for my friend and colleague from ...

In, i believe, five in between 2005 and 2008 and that certainly assisted Border Patrol in expeditiously constructioning hundreds of miles of fence along the southwest border. There were legal challenges brought to halt certain border projects. But when dhs would show Waiver Authority, the courts would dismiss those challenges. I will note it is not absolute. Besides the constitutional limitations, you cannot waive the constitution. Another thing is that it refers specifically to the construction...

Criminal defenses. Whenever you are in the room you should see a lough red. You should see a little bit of blue and the little bit of blue you should see is around mitigation. In effective assistance of counsel mitigation, and soming aggravation. In general, its not working we again, remember its a subset of cases. It may be more effective in plea bargaining. In cases where theres good evidence of neurological or biological it may never get to trial. It may be a skewed sample. At least in the ca...

Thinkprogress. Org. On december 1, is night and day from where it was. The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity at a greatly improved performance. Here is more. We start at the top of page six on Response Times. Response times, this is the measure of how quickly responds go to a user request. You can see on a bar on the lefthand side that in late october, the Response Time was running around eight seconds, which was clearly unacceptable and very frustrating for consumers. We...

Supervisor elsbernd is that over and beyond your analysis in the tep . Yeah. So were looking at one line a month, sitting down with operators, with the training department, with the union, to evaluate ways so that we can make improvements on those lines, while the tep progress is underway. On the capital side, wed jpip e some reference to this. Thanks to the support of the board of supervisors, we have 62 new hybrid buses that will be coming to us this spring, an exceptionally fast procurement ...

Presentation that chris made. First of all, i have a question about whether it really is work putting in so much pesticide into the natural areas. And the fact is that i dont think that the numbers that weve showed on that graph for Pesticide Use are accurate. Going back to what i said in the database, just off the top of my head, there were two months of data missing in 2010. There was at least one month of data missing in 2013. There were three or four different reports that didnt get included...

For any of these things. We could go through them each and talk about the market barriers or the barriers to each one of them and what we might do to overcome them. And if we were to focus on 100 renewable, thats a topic that youve become very familiar with. Energy efficiency, i could talk about that probably for a couple of days. Transportation would be harder for me okay. Im not a transportation guy. One of the things i would point out that cal was just saying, youve got the demand management ...

Start promoting green gas. So, the replacing the 100 renewable in our plan is going to be difficult. Now, there are some things that we can do around the edges. One of the slices there is bart 100 renewable by 2030. We can get them to go green, thats great. We have another 11 of the electricity that are direct Access Commercial customers where they could decide as businesses that the right thing for them to do is to go 100 green. So, if we can convince them, and that would be a voluntary activit...

The vehicles that are the most prone to failure, getting them replaced or rehabilitated. The results so far, the ones that come out of rehab for backup, for lack of a better term, perform much better than the rest of the group which has direct impact on the performance of the system. And the new buses you approved were hybrid buses. We have trolley bus procurement coming right on the heels of that. Estate division as well as with the union on making sure we have adequate Restroom Facilities for ...