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Lives. Under emergency conditions the nations cellular Carrier Networks become overwhelmed and unusable for the transmission of Emergency Data we experienced this firsthand in Oklahoma City 20 years ago when they offered the Federal Building was bombed. The full deployment of the First Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network would ensure that americas First Responders can access Vital Information among all of the emergency conditions. Candidly there was skepticism from some Public Safety afte...

February 23 has come and gone and the annual report has not been given . Im not sure the question you are asking. To whom is it referred . I them with the gao. Oh. You are are all over saying it, right . You are the accountability office. We have done our first audit which is what im here talking about today sir. What im concerned about what it alarm you all that they might not be able to meet the person that needs as far as personnel . Thats all they have been able to hire. We understand and so...

Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were speci...

Those are the important things about the network that will make a very big difference. Thank you. Senator fischer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Ms. Swenson can you give us some idea when this is all going to be fully operational . Do you have a window of time there . Its eyes a great question. As i said we have the strategic roadmap that lays out the timeframe of getting tourist a consultation issuing the rfp getting the response and obviously awarding to the winner of the process. While we dont know...

That is the accounting that the faa has in the current budget. As much as we wish it would the budget picture will not change we will see more and more spending restraint with the impact of sequestration and layoffs with onagain and offagain stock in star funding from continuing resolutions. That is what the faa is confronted with nobody could or would bill the major new Technology Projects with those types of challenges. Here is the headline from last week and though it causes heart ache but co...

Out the markets today borrowing capital at almost no cost anybody would do this. You get tremendous savings by being able to make your investment now. You would probably build it in three years it would be outdone. I am listening to you and im hearing highways. We are all thinking about highways right now. They dont have a bill and a highway funding runs out in 10 minutes we still dont have a bill on highway funding. Should we do this for our highway system . Shall we go through a notforprofit o...

Good afternoon, supervisor, im a young organizer for chinatown cbc, were really excited and encouraged that you are having thation safe route for seniors. We were thinking about education component, were hoping that you consult a gerontologist and take into consideration the behaviors and changes as you age. So that were really creating a curriculum that is comprehensive and takes into account human behaviors and really looks to the needs of individual communities. So that we are hearing also fe...

Whoever is here will be able to hear the information and comment on it. Okay. So why dont you call item no. 4. Item 4. Automated safety enforcement presentation this. Is an information item. Good afternoon commissioners kate breen San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and really appreciate you taking the time to hear the presentation this afternoon about automated Speed Enforcement. Automated Speed Enforcement or the opportunity for automated Speed Enforcement is actually a key component...

First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improv...

Automated safety enforcement presentation this. Is an information item. Good afternoon commissioners kate breen San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and really appreciate you taking the time to hear the presentation this afternoon about automated Speed Enforcement. Automated Speed Enforcement or the opportunity for automated Speed Enforcement is actually a key component of adopt vision zero action strategy. And it has been included in the city and county of San Francisco, as well as the...