Yield my time. You. Lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller, are you with us . Ladies and gentlemen of the board, good evening. I stand before you today to discuss a issue that effects each and every resident of our community. The state of our Public Transit system. As our cities grow, so does the need for reliable efficient and sustainable transit network. Lets talk about accessible. Currently many areas are under served by Public Transit forcing to rely on personal vehicles. This not exacerbates transferic but also limits opportunity for those who cannot afford a car. We must expand our bus and train routes to reach these areas and offer more frequent service, especially during peak hours. Secondly, affordability is a concern. High fares discourage from using Public Transit. I propose we explore options for subsidized fares for low income families, student, senior and most importantly immigrants. We need to purchase as many cattle cars a we can andback to home land to ru
Testify about technologies theyre using to secure the nations borders, including efforts to combat drug smuggling. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on border and Maritime Security will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to examine the role of technology in the nations Border Security efforts. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Border security is a complicated endeavor, because theres no one size fits all solution. Thinking through what it will take to secure the border is the primary responsibility of the three agencies represented by our witnesses today. Border patrol is our Operational Force between the ports of industry, cbps office of Field Operations job is to facilitate legitimate trade and travel while keeping illicit drugs from entering, air and marine is the supporting element. All three of these critical Border Security components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Indeed, technology is a Crucial Force multiplier
Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are almost never everything, there almost always a great starting point. I think in your opening remarks where you talk about the state of the nations water challenges you laid out numbers that are very sobering. I will just add to that that the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report giving the countrys water and wastewater of the structure a grade of d. That is worse than my grade of calculus to at the university of virginia. I still dont know why i took that class. I was a history maj
Up for cleanpowersf i think that commissioner courtneys point we want to make sure that every avenue exfoliated to get interpose e people into the program and theyre telling their friends and not get lost in the overall puc program. How long to build a twitter follows they have over 8 hundred formals. Thats been dormant and we have about 13 thousand followers on the cleanpowersf. The hash tag clean power. Right . What. The hash tags will cross the traffic; right . So, yeah that is the request and if you can keep us posted on the piece i think the wanting to do this marketing and activate the social commitment it is important. We have a couple of good things general manager kelly mentions for getting ready for a grassroots using video for signing up and ill be happy to to share that with you. That sounds like great, thank you. Anything else so theres an item action item before you is p there oh. 18 sorry. So next item, please. Item 18 for the general manager to seek the board of supervi
Proud of what we do at the Environment Commission. One of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. Thank you. Monica, where is monica . Good evening, monica. Hi. My name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. If anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. Thank you, monica and joy. Good evening. My name is joy audio. Im the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. All right, thank you for everything you do. My name is joshua arce. I have the honor of chairing our commission and on behalf of all of us