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Giant new ka seen yes opened today good evening. Things have approved on the roadways. The turn out, remarkable. Wayne . Reporter there was a time, hard to believe, earlier this morning when management came in before the place opened, before the sun came up. Looking at the parking lot and wondering will anyone show up . Well, anyone show up . How about 16,000 people showing up . Some people, that for a long time today, they had a line outside of the place. People waiting to get in. How did that ...

The finance Committee Meets this morning to discuss how this hearing comes at a time when americans are getting clobbered by climbing rent and home prices, key drivers of inflation. Data released last week shows rent increased in june at the fastest rate since 1986. Buying a home is getting more expensive. Many people that have modest incomes for big Student Loan Debt feel like the dream of homeownership has slipped out of the reach. The root causes the United States isnt building enough housing...

And now the giants are going to kansas city where game one of the world series starts on tuesday. Kpix 5s vern glenn spoke with ishikawa right after last nights game in San Francisco. Reporter talk about the journey, the journey together, starting off in pittsburgh and leading up to this. Youre going to the world series i know. I didnt think earlier this year id be in this moment but i thank the giants for the opportunity. And, you know, for the Second Chance. And obviously the play in the outfi...

Good afternoon and welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. I am currently a director of the California Clean Energy fund, also a long serving member of the Commonwealth Club. Please turn off all your noise making devices. We will get under way in just a moment, but first, i want to tell you a bit about a couple of upcoming programs. Next monday, november 21, tom brokaw, nbc news correspondent and author, will discuss the current mood...

Was too complex or disdainful for her to take on, and one of those really unspoken one but important to me she is the might have roof the cell phones. When the cell phone got broken or took a walk in the water linda was there to sort it out and get it back in your hands as quickly as possible and i know twice she saved me and thank you very much linda and good luck. [applause] that concludes your report . No im sorry actually no. Were you going to say anything linda . You have to do it at the mi...

Internally. There are still external factors that impact the deliverability of projects. Were a heavy process town. I know you get these issues at this committee and there is engagement in the process and sometimes it spreads the timeline of projects. The ceqa process some of the work were doing requires a full eir and can take two years and the ceqa process can be in the way as well so were trying to be effective and smart in planning for the ceqa process and the Community Engagement is effecti...

Funding that we can obtain is actually used for transit, and one of the arguments that ive been making for the last few years we have gotten into a bad habit in San Francisco from diverting transit money to other admittedly important policy needs, whether its impact fees we see it all the time. Transit impact fees are non existent or low and other fees are high and for other important needs. We saw it when a bunch of muni money was shifted over to the Police Department in the form of a traffic w...

Government to expand and meet the demand that we have been talking about. We recently got a transit performance grant from mtc to improve service on some of the heavily traveled lines. We have 62 new buses. I think half of them are here and the entire bus fleet will be replaced within the next five years. Thanks to your leadership we got prop b passed and smoothing streets and pedestrian and bike infrastructure and also has funds for traffic signal infrastructure. But as you mentioned we have a ...

Budget and timeline so we can properly set the public expectations like the library and hospital projects and the rec and park projects. Thank you. And just a i guess we are tag teaming today and follow up on the issue of project delivery. I mean i will be the first to advocate that as important as our political process is that at times we allow the political process to go on with no end in sight and repeat itself and decisions never become public and shown with the major drama around a modest p...

Community engagement is effective but there is factors outside of what we can manage as an industry that impact the timelines but its something were focused on and want to make sure whatever resources we have whether from the federal government, the State Government or regionally or locally we put them into the ground and benefit the Transportation System directly. I appreciate your focus on this. We had so many transit related projects from Market Street to the subway and various other projects...