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This is the meeting on the commission on the environment it is 5 oclock p. M. The first item on the agenda is roll call. Commissioner arce. Here. Commissioner king. Here. Commissioner stephenson. Commissioner wald excused. Commissioner wan here. The next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes on the commission on the environments regular meeting this is a discussion and action item. Colleagues, any discussion on the minutes . Commissioner wan im happy that on item 2 before you got here, i...

Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i...

Presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year Round Program and they allow students to get to activities year round including jobs. So just to spend a moment on vision zero. This is such an enormous part of our work at the mta and specifically on the sustainable streets side and i thought it was important to talk about this and i will say that december 2013 was a really, really bad month for Traffic Safety and there was a lot of tragedies t...

Right. And how is that related to the persistence i mean how Many Employers what kind of evaluations do we have from the employers . Are they offering more summer jobs . I dont have hard data on it but we have more private sector than we can fill and when talking about entry level and there is a lot now and its a buyers market in the economy and we often dont have enough work ready and past muster with the employers and thats what door ways is screening the people and i dont have a number for it...

Them travel safely two and from school and i would like to provide some context for all of what we do including those on the Pedestrian Safety side starting with vision zero but also talking about our safe routes to school program, the School Crossing guards program and Accessible Services and then im going to turn it over to julie from our Transit Operations Division to really dive into the Transit Services component as well as free muni for youth. I will note that just having listened to the p...

Summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over t...

We look at the progress thats been made and what still needs to be done. Part of the problem is that not only do we have people who are poor and unemployed, we have so many people who are employed and poor. Weve done well on the safety net part, but not well on helping people achieve success in america. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by theres a saying around here you stand behind what you s...

Been made and what still needs to be done. Part of the problem is that not only do we have people who are poor and unemployed, we have so many people who are employed and poor. Weve done well on the safety net part, but not well on helping people achieve success in america. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make ...

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Accomplishment, concern because the interim final rule published in 2010 left some Implementation Details on result. The administration publishes a final rule, how we address issues like the scope of services that must be covered because insurers have detailed guidance and need to implement the law . Thank you. As you know, the final rule published in 2010, part of what was requested by the public was in put on several topics, that was one. In the meantime we issued four or five sub regulatory g...