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Gentlemen, the board will come back to order now, please. Here we go. Okay. The next item, item 12 presentation and discussion regarding the work of the mayors 2030 Transportation Task force to develop a coordinated set of Transportation Priorities and identify new Revenue Sources. Thank you. Director. As ive been informed the board since the beginning of this calendar year, the mayor state of the speech identified transportation infrastructure and dealing with the funding needed to resource it as a priority for him for this year. He soon there after established a task force bringing together ...

I want to introduce monique. Thank you for having me here. Its nice to be here. As mr. Reiskin said the task force was created by the mayor and we have members of the task force who represent the operators in the area represent business and labor advocates of transportation of streets head by transit of course and we are trying to come together with consensus to identify the needs for transportation in San Francisco and develop an Investment Plan and come can up with a planning strategy in order to make that a reality at least in part. With that, the task has been coordinating to the transport...

Pension reform and Affordable Housing so this comes from a string of successful collaborative efforts to solve difficult problems. Fortunately he tabbed two people in the system and monique, the city deputy controller who really has done the lion share of the work on top of a big day job to have this thrust upon her and really taken it on. That has been a great thing for the city. Were lucky enough to have monique here and ill give you an over view of where the task force is as it finishes up its work and its a tremendous thing thats happening for San Francisco and the mayor has been able to o...

Probably 20, 25 different proposals on how to raise revenue for transportation in San Francisco. And we landed really on three options that were recommending be posed to the voters if not at the same time, very close together. The first is a go bond. Ive been in the city of San Francisco for 31 years and i havent seen a go bond. Mta has the ability to do Revenue Bonds and youre starting to do that and do it slowly and the agencies are looking favorablely, but the city and county have a great credit rating. We have the capacity and the task force is recommending 2,500 million two there is signi...