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One thing hasnt changed in 20 years. The gas tax. Gasoline prices have been on a steady incline for weeks. Just in time for families to pile their car. As we head into the summer, we see a seasonal spike which may or may not hold through summer. 1993 the average price of a gallon of gas was 1. 07. Today it costs 3. 64 for that same gallon. But since 1993 americans have paid just 0. 18 in federal tax known as the gas or fuel tax. Combined with what your state adds on to the federal tax, the nationwide average is 0. 50 for a gallon of regular. But today the Highway Trust Fund largely supplied by...

Question . Sure does. Okay. I wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. And and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. And on the 12,500 per month, originally it was 12,000 per month but it was negotiated at the time of the original contract, so there was 12,000 a month for the first three years and up to 12,500 for the next two option years and if it were extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and it is a monthly retainer so that does not mean that we get a statement of the hours . And one of them, and just a trait line, al...

September. So, that is the critical and we proceed with the formal application process. And i assume that these folks contracts will guarantee our success. They got us the 171 million last time. Okay. Thank you. Director, metcalf . A question on these Political Consulting and lobbying contract and how do we know the advocacy positions that our staff and consultants are taking . We dont take any position and so if there is any measure that is going to the voters i dont mean on the voters. What are the advocated for by the staff or consultants. And we dont advocate any positions we just apply fo...

Incredible amount of work and thank you to our intern and want to echo a welcome to our new executive director someone who someone were glad to work that or with we have a lot of challenges and im confident we will be working together with all the outside stakeholders and the new leader of this agency and he look forward to working with till i didnt. Thank you commissioner kim. Thank you. I also want to thank the Personnel Committee and the Hawkins Committee to make our discussion difficult it was really hard to see all those women that were commitments to lead this very Important Agency and t...

This before. Before you vote on this item you have to remember that theres money in prop b that propose k was grand fathering and this was a grandfather project from propose b passed from voters in 89 which i was involved with. The bus transit project on gary boulevard was one of those projects before you put forth money for the bicycle projects in this item youve got to remember that the bus Rapid Transit on gary boulevard it supposed to be light rallied ready and its the only project that was not covered in propose k. If youre going to used money use it for the gary light project because the...