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Really frustrating project for you and staff and we have talked a few times about it and itthere isnt much i can say now that can change what happened in the past. My best response is at the land use and Transportation Committee we talked about all the things we are doing to approve project delivery and all those effortss are focused ovision zero project. Stream line acontability and using [inaudible] the way we communicate with the public. These are things that you will see us doing much better in these areas. Hathat is no consilation for not just the residence of glen park, but this isthey h...

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 think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place fo...

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 that month, and deaths in the traffic deaths and one of those that really captured the attention and ...

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 but we have more opportunities on the private sector side. As a parent and all of the Public Sector...

And coordination is one strategy what are the other strategies in terms of delivering projects faster . I talked about the coordination with dpw and last time we came here we talked about theres a monthly principals meeting between mta and public works staff were literally going line by line that list of 24 projects and troubleshooting where they are and identifying whether its its its its its a contractual issue or permit issue and all the things that can trip up a project and its not just for the 24 projects but were learning some blessings on how to avoid those mistakes in the future and th...