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Tool by which the city has worked on bringing its fleet of vehicles. In 2010 there were some significant amendments to it and it took on its current name of hacto. Primarily some of the bigger changes was it did add a component about transit first and also the whole concept of fleet reduction. Ill mention a bit more about that in a minute. One important thing to realize about hacto is that the way it was established is enacted by the board of supervisors. It applies to light duty vehicles within the fleet. So, its not the entire fleet of vehicles that the city owns, does not include heavy duty...

Survey efforts, were seeing that 15 of City Employees report that they actually do use the bikes. So, a lot of departments are getting the bikes and theyre starting to get a good deal of use. 64 of the departments have moved to having some sort of pooled vehicle so individuals arent assigned individual vehicles, and that is a way of obviously reducing the amount of vehicles in the fleet and unnecessary travel. Promotion of teleconferencing and providing equipment for Video Conferencing is another way of, again, encouraging, promoting, pushing people towards not traveling for work purposes, pla...

Yes, thank you. All right, thank you very much. Comments from colleagues . Commissioner wald. Unless commissioner josefowitz wants to go first. Thank you. I was overly enthusiastic. Shes getting a little better than last year. Its been a learning process for everybody. All of the fleet everybody involved with the fleets this has been a learning process, to try and figure out how to get similar types of data and how to make it work. Great. I think, you know, we still below a lot of our targets, i guess. But i mean, its great improvement from where it was before. So, congratulations and keep up ...

New vehicles, there are procedures set up for them to Purchase Green vehicles. So, to where we are in the status of the implementation. Concerning the first concept of transit first, 50 departments have now submitted to us plans. Theyre reweird to do this annually to submit plan to describe what their transit first strategies are for their own employees. ~ required the range of programs it doesnt prescribe specifically what they need to do, but theres a laundry list of item that they might employ. And what we are seeing from the reports is that indicated here, 44 of the departments are now off...

Here in america and we did a lot of research on it. Whats your opinion . Lets look at what has been created and so on. I think the way the country has turned it basically is wonderful, and these guys took a great chance and they risked their lives and a lot of people died so we did have a government where the states took place. The irony that i bring up and i read about the tea party is that in fact there is not a lot in common between the contemporary tea parties and the fiscal policy ideas about the fiscal policy. David mccullough on 60 minutes the last few weeks was talking about the fact t...