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Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the chair will alternative recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer. Five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. There are a lot of talk of cliffs here in our nations capital. We have fiscal cliffs that we faced with the debt ceiling. There was the se...

Ever. This is the highest since it was started in 2010. The vast majority of schools with the highest rate of walkers have 75 or more on the reduced or Free Lunch Program and there is a connection to that. Biking is happening but more work to there. The walking drops dramatically when we get to sixth grade and 4 when we get to ninth grade. And then this is a survey thats done just of the schools that participate last year in the safe routes to School Program so we saw walk trips increase at nine of the 15 schools. That is 60 and bike trips increased at 40 of the schools and this is paused . An...

Trying to figure out if they have space to do a tk. From my understanding we have a larger number of k now for some areas so its a space issue. It truly is a space issue making sure that we have places where we can actually put a tk and we have been approached by a couple of principals and were working everyone through a process which is not only do you have the state you have talked to the community . Have you informed your supervisors . Theres a lot you have to go through to actually get a tk so i will tell you that yes we our goal is to have tk in all of the areas and we worked towards that...

Schools throughout the county. I think thats a great question and actually gets into the last slide which is that we are really excited about improving opportunities for collaboration, and one of the things that i think would be most impactful is a grant that anna lazzic from the department of Public Health which is going to transportation road map for. Is it 100 schools . Yes. For over a hundred schools and go into the School Handbook and available to new and current parents so it will show the key transit routes. It will show the walk paths as well as bike sharing and other multimodal facili...

Commodity, so thats something that has worked very well and is a resource to principals throughout the city. This map here shows the free muni for Youth Activity by zip code. You can see over 26,000 students have enrolled in the Program Since its inception of march 2013. We extended the eligibility to include 18 year olds as well as 1922 year olds that are enrolled in sfusd education services. The Program Costs over two years in the order of 8 million. Our next challenge will be to find a stable longterm Funding Source for this program, but it is heavily used throughout the city in particular ...