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Respect to 4. 1 and 4. 2 that there is an effort to set some sort of timeline for folks getting together and meeting. This would be i believe the Mayors Office spoke to this point. Its the Pedestrian Safety Steering Committee and their response was that they should consider reconconvening within 6 months, its language in our opinion is a little bit loose. So something perhaps a little bit more stringent. A shorter time period so we really keep this effort moving forward for sitting down and developing policy. Thank you to the departments for responding. They were thoughtful responses and we ap...

Good afternoon to everyone that is here today. Welcome to the city and School District select committee meeting. Commissioner mendoza has called for this hearing. I will turn it over to her. To get some background i want to get to what is dedicated over the last year to ensure that we are one of four cities in california that was awarded this incredible grant well be hearing about in the next hour 1 2. I plan to touring the this time. I look forward to seeing how these federal dollars are being put to use by the collaborations that well be hearing about today. I think its important that when w...

Thursday. Its a great opportunity for us to expands what we have done previously with the down Payment Assistance Program and this is indeed an expansion of what the city has done to serve its residence, its cities and its employees. At the same time we are doing this First Responders program through the budget process led by supervisor the goal of any of our programs in the Mayors Office is that the program is effective and so where the Program Needs to be tweaked, we will tweak it. We will report back to the board and to the mayor about the effectiveness of this and we really look forward to...

Recommendation 2. 3, bicycle specific safety through munis operators with training goals. The bec has long supported the civil grand jury recommendation for the development of whats called a ready rate, something the Highway Patrol focuses on which is shorthand guide to officers as to which vehicle codes apply to bicycles versus those intended for other purposes like vehicles and other traffic. At the same time we would like to see citation for motorist for which is dangerous for bicyclist. There have been at least two fatalities in the south of market where a vehicle makes a right turn. That ...

The Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee that talks about Pedestrian Safety and folks on some of the bike fatalities and supervisor kim has introduced that hearing and poibly that presents more discussion. We have a hearing around safety and parks and recreational spaces. I dont know if any of the cities or the Mayors Office or sfpd or sfmta have any thoughts on how we can move forward. I would like to get more concrete information on what the next steps are and i would like to ask any of the agencies, i appreciate a lot of progress has been made. I know the Mayors Office has done a lot ...