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The members of the public are here and well take them out of order and that will be the longest and the others are not long and madam clerk if you call item 1 first. Item 1 is a resolution authorizing the San Francisco department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately 2. 8 million in active Transportation Program funds through the metropolitan Transportation Commission safe routes to School Grants program for a period of for the period september 1, 2017 through august 31, 2019. Okay. Thank you madam clerk so i know dph is here to answer questions unless th...

Structured, which is as a Management Fee, why are we paying and subsidizing the cost of various mta staff when that is what the Management Fee is for. So, i question why a portion of the director of the mtas salary is being passed on to these individuals who get their cars towed to objectively, 87 administrative fee is usurious. We should all recognize that and delighted in the next week or 2 the mta will rethink this wrongheaded policy and bring those fees down for those unfortunate individuals for help have their cars towed. Eject bt suburbia supervisor yee theres been some interesting issue...

Directors new and old business. No hands waving, next item. Item 5 is Public Comment which is an opportunity for member s of the public to address the board on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have mr. Robert, followed by mr. Finebaum mr. Robert . Good morning, my name is Steve Roberts and im a member of the Rail Passenger association of california, a Public Transportation advocacy group. I thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase c...

Regarding the Security Checks. We will not cut corners. The Security Check requirements were developed in the inner agency with the consultation and expertise of the fbi, our dhs partners, and the Intelligence Community partners and the security regime was set up with all that input. And i have heard no discussion of making any cuts to it for any reason. I would like to point out that the grant grants of Refugee Status are discretionary so that if there is a doubt, the case is referred for further review and if theres a National Security concern, that individuals application is denied. As the ...

Has acknowledged they do not perform oversight of these programs. Remarkably, a similar argument for collection under these programs is marked by the arguments under the section 215 program. This is the promise of big data. This is the Technology Age in which we live. What it means is that massive amounts of information can now be collected in order to anticipate threats and to anticipate individuals who might engage in wrongdoing. That approach is what the founders rejected. While information is being collected under foreign intelligence authorities, in certain circumstances, it may be used a...