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This is the meeting on the commission on the environment it is 5 oclock p. M. The first item on the agenda is roll call. Commissioner arce. Here. Commissioner king. Here. Commissioner stephenson. Commissioner wald excused. Commissioner wan here. The next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes on the commission on the environments regular meeting this is a discussion and action item. Colleagues, any discussion on the minutes . Commissioner wan im happy that on item 2 before you got here, i was trying to use my limited cantonese vocabulary and i meant to say thank you and instead it said ...

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...

Them travel safely two and from school and i would like to provide some context for all of what we do including those on the Pedestrian Safety side starting with vision zero but also talking about our safe routes to school program, the School Crossing guards program and Accessible Services and then im going to turn it over to julie from our Transit Operations Division to really dive into the Transit Services component as well as free muni for youth. I will note that just having listened to the presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year...