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Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar absent. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee. We have quorum. Thank you. Item number 2 item 2 approval of the meeting of the june 24th. Can you have is a motion to approve the june 24th Meeting Minutes and can we same house, same call . You want to well take a roll call. On item Public Comment. Public comment on the minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. If you have Public Comment please come forward you dont need to raise your hand man has only the sole purpose even if existence no matter what is the position in life all pertains to the who...

And allow us to preserve what we love about the city, so going to the slides im going to speak a little bit to where we are and what some of the needs are but i think you alluded to this in the opening remarks, so in terms of opportunities within the Transportation System here in San Francisco when you look at transit what we have going for us is that we have a very dense system with high ridership, High Percentage of trips again in San Francisco are taken on transit. I think its Something Like 90 of the residences in San Francisco live within a block or two of a muni stop so we have a dense p...

Funding that we can obtain is actually used for transit, and one of the arguments that ive been making for the last few years we have gotten into a bad habit in San Francisco from diverting transit money to other admittedly important policy needs, whether its impact fees we see it all the time. Transit impact fees are non existent or low and other fees are high and for other important needs. We saw it when a bunch of muni money was shifted over to the Police Department in the form of a traffic work order which fortunately is starting to be reduced and i think we will continue to see for exampl...

Government to expand and meet the demand that we have been talking about. We recently got a transit performance grant from mtc to improve service on some of the heavily traveled lines. We have 62 new buses. I think half of them are here and the entire bus fleet will be replaced within the next five years. Thanks to your leadership we got prop b passed and smoothing streets and pedestrian and bike infrastructure and also has funds for traffic signal infrastructure. But as you mentioned we have a significant backlog. In todays term focus you look at the value of our assets and the percentage of ...

Own automobile so i think we have a lot of opportunities as we look to address the lack of investment as well as the growth that is coming. But the flip side is that there are challenges associated with our system, and i think you enumerated these somewhat, but theres a lot that we need to do in terms of reallocating the space on the public rightofway and prioritize transscpit it provides a better option. To capture some of that latent demand. In terms of the pedestrian environment i know all three of you have been focused on this. As delightful and enjoyable it is to walk around San Francisco...