A concerted effort with cops and go funds and contributing as well to the sales tax increase to the San Francisco street resurfacing and committed to pavement conditions at 70 and we are on the way to hitting that in the next 2 years or so. We have a Capital Improvement for critical enhancement. We end up with the Capital Budget with the emergencies we had to fund, most notely with the landslides on telegraph hill. Its hard to plan for a landslide. So those are the types of things where we have to have Funds Available and we set aside 10 million a year to do that. And the variable allocation go to infrastructure renewels and facility renewels. I should mention there is talk about Critical Development go funds and now they are being paid through a revolving Capital Planning fund. That was actually a suggestion in the spur report years ago where we were not able to fund it until recently. Again, constantly the Capital Planning committee and various folks at looking at ways to keep this p
What can we do to make the data easier to find. If you want to know whats happening to your community, what does your Community Look like . Lets say youre moving to the d. C. Area. What does the Smallest Church look like . How does that compare. What are the people like question my two they have characteristics you are looking for question you should be able to find out but it can be really hard. Then we have the patent Trademark Office. When youre an inventor, you have to look at the patent database. Right now now a lot of that data is very unstructured. Its not machinereadable and not all the data that the Patent Office has is out to the public. Theres an analysis at the Trademark Office where they are sitting on a bunch of data that hasnt even been opened yet. They all have very common themes. If you want to get the data out, there is people who find it and can use it. Lets talk about the analysis of data. Again, i mentioned one mentioned one of the biggest constraints we have in th
Important topics. That is coming up in october. We have a giant delegation, both government and civil society, planning to go. If youre interested, youre all invited. Certainly lots of topics important to us will be discussed. So back to open data and the United States. I mentioned that in 2013, president obama issued an open order eo, executive order, for default information. Accompanying that was the open data policy, which we refer to as m1313 for you government nerds in the room. That directs agencies to manage information as an asset. And of course that doesnt happen overnight, right . For the last two years we have been working really hard with our agencies to move towards managing information as an asset. So i mentioned data. Gov. There is a screen shot of the data. Gov home page. 160,000 data sets across all sectors. The data. Gov site has incredible resources and is fantastic if you havent spent much time there. Another effort that we that the administration launched into quic
Prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Board replacing asks all cell phones to be turned off. Next item. Item 4 approval of the minutes of the july 7th regular meeting oar a motion a second and second. Any further discussion all in favor, say i. I. Item 5 communication dproshgz please be advised of no anticipated litigation in closed session an agenda it read the metropolitan transportation an agency it should have read municipal Transportation Agency and that correction has been made Unfinished Business by the Board Members. Thank you its been so long two things i wanted to bring up one i know we had asked staff to perhaps go back and take into account the bike lane continue california and pine my understanding at any point some of the merchant had reconsidered is the right word ive hearing the supervisor in that district commissioner christensen maybe interested in looking at that block. Upgrading
This measure also includes 58 delsh 58. 7 billion in advance funding for the v. A. , ensuring that veterans will continue to have full access to their medical care needs, regardless where Congress Stand in the annual appropriations process. The underlying legislation includes funding for Important National programs and activities such as the medical and Prosthetic Research account, post9 11 g. I. Bill authorities and encouragement for the department to maximize the availability of Mental Health services to veteran victims of sexual trauma while serving in the military. H. R. 4487, the legislative Branch Appropriations bill, while a bipartisan effort, and for the most part noncontroversial, still falls short of restoring funding levels for member offices and committee staff. As with their fixation on cutting spending on any investment in our nations infrastructure, education, and scientific research, my friends on the republican side continue to believe that you can reduce the budget in