The screen. You can reach out to us on social media as well. The Washington Post offering a breakdown of total votes. 261 votes say yes in supporting it, that including the 39 democrats as opposed to 157 no votes including four republicans voting against the bill. When it comes to the defectors as they are listed, the for republicans one of the bill to go farther and to deal the healthcare law. Again, we want to ask you not only about the democratic support for the upton bill, which the president said he would veto and probably has no support in the senate, but again, 39 democrats in the house voted for it, giving support to it. Your thoughts on that and the condition of the Affordable Care act as well. In the analysis piece on the front page of the los angeles house it says that the vote was the latest display of democratic anxiety. Of the calls that are lined up, ron from pittsburgh, pennsylvania up first on our democrats line. Ron, good morning. Caller i really think that the democr
Money until citizens can ride mta for free until they have a plan for people with disabilities. The mta board has left the citizens and disabled in limbo tell them to wait until after the november election why should we wait while the mta has a Budget Surplus of 22 million. Citizens and people with disabilities need to ride muni for free today. We have a crisis in the city a transportation crisis a housing crisis and an affordability crisis the mayor has a pr disaster on his hand when we gave away free parking. I urge you to say no and dont pass this out of committee thank you. Next speaker. Hello, again commissioners. I would ask you to vote no or wait to vote because spending spending spending is good to spend we all love to spend but i just think for your going to do stuff especially the bicycle racks the bicyclist and all that stuff we have to do it at one time that should be done together with the pedestrians and automobiles and everything i happen to be part of a Neighborhood Sur
Bicyclists and audibles. I love riding a bicycle but if were going going to sponsor have Insurance Companies have types of information on the bicycles or the key that support the bicyclists with insurance are there any members of the public who wish to speak seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, we have this action item before us on the strategic analysis report i believe mr. Swaerts and ms. Crab are looking at is language ms. Crab recommendations yeah. Well work with the speaker on the language and bring a revised version to the board. And theres not a hurry to adapt this today but bring the restoration to the board and are you recommending us to continue this item until i think supervisor campos ill suggest ill make a motion to accept this and approve the report move forward this with a positive recommendation to the full board understanding the time it maybe some amendments along the lines. I think thats a great motion and i think that bike sharing is different from bic
Waiting to determine whats going to happen with the systems but the same Companies Support of the negotiation system so hopefully, a a lot of big players. Im pleased for our brothers and sisters in the east bay theyve been waiting partially as we expand to the peninsula and the 2014 capitalization will not be detailed too much and good news about the mta seeking funds. I have a question about the private sector sponsor arresting and your recommendations when sdme supervisor avalos and a number of staff visited mexico city there were a number of sponsors with other cities are we luke pretively with a sponsor right now i can led chief maddox speak about that weve look at institutionally theres biking no new york that do the whole thing we dont thinning think thats a good model. Hell talk about the efforts sfmta is doing. Mexico city a was a Clear Channel just the ideas that have came up. Good morning. So the answer is that we have working with the Mayors Office julian specifically and we
Democratics. I wanted to invite the to staff and the director to the board of supervisors Budgets Committee meeting on thursday at the toujs that is a call to action with disabilities concluding people with hiv and aids we need free muni today, we dont need to wait for a november election before we get justice so thank you thank you, mr. Gris well. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed ms. Chang any other business before us no other business. Thank you, everyone this meeting is good afternoon. Everyone welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority finance committee for tuesday, may 13, 2014. My name is mark farrell im joined by supervisor chiu and supervisor tang and well be joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor cowen. Madam clerk, any announcements . No amendments okay. Would we have roll call supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen absent. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Absent. We have quorum okay could we call item 2. The second item is the consent ca