And has been integral to our efforts to effectively work with the supervisors and their staff. So the summary of local priorities is included in this calendar item and touches on broabroad topics which i wont l out individuals. Theyre familiar in terms of contract vision zero and priority projects. Moving to the state priorities, the proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues carrying over into the second year into january, year two of the current session and the dynamics are different in year two. I think were looking for opportunities to build on some of the conversations that started in year one. But also, perhaps, advance a little more aggressively some of the proposals have been eluded to around vision zero. With that, i will highlight a few of the things in the calendar item. First under transportation funding, there are specific things to call out and under s
The proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues carrying over into the second year into january, year two of the current session and the dynamics are different in year two. I think were looking for opportunities to build on some of the conversations that started in year one. But also, perhaps, advance a little more aggressively some of the proposals have been eluded to around vision zero. With that, i will highlight a few of the things in the calendar item. First under transportation funding, there are specific things to call out and under statewide funding, the tircp, we do anticipate advancing a large request from this program for a combined core capacity investment, if you will, of muni forward and train control system improvements and they are due very soon. So i wanted to make you aware of that and we will be working with the delegatio delegation to makt case. S
And the focus of that report, pursuant to the original legislation that created the task force is on speed limit setting. So very specifically to director eakins comment, that you called out the restriction, if you will, between the ability for us to lower speed limits on certain streets is squarely one of those topics that is addressed in the task force conversations. And so, our hope is that once a report and the recommendations come out, that there will be an opportunity for San Francisco to put its full voice behind recommendations that will move us forward towards our vision zero commitment. So one of the notes and i sort of observed sometimes people have this ahha moment, that we cannot set speed limits below a certain point and the answer is no, you cannot. The deep, deep precedent and practise of settin setting speet the 85th percentile, its like setting your teenagers curfew on the tam time they get home. Its not the way well save lives. Our mantra, if you will, at the state l
Every year from around the world to our beautiful city. I want to tell you about another jewel of the San Francisco port that just celebrated 125 years. The San Francisco Ferry Building. [applause] in the 19th century, commuters and visitors traveled by train or ferry or both. A Ferry Terminal on the waterfront downtown was a practical necessity. It was the sfo of its day. Grand central station. But as we so often do, San Francisco built a practical space a world class beauty, with a 245 foot clock tower along arched arcade, and a interior worthy of a renaissance cathedral. At the foot of Market Street, a beautiful bridge from water to land, the Ferry Building announced to every commuter, every traveller, this is San Francisco. You have arrived. Until that is, [applause] until that is, in the late 1930s when two new bridges the bay and golden gate and rise of the automobile made the Ferry Building seem outdated and unwanted. Soon the grand interior converted to drab cuneals cubicles an
We dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Month and womens History Month. Now national low recognized months. And the essential education and awareness that they bring to the general masses every year. That knowledge is critical in bringing awareness and understanding of the struggles and history that have taken place to get where we are now. When i wrote this procolumnation i had the honor of serving as director of social Justice Empowerment Initiative the transgender district the wo