Directors new and old business. No hands waving, next item. Item 5 is Public Comment which is an opportunity for member s of the public to address the board on matters that are not on todays calendar and we have mr. Robert, followed by mr. Finebaum mr. Robert . Good morning, my name is Steve Roberts and im a member of the Rail Passenger association of california, a Public Transportation advocacy group. I thank you for the opportunity to address you this morning. Because of the benefits of reduced automobile usage, fully leveraging caltrains electrification project which thereby will increase caltrain ridership and its revenue performance and financial performance, also reducing Green House Gas misses, facilitating transitoriented development, the extension of Caltrain Service to transbay terminal is one of our associations key priorities. Any actions that delay this vital project and snarl it in endless planning reduce its Operational Flexibility or capacity are of a concern to our ass
Have everyone take a seat im so excited to have you welcome to city hall the haul of champions my name is a hydra mendosa a School Board Member and service with mayor ed lee and education and youth and share the sport love and for the point of sport sport related events i take it job seriously were delighted on the overview of super bowl so honor our accomplishments during the if you believe season about you know that both of our teams o won the championships the mayors neither here nor there in office and we did action in 2014 so congratulations on that. Were also excited to be joined by the Host Committee that did an amazing job to make sure our shined and windshield the two kwaushdz for the game we are also thrilled to be joined by San Francisco 49 did you know that they hold the record for the most points the sport were the 55 to 10 over the Denver Broncos we like that. So speaking of records im honored to now introduce our champion that has participated in more city and bay area c
Thankyou. Thank yousupervisor compost we want you to know that we want to make this successful and this leads to successful programs for you to move these programs forward and we also want to make sure that we can work with individuals to move this forward and that we change some of our housing policies so that we can change the priorities in order to get them into these homes. Im committed to that. I know that many of the individuals that spoke i appreciate the dialogue i appreciate your commitment and wanting to help us work through the right kinds of policies in order to make sure that we are making a difference and were not just creating more red tape and more bureaucracy that is going to make the problem even worse. And so with that i would definitely would like to move forward with a proposed amendments suggested by supervisor campos that were distributed today and the existing shelter cyst in will be used as an opportunity to work with the Navigation Centers and i hope that we w
Good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority. Im scott wiener the chair and well call the roll. Item 1, roll call, commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, present. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum okay, i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting, leo [inaudible] and also colleagues supervisor farrell has asked to be excused in adivision supervisor kim is ill and unable to attend so can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell and commissioner kim . Motion by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner compose and do wree need roll call on that or take that without objection. Take without objection. Item number 2 chairs report. This is a information item. Colleagues we have two pieces of good news
Secretary please call the roll. Commissioner buell. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bonilla here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner levitan here. And commissioner mcdonnell. Here. A new few announcements this is the april 21st of the recreation and Park Commission and we welcome everyone here today, but ask that you turn off any soundproducing devices that could go off during the meeting. We also ask that you take any secondary conversations outside, in order for the meeting to proceed as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on an item today, please complete a blue card, and unless otherwise announce by the president , each person has 3 minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda, and is under the subjectmatter jurisdiction you may speak on item 4. There will be a 15minute limit on item 4, but it will be continued to item 14. Last, please address all your comments to the commission during Pu