Represent the president s council on sports, fitness and nutrition has submitted written testimony which will appear in the record alongside other testimony from the session. As a reminder all witnesses are asked to keep to five minutes for the prepared testimony. And as you can see if the timers on the wall in front of you we are doing our best to keep to that. I will now yield each of you five minutes. Good afternoon distinguished members of the commission. Project manager with the Sport Society program of the aspen institute. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony in the future sports in america particularly the state. Admittedly bring a diverse perspective to the states hearing when i started coaching at 18 although i found a service to many families particularly underserved communities coaching quickly became a calling than a career but not in the way i thought. Rather than learning an inning living as a coach i became a Coaching Researcher first at uc barkley than int
Initial application dates was grandfathered to a lower transportation fund, and theyre paying the full transportation sustainable fee equivalent, and we at mta with our City Partners have agreed with these revenues along with the pier 70 development which has already been approved will be reinvested in this area as opposed to distributed citywide, and the reason we feel really comfortable doing this is this neighborhood and southern of this area are really aware where the majority of this effort is happening and do deserve concentrated investment. The kind of investments that youll see is building along that network that i described earlier, so really looking at the t third line. Exposing and concealing gaps in our bicycling networks, and funding improvements for bus transit in the area. So with that, im going to turn it back over to phil, from the port. Supervisors, that actually concludes our presentation today. We are available to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you. G
Collaborations. I wanted to talk about a few things were doing in addition to our regular programming. We have implemented a number of the recommendations of the lgbt aging policy task force that came out, that is spearheaded by tom nolan, and its just really exciting to see these recommendations turn into programs. Weve talked about some of those at commission, but i wanted to mention that one of the things that weve done more recently is to start Training Staff and also training our cbo partners to collect Sexual Orientation and gender identity data in keeping with then senator weiners local ordinance. And there is another state legislation that basically requires the same at the state level. So were a little bit ahead of the game. A lot of colleagues across the state havent started collecting the information and are freaked out about how theyre going do it. Im proud to say weve trained staff and were starting to collect that data. Our staff, since you know these people, im going to
In the west end neighborhood. This will deliver a crucial piece of City Infrastructure to thousands of nearby businesses, residents and visitors. Our agency, public works, is proud to have designed a modern fire station that is expected to exceed National Accreditation standards and serve the essential needs of our first responders. It may not look like it yet, in less than a years time, a seismically sound fire station will be standing in this very place. It is true public works fashion, the project team has been working hard to ensure this facility will be delivered in timely and fiscally responsible manner. On time and on budget. With that said, its important that i think the entire public works staff, our project team led by our city architect, project managers and i want to thank all the staff from public works who worked on this project. But most importantly i want to thank our construction partner in this, alton construction, leading the project and getting it this far. Youll he
Well, its simply really just sticking with whats working and always improving. You cant get complacent and say okay, lets put as many security guards on or this many staff and make sure it stays the same. Its more of staying on top of it, weekly meetings and making sure everyone is staying on top of what theyre supposed to be doing. As far as, you know, if theres going to be more or less staff on, definitely not going to be less. If anything theres going to be more staff on. With everything that is going on, a lot of people just think our venue is closed, so we anticipate with marketing that more people are going to come to our venue. Its really just staying on top of it honestly. Vice president thomas any other questions . All right. Thank you. Then i know we have Public Comment. How many folks want to make Public Comment . I think youve all been here before. You know the drill. Three minutes each. Please introduce yourself. Good evening. Im the district manager for the top of broadwa