Shifting the projects segment to the Northern California direct from the Central Valley san jose is called to build the southern rail first it is given the benefits and costs to segment, in fact, we urge the authority to expand further San Francisco tomato misses the revenues of private investment the selection is more than a demonstration project with strongly believe the future of high speed rail in california and the nation hinges on its success by choosing the expanded project that comes up to transbay terminal the High Speed Rail Authority own Business Plan estimates the ridership will increase by 76 percent and fair bos by 45 percent and net cash flow but with one hundred and ti and private investment will increase based on the numbers it simple makes business sense so far the debate field segment not ios to deliver the statewide project we appreciate the support of caltrain and the sfmta hearing and looking forward to working with the partners to deliver the Northern California
Commissioner yee we have quorum thank you i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing charles kremack and leo and can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell who by seconded by commissioner cohen and can we please call the roll or without objection without objection commissioner farrell is excused item 2. Chairs report on information item. Okay. Colleagues this month the Transportation Authority participated in several rail system Planning Efforts including testifying at the High Speed Rail Authority hearing on the craft 2016 high speed rail Business Plan and monitoring a plan for the transbay crossing the high speed rail businessman recommends shifting the projects segment to the Northern California direct from the Central Valley san jose is called to build the southern rail first it is given the benefits and costs to segment, in fact, we urge the authority to expand further San Francisco tomato misses the revenues of private investment the selection is more than a
The monthly meeting of Transportation Authority im chair mar item one commissioner avalos commissioner breed commissioner campos absent commissioner cohen commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim absent commissioner mar commissioner peskin commissioner tang absent commissioner weiner commissioner yee we have quorum thank you i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing charles kremack and leo and can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell who by seconded by commissioner cohen and can we please call the roll or without objection without objection commissioner farrell is excused item 2. Chairs report on information item. Okay. Colleagues this month the Transportation Authority participated in several rail system Planning Efforts including testifying at the High Speed Rail Authority hearing on the craft 2016 high speed rail Business Plan and monitoring a plan for the transbay crossing the high speed rail businessman recommends shifting the projects segment to the No
Thats overseas, bringing that money back and raising taxes on that money to pay for the plan. So the bottom line is is infrastructure is traditionally a bipartisan issue. Everyone agrees our infrastructure is outdated and needs to be modernized. It also supports good supporting middleclass jobs right away and it sets us up for competitiveness in this global marketplace. With that ill hand it back to josh. Thank you, guys. Well open it up for questions. Who wants to be first . Mr. Kunan. Jeff, i wanted to follow up on the infrastructure and Corporate Tax reform component. Do you believe that without a full Corporate Tax reform you can still do a one off of 14 on accumulated foreign earnings or can that only occur in the context of a broader Corporate Tax overhaul . And also, yesterday the ways and means chairman paul ryan said that Corporate Tax reform has occurred in the context of Small Business tax reform as well, which would mean somehow dealing with individual income tax reform. Do
While this was 2011, i was the School Principal when the first iphone came out. I remember the frenzy at my school with parents buying cell phones. And i knew i was text messaging most of my friends. I thought, im seeing everybody here in this room using cell phones. Why is it possible we cant do a call to action right now with a phone . Teld tell me, dont use technology. Poor parents dont have access to technology. That was the first thing. The second one is because i was so close to the heart of technology, i was so close to san francisco, i start seeing all of that was not true. That was happening through cell phones and marketing low income parent. I was predicting what was happening today. The Digital Divide at home was 30 . Today that Digital Divide is big at home. Every group, every home have same ownership of cell phones no no. Last year 53 of americans own cell phone today. 73 use a smartphone. Getz guess who are hispanics lead the way, just 1 of all africanamericans but 73 to