Please give the advice that the ringing of and the use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting and be advised for the removal for the meeting room of any person responsible for the use of or the use of a pager or cell phone or an electronic device, a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each item and supPort Commissioner about the shorter period on any item. Item five Public Comments on items not listed on the agenda. I have a couple of speaker cards, the first one is lee radner. Thank you, commissioners. And my name is lee radner and i am here today to remind all of us of the communitys vision for San Franciscos north east water front, which was done by the asian neighborhood design, some months ago and you all received copies. And now, is the time to revisit and reread this excellent document as a basis for an open discussion. And this was developed by a d with tremendous input from a large numbe
Theres no funding for the geary light rail project it has not been funded at all besides the central subway they are building a station at union square for geary light rail and theres no reason why that should be funded first before you do anything else because thats the first thing you should do in prop k before you go painting the streets for the Bicycle Coalition or whatever this sort of thing think about what hasnt been done yet but still has to be done now. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other member of the public would like to comment . Seeing none well close Public Comment. And madam clerk if you can call our next item. Item 14 adjournment. I wish everyone a happy holiday season. You are adjourned. Good morning, everyone. Ed meeting will come to order. This is the tuesday, december tenth, 2013, meeting of the plans and Programs Committee of the San Francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll . Roll call, commissioner bre
The monolingual chinese seniors are never going to be able to use the computer or the internet. A lot of the barrier is knowledge. People dont know that these computers are available to them, plus they dont know what is useful. There are so many businesses in the bay area that are constantly retiring their computer equipment thats perfectly good for home use. Computers and Internet Access are helping everybody in the community and people who dont have it can come to us to help with that. One of the biggest problems we see isnt whether people can get computers through programs like ours, but whether they can understand why they need a computer. Really the Biggest Issue we are facing today is helping people understand the value of having a computer. Immediately they would say can i afford a computer . I dont speak any english. How do i use it. Then they will start to learn how to do email or how to go back to chinese newspaper to read all the chinese newspaper. A lot of the barrier still
Thank you, and i would like to thank, jim smith and johnson gramwhack from sfgtv for tell vicing us today. Item number two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting this is an action item. Thank you, seeing no comments from colleagues, lets open up this for Public Comment, is there anyone from the public . Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed could we moved this forward without objection . Thank you. Item three, Citizens Advisory Committee report, this is an information report. And we have the vice chair of the committee joseph flanagan. Good morning commissioners my name and i am the vice chair, sorry, joseph flanagan. There are a few items on your agenda that the cac took action on on december 4th, meeting. They are the items for allocation of prop k funds for three requests. And in addition, items, we took action on two of the items. Number one, 463,000, for the street repair and cleaning equipment and we deferred action pending Additional Information regarding the
Its more about social and Economic Justice than just good morning, everyone. Ed meeting will come to order. This is the tuesday, december tenth, 2013, meeting of the plans and Programs Committee of the San Francisco county transportation authority, our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll . Roll call, commissioner breed . Here. Commissioner campos . Absent. Kim, absent fp mar. Present. Yee . Yee, present. We have a quorum. Thank you, and i would like to thank, jim smith and johnson gramwhack from sfgtv for tell vicing us today. Item number two, approve the minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting this is an action item. Thank you, seeing no comments from colleagues, lets open up this for Public Comment, is there anyone from the public . Seeing none, the Public Comment is closed could we moved this forward without objection . Thank you. Item three, Citizens Advisory Committee report, this is an information report. And we have the vice chair of the committee joseph flanagan