Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bonnie gene von crow. Sfmta building Progress Public Affairs manager. Such a title. Good morning. Im bonnie von crow, Public Affairs manager im theme proviedz an update on the paratransit electrification process. Our paratransit fleet is a van and taxi program. For people with disabilities that are unable to take our muni service. Unlike municipal theruns on fixed routes paratransit is a door to door program. We have been provideing for 40 plus years last year served approximately 500,000 trips per
Having an open house saturday january 20th between 10 00 and 2 00 targeted to the residents of the villages. Those sha that have benefits under the thr rs and will be open to all residents. At the end of november we traveled with ticd to washington, d. C. To meet with the department of labor regarding access to easements to property that improved the communications weve been having with them and resulted in the agreement on the consent calendar today. We continue to work on temporary and permanent easements well need to improve construction of easements adjacent to job corp property. Also discuss the department of labor their longterm planning effort with the improvement of their facilities. The bay bridge project Oversight Committee in december authorized the proposed retention of pier e2 we discussed at prior meetings. As outgrowth of that theres an m. O. U. On our consent calendar today thats an agreement to make an agreement. Its a precursor to demonstrate to the project Oversight
The vhhp and one of the projects here is going to be applying for that. Well be relying on the state for that support. Another piece of the pie is local capital. Thats why im here. Our sources include our Housing Trust fund, the 2015 general Obligation Bonds for Affordable Housing. We have inclusionary fees. In 2016 we passed proposition c and theres different sources of funds that all go in the pot and these projects will be eligible for some and well also in addition to capital were often in the position of providing direct rental assistance or federal government assistance. We had the operating support for homeless households and theres projectbased rental systems through Family Housing at hud and cpd and housing for persons with aids. I want to draw a picture for folks about all the things people are going to need to do to successfully implement the housing and the village it will take with our federal partners. And were getting most of our money from impact fees and inclusionary f
Simple care at the va theyre doing this in lieu of formal press briefings. We wont have a Sean Spicer Press briefing today. The va secretary will out line what the plans are to make things right. A lot of critics are out there. Well hear from a former va whistleblower, ongoing whistleblower, who says that the agency is dragging its feet. Whether that guy is to blame is anyones guess. This is coming from dr. Shulkin, they are moving rapidly to address these problems. Take a look. Many of these challenges i will talk about today have been decades in building and they have spanned multiple administrations. And this is the time for us to really address these chronic problems that have affected veterans and in many ways harmed veterans and their families not dealing with issues so i will tackle issues head on. Neil sometimes to add insult to injury, reports of half a million applications for medical help were denied or simply thrown out because of mistakes on the application. This comes cou
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