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
Sophisticated soft site analysis many other cities and Housing Developers that have some of the information we dont have a regional platform but were in the process of getting that thank you for providing that. Thank you and you know, i think in many ways abag helps support our other parts of our region that may not have the capacity to do that identification and many ways that is a big part of work were able to help to identify for other multiples to push and even incentivizes that type of development thank you. Colleagues, any other questions or comments seeing none, move to Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed this is an information item thank you for your presentations. Item 11. Item 11 update on the rail yard alternative in the boulevard Feasibility Study an information item. Okay. Ill recognize director rahaim from the Planning Department. Good morning, commissioners director rahaim pleased to present to you the results of first p
Michael levi is the david m. Rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the council on Foreign Relations. He was previously nonresident science and Technology Fellow at the foreignpolicy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. He is the author of the power surge, Energy Opportunity in the battle for americas future. On Nuclear Terrorism and the future of arms control. He received a bachelor of science with honors from Queens University in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph. D. Is from the university of london. Treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. Im going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. Michael, elizabeth its nice to have both of this evening. I would like to start by setting the stage for us. Why did you r
The committee did their work. It was in the full committee. What are your views on this issue . Well, congressman, i think it is important to point out that we approach the institute of medicine to ask for advice on how to structure a system that will provide assistance at a women, infant and children. They took the job seriously and said we should focus on food were products that would that were healthy and not normally used by women, infant and children. The issue with potatoes and the average american consumes 90 pounds of potatoes a year, it is like 88. 7 pounds of potatoes. So the institute believed it would be appropriate to focus on vegetables that were not consumed at the same level of quantity and wanted us to focus on green, orange and red vegetables which we have done in the wic program. The report says we have nothing against potatoes but this is a Supplemental Program and that is why they are not included and we focus on more alternatives that are not purchased by women fo