Leveraging so much more money for what the city is doing. Example the 14 million for the escalator, the 2 bay area grant and the potrero avenue, no, thats federal money. A lot of good work leveraging money and making major improvements in many nabz. Neighborhoods. Thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you, i just want to know who the contract was awarded to . I would let sf mta cover that. Does that include funds or does that come from another source. Thats in a request for prop k funds. Barbary was awarded the contract. Shawn kennedy with the mta. Thank you. I also see a note that, mr. K, it looks like a request from colleague commissioners that the mta think about a Maintenance Plan for the escalators as was brought up by commissioner kim. Im just wondering if you are comment on that . Miss lombardyo is here as well. Thank you for your very good comments and commissioner king as well. We can incorporate that into boards packet. My understanding is that the new federal guidelines
Have to reduce service because of the lack of operators and lack of equipment. Lets be honest. While i like sean, he does a lot of work at the tep program. The truth of matter is tep is based on reducing service. If we are doing everything to do with transit first, we have a lot of work to do. Now, recent with john hailey, he knows what hes up against in terms of providing Economic Service that these citizens of San Francisco defer. Deserve. We know what we are up against. Tep, its not going to work. Of course you have to put aside a project because we know its too many holes within the tep goal going on right now. We have to complete the project. Everybody is chasing the tail. Nothing is getting done. I just ask once again, scrutinize the tep for what it is. Honestly, it looks fine for the future. But if you look at whats going on now with the projects coming forthwith tep, its not going to work. You are taking that a tunnel. Thank you. Next speaker, miss sacs . Turning to tep, i have
Have to complete the project. Everybody is chasing the tail. Nothing is getting done. I just ask once again, scrutinize the tep for what it is. Honestly, it looks fine for the future. But if you look at whats going on now with the projects coming forthwith tep, its not going to work. You are taking that a tunnel. Thank you. Next speaker, miss sacs . Turning to tep, i have spoken about this many times at the full Board Meeting and Citizens Advisory Committee and i also went to the workshops and they are trying to figure out handout you to include service. What they are actually doing is reducing service like the gentleman before me said. What they did is they took, they are making so that reducing service where there were booklets that i still have. They took the one california for example commissioner kim, they took one and they had it going to howard during the day. They took that off. They reduced services to the point that people with disabilities, people that work swing and grave y
Executive directors. My colleague on the podium and john whos in the audience. I specifically want to recognize my colleague for this important transportation department. Shes represented here by her husband vernon. clapping hes out there somewhere and the brothers. Thank you for attending clapping other key Staff Members who worked tirelessly were steven millioner and dean a. They labored hard overseeing the project. As you know there were several delays. In the 90s it was the u. S. Navy to get them to do the basic soil testing. For four years the navy was a road black block and along came in an attorney who summoned a team of lawyers out to california for a meeting and greeted them with a line of questions that devastated the navys position. Within weeks caltrans was granted the go head. Help me to join in recognizing jerry. Jerry would i stand up clapping in closing my father worked on this bridge as carpeters 22. My parents were here to celebrate the opening in 1936. The bridge cos
To everyone. It really is a glorious day. Being around the eastern span one of the things you may have noticed it that construction is not an Old Boys Club anymore. Its something that video news man mark john noticed when he was documenting the bridge. So hes done more than 20 oral histories. And he comprised a short video precisely some of the women who have transcribed to the ante span. Please join me i work in San Francisco my mother worked on the new bridge and my brother. My mom worked on the first and second phase with me for another one of the contractors that were out here. And my grandfather worked on the original span but its been fun. Its one of those projects thats come in a lifetime. Its seeing it take a look take shape. When i finish our work you see something i work for the superintendent of the project. So no days even the same. Its interesting like i said in High School Im going to work and build bridges clapping thank you mark for our outstanding work documenting the