Her in this capacity and hopefully she will cover all the issues you have been asking about and im sure well have good public, comment as well. Thank you for taking the job. I couldnt think of a better job to work with and interesting dynamic. Is that microphone on . Yes. That one is not. You will have to speak from one of the big ones. Sorry. Did you load the powerpoint . No. Okay. Do you have paper slides . This is my first presentation before the board. Im sure it will get better as we go on. Thank you. Its on the the my apologies i thought it was preloaded. Im learning as i go here. Absolutely. Im kate toran director of taxis and Accessible Services and were the were the real crossroads here and were committed to what we do and how we do it. Our Mission Statement values are critically important to us and these are the lenses through which we do our work so this helps to keep us grounded. Accessible Services Also has a very strong Mission Statement and we are proud of the work we do
Of last year, 2013, yellow cabs fleet did 672 2 thousand metered rides we have these statistics this year we did 670 thousand more or less not a major drop but our business has has has been steady we get 120 thousand calls a month these days unfortunately 25 percent of the of the people that call us never see a cab in this day and age and to me thats an unacceptable rate and for various reasons people give us the wrong address decide to walk but 25 percent is is not we need carrots and sticks and need your help we can do it were trying to do it. Okay . Thank you. Thank you. Jim margolis. Medallion holder with yellow cab since 1977. Just on levelling the Playing Field i know that were speaking about what we can do in the taxi industry about levelling the field for example with the credit cards and making drivers what we can do is have them accept credit cards i know where were disadvantaged because the credit card isnt right at the beginning where the the people can walk out but people
I have two things actually. First of all, i want to bring up at our policy and governance meeting on friday we had a good presentation from enforcement commander regarding muni safety date a. It was impressive the level of data they have and how theyre able to use it to try and increase safety on the buses. So, im wondering do we have or will we be getting that same level of data for bike and Pedestrian Safety . I know its not as easy to gather since i think a lot of those muni calls either involve the police or are 311 calls. But it would be interesting to know if that same level of data exists for bike and ped because it can help in our safety quest. We can ask [speaker not understood] reiskin. One other item. I feel that from our day long strategy meeting that we may have left some sort of hanging Unanswered Questions from staff, particularly on the bicycle strategy where on the last page we were asked if we wanted to ask staff to focus on hot spots or corridors. And we dont obvious
Who follow isis in the media, in the academic world, but clearly someone that u. S. Intelligence and the u. S. Military had known about and were tracking for some time. I think a lot more is likely to come to light. We cant assume we know everything at this hour. But officials familiar with the raid in syria have told cnn that he was for some time essentially the oil and gas emir the head of isis oil and gas operations which had in the past been vital to them raising money. But recently had become something much more than that something very troubling. He had taken on an increasing role in isis Operations Planning commanding control and critical information here. The u. S. Believes he may well have had some kind of communication with abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of isis. So you put this whole intelligence picture together plus his wife and her knowledge potentially of hostage operations that isis had been involved in and you see why the u. S. Wanted to get him. This was supposed to
Five years ago and has really now spread across the city. Weve had a full season of events proposed. As of this date weve got approval for the first four of them which will be that first embarcadaro route which will be march 10th. The route through Mission Street or the more popular ones on april 14th. The bayview on june 9th and the great highway on july 7th. And as the rest of the calendar gets secured and approved, well bring it back. Well bring information back to the board. In addition to sunday streets is a new component thats going to be added into the mix this year called play streets. I mentioned this a while back that when the grant award for play streets came through, but its a Pilot Program of four smaller one to two block events, also featuring carfree streets. Particularly in targeted areas where Health Disparities are high and open space is limited. So, its kind of like a targeted mini version of sunday streets. The funding is provided by the Blue Cross Blue Shield found