clapping now the rest of you can get doing our work as we make introductions. First of all, thing to the 2kri6b8 microscopic nor out and beyond and please welcome to help us opening the morning with prayer and remarks. The description ofal programs for methodist coordinator roger brooks. Thank you and again everyone for being here. To many people are meeting friends or hoping fliebt arent scald or preparing meals for their thanksgiving families. Youve here standing side by side preparing meals for people you may never moot. The Salvation Army is about others. I want to pause just for a moment of prayer. Just obligate going to pray for a moment. Yesterday iftsd with 3 add and 75 others san franciscans and Prayer Breakfast and it was a great way for people who believe many things come together. Lets take a moment to thank god for this opportunity. God we do thank you for giving us life and this opportunity to serve other. We thank you for so many people who come alongside the Salvation A
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
Aggressively take an approach to improving the infrastructure but also education and advocacy as well. I wanted to say that mr. Jawa from the conservation of league of voters mentioned bicycling for bicycleelists but for others and the equity issue and others brought that up and sustainable environment is critical and alternative transportation including biking is critical and this is about a healthier San Francisco as others brought up as well, so full build out benefits many for many, many reasons and health and safety and for others the environment. I wanted to say that the budget analyst made some suggestions of having the mta, and i think it was said there are already efforts to come back to not only the mtas board but the board of supervisors with a progress reports. I think there is a recommendation from the 2011 controllers report on a number of those items and i am guessing those are already being analyzed and lookinga at reports and the budget analyst reported to us from the
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
Minutes of the november 19, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. Any changes or comments regarding the minutes . Okay, is there any Public Comment on item two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Could we have a motion to approve the minutes . Motion. Okay could we take that without objection . That will be the order. Please call item three. Recommend award of construction contract no. 043a6404 to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder, golden state bridge, inc. , in an amount not to exceed 49,305,345. 50, authorize the executive director to negotiate contract Payment Terms and nonmaterial contract terms and conditions for the construction contract, authorize the executive director to execute all other supporting agreements, and authorize an additional construction allotment of 14,569,340. 50 for the i80 Yerba Buena Island ramps improvement project. This is an action item. Good morning, commissioners my name is eric and i am with cordoba and i am the ranch project manager an