Scene and to the girl scouts emilys impacted this weekend. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. It is my second time at the National Press club. Thank you for having me back. I guess i did an ok job the first time. I want to thank the organizers of the luncheon. In q4 organizing this amazing lunch. I want to thank my colleagues from the girl scouts of the nations capital. I know they are in the room. Where are you . [applause] ceo, their board president , and their Steering Committee members. Thank you for your hospitality today. And the prestigious members of the National Press club here in the room and on camera this morning. Tos an amazing opportunity be here with a room full of girl scout leaders. I sure this leadership mantle with many people. Would like the ceos of our local Girl Scout Councils to please stand up. [applause] these are representatives of 112 ceos who are doing an amazing job to continue this movement that has been around for 104 years. I would like to recogni
General manager and metros board chair to give us an update in just a few minutes. Adam, how long do you expect this rush hour kind of confusion that we saw this morning to last into the evening rush hour . Reporter well, jim, i think this is the new normal for the foreseeable future. Right now, weve got lots of people trying to figure out their way, trying to figure out what to do on the metro station. For the next year, were going to go through these stages piece by piece. Lets listen to metros general manager and metros board chair. Theyre coming to the podium right now. Okay. Good afternoon, everyone. Im here joined with our general manager. Im jack evans, the chairman of the board of metro. We wanted to give you an update on our third day, but our first weekday of our safetrack system, repairs for background. Were doing this because for the last 15 years there hasnt been the maintenance thats necessary to keep the system in top shape. If anything, the lack of maintenance over the
As metro began first monday morning on Safetrack Program. Train malfunction slowed things down during the commute. From now until next thursday trains are single tracking between East Falls Church and ballston for metros Safetrack Program. Orange line trains between vienna and new carroll operating every 18 minutes instead of six minutes. Lets get to molette green how things are going from the boston station. Reporter barbara, good morning. Things have really calmed down, the morning rush is over just this morning though, we heard again from the general manager an urgent call to passengers who can take other means of transportation to do so. In fact, one cabbie drove up to us where we were standing and said basically people are not using their services, theyre not surcharging, so that is an option. But we can tell you as far as on the train we really saw the impact of reduced right hand side of the platform, next train to downtown d. C. Reporter at 7 30 a. M. Crowds build. A mad rush t
Legislation when he support. Thank you. I have an extra copy good evening, commissioners eric brooks here representing San Francisco green party and the local grassroots our city began thats organizing in 2004 working on the first formula retail legislation passed by the board of supervisors. And has followed this issue ever since he can tell you there is not one supporter of formula retail controls in this city this is as in in any way, shape, or form told you the staff we want those controls reacted r relaxed first of all, noticing i found out a couple of weeks before i doesnt get good enough notice if i had i would have turned out my neighborhood we didnt want the store so making the noticeing worse is not not program. On the 20 stores issue again weve never and we made the 11 stores deal that was a compromise to then is youre not quote unquote compromising above that is an unacceptable session and the subsidys up to 20 store theirs crucial we need therefore to support supervisor ma
Track development by affordability on a regular basis then once we gather the data we must prioritize the knowledge of Affordable Housing to erase that deficit without delay the organizations organized an event eat max presentation of their Community Benefits package 1979 provision on march evening 3 willed and 50 to 4 people showed up to say we want Affordable Housing in the midst the myths has seen you market rate housing being built that is destroying the neighborhood of the San Francisco so lets get the data and then lets build Affordable Housing and prioritize Affordable Housing and maybe lets create a housing imbalance in favor of Affordable Housing thank you very much. Is there any additional Public Comment. Okay Public Comment is closed and opening up to commissioners commissioner wu. Thank you im very supportive of this piece of legislation lets get to the amendments so im happy to support the change of the annual cycle to march first and september 1st to accept the Planning D