so, we do have elen robinson and reynolds as well as ana from the department of health here. and i have copies of the presentation that i like to hand out if that is okay. good afternoon, board members and supervisors, my name is ana and i work at the department of public health and i actually want to acknowledge singa from the department of the environment is also here and we want to talk to the safe routes to school program and going to have just a few minutes to talk about the school pool and elen will talk about the capitol improvements around the schools and just to give you the overview of the safe routes to the schools. and just to establish the program need for the program, see our kids today are walking and biking to school, back in my day, there were almost, or over 40-plus walking. and now, we have less than 15 percent, these are national statistics. and these are resulting in unattended consequences we have an increase in traffic injuries and increase in obesi
they re being moved out of soma for economic reasons. and, so, it s very important to have somebody from this community, from this constituency who knows exactly who is on the ground, in communication with everyone there. strongly support m. alicia duke. thank you very much. ~ sam alicia duke. thank you. again, good afternoon, supervisors. i m here for the real reason to support sam duke. now, james only mentioned about her association with senior and disability action. my background with her goes way back i mean, way back to the early days of para transit ~. she was very good in para transit, very good advisor in para transit, and still is a great advisor in para transit. when we re forming para transit, speaking on rides, how we should put it together, she continues on that, very knowledgeable, and takes that same kind of information from where she lives, i also live in the soma area the last three years and i do other community work there. i m the garden coordinato
result in the 50 periods of time to be able to have the community based resources? i m in agreement we need more community based mental health services to awe - i can t accept that because people spent all this time negotiating but i will accept the motion that we ask the board of supervisors to maintain the psych beds or net get community services provided for. we re not going to negotiate tonight somebody comes to us and we want to see you, we don t go oh, maybe a. this is for whatever reason even with the community it s not perfect but for whatever reason psych beds were left out of this agreement. i feel the same way i won t want to change the agreement at this point. i think we have the power to do that or why are we sitting here? commissioners there s another motion and a second if you could forward me those comments. as a clarification. did the rest of the board accept you re not condition but recommendation that the board take a look at this issue or not
long plagued the community, by making the corridor more attractive to businesses and less attractive to criminals. by bolstering the community s identity and advocating it s reach history. the collaboration of business owners, property owners and residents is a loud and clear signal that urshared community is ready for change. this february mayor lee announced the results of an impact analysis that valid yets the impact of cbds on their respective communities and i truly believe that top of broadway will be yet another example of the proven successful partnership in driving community improvement. i hope you agree that our effort to compel real and positive change on the broadway corridor is necessary and to support the top of broadway community benefit district. thank you very much. thank you very much next speaker, please. supervisor my name is stephano and i am a consultant in north beach. i just want to say when you say community benefit district you are also really
staff at sfgtv, greg burk and tron ross. madam clerk are there any announcements? no, supervisor, none. seeing none, if there is no objection, could we call item number three ahead on the agenda. it is file number 1 30206 and it is the municipal transportation agency traffic calming programming sponsored by you supervisor. thank you. this is actually a continuation of an item that we heard back in march. and so, it is really just an update on mta s traffic calming program, particularly looking at school criteria for funding and updated lists of schools that are receiving funding through the program and looking at potential criteria and the solutions for schools that operate near heavy traffic ar tillals by lowering the school limit where creating a school zone is not an option. excuse me. so, we do have elen robinson and reynolds as well as ana from the department of health here. and i have copies of the presentation that i like to hand out if that is okay. good a