Office for the great work their analyst did in looking at this complicated issue, but to briefly the idea for this reentry pod came from noticing a gap. When inmates are being released from state prison, if there is not a warm hand off, the connection, the recidivism rate the parole was receiving was 78 percent. We have an 85 percent successful completion rate. We started charting those that were object skonding and not showing up. The population had such greater likelihood of not only showing up but being successful in completing their post releasing time if in fact we were able to engage with them ahead of time. We were the first county officers to begin the work but we couldnt send people all over the state. Thats where i got the idea to lets bring them back early and work with senator hancock to work with that to give the county the pilot to do this. I support everything the sheriff said to this being a really Innovative Program and the opportunity to work with the population and g
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the Transportation Authority finance committee and im cohen and to my left are katie tang and commissioner david chew. The clerk of the committee is mrs. Erica chang and id like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank jim smith and nono for their wonderful work at sfgovtv and helping broadcast it meeting. Are there any announcements . No announcements. Could you call 2 of 4, the consent calendar. Items 2 and 4, these items are routine and any of the consent calendar items may be removed ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. Th
Good morning, and welcome to the sf county Transportation Authority, my name is john avalos and i am the chair, and our clerk is cheng and recognize the work of our staff at sfgtv who are broadcasting today. Avalos . Present. Breed . Present. Campos . Present. Chui. Present. Cohenn. Present. Farrell. Absent. Kim . Here. Present. Commissioner mar . Mar, absent, commissioner taning . Present. Commissioner weiner . Absent. Yee. Present. We have a quorum. Item two, approve the minutes of the january, 28, 2014, this xanax item. Any comments or questions on this . Seeing none, lets go under the Public Comment on item two, and seeing no one come forward we will close Public Comment, and could we have a roll call vote, please . Avalos. Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos . Aye. Chui. Aye. Cohen. Aye. Farrell. Absent. Kim . Aye. Mar. Absent. Tang in aye. Weiner . Aye. Commissioner yee in aye. The item passes. Okay, item tlao. Chairs report, this is an information item. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, t
Ask considered separately. Would anyone like to sever any of these items . Okay. Seeing none. Is there a member of the public that would be interested in severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want to oppose as they are written presently. So if you i can walk thr
Severing these items. Okay, seeing none. We call item number 5. Can we get a motion for the consent calendar. Get a motion to approve the consent calendar, second by tang and motion made by chew. This motion passes, can you call item number pa. State and federal legislative update. This is an action item. Great, my favorite update, how are you . Fine, thank you very much. We need to buckle down because we have a lot of work to do right now. We do. A lot of the work has been done, so ill make it as easy as possible. February 27th was the final date for introduction of bills and there was something over 1,000 bills so we sifted through them but beyond that, we have six we want to recommend for your consideration to support. Support if amended and we have four that we want to oppose as they are written presently. So if you i can walk through the bills that were recommending. Sure. On page 6 of the matrix, ab 1532 by mr. Gato, continues his efforts to address safety of bicycle, pedestrian