With that said, what does make me uncomfortable about the resolution it is lesbian the nicaragua substance whether to the some point in this year we should do a cost of living adjustment its more about the fact we just adapted our budget the mayor signed it i cant remember last week he signed is and the resolution was introduced i guess the same and it strikes me as uncomfortable we guess through a budget process through the difficulties of a budget Analyst Report Progress Making the difficult choices and right as we are approving the budget doing a supplemental i understand the desire to had had supplemental but i i dont like the precedent that it sets. Thats not to say you know what might happen if this comes down as a supplemental over the course of the year well take that when it and if it comes. Ill say this to those aclu and other nonprofits one of the challenges we had this year as also in the context of the budget we have a very limit set of funds to work with when the budget c
Official Ground Breaking of our new tropic building. Its going to take close to a year to build. Hopefully it will be opening next summer, but many of those an mams animals that were hard to spell and pronounce are going into this tropical building. That ends my report and thank you for all you do. Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are on item 8. Palace of fine arts request for concept proposals. Good morning commissioners, mr. President , mr. General manager. Im cassandra cost elo from the property management. Im proud to bring you the draft of the proposal of fine arts. So just a bit of background. The palace is a longterm tenant. The longest is the theatre. I was here two 2 months ago to present the terms and conditions for Lease Agreement for the innovation hangar. Both leases will expire in march of 2016. Innovation hangar is in the space to hell help us celebrate the event. So looking forward for a longterm te
1 00 and hear these amazing people and hear what they do to help stop that trade. Here we go. Another exciting event coming up not this weekend but the following weekend. In celebration of our flamingos. We have three new flamingo chics, they are white. If you wear pink you get one 1 off admission. We havent had flamingo chicks for a number of years. Finally we have another traveling exhibit in october called nature connects. Giant images made out of leggos. Most are garden related. The intent is to emphasize gardens and the San Francisco zoo is an amazing garden. If you havent come and seen the efforts to promote gardens and plants, how can you talk about wild without plants . This is the importance of plants on this planet. The most exciting thing thats happening next tuesday we have the official Ground Breaking of our new tropic building. Its going to take close to a year to build. Hopefully it will be opening next summer, but many of those an mams animals that were hard to spell an
[music] paratransit is specialized transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. In San Francisco, were proud that weve had a Paratransit Program since 1978 long before it was mandated by the americans with disabilities act in 1990. San francisco is a unique city and our Paratransit Program reflects this. We have a network of services, including sf access van service, paratransit taxi, including Wheelchair Accessible ramp taxi and group van which serves groups of individuals going to a single location like a senior center. [music] im elsa scott and im a retired federal employee and im a native of San Francisco. I use paratransit because, ive been using it for about six years because six years ago i had to start dialysis treatments at cpmc. So im very dependent on paratransit three times a week, coming and going. My current driver is brian berquist. ; hes just such a friendly, sort of a teddy bear kind of a guy. I dont know what it is abo
Transportation grant for close to 1 million for the school year 201617, and to provide transportation tool kits and targeted Traffic Enforcement. A partnership between our agencies. We have seen increase of Traffic Enforcement by sftp. And everyone has walk to school on your calendar on october 8. And there is more about Bessie Carmichael school in the workgroup hand outs. And we are working on what i call the city vision work group. We are working to look ahead. We know that the 2424 is important goal by the city. But we need more to achieve zero deaths, and we have a review of Safety Practices based on what is happening in the united states, and other cities implementing vision zero and as well as our peer cities. And looking to other countries such as sweden and australia, to see what they are doing in best practices of safety. And comparing that to the work in San Francisco, as well as we know of our best practices. And this review will help us in short and longerterm strategies fo