Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. To serve as United States secretary of labor. Let me say before i begin my pening statement that we welcome secretary chao. Good to see you and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so well well it wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement nd i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more than 30 years ago to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. So we welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays t
Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
And through that are able to identify both important but also issues that are important to them that we wouldnt be able to get just by looking at data. We can apply our various tools and toolkit items, to address these issues. That could range from more concentrated Service Management to service changes, like adding buses,moving where buses go, to actual Capital Projects that help reduce delay and muni performance. The guidelines are many. Those eight neighborhoods have a lot of service on paper going through them. And so, as you can see, the lines that are considered equity lines go throughout the city, touching basically all four corners of the city, are on a fairly robust list. I want to point out, before going into more specifics, aside from Service Planning and Service Capital changes, we have other programs that have an equity strategy principle behind it, our affordability programs, Lifeline Program, as well as free muni for youth and other programs. Not only do we have these pr
Today, july 9, 2019. Mr. Clerk, would you please, and i apologize for this call, item number 10, out of order, which sa district 3 item because i have to go to the groundbreaking for the new Affordable Housing project with the mayor, and i thought i would take that out of order, and then i will turn it over to supervisor mandelman. Chairman i apologize for not giving you that heads up. I think mr. White from the m. T. A. Is here. He is here, yes. And i dont know if you want ms. Meckle to say anything she is not here, but chairman you can do it. The proposal in front of you today is the result of several years of discussion about how to advance safety in the project area, so this is a proposed amendment to the district 3 Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program planning project. This would add implementation to the scope of work. And so it would enable m. T. A. To explore improvements at a couple of locations specifically. Just give me one moment. It would allow for m. T. A. To e
Improvements, and that might be transit priority on the Treasure Island itself. The bay bridge is a very difficult, obvious, issue, because we dont control that. We have to work with caltrans. And we have been in talks with them about preliminarily what can be done. Were hoping that there will be a marked improvement once the Transit Center opens back up. Thank you. I appreciate that. Right now there is no other option for people who dont have cars who are on Treasure Island. And were working towards some significant changes around transportation. And it relies on the people there having access to transportation that is affective and reliable, and they have faith that as it grows and changes and all of that, it is going to be there when they need it. Because, really, they dont have any other options. I hope we can keep an eye on the ontime performance and the frequency. Thank you. Chairman seeing no other colleagues with comments or questions. Thank you, mr. Kennedy. Are there members