Item 12. Allocate 13. 1 million in prop k funds, with conditions, to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for preliminary engineering and Detailed Design for the transit effectiveness project, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule and amend the bus Rapid Transit muni Metro Network 5year prioritization progra. This is an action item. Commissioner breed . Thank you. I just wanted to make a few comments about the out reach, i know that we all received the draft, out reach plan which definitely is a great plan, and i am looking forward to the final plan for distribution. And for this particular, for the tep, in particular, we are spending a significant amount of money, on out reach. And i want to make sure that yes, we have our bases covered in the draft plan, but one of the challenges that we face, in terms of out reach, with the five fulton when we implemented the five l, was the sufficient out reach to the senior developments in the area within
Under that it excludes a number of sfusd professionals and how do we build at that rate and leverage the dollars and i think in santa clara they issued certificates and they controlled who lives there and we cant do with federal or state dollars for Affordable Housing but its an interesting and important conversation so if there are no further comments i will [inaudible] we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair and i will take that motion without opposition. [gavel]. Thank you. Are there any other items or announcements madam clerk . There are none. Then our meeting is adjourned and the next meeting is february 4. Thank you very much. Okay. Good morning, today is january 28th, 2014, welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, my name is john avalos, the chair of the authority, and the clerk today is miss cheng and also broadcast today by the staff from sfgtv. Thank you for your work. And madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Roll call, commissioner
Thank you. I definitely want to recommend mr. Hachimoto as a member. He is the president of the Merchants Association in japan town, but more importantly he is actively engaged in the community of japan town. He has helped to coordinate the Cherry Blossom festival and the yematchi festival and these are things that he has done in the community for many many years and is now currently training the next generation to take the lead in some of these festivities and so, i appreciate it, and a commitment from the merchants and i appreciate the commitment to the community and more importantly, i can appreciate the ongoing commitment to the seniors, who live in japan town and i thank his compassion for the challenges that they deal with, with the public transportation, and it is definitely needed on this particular advisory committee. So i definitely would like to move forward and in full support of him. Thank you. I just like to also thank mr. Hachimoto for the great work, over 50 years and r
Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, im morgan live from new york. This morning 26,000 commuters in new york city suburbs have to find another way to get to work. This after a train derailed yesterday just outside of manhattan. The accident left four dead and Dozens Injured and ntsb investigators have now recovered the trains data recorder and trying to determine exactly what caused the crash. Our mission is to understand not just what happened but why it happened with the intent of preventing it from happening again. Reporter the train jumped the tracks just as it was getting ready to leave the bronx and cross into manhattan and 7 cars derailed with the lead car feet away from the hudson river. It happened along a curved section of the track and trying to figure out the excessive speed played a role. An al jazeeras john is here live from the bronx, john . Morgan good morning. The hudson line of Metro North Railroad is one of the busiest Commuter Rail routes in the world. 26
Camp os. Present. Chiu. Present. Cohen. Present. Ferrill. Present. Kim. Here. Commissioner mar here. Tang. Present. Weiner . Present. Commissioner yee . Present. Thank you, lets go to the next item. Two, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2013 meeting, this is an action item. Colleagues any comments or questions on the minutes, seeing none, we can go right to the Public Comment, and we will do two minutes, for Public Comment, today. And any public of the public that would like to comment, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and if we could have, the roll call, vote on the minutes . On avalos . Aye. Breed . Aye. Campos . Aye. Chiu . Aye. Cohen . On the minutes in aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. Commissioner weiner . Aye. Commissioner yee . Aye. Yee, aye, the item passes. Very good. Lets go into our next item, please . Item number three, the chairs report this is an information item. Okay, good morning colleagues, the year has begun and already i