We have a quorum. Thank you. Item 2 is Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Thank you. Do we have mr. Chris walding leer today. Hes not here. Thats interesting then we will go to Public Comment on item 2 now i pose. All right. No Public Comment. That was an information item. [gavel] item 3 please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of the january 17, 2017 meeting. This is an action item. Colleagues if you have looked at the minutes we can get a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. [inaudible] [off mic] all right. And we will do roll call. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner sheehy. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. The minutes are approved. [gavel] all right. Item 4 please. Item 4 recommendation allocation of 4,456,324 in prop k funds and 2,540,359 in prop aa funds with conditions for five requests subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. This is an action item. We have anna leforthere. I am director of program and policy and i am pr
We have a quorum. Thank you. Item 2 is Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Thank you. Do we have mr. Chris walding leer today. Hes not here. Thats interesting then we will go to Public Comment on item 2 now i pose. All right. No Public Comment. That was an information item. [gavel] item 3 please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of the january 17, 2017 meeting. This is an action item. Colleagues if you have looked at the minutes we can get a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. [inaudible] [off mic] all right. And we will do roll call. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner sheehy. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. The minutes are approved. [gavel] all right. Item 4 please. Item 4 recommendation allocation of 4,456,324 in prop k funds and 2,540,359 in prop aa funds with conditions for five requests subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. This is an action item. We have anna leforthere. I am director of program and policy and i am pr
We have a quorum. Thank you. Item 2 is Citizens Advisory Committee report. This is an information item. Thank you. Do we have mr. Chris walding leer today. Hes not here. Thats interesting then we will go to Public Comment on item 2 now i pose. All right. No Public Comment. That was an information item. [gavel] item 3 please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of the january 17, 2017 meeting. This is an action item. Colleagues if you have looked at the minutes we can get a motion to approve the minutes. So moved. [inaudible] [off mic] all right. And we will do roll call. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner sheehy. Aye. Commissioner tang. Aye. The minutes are approved. [gavel] all right. Item 4 please. Item 4 recommendation allocation of 4,456,324 in prop k funds and 2,540,359 in prop aa funds with conditions for five requests subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule. This is an action item. We have anna leforthere. I am director of program and policy and i am pr
President Trump Federal budget is not a surprise, but nonetheless they remain disturbing in stark contrast to invest in infrastructure, he has proposed the budget of 16. 2, billion reflect as a 13 percent cut, with major impacts to transit, and hitting urban and Rural Community as like, the budget proposes eliminating all future funds for grants that we know as the new starts program when are not a part of the signed full Funding Grant agreements. This will effect several major transit projects that have undergone years of review and development and leverage significant state and local voter approved funds, including cal train, and barts expansion and, vehicles and train and control and other local and regional priorities such as better Market Street and brt improvement and cal train, but the impact would not be limited to the region as jobs that are associated with these projects span across the state and nation, in the hundreds of thousands. I want to thank the representatives from c
So because of my experience with these patients, ive been working for years to actually help raise money for awareness for muscle disease, treatment for the disease. I served as a local host in wyoming for the multiple sclerosis Associations Annual labor day telethon. Every year i was amazed at the dedication and the generosity of people around the country who were calling in pledges at the pledge center at the love centers in caspar, wyoming. People would call in, wed always raise over 100,000. People were very committed to finding a cure for the muscle disease, to send young people with the disease to summer camp where they found a level of freedom and friendship that they didnt often find throughout the rest of the year. It was a great time for the young people with the disease and it gave their parents a rest as well. I think many of us in this body remember jerry lewis hosting this jerry lewis labor day telethon as it was called for more than 40 years. He would always end the tele