With . Prof. Ginsberg absolutely. This is a true story and those who live in washington have probably heard versions of the story. I was at a dinner party and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, someone whom i have known for a long time, very nice person. And she said to me, well, what are you writing these days . So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titl
We have a quorum. Thank you. Colleagues, a couple of pieces of the house cleaning. One is that commissioner stefani his not with us today, so can we have a motion to excuse her . Made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown. We will take that by without objection. At 11 00 a. M. Were going to have to recess for a press conference on the steps of this building and we will reconvene when that press conference is done. With that, please call you next item. Item citizen advisory report. Good morning. Good morning commissioners. I am john larson, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the june 26th meeting of the,. Beginning with items five and six and the Fund Exchange, milliondollar Fund Exchange to effectuate that project, we recommended approval of the Fund Exchange and inquired about certain aspects of better Market Street. One continuing concern voiced is the current design of the ventilation grates and bicyclists getting their tires caught
So for the pieces that are around the turn restrictions, when will those happen . You will see those in early 2020, either january or february , depending on when we get our clearance, and then m. T. A. Will be ready to submit all the work orders to install the signs and the striping changes. And what are the clearances that are required for that that require us to wait for six months . It is part of our Environmental Impact report from ceqa. We need ceqa clearance. It is part of the project description in the federal clearance, so that is why we need that clearance. And we need the project approval from the director of public works and the m. T. A. Board. Those are the four things we need in order to implement any of the better Market Street improvements. Right. Will there be other shortterm improvements before 2020 . You mentioned this short area of a pilot around some of the changes around bikes. Yes. The bikeway pilot is between on market between franklin and goss it is where we ha
Question and then we have a number of other presenters and we have a whole host of people from the community that want to do Public Comment. So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i gu
So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i guess that i want to put this out as a request more than a question. If were collecting data on students committing violence we should also be