To excuse supervisor rafael mandelman. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, please silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Anything to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. The items today will appear on the next agenda. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item New Brunswick 1. Clerk item no. 1 is the resolution retroactively approving an agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District bart regarding administration of Capital Funding to fund half of the cost of the bart muni Market Street entrance Modernization Project with proceeds from the sale of general Obligation Bonds, in an amount not to exceed 45,000,000 for an Agreement Term from february 1, 2018, through december 31, 2025. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, last week we heard this item and continued it for more information. We heard from the bla last week. We may not need
Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. Colleagues may i have a motion to excuse supervisor rafael mandelman. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, please silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Anything to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. The items today will appear on the next agenda. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item New Brunswick 1. Clerk item no. 1 is the resolution retroactively approving an agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District bart regarding administration of Capital Funding to fund half of the cost of the bart muni Market Street entrance Modernization Project with proceeds from the sale of general Obligation Bonds, in an amount not to exceed 45,000,000 for an Agreement Term from february 1, 2018, through december 31, 2025. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, last week we heard this item and continued it for more in
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Absolutely shocked at that. We have had a change in leadership. Our former assistant general manager for operations retired, and tamar allan who is an engineer and shes been with bart for over 30 years has come into this role as being our assistant general manager for operations and engineering. We now participate with the International Systems supply association, issa, which is an International Maintenance and cleaning association that im sure city hall belongs to, the empire state belongs to. So now we have two Certification Programs that we have for our custodians and they love it. Our new employees, our continuing employees, love the fact that we have he will elevated the art of cleaning and maintenance and how important it is because it does set the tone for our riders. I think we are remiss in that it would have been good for our assistant general manager tamara allan to come and latifa simon and janet lee, we work closely with her. I think in the additional years maintenance sho
It would pay for the operations expenses and furnishings for a District Headquarters Office and a Cultural Community center at 229 ellis street. It would pay for the district Public Awareness place making campaign that the district is beginning to undertake, which includes banners, murals, and branding in the district. It would also pay for a district launch party on august 31st of this year commemorating the 53 rd anniversary of the comptons cafeteria rights. It would pay for a transgender tenderloin oral and visual storytelling project to raise awareness for the rich transgender history of the tenderloin neighborhood and it would also pay for aspects of district Strategic Planning and for the development of the report that is required for all cultural districts. That is my report. Thank you very much. I will submit those expenditures for your approval. There is no file report for this. There is no b. L. A. Report for this. His or any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is cl