Chair peskin thank you, mr. Quintanilla. Can can you please call the next item. Clerk item 2, Community Advisory report. Chair peskin and mr. Larson you are not mr. Larson you are mr. Larson. You shaved. I am. Good morning, commissioners and supervisors. My name is john larson, and i am the chairman of the citizens Advisory Committee. This time, there was particular interest in how the save routes to safe routes to School Program served the needs of concern. Sfmta would be providing Safety Training in areas of concern such as moorely feeling safe engaging in these activities and getting from home to school in those communities. The items related to shop around, vango shuttles related to the challenges of disabled people accessing public transit, especially given the decline in the number of ramp taxis. The needs of wheelchair users were negotiated. In particular, one commenter shared her negative experiences with Bus Operators, their lack of patience and understanding with accommodatin
Forward to moving this project is head expeditiously, and well comment further, and i appreciate your commitment to this. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Strauss. Seeing no other couple pom on this seeing no other Public Comment on this, ill close Public Comment. Chair peskin i think that its pennywise, pound foolish. With that, mr. Fisher, maybe you can respond to a little bit of what youve heard and address the difference between the status quo and the recommendations around reform. Thanks, mr. Chairman. And really, i just wanted to address a couple comments that we heard on drnthat this po s poms i think the region has changed a bit since this project was initiated. As you start to look at a second crossing, i think the comment about how do we prioritize this in the region and then, on the delivery side, its a bit of the panel felt very strongly that we needed to have a look at this again. I think the idea that john picari laid out, we are in a National Competition for federa
Good afternoon good afternoon to some this is just block six, a place in sunnydale. To others, it is a Public Housing community. But to the residents, this represents hope, this represents home, this represents a community where many promises have been made over the past. I am excited to see the second building, the second homes go up here at sunnydale. Youve heard from a lot of the leaders who have been working on this for years. Ive been fortunate enough to work on this project as executive director of w. C. D. , working to make sure that people in this community actually got to work on the projects here in their community. It is exciting, as i look around and see some of the residents that live in other hope s. F. Communities that came to support, because they know and understand what this represents here today. And as i look around, i see phil, and we talk about the hudd that were going to bring to this community, a World Class Community center, basketball courts, things that make
[gavel] good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority Board Meeting for today, september 24th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. Could you please call the roll. Clerk item 1 roll call. Brown i. Commissioner fewer . Present. Commissioner haney . Haney present. Commissioner mandelman . Mandelman absent. Commissioner mar . Mar present. Commissioner . Present. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner stefani . Present. Clerk commissioner walton . Walton present. Commissioner yee. Yee absent. We have quorum. Chair thank you. Colleagues, if you will indulge me, because of caltrains general managers schedule, i would like to take a few things out of order this morning and start with well, the chairs report, which would be inappropriate. Next item. So with that, i will give the chairs report. This month we focus our attention on regional transportation and the future of caltrain, with a presentation on the longawaited caltrain Business Plan and serv
So, we want to at least build the foundation for something that can be ongoing. Oewd believes they can manage that and implement it. I think in hearing from the board of supervisors and briefing them and speaking with them, the businesses are feeling the pain so they want to see the money get out as quickly as possible. So i think we increase the proportion that will go directly to grants in response to that concern. Any other questions before i open it up to the public for Public Comment . Chair, i guess im just having a hard time drawing a bead on this. Who would want a loan if they can get a grant . I mean, who asked for the loans . The guys who are, i mean, i dont understand. Just i think the criteria right now for the grants, only available after the 24month project is delayed. The recommendation is for loans to be available at the inception of the project, which is a difference. That makes the loan more attractive. Attractive to help them sustain during the period of time when co