Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the tuesday, august 19, 2014, mta and Authority Commissioner singh. Commissioner borden pr director heinecke is anticipated. Director lee. Commissioner rosales. Director rubke mr. Chair you have a quorum id like to recognize one of the colleagues in the District Attorneys Office and item 3 the announcement of advised please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. The board respectfully requests cell phones be turned off. The approval of the july 30th meeting theres a motion. A motion to approve. Second. Discussion all in favor, say i. Thank you very much. Item 5 communications things of the board we received a letter from mayor ed lee regarding the board me
Would the cost be. And obviously, just to understand the context, for the 44 million. And the same thing, and scenario, to have that and in front of us. Yeah. And i dont want to say what that number is because it is so mind bogling and because we are looking at those. And that is something that the public has asked for, that we dont have a park scenario, and not that we couldnt and if you consider that the two general obligations bonds and approximately, 35 million, and 33, 34, available for, and it will take more than that. And i dont doubt you, i just think. I know that. And so then that we know and we communicate as we look at the alternatives and the public can see that we agree with that. Very well said, thank you. Okay. All right, thank you very much. Item ten, new business . Commissioners there was a long list of requests related to the water front Land Use Plan and so if it is okay i will not do all of those but i think that we can consider it a good job of getting them down an
Times about the importance of your water supply level, and the commitment that this body made to your customers built in staoet and your wholesale customers to limit rashing to no more than twebt 20 percent and this is one of those projects that will enable you to meet that commitment and so that purpose it will provide a 7. 2 million gallons of water a day during a dry year and i have said rntion would it be great if i had that today and it would make a huge difference for the current water supply, and so it is critically important, and i enthusiastickly support it on behalf of my agencies and i appreciate the efforts of the puc staff, to bring this project to fruition and it has been a long time in coming and my member agencies and the three of them who are the Partner Agencies who are supportive of this and really excited about this project moving forward. I urge you to vote yes on it. Thank you. Is there another Public Comment . Good afternoon. I am supportive of this and this is a
Raising was approaching her doorstep there was one serial crasher one was a young man cholehis bicycle and there was a huge amount of blood spilled the young victim a 29yearold employee tied died she kept repeating im so angry i have no response. Then my 25yearold son called and i felt saved by the bell it was no a response i couldnt exchange chitchat and if one or another young stranger could be nextal also 9 Disaster Preparedness for years ago theres an ongoing disaster ralph happening in our streets we have to take action because one of us will be thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names. thank you mark. You might have seen news reports about a new taxi Driver Organization the Taxi Workers Alliance thats been formed with the obtain of joining the Workers Alliance a were happy about bringing together factors into one organization with strong labor backing we feel this b will help the drivers and the industry to meet the challenge and this is in the best interest of the city and
Director lee. Commissioner rosales. Director rubke mr. Chair you have a quorum id like to recognize one of the colleagues in the District Attorneys Office and item 3 the announcement of advised please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. The board respectfully requests cell phones be turned off. The approval of the july 30th meeting theres a motion. A motion to approve. Second. Discussion all in favor, say i. Thank you very much. Item 5 communications things of the board we received a letter from mayor ed lee regarding the board meetings the mayor said he was hopeful for a working goal of a hundred percent attendance and he hoped that 90 percent attendance will be regular, you know, and he stated it the b