Whether it is the central subway , which is far behind schedule, and as that gentleman with the red hair to my right sitting behind the commissioner reported, it is going to be further delayed, and now i actually am going to point a finger because i said to this reporter when he called, and i said the project management oversight reports that the central subway was going to be even later and that the whole construct that it was still on budget, behind schedule but on budget, may no longer be true, either, and i said the truth, which was, alberto from the sfmta stance in front of all 11 of us and repeatedly says it will be in Revenue Service on december 31st of 2019, and we will not be overbudget. It turns out, it is time to rip the bandaid off of that lie, but the reason i am saying that is because the businesses on the 1,900 blocks on stockton street will be, excuse my french, screwed. We have known about that for years. And then we go headlong into, sorry for getting this off my ches
Whether it is the central subway , which is far behind schedule, and as that gentleman with the red hair to my right sitting behind the commissioner reported, it is going to be further delayed, and now i actually am going to point a finger because i said to this reporter when he called, and i said the project management oversight reports that the central subway was going to be even later and that the whole construct that it was still on budget, behind schedule but on budget, may no longer be true, either, and i said the truth, which was, alberto from the sfmta stance in front of all 11 of us and repeatedly says it will be in Revenue Service on december 31st of 2019, and we will not be overbudget. It turns out, it is time to rip the bandaid off of that lie, but the reason i am saying that is because the businesses on the 1,900 blocks on stockton street will be, excuse my french, screwed. We have known about that for years. And then we go headlong into, sorry for getting this off my ches
Reported, it is going to be further delayed, and now i actually am going to point a finger because i said to this reporter when he called, and i said the project management oversight reports that the central subway was going to be even later and that the whole construct that it was still on budget, behind schedule but on budget, may no longer be true, either, and i said the truth, which was, alberto from the sfmta stance in front of all 11 of us and repeatedly says it will be in Revenue Service on december 31st of 2019, and we will not be overbudget. It turns out, it is time to rip the bandaid off of that lie, but the reason i am saying that is because the businesses on the 1,900 blocks on stockton street will be, excuse my french, screwed. We have known about that for years. And then we go headlong into, sorry for getting this off my chest, but then we go headlong into venice be rt, knowing that all of the lessons of the central subway, these are major projects, im not questioning the
I think we will probably more flexible on the Revolving Loan program. We are going to use, generally in this period of time, and it can still be considered a pilot, some can certainly come back and see how this is working, the focus on storefronts. Those businesses that are directly or indirectly impacted. Sometimes you do have staging areas in and other areas for providing a direct impact to business. We also have indirect impacts that occur in a 12 month or longer period. For the central subway project and program, for the 400,000, roughly the grants were between five to 10,000. Those were typically attached to the impact that those businesses saw. The eligible element included rent, utilities, and wages, as an example of the central subway loans. A lot of those grants that were a part of the data. We want to continue to work on a Revolving Loan program, and the proposal of that we had zero interest. Again, his projects impact businesses, what we want to help them do is meet their ca
Concern to virtually every member of this body, and i appreciate that the m. T. A. Is taking this seriously. I do have to put it in a little bit of context, and im not pointing fingers or crying about spilled milk, but it is rather astounding that we are playing such a game of catch up. I am not pointing at you, it is better late than never, but whether it is the central subway , which is far behind schedule, and as that gentleman with the red hair to my right sitting behind the commissioner reported, it is going to be further delayed, and now i actually am going to point a finger because i said to this reporter when he called, and i said the project management oversight reports that the central subway was going to be even later and that the whole construct that it was still on budget, behind schedule but on budget, may no longer be true, either, and i said the truth, which was, alberto from the sfmta stance in front of all 11 of us and repeatedly says it will be in Revenue Service on