Spend local money at businesss and make their own lives richer. As you know, car sharing vehicles remove 913 other cars from the road. City services allow us to use resources more especially. This project has the potential to remove up to 10,000 cars and 100 Million Pounds of co2. That is a big deal and im proud to be hart of it. I want to say thank you for your commitment to making this program a reality. I know you have many more hearings to approve of with the Parking Spaces in this first pilot of the Car Sharing Program and a plaud your dedication and hard work. It is greatly appreciated by the san franciscans like me, who want to know that we are supportive of your efforts and want to do whatever we can to ensure your success. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon. Im a Campaign Director with peers the organization that hailey is a member of. We launched in july of last year and since then, almost 300,000 people around the world have
Mentioned. As was mentioned get around and instant car sharing allows people to instantly find rent and unlock a vehicle, so they dont have to own their own vehicle. So the benefits of car sharing are widely reported burb its basically there is an environmental benefit, a transit benefit and entrepreneurial benefit in the case of get around. For the environmental benefit, susan from uc berkeleys data suggests that car sharing vehicles eliminate 913 cars from the road. Over the course of the program, hailey mentioned an opportunity to eliminate 10,000 vehicles. For the transit piece, what that means ultimately, in fact, while one parking spot will be used there is the opportunity to free up 10,000 parking spots. But more than that, the Research Also shows that people who use car sharing us elactually use Public Transportation more, walking more and, in fact its totally in line with the transit first policy and should actually be beneficial to the transit agenda rather than in conflict w
Other health professionals, how do we bring those people into our system . Health care is certainly a major issue, but that is not the only challenge that our new secretary will face. We have the Veterans Benefits administration, which is now in the midst of one of the largest transformations in modern history. That is going from a paper system to a paperless system. In my view they have done a good job, but problems remain. We want to make sure that in that transformation, as we bring down the wait times for benefits claims, that we do it in an accurate way. That is a challenge that you are going to have to face. Scandals in the modern history of this country has been the number of Homeless Veterans that we have seen all over the country. In recent years, general general general this,ki played a role in that number has gone down. That is another challenge that you are going to face. Let me close by suggesting that i think that mr. Mcdonald brings to us two very important qualities. He
States just this year, entered without permission in the Immigration Court system. What happens to these guys . The new people would have a status. When thed send back to United States government did ins in vietnam, in haiti, parts of africa. Remove people from a situation that is dangerous, unsafe in a variety of ways, whether it is politics, country conditions, or some other capacity, but if you open all of those other questions, in addition to el salvador and guatemala. There are two other countries at play here who also have tens of thousands of citizens in the United States who also have temporary protective status from years ago. Ballsis a lot of sort of in the air and which one you pick up will determine the future potentially for one small group or a larger group, but not necessarily the whole group, if that makes sense. You are addressing a piece of the puzzle, but it could potentially create another wave in a different capacity. It is so unknown, i think, at this point, you w
Support hamas strategy and the to en thetion set conflict. For years, we warned community that hezbollah was amassing tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. Mit with silence. Will you continue to remain silent . That hamase told you was building a terrorist strong hold in gaza and we called on the International Community to condemn the rocket fire. Silence. Et with for years we warned of the impending escalation and you ignored us. The hardest thing to see is what eyes. Front of your israel is in the front line of radicallistgainst islamist terrorism. The buyer civilized world has a the outcome, so it must support israels right to defend citizens. Israels fight against terrorism today will determine how we live tomorrow. Do nothing and to say nothing, to support our efforts the tyranny and terror is to invite tyranny and terror into our own back yard. The International Community must stand together and speak soether and prevail together that all people everywhere can live in freedo