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
Thank you for that. I am looking forward to this retreat. We do have one more meeting before the retreat, right . We can talk about of a little more there. I watched this a news segment on restaurants close and great i dont know if you had a chance to i have noticed a lot of this coverage on Small Businesses closing in the city is pretty onesided. I think they tend to focus on greedy landlords and the scorch of millennials who have changed their habits that are destroying our businesses. I dont think that coverage is fair. I think it might sell ads, but i dont think it is actually fair. I dont think we need to face the role that this building has on our government having the situation for Small Businesses right now. I have been chicken little. Ive been going to a ton of hearings and screaming. Im like little at the end, when the sky is actually falling but nobody believes him. For so many years, Small Business people have been, you know, frustrated and continuous complaining. As i was
If people are feeling comfortable or uncomfortable with the name they should be able to voice that and speak up. Reporter Mike Robinson works here were many employees support a name change. When he moved here from chicago everyone told if you need to go to the Gourmet Ghetto it was not so eager because of the name. I grew up in the ghetto and you spend a lot of energy and effort trying to leave a place like that not to go to another one. Some merchants dont agree that the owner says she is always disliking the name. Especially the word ghetto, anybody talking about that now it feels so discriminatory. Reporter alice waters says she does not like the word gourmet because it makes foods on expensive and inaccessible to the common person. With regard to the name change the association did release a Statement Today they said with respect to those who feel a strong connection to the spirit of the Gourmet Ghetto name we are support dropping marketing and district identity banners. We hope th
Need more engineer and planners, but still, each area should have their own planner and engineer, so we know who to talk to and be responsible for doing things in our neighborhood. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is jodie maderas. Im here with a message from our members and some of them youll hear today. The message is thank you, thank you for pushing the sfmta staff to do more, faster, quicker, else on our most dangerous streets in asking the right questions. Dont stop pushing. We are counting on all of you. Time and time again, were hearing the devastating, angry messages about the precious lives were losing and its feeling disheartening that were getting further and further away from our zero vision goal and fatal crashes by 2024. Thats because were in a state of emergency. Weve lost as many pedestrians this year as we have in all of 201. 2018. We believe that vision zero is achievable. Its all of us, the board, staff, mayor, our board of supervisors, public
Doing that kind of work. Thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you dont know and thats important. My mom was diagnosed with cancer. That was really difficult. She encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. I wanted to be in oncology. I thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. We need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. There is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. You have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. You dont have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. I would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. Its the best time to do it. Being a young woman with so many