9 judge terri l. jackson. the court is now recruiting prospective civil grand jurors. our goal is to develop a pool of candidates that is inclusive of all segments of our city s population. the jury conducts investigations and publishes findings and recommendations. these reports them become a key part of the civic dialog on how we can make san francisco a better place to live and work. i want to encourage anyone that is on the fence, is considering participating as a grand jury member, to do so. so if you are interested in our local city government and would like to work with 18 other enthusiastic citizens committed to improving its operations, i encourage you to consider applying for service on the civil grand jury. for more information, visit the civil grand jury website at sfgov.org/courts or call feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there s that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary readi
there is one message and i would like to convey. it is that there must be improvements, not just in the quantity of taxicabs that are serving the public but in the efficiency of windows them serving. you can improve service by adding taxicab s of two. , and then you reach a point of diminishing returns because you are affecting the driver and, by doing that, and the more taxicab s you put on the street, more drivers have to struggle to make a living. it will impact the quality of service. it will impact the safety of services. a good steady goes back a few years now let shares there is an inverse ratio, an inverse proportion between the driver in, and the number of accidents become a good study a good study goes back a few years and shows there is an inverse ratio. there is a technology that is here today. the problem is that it is now dispersed among several different applications that are now being used in san francisco, and numbers and numbers of them and are being dev
happen across the country. this particular project is wonderful. it is serving those who have been on the streets along time. there are folks who have really suffered. we do not want to forget them as young girl men and women are coming home. we do not want to forget the folks who have been on the streets along time a long time. they have aged beyond their years. we want to help them. this is the type of program that does it. does it with special plans. the whole program has built over 1 million units in 20 years. it is a fabulous program. it helps extremely low income people all the way to home ownership for people just beginning. this is an incredible example of that. the couple of days ago, the president made a huge announcement about housing. one thing that does not get as much play in the press is the focus on the very poor. he made a $1 billion commitment to the first affordable housing trust fund. he has said it will be included in his budget in a few weeks to congre
example of what is happening with the intellects in our community. he is a brilliant brother. if you have not gone on youtube and seen him offering his insight on any number of social political issues i mean geopolitical issues, what is happening in afghanistan and iraq, what is happening with education in this country. his analysis the death of his insight and analysis i think is just undeniable the debt the depth of his insight and analysis is just undeniable. it is a reflection of how comfortable and distracted many of us our us are that we have not created a more sustained movement around cases like this. i voted for barack obama. i would vote for him again when the time comes. at the same time, i get asked this question so often, right? are we post-race? are we past racism because there is a black man in the white house? the question is, i mean, was england post-gender with margaret thatcher? indira gandhi, was in the a post-gender when bolivia elected its firs
car. i do not believe the way to achieve our goals is to make parking so inconvenient, so expensive, such a bad experience that people, so to speak, capitulate and take public transportation. that is not the way we are going to make it happen. we need to innovate, in my opinion, our public transportation system. we are doing things like the bus rapid transit systems, things like being allowed to pay for your public transportation we now have the clipper card. let s talk about putting that on your mobile phone and using that. innovating in ways were people say that public transportation is a great way to go. that is the way to achieve true innovation, not through making it so inconvenient for people to drive. i think it is a fact of life. young families are going to use their vehicles. we need to do a lot in san francisco to encourage young people and young families to stay in san francisco. i think we are missing out on a lot of our diversity when young families leave our c