Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done.
Presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year Round Program and they allow students to get to activities year round including jobs. So just to spend a moment on vision zero. This is such an enormous part of our work at the mta and specifically on the sustainable streets side and i thought it was important to talk about this and i will say that december 2013 was a really, really bad month for Traffic Safety and there was a lot of tragedies that month, and deaths in the traffic deaths and one of those that really captured the attention and hearts of so many of us and so many in the public space is the tragic loss of sophia lu and she was a six year old sherman elementary student who was killed in a crosswalk in the evening as an uber driver and this could have been anyones child and its deeply tragic and it has catalyzed us and moved everyone in the city, particularly you chair kim to do something about it and to really act, and i t
Bullets that sfusd high schoolers, 46 are riding muni to school and 63 from school so more there are more High School Students who are using muni to get home and we can imagine why, parents at work and the like, and so commissioner fewer you mentioned that the mta provides some Important Services for students, but in turn its important for the Transportation System as a whole to have our students choosing a sustainable mode of transportation, be it walking or taking muni for the Transportation System to work so we recognize that as well and we think both free muni for youth and all of the programs we can encourage the youth of sustainable forms of transportation is very important to the city as a whole so i will stop there and i would like to turn it over to julie to talk you through the next section. Thank you ms. Su. Good afternoon. The muni has a really long history of serving Transportation Needs of children and schools, and when we go out and we do focus groups with students one o
Them travel safely two and from school and i would like to provide some context for all of what we do including those on the Pedestrian Safety side starting with vision zero but also talking about our safe routes to school program, the School Crossing guards program and Accessible Services and then im going to turn it over to julie from our Transit Operations Division to really dive into the Transit Services component as well as free muni for youth. I will note that just having listened to the presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year Round Program and they allow students to get to activities year round including jobs. So just to spend a moment on vision zero. This is such an enormous part of our work at the mta and specifically on the sustainable streets side and i thought it was important to talk about this and i will say that december 2013 was a really, really bad month for Traffic Safety and there was a lot of tragedies th
Summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done. I think part of what we have been talking about as a team is how do we ensure that those internship programs that exist is folded into the work were already doing, so we have departments that created their own so we have been working more closely with people and project pool and the rec and park and the airport and dpw and make sure those jobs are folded in as well and were really thinking about the different cohorts of kids t