Grand jury report. And of their findings. And their recommendations. What motivates me to come here today, yesterday morning, despite the best efforts of the station 15, two members of our community lost their lives in a fire on dellano avenue. Woodframe building, built in 1915, like so many woodframe buildings on the west side and southern sides of town, where theres a greater concentration of families and children. At present, we dont have a system that can handle the big one in those areas. I feel strongly that the city departments and the financing people need to focus on solving this question seriously. I thank the grand jury for their recommendations, for their effort and i thank mr. Dute and nancy werfell for having led so many people and explain this to them. Thank you. Mar thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is ellen lee chow. Im a resident in San Francisco for the last 33 year. I am a Public Employee. Around the former civic grand jury for two terms, 2014 a
St test test test. This is a test. This sophomore a captioning test. California are looking at Carbon Pricing. Many as you heard over 30 have their own gas taxes. Some are going to tolling. So there are a lot of different ways we can raise revenues without focusing only on eds, which states are thinking about right now. I like to say there are no silver bullet, we need to learn from the states and see which work. We now have our chair and Ranking Member from our transportation infrastructure subcommittee. I want to salute them and their stats and leadership they are providing as we go through this process. Thank you. Senator boseman. Thank you, senator braun. Mr. Braceras, arkansas, it was significant, record breaking floods both in height and just the force of the water. Tremendous damage, lots of damage to the infrastructure, the good news is, like utah, arkansas is working very hard, theyre going to recover, great leadership in our state and all of those kind of things. I guess what
In particular. But all of you to the hearing, as we are galloping toward the need to the act. Cities and localities are looking to us to see what we are to do. I met with a group this morning and congress. It is in the most difficult we have had to do. The issues havent waited for congress to catch up on revenue. After and in the using other methods. To get rid of congestion and to bring us into the 21st century. On transportation. In todays hearing, we will look at some of those questions. The nuances of federal towing policy and congestion pricing. Off technology solutions. To address congestions or congestion and many other Transportation Needs today. While congress failed to solve the revenue question, is negatively attacked and affected the constituents as never before. Not to mention, the quality of air we breathe and failure to deal with Climate Change which was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization, to indicate just how far time has moved and how much congr
I would challenge both departments assertions about the tenyear capital plan. Between november 2018 and january 2019 major reinvestigations to the tenyear capital plan, based on directives from the mayor. Deputy chief San Francisco Fire Department retired. The civil grand jury has provided the City Government with an invaluable document, which if endorsed by the board of supervisors, will direct our various city agencies to expand the water supply system of High Pressure hydrants in a manner to protect the 15 neighborhoods, woodframe structures and 390,000 residents, who despite having paid the same tax rate as the rest of the city for years, have never had the same level of protection that their fellow citizens in the older neighborhoods have had. The two overriding messages that the civil grand jury has given us are, one, in order to avoid repeating the massive destruction by firestorms, that San Francisco suffered in 19 to 6, the awss must be expanded into every city neighborhood. T
Nh hold a hearing on the nation partial roads. This is an hour and 20 minute portion. You can watch the entire hearing on cspan. Org. I want to welcome our witnesses in particular. To todays hearing as we are looking at the need to reauthorize not the cities our cities and counties are looking to us. A the focus has been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says f