Orders of magnitude increase for people participating for relatively low cost and people participating who normally dont. I got a call on one of these and was able to do it during dinner and while doing homework. Last but not least in the short term and longer outreach we would engage in various strategy tooz reach out to communities of concern with multilingual and other and welcome input on how to do that. I guess that, if you want to add anything, otherwise that is all we have for today. I think that is it. Well take questions. Colleagues any questions for staff or comments on item 8 . Seeing none rsh move to Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Please come forward, i see a few people. Good morning Peter Strauss boferd San Francisco transit rider jz part of the transportation Justice Coalition. We are herethis is a information item but here to strongly support this process of developing the transporitation expendsture plan. It is a continuation of the unmet needs identifie
Im scott wiener, the chair of the authority and mr. Clerk can you call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, absent. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. Commissioner breed, present. We have quorum. Thank you very much. Item number 2. Item 2, chairs report. This is a information item. Thank you. I was pleased earlier this month to join with mayor lee and Transportation Authority to welcome anthony fox to San Francisco. San francisco is among 7 sit ease for challenge grant offered by the department of transportation and volcon transportation and delegation including secretary bock was in town to demonstrate new ways to manage transportation mpt secretary fox is a former mayor taking initiative particularly regarding funding given the political realty
Good morning and welcome to month late meeting of San Francisco conte Transportation Authority. Im scott wiener, the chair of the authority and mr. Clerk can you call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, absent. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. Commissioner breed, present. We have quorum. Thank you very much. Item number 2. Item 2, chairs report. This is a information item. Thank you. I was pleased earlier this month to join with mayor lee and Transportation Authority to welcome anthony fox to San Francisco. San francisco is among 7 sit ease for challenge grant offered by the department of transportation and volcon transportation and delegation including secretary bock was in town to demonstrate new ways to manage transportation mpt secretary f
Use rankchoice voting and rank both finalists, which if you are trying to make a choice on who the winner should be . It doesnt really make sense to be running them off against each other and indicates uncertainty about the situation. Having a primary for the mayor also would make candidates forums much easier. When you have just wave and waves of a dozen of candidates, its hard to have a forum and its difficult to support Public Financing because you have a smaller field. You could have two or a handful of candidates. Rankchoice works good with a handful, but up to a dozen, it really starts to fail. Thank you. Any other speakers left to speaker for Public Comment . Madam president. Thank you, seeing no other speakers for Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. Madam clerk, lets go back to the item that we skipped over. Item no. 9. Lets go back to item 9. Supervisor avalos, are we ready for that . Absolutely. All right, lets go. Thank you, madam president. And i want t
Good morning, everyone my name is supervisor president london breed of the board of supervisors and to my left is the button chair supervisor farrell and joined by supervisor wiener and supervisor tang to here the mayors proposed balanced budget for fiscal year 20162017 we look forward to what is proposed a number of Department Heads and commissioners and others i look forward to a robust conversation about that fiscal year budget and wed like to welcome you mr. Mayor to present your budget thank you so much for being here. clapping. good morning, supervisors, good morning to the members of the public, thank you supervisor president london breed and budget chair farrell and Board Members your elected officials and commissioners and all of our Department Heads also thank you to labor and Community Leaders for joining us and welcome to everyone watching at home thank all of you for youre support as we deliver a balanced twoyear budget. Every year the budget gives us an opportunity to add