1 00 and hear these amazing people and hear what they do to help stop that trade. Here we go. Another exciting event coming up not this weekend but the following weekend. In celebration of our flamingos. We have three new flamingo chics, they are white. If you wear pink you get one 1 off admission. We havent had flamingo chicks for a number of years. Finally we have another traveling exhibit in october called nature connects. Giant images made out of leggos. Most are garden related. The intent is to emphasize gardens and the San Francisco zoo is an amazing garden. If you havent come and seen the efforts to promote gardens and plants, how can you talk about wild without plants . This is the importance of plants on this planet. The most exciting thing thats happening next tuesday we have the official Ground Breaking of our new tropic building. Its going to take close to a year to build. Hopefully it will be opening next summer, but many of those an mams animals that were hard to spell an
[music] paratransit is specialized transportation for seniors and people with disabilities who are unable to use the muni system. In San Francisco, were proud that weve had a Paratransit Program since 1978 long before it was mandated by the americans with disabilities act in 1990. San francisco is a unique city and our Paratransit Program reflects this. We have a network of services, including sf access van service, paratransit taxi, including Wheelchair Accessible ramp taxi and group van which serves groups of individuals going to a single location like a senior center. [music] im elsa scott and im a retired federal employee and im a native of San Francisco. I use paratransit because, ive been using it for about six years because six years ago i had to start dialysis treatments at cpmc. So im very dependent on paratransit three times a week, coming and going. My current driver is brian berquist. ; hes just such a friendly, sort of a teddy bear kind of a guy. I dont know what it is abo
Transportation grant for close to 1 million for the school year 201617, and to provide transportation tool kits and targeted Traffic Enforcement. A partnership between our agencies. We have seen increase of Traffic Enforcement by sftp. And everyone has walk to school on your calendar on october 8. And there is more about Bessie Carmichael school in the workgroup hand outs. And we are working on what i call the city vision work group. We are working to look ahead. We know that the 2424 is important goal by the city. But we need more to achieve zero deaths, and we have a review of Safety Practices based on what is happening in the united states, and other cities implementing vision zero and as well as our peer cities. And looking to other countries such as sweden and australia, to see what they are doing in best practices of safety. And comparing that to the work in San Francisco, as well as we know of our best practices. And this review will help us in short and longerterm strategies fo
Presented to the finance committee in may for aprovel in june so this is a great opportunity for ustuse present how our Work Programs for the up coming year support vision zero. We are focus our work program into 3 primary areas for ease of understanding. This is plan fund and deliver. We treat the sftca Vision Zero Committee as the primary and main forum. Throughout the year well continue to support the board and also provide committees support. Staff at the agency also participate on Vision Zero Task force. We are actively voled in the steering c34i9y and various other subcommittees including the education and communication and im a cochair of vision zero working group with [inaudible] as administrator of local voter approved revenue including the transportation sales tax and vehicle Registration Fees, our work program is based on traenz paerns and accountsability and meetings like this provide that opportunity fl public to really stay inform squd the board to stay informed about how
Staff. Luis in so many meetings had the opportunity to change the course or do Something Different and he stuck there all the way. He continued to encourage us. This is what i want. We need to get it and all the battles that we went through, luis was there and made good, sound decisions along with the Library Commission and that is why were here today with that great project. Big hand for luis and his leadership and the library. [ applause ] and of course, the project will be a library and a park and we need to do more projects like that in San Francisco. So joining everybody, im looking forward to this groundbreaking and im looking forward to coming back for the grand opening. Thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mohammed. We definitely have a Mutual Admiration Society among all Department Heads. Our next department head, he and i take the show on the road to promote literacy and to promote parks. I will let him tell the story, Phil Ginsburg. [ applause ] thank you,