The first time i made that. They helped make tonights event possible. I also want to thank all of you for supporting such talks like many other independent bookstores. We are facing a challenging marketplace but we are doing quite well in large part due to the avid book readers here in washington and we remain committed to bringing a great author and great book event. A few issues remain critical to our individual health and the nations wellbeing as a state of healthcare in this country. And yet a few issues are as bright and controversy and misinformation. We are fortunate this evening to have with us and accomplished journalist and media entrepreneur who has made it his focus the past few years to sort fact from fiction and get to the truth behind the Affordable Care act and the American Healthcare system today. Steve of course has a long history of taking on big subjects through journalism. Shortly after graduating from law school in the mid1970s he launched the American Lawyer to c
Ever and every year it gets better and better. So were very happy that we made that choice. For more information on book to tvs visit to and a halfston, texas, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles go to cspan2. Org local content. Now more nonfiction authors and books on booktv. Steven brill, the founder of court tv, discusses the creation passage, and effectiveness of the Affordable Care act with dr. Ezekiel emanuel. [inaudible conversations] coopener of politics and prose, along with my wife. On behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming out this evening. We at politics and prose and George Washington university the first time i made that slip georgetown but anyway we and gw have worked together a number of years to put on author events together. And id like to thank the gw staff who helped make tonights event possible. I also want to thank all of you for supporting such talks. Like many other independent book stores p p is facing a challenging marketpl
Newly adopted federal guidelines for reflectivity on the signs because you want to be able to see them in the dark. Its Unfunded Mandate that every municipality in the country is grappling with and they do recognize that and they have a clause in the recommendation that you implement as over time, but even though there is a stated compliance date, its prioritized by local agencies based on need and funding availability. I dont believe well be losing any funding over this, but we are very cognizant of the deadlines and taking it very seriously. One of the things we are doing is taking our data base of all the signs and converting it into a system where it becomes inventory control. Well know exactly where all the 200,000 signs of all the cities and the age of them when they were installed. One of their methods that their federal government allows us to use is to either go out to the field with a device and measure the reflectivity of each sign which is labor intensive and not practical
Authority to the community. Thank you for consideration my application. Thank you, mr. Rutlidge. Is there anyone else who would like to speak . Good morning, everyone. My name is michelle jock. I work at the campus of city college. Good transportation directly Links Resources to employment, tourism and resources and education for a continued development for a Better Development of San Francisco bay area. My educational background is Public Administration. I had the opportunity to work with an Economic Development organization in the free state province of south africa with transportation issues. Im very excited to see a True Partnership with all modes of transportation that the city and surrounding areas have to offer to effectively work together. More input from the community and neighborhoods across the city is imperative when developing major transit hubs that will affect the city. I would very much like to become a member of the San Francisco county transit authority. Please restat
Would increase capacity and the answer for that from shawn kennedy, the mta staff said that would be dependent on the number of vehicles that were in service which was not a capital cost which was not under this item. The other item we had was no. 8, that was for strategic analysis report related to regional and bike projects. We again passed that unanimously. Though our agenda item asks only for 18,000. Your agenda item includes and additional 25,000 for optional technical tasks. We didnt discuss that so im not going to speculate on whether or not we voted to approve that. That is my report. Colleagues we are joined by commissioner london breed as well. Do we have any questions . Its nice to see members of the advisory committee. Thanks for being here. Pleased to be here. Anyone from the public would like to speak, please come forward. Mr. Williams from the transit drivers union. Good morning, chairman, mar, committee members. I just want to bring up the fact with the Citizens Advisor