thank you chair, and all. my name is christopher and live commenting on more bad news. within the last two weeks climate scientists have presented more alarming reports. these are on our southern antarctic ice cap and the reports describe once again how the warming climate and oceans are accelerating the ever faster movement of ice mass the size of california, averaging over a kilometer in thickness. into the world s oceans resulting in multimeter sea-level rise by the end of the century. once again scientists are low-balling the numbers and once again their predictions will lag reality. my prediction is still 50 by 55, that is 2055. my prediction is that by that time climate change will disrupt food production, that climate change will bring famine, that climate change will provoke war among the nations over vanishing resources. my solution is still using freely available energy to desalinate freshwater to irrigate new trees. what can you do to help? and i would move t
internally, to execute on that. president omotalde: thank you. commissioner wald commissioner wald: thank you both for coming in. it s good to see both of you again. so, this is sort of a follow to commissioner hoyos question. if you achieve your goals, this can be a ripple effect. you re going to have vast numbers of new writers and those people are going to the park, if that s the technical term, in san francisco and a lot of them are going to get on other kinds of public transportation. whether it s bike were buses or whatever. so, i would welcome, at least assurance, or it is not a big discussion, that you are not only talking to the departments about its expertise, but that you are at least trying to get sort of a candle on all the parts of the city family in san francisco that will be impacted by the achievement of your goals. particularly, in terms of ridership. both in terms of increasing the number of people who ride and how they get to your vehicles. it s not ju
second. public comment. all in favor, say i. i. that motion carries unanimously we will now go into closed session can you please read do closed session items. item 18 unmitigated games and item 19 urban mitigated people of the state of california versus the sfpuc and item 20 that pair et al versus the san francisco board of appeals 6 appellant district and irrigation restore the hetch hetchy of the san francisco and items 2 it through 28 will not be heard today. thank you is there a motion to public comment on closed session items. is there a motion to assert. session. okay. we re now out of closed session and back into open session 18 and 19 about settles were approve a motion to disclose any discussions from closed sessions. all in favor, say i. i. opposed? we will not disclose any other in any business hearing none, this meeting is adjourned [gavel] president omotalde: we will officially call the meeting to order. we will
operators. is that another flaw in the mtc s formula? or . yeah. evaluation. it is actually identified as you go back to the sight here as a high, performer. oh, gene v, so right now, we are planning what is going to be much more dense, population. and we are not necessarily by having a huge impact on the current rider ship but we know that it is going to be dramatic in the future, and the mtc s evaluation, and capture what is going to be done in the future? rather thatn what the current positions are? they do look at the benefit that is based on projected in the area of 2013, for the area and so it is based on the last times and assumptions which i believe is probably likely to be lower than what were currently anticipated and the issue or one of the issues is that the model issues of a lot of the cost is related to safety improvements and the complete that go along. and so it is a little bit of extra cost that is not reflected in the benefit cost assessments. the
president omotalde: x item on the agenda clerk: quick announcement at the use of cell phones pagers is on producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chairman made order the removal of the minimum any person responsible for use of cell phone pager or other similar sound producing electronic devices. note to the public, there s an opportunity for public comment both after each item and in general public comment for items not on the agenda. there are a limited number of speaking cards at the table. you may complete a speaking card and handed to me and i will pass it on to the president for you to be called up. you do not need to complete a speaker card to speak during public comment and you may also speak anonymously. so, if we do run out of speaker cards, don t worry. you ll still be able to speak during public comment. with that item to approval of minutes of march 22, 2016 commission on the environment regular meeting from these pre