We have quorum. Please call item two. Approval of the minutes. Before we take action to this item. Is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, you have the minutes of the meeting before you. If we can take a motion to approve the minutes. Motion by commissioner avalos. Seconded by commissioner farrell. We will take that without objection. On item two. Roll call. Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a very brief report today. We had two significant transportation events. On october 11th, we hosted the u. S. Secretary of transportation, ray lahood as well as our House Minority leader, nancy pelosi at at ceremony to mark the approval of the federal government grant for the central subway. This is a commitment of almost a billion dollars to a project that has been on i books for a very long time.
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting of tuesday october 23rd order, 2012. My name is david campos and i am the chair of the authority. Madam secretary, if we can roll commissioner present. Commissioner chu carmen chuy. Commissioner cohen commissioner elsbernd present. Commissioner commissioner present. Vice chair wiener. We have quorum. Please call item two. Approval of the minutes. Before we take action to this item. Is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, you have the minutes of the meeting before you. If we can take a motion to approve the minutes. Motion by commissioner avalos. Seconded by commissioner farrell. We will take that without objection. On item two. Roll call. Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a very brief report today. We
Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a very brief report today. We had two significant transportation events. On october 11th, we hosted the u. S. Secretary of transportation, ray lahood as well as our House Minority leader, nancy pelosi at at ceremony to mark the approval of the federal government grant for the central subway. This is a commitment of almost a billion dollars to a project that has been on i books for a very long time. We want to take this opportunity to congratulate the sfmta on reaching that important mile stone and thank everyone involved in making that funding possible. Of course, including the members of the board that have been supportive for this and advocated for this project and our star that have been working on this. Secondly, on october 12th, we marked a major milestone. We have the Ground Breaking of the Presidio Park way. We were honored t
This. Because they realize and know students who are struggling to meet these high requirements. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. One thing that i would like to discuss at some point and i dont know that today is necessarily the day to do this, but as were looking at the objective of giving every student the opportunity to go to college by allowing them to meet these requirements. The focus isnt necessarily on what the School District is doing, but i would like to say more and have more of a discussion about what else the city can do to help the School District reach that objective . And i know that there is additional supportal funding that supervisor kim has introduced. And a number of us are supportive of that. But i would like to have an even greater discussion that goes beyond the specific amount of money. But what else is it that we can do to collectively reach that objective . Because to the extent that resources are a big problem here, is there are there additional things th
This is something that we simply have got to move forward on. I was happy in 2012, i was able to get language in their that put a cap on this Publicprivate Partnerships. And there are folks around this country where theyre moving forward on that. Its really critical. And mr. Bishop rod of foreign manufacturing possibly taking place possibly take the place of domestic manufacturing. Thats something we havent talked about here but thats really critical. 40 balance in trade, for our economy, for a number of reasons. I guess what i would like to ask all of you, but mr. Jones if he would start out, how are Publicprivate Partnerships going to be affected by sequestration and the c. R. . What kind of longterm effects are we talking about . I agree with you, Publicprivate Partnerships are absolutely critical, protect the critical capabilities in both the public and private sector now more than ever as we are seeing significant downsizing. Capacity within the national sustained and daschle base