there is a shelter that they just opened up. we need to do more to help the chronically homeless. they are taking up a lot of money. if we could just help them get into housing in the shelter system, that would open up more money. i they will need to talk about the changes system and possible upgrade, possible break down. i have a list of things that we should be considering an working on to make the whole system better. part of it starts at the shelter. i just feel that was the foundation for the homeless to build a better life. there are other ways that it can be done, but i think we could start there. commissioner elsbernd: thank you. this item has been continued to call of the chair. there will be another public comment on it, and you can raise your points at that time. item 7. item 7. hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending november 23, 2012, to the shelter monitoring committee. there are three seats and 9 applicants. commissioner elsbernd: based o
i m susan buckbinder. i m the director of the h.i.v. research section and of the sore project. on behalf of the entire project and the entire team which is large, i want to welcome you all to our ground-breaking ceremony and just give you a little bit of background on the aids office itself and the reason for the soar project. the aids office is really a unique research institution. in addition to the care that s provided and the resources that are given to the community to care for, to prevent and care for people with h.i.v. infection, we really are the only health department that is leading the h.i.v. prevention and surveillance effort. the kind of research that we do is done primarily through universities, so we re in a unique position. we have three research organizations houses within the aids office. there is the h.i.v. epidemiology unit that is headed by dr. seussan sheer and willie mcfarland. they really are the premiere surveillance group for h.i.v. and aids in
we go through. this will take place over approximately four months so that we should be done sometime in late spring, pushing towards mid-2012, four or five months. excuse me. what will we have when we re done? again, an improvement. in service reliability. it also positions us for the radio replacement project, which is coming down the road. there are probably three or four other train control projects in the queue that we will be bringing forward to you to keep the system in a state of good repair. splices remain the weak spot in the cable, in the sense that we want them to be absolutely as reliable as we can. striving to keep all of the signal system in a state of good repair. we thought it was important to brief you on this project that is ongoing right now. given the importance of this project to the subway and the subway, of course, to our entire transportation operation. director nolan: thank you. excellent presentation. very thorough. members of the board, questions o