Violence cases, but those throughout the state as well. On a more positive note, i wanted to say that this week is a celebration of our Incredible School districts arts program formerly called young in art. Its our School Districts Arts Festival being held across the civic center plaza, the Asian Art Museum this week. I dont know if any of you have been enjoying the art and the performances, but i have as well. Its a celebration of student creativity, visual literary media and performing arts in our schools. And its running through sunday, march 10th. Im really excited that the Richmond District schools are participating from Frank Mccoppin elementary [speaker not understood] as well as many others. As my colleagues, supervisor yee and kim who are also former president s of the school board know, we couldnt do enough or we cant do everything to support arts without the support of the public and the passage of prop h or the public enrichment Public Education Enrichment Fund or peef and
In the market and the cop in, valencia, and stevenson neighborhood. Between 2000 and 2005 many of our residents initially united to halt the rebuild of the freeway ramp. And when they failed in doing that they mobilize today get themselves onto the central freeway Highway Advisory Committee and lobbied for 5 million for the project itself to be spent within the immediate area. Thousands of meetings later, the cac was able to come up with a plan for the funds and the Transportation Authority initiated the central freeway replacement and [speaker not understood] project study of 2005 which sought to identify and prioritize potential projects that would help improve the surrounding neighborhoods impacted by the new central freeway project. The proposed improvements developed in partnership with the community are collectively named the south of market west Improvement Project and will include a skate park and a dog park for this neighborhood. Based on what we felt the Recreation Needs of t
Thank you, madam clerk. First, i want to echo president chius comments and welcome supervisor tang to her first Board Meeting and look forward to working with you. And i want to just thank my colleagues for a number of item that they have introduced and certainly supervisor wiener, like to cosponsor your resolution the bike sharing program. I think that is an important project that needs to move forward. And speaking of pilots, i do want to acknowledge the work of the mta, the free muni for youth coalition, and so many partners who attended the launch of the free muni for Youth Program which supervisor wiener, you might want to note that the mta held it at Everett Middle School in district 8. But it was great to see the number of young people who came and the level of involvement. And i also want to thank my colleagues who were present at the, at the launch. Supervisor avalos, supervisor kim, and supervisor yee, thank you for being there. The next item i have is a an ordinance that aut