Here are some proposed agenda items: On Transportation - Leveraging Obama stimulus dollars for mass transit - Averting a likely fare increase and Muni's growing disrespect for transit riders (especially disabled riders) - MTA increasing fare inspectors instead of revenues - and our need to act to get the new supes on our side right away for a -big- revenue boost to Muni (with concurrent build out) with no fare increases - The BART police shooting of passengers and the general morphing of local transit into a Homeland Security police state (and what to do about this) (Ammiano and Yee have proposed legislation re BART police.) - The New York City proposal for free mass transit and how we might apply it to SF On Sustainability - The Mayor bailing on the SFPUC biofuels program to subsidize a huge private biofuel factory which will turn animal agricultural products into biodiesel and will be run by the largest multinational rendering corporation (Darling International) which has a long history of illegal polluting and ignoring local laws. - Sophie Maxwell's measure to close the Mirant plant and replace it with a clean energy program that adopts the Prop H clean energy benchmarks. (This needs to be extensively amended and we need to meet on it as an action item.) - SFPUC's appointment of a former PG&E employee to run the Community Choice project and making making sure that LAFCo does not wimp out and accept this which there is a danger of, and so keeping Community Choice on track and strong, which suddenly seems very uncertain - SFPUC staff's move to defund the nonprofit/low-income portion of the Mayor's solar program and increase private subsidies John-Marc Chandonia wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:07:03PM -0800, Eric Brooks wrote:
Who's up for a joint Transportation/Sustainability meeting on Tuesday the 20th at 6:30pm?
(Keep in mind the 20th is inauguration day.)
I'm available, on the off chance that I don't get transported bodily into heaven when the Messiah takes office.
What's on the agenda?
JMC
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