i want to too john knox white that is on a sfmta management team for about a year and a half the go to percent for safety education he led the street campaign with bus attorneys and enforcement starting this month he conducted the workshop for the safety advocacy and operating vehicles to improve safety on the streets and now for the vision zero program and marketing and transportation policies so as a unique prospective on issues getting our safety messages out to our constituents residents in san francisco he's wonderful and i'm pleased to present this award to john (clapping.) mr. white congratulations on behalf of the board we're appreciated your work so well and love to hear from you okay. >> thank you. i'm really choked up i hope that someday to live up to the recognition you know pedestrian safety and street safety is the father of two high school students hiking and biking the streets of san francisco all their lives very, very close and dear to my heart the way in which we have safe streets and develop safe streets has an impact on the quality of life in the contingent we deve

recognize that we had a large con ent and we had commaederer from sfpd and we had several including john knox white, and megan wier, also presented and we had members of the pedestrian, safety, advisory committee, and bike coalition and walk sf and china town, and senior disability, action and central city, sro collaborativive. and just a couple of take aways that i had and i know that norman is going to share some of his i was impressed by their work on the city drivers in particular and both are the large vehicles, but any city employee that drives in new york city. and it is something that i think that san francisco should model itself after and use some of their curriculum, and they have the tracking devices on all of the vehicles and the tracking devices, which will track how hard they accelerate and whether they are wearing seat belt and a number of things and the driver, education course is definitely, a whole other level and with mta which is a separate agency from the city, they have now made it their policy that it does not matter whose fault it is, that the driver should alway

recognize that we had a large con ent and we had commaederer from sfpd and we had several including john knox white, and megan wier, also presented and we had members of the pedestrian, safety, advisory committee, and bike coalition and walk sf and china town, and senior disability, action and central city, sro collaborativive. and just a couple of take aways that i had and i know that norman is going to share some of his i was impressed by their work on the city drivers in particular and both are the large vehicles, but any city employee that

knox and the governors in the westminster divines as giving dignity to regular work in the protestant work ethic that was so strong and establishing america's? >> i do. and it's not an easy subject to write about. i think you heard me mention earlier today, i am on one side scotch presbyterian and on the other catholic which gives me -- than most english people have been is something i've always loathed by that's impossible to into the mindset of english-speaking people in the early modern period without understanding the incredibly important truth to them, not only of covenants and a contract, the basis on which america was originally settled. everyone knows the words about the city on health it's become a clichÉ. wisconsin is what he said before. we are entering into a covenant with our maker. this idea that god has brought us into new land and in exchange we have to live in a particular way. the american republic was founded on the principle. contracts and covenants are as important in anglos religious thoughts us in our economic model. my children made me put into the book their