Lets have a cup of coffee and talk about it. Good morning, everyone. This is the tuesday, november 18th, 2014, meeting of the plans and Programs Committee of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority. And my name is eric mar and i am the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor commissioner norman yee, to my left, london breed and our clerk is mr. Steve, and could you give us me announcements . There are no announcements could we have a roll call . Item number one . Commissioner breed . We are just going for do the roll call. Okay, got it. Here. Campos . Absent. Commissioner kim . Kim absent, commissioner mar . Here. Mar present. Commissioner yee . Here. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you and i would like to thank charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today, call the next item, two, Citizen Advisory Committee report, this is an information item. And we have brian larkin. Good morning, commissioners. We had only one action item on our ago ago agenda, for the proposit
To understand and so we wanted to legislation to be as board and covered as possible taking that waiver out for collective Bargaining Agreement was important and covering hass as many as possible and local 2 brought up the small number of employees in the hotel who are employees of the hotel not for example, soft Story Building that is in the hilton thats one of the important ones that as people testify ill be working closely with the coalitions and the City Attorney to craft something that is clear legislation. I think that makes sense what you were talking about i had a few other questions and appreciate our indulge of my ramming up literally open the topic here in the legislation and i know supervisor avalos has other questions. I will make two motions first is to remove the addressing the 2 hundred employee or they recalled for worker retention provisions in the mar, carmen chu or supervisor campos legislation thats one motion. Sorry clarify added in. That was added in on wednesday
Absent. Commissioner kim . Kim absent, commissioner mar . Here. Mar present. Commissioner yee . Here. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you and i would like to thank charles from sfgtv for tell vicing this today, call the next item, two, Citizen Advisory Committee report, this is an information item. And we have brian larkin. Good morning, commissioners. We had only one action item on our ago ago agenda, for the proposition funds, related to cal train or bart station access, we have some discussion of the station access project that our park station and the east side station access, project. And smith, our newest member initiated that discussion and i asked a question about the cost of rehabilitation of cal train, locomotives whether that was a capitol or a operational and maintenance and thite items that we had were for information only and we listened tentatively to them all, shorter agenda for us. Thank you, mr. Larkin and i want to thank you for your thoroughness but also, the staff
Agenda again. This time straightjohn kerry is travelling to geneva at this secretary of state john kerry is travelling to geneva hoping to boost talks between iran and six powers. Negotiators have been working since thursday trying to hammer out a deal. The talks were scheduled to end friday. They were extended ahead hopes of a breakthrough. For 10 years iran admitted to building vast infrastructure. It could be for peaceful energy, but could create components of nuclear weapons. Today iran is being convinced to give up the capacity to make a bomb. It is the president s poll say that iran not make a nuclear weapon. Think of making bomb like tea, right now they are brewing uranium. The brew would be lighter, just 5 ful the deal stopping construction of irans plutonium plant, allowing u. N. Inspectors more access. We need iran to provide complete and utter reassurance about the peaceful nature of the program. In return the u. S. Would lift 7 billion in sanctions. Iran doesnt have to tear
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford in new york. World leaders in geneva appear to be on the verge of a breakthrough on irans fuk leer program. Secretary of state john kerry arrived there a few hours ago and late friday the state Department Said kerrys goal was to narrow the differences and move closer to an agreement. At a negotiation table Foreign Ministers from iran, russia, france, the uk and germany, hoping to clinch a deal limiting Irans Nuclear activity. We explain what is at stake. For 10 years iran admits it built a vast nuclear infrastructure. It could be for Peaceful Energy but can create components of a Nuclear Weapons. Today its hoped a deal can be truck to cease that. It is the president s policy that iran must not be allowed to make a nuclear weapon. Think of making a bomb like tea. Iran is enriching uranium to about 20 . It will make building a bomb difficult. The deal also stops construction of a plutonium planned. Allowing more access to ins