The city of San Francisco, sfgtv meeting of the Municipal Transportation Agency of january 17, 2017 will begin shortly. Borden is anticipated. Director heinicke, present. Director hsu, present. Nolan, present. Romose, present. Rubke, present. You have a quorum. Announcement of sound producing devices. Ringing of and use of cell, phone pagers and devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for the ringing and use of cell phone and pager or any other device may be removed from the meeting. Cell phones on vibrate cause micro phone interference. Approval of minutes for january 3 regular meeting. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor say aye. The ayes have it. Item 5, communication. I know of none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. I like to [inaudible] i nominate Malcolm Heinicke. For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated a
For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have a nomination . I know this is surprising but like to nominate Malcolm Heinicke. Any other nominations . Members of the public have comments . Seeing none. I like to say we are very fortunate malcolm stepping into the position. So knowledgeable and dedicated and thoughtful and not afraid to take on hard issues. That is the bft benefit of the agenc
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Walked into Holy Cross Hospital and the emergency room personnel called police. Police went to the hospital, confirmed they found a gunshot victim there, police here are telling us theyre looking to see if that may be connected to what happened here on hawk run terrace. Lets playing now a sound bite from Montgomery County police. He talks about the people they into contact custody. We counted he as many as five perhaps six taken away from handcuffs. Heres what he has to investigators located some potential witnesses within a home adjacent to the parking lot where the victim is located. Theyve been taken into investigative detention so we can interview them and determine what part any one ofth maybe just a witness most people we saw in cuffs were a variety of older men, younger men, some women that we saw taken in, one man was very and clearly uncooperative and the officer was struggling with him as he was taking him to put him into a cruise. We saw as many as five, six people in handcu
Over your safety on the rail. The federal government just nounced it is yanking millions of dollars from metro. Now, transit systems from maryland are losing money, all because state lawmakers missed a deadline to help metro. Adam, this is the big impact. 9 million in federal help is being repealed. Even metro itself. The feds blame maryland and virginia lawmake areless. Lawmakerless. The deadline was yesterday. They just sent this letter to say it did tails the project details the project for losing money. The metro crash. The fda has been pushing to make this new safety oversight program. The feds have been picking up the slack so far. Then a year ago, then transportation secretary anthony fox set the deadli just spoke to metro chair jack evans. He is angry about this. He called this action foolhardy and irresponsible. He wanted the deadline extended. He said state legislators just dont move fast enough. Maybe 9 months. D. C. Has already done its part. Here, bouncers signed the city