Us, it takes a minimum of three months. And so by virtue of that time schedule, it makes this a retroactive approval. It doesnt mean normally, retroactive is it has it refers to the timing difference between when the accept and expend is approved versus when is the grant award start date. And so because we cant chair fewer when is the grant award start date . 912019. Chair fewer so mr. Leong, i just want to be perfectly transparent with you to say that if it was a start date, that you tell me it takes you three months for your department to go through an accept and expend is somewhat unacceptable, and the fact that now its five months since that, i think to bring that to us retroactively, i just want to say i think its a little i dont think your reasoning actually is somewhat valid. I actually do think the departments approve the accept and expend grants all the time. Its because theyre notified later and this is because its retroactive. Okay. So i just want to caution you that before
Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think the first photo is ready. Everyday our overhead line unit performs preventative maintenance and keeping our Service Running safely. Theyve also been one of the teams thats been pivotal in really taking advantage of the extended maintenance window and have replaced thousands of feet of overhead wire and i think removed over 30 slices from the system. But they also have a responsibility to respond to emergencies and addressed quickly as possible so we can get service that going. That means theyre working between trains, sometimes that means that theyre working on hours or under tremendous amount
[roll call] you have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devises. The ringing of use of cellphones and pagers and sound producing electric devices are prohibited and the chair may over the removal from the room of any person responsibility for one going off in the middle of the meeting. The minutes of february 18th, 2020 regular meeting. No members have turned in a public speaker card. Public comment is closed. We have the minutes ill entertain a motion. Move. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Consider those approved. Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think th
Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, december 10th, im yasmin vossoughian, amin had an important family matter that kept him from making his flight back in time but he is on a red eye, as we speak. And will be back in the anchor chair tomorrow. We begin after weeks of hearings and countless hours of witness testimony, today democrats are expected to announce articles of impeachment against President Trump. Five sources familiar with the discussions telling nbc news democrats will bring two articles against the president , abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosis office announced last week that leaders of the house committees involved in the impeachment probe will hold a News Conference at 9 00 a. M. , this morning, to announce the next steps in the inquiry. Two people familiar with the matter are telling the Washington Post that under the current plan, the Judiciary Committee will vote on the articles on thursday setting up a floor vote for next week. Now t
Peculiar position because not only are they warranted with a task of doing that, but they also have to rely on Police Officers for this type of investigation in order to investigate Police Officers, so i think it puts them in a very peculiar position, and then the other question i had was, was there any training on this m. O. U. With the Police Department or the d. A. s office or i know there was a section about training and stuff, but i mean, is the Police Department being trained on this m. O. U. And how the investigation should go forward . That has occurred already, and will continue to occur with joint training between the District Attorneys Office and the Police Department. That has already started. That would have been nice to let us know so we can go and observe and, you know, some of these questions could probably have been answered there, you know, and flushed out a little more. I certainly knew about that, i dont think that is a secret. Im not sure we all knew about it. Long