Morning everybody. Welcome to it april 23 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. I serve as chair of the board. The vice chair and supervisor melgar. I want to thank megan and the clerk yvette lopez jessop. Will you please call the roll . Yes, commissioner chan, absent. Commissioner dorsey, present. Commissioner engardio, present. Chair mandelman, present. Vice chair melgar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner preston, absent. Ronan absent. Commissioner safai, absent. Commissioner stefani, present. Commissioner walton, present. We have quorum. Thank you madam clerk. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, i do. Thank you. For members of the public interested in participating in the meeting we welcome attendance here in person in the legislative chamber room 250 in city hall. Or may watch channel 26 or 99 or stream the meeting at www. Sfgovtv. Org. To make Public Comment the best way is dial 4156550001. Enter access code 266461101
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[roll call] please be advised that director torres will not be at todays meeting. Item three, announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phones, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. And cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully ask they that be turned off. Item four, approval of the minutes from the december 5 regular meeting. Welcome back, everyone. Happy holidays and happy new year. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 5 . Oh, oh. Sorry. Ok. Thank you. This is just for the minutes. A motion to approve. A second . Second. Item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Item 6. 1 is the election of the m. T. A. Board chairman and vice chairman purchase saounlts to you
And cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully ask they that be turned off. Item four, approval of the minutes from the december 5 regular meeting. Welcome back, everyone. Happy holidays and happy new year. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Any Public Comment on the minutes from december 5 . Oh, oh. Sorry. Ok. Thank you. This is just for the minutes. A motion to approve. A second . Second. Item six, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members . Item 6. 1 is the election of the m. T. A. Board chairman and vice chairman purchase saounlts to your rules of order. Thanks. Ok. So i will take over this item as the vice chair, assuming that our beloved chair wants to continue in her role or at least consider it for the next few moments. So, as were on the nominations for consideration for people for chair of the commission, i would entertain nominations for the chair position at that time at this time. Ill nominate Cheryl Brinkman.