Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testifying remotely. We appreciat
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Stream here, but thank you. I had the exact same one issue that i dont want to postpone with the same issue you just brought up about the conservatorships, and im looking for chief tong. There you go. Theres chief tong. Knowing a little bit about the conservatorship proceedings from the probate division, i this is seeming a little bit backwards to me. It is in fact true, its a civil proceeding, and they have been pushed way into 2021. But just as, lets say, Domestic Violence restraining orders or those kinds of things have been moving ahead the whole time and have been dealt with timely, you know, we have in this city such stringent requirements, its shocking to me that anybody qualified but so much must be expended upon a single individual before the Public Guardian or Family Member or whomever is allowed to file. But it just seems contrary to my logic that with backed that, with backed up cases, there are more cases coming into the system. Im not asking you to address that now, but i
Their closing arguments to the American People. This as their best chance to reach tens of millions of people who were watching tonight. Our special postdebate newscast starts right now. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. Race, covid19, immigration, climate, health care and china among the topics tonight. The exchanges, though, much more substantial and civil than their first debate. We were actually able to hear some clear answers tonight from both candidates. Now, the debate also had a very different feel. More measured, more controlled, with less interruptions. Now, thats partly due to new debate rules where microphones were muted at times. What we saw tonight, something valuable. Their differences. Their different approaches to the coronavirus, for example, taxes and health care. But one topic continued to be a theme and thats attacks on character. I ran because of you. I ran because of barack obama. Because you did a poor job. If i th
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu