Id like to call the sfpuc tuesday, february 9, 2016, no 92016 madam clerk madam clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 is pitifully special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoes of the advocate and nobody can fill the shoes of dr. Espanola jackson because she had a unique way of disarming and at the same time making a poin
Special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoes of the advocate and nobody can fill the shoes of dr. Espanola jackson because she had a unique way of disarming and at the same time making a point i know you for coming too very much so advocates if they have their heart in the right place we expect the commissioners to center your heart in the right place we need to Work Together to make the right decisions for example, when the San Francisco
Call the roll. Commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 is pitifully special meeting january 26th and january 29th special meeting is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved and second any comes, questions. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The minutes are approved next item, please. General Public Comment mr. Da costa good afternoon. Good afternoon commissioners first and foremost i want to thank the commissions and others that attended the services for dr. Espanola jackson so i hope i heard the people that spoke at that service judge quinton and george and some others so what really happens when an advocate passes away it is difficult to fill the shoes of the advocate and nobody can fill the shoes of dr. Espanola jackson because she had a unique way of disarming and at the same time making a point i know you for coming too very much so advocates if they have their heart in the right place
About this move, theyd voted to approve the contract as s now will have to decide whether to support the revised version. This is not the contract we voted on or took to our members to vote on. They should be voting on the same thing theyve presented to us. Last few weeks weve been stuck in the red zone if i can use the football analogy. We have to find a way to get into the end zone. The provision would have given six weeks of paid leave each year, bart says it would have cost 44 million. That is remarkable. But the third Party Without a vote in this is the bart riders. Abc7 spoke with them to get their view. Dear bart lets settle this whole contract issue. Weve had enough of this. Reporter many barlt riders dont care anymore who gets what in the contract. Just that its done. Bart management and unions need to get their stuff together the public has been with this with two what . Two bart strikes now . Some do have an opinion about what is agreed to. Dear bart please let the employees
Yesterday late in the day we got another famous tweet from mr. Icahn saying he had written a new letter to apple. Weve heard some of the contents of that letter, which apparently is about to be made public, if it hasnt been already. Theres the tweet were referring to. The specifics that havent been shared completely as of yet or perhaps are just in the process of being shared is that mr. Icahn wants to tender immediately, buy apple for 150 billion worth of its shares. Its choking up jim over here. Right now he wants to tender an offer . At the current price is what hes asking for in the letter. He also says in the letter that he would not tender his own shares into that immediate tender offer, again of 150 billion. So roughly about a third of the market cap of the company at its current price. And he also said he would not tender. And he has raised the stakes on the earnings to 4. 7 million shares. It has been roughly 4 million shares. Were talking about a 2. 5 billion position for mr.