[gavel]. Chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, august 25, 2020. We have a new clerk today, miss brittany milton, who comes to us from the contracting industry, and we are delighted that she is on board, and someday, well work with her in the board of supervisors chambers. With that, ms. Milton, welcome, and if that, could you please call the roll. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton. Do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for any item on this agenda by call 8882045987, and entering access code on the screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milt
Clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton. Do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for any item on this agenda by call 8882045987, and entering access code on the screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton, and colleagues, supervisor mandelman is going to be about 30 minutes late fore this meeting. Colleagues, is there a motion . Supervisor walton second. Chair peskin ms. Meltocan that without roll or how do i handle that . Because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont need to have because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont have to call roll for that item. Chair peskin thank you. I want to thank supervisor walton and supe
Temperatures just as hot as yesterday with no relief in sight. A few spots warmer than we were 24 hours ago. A live look at the oakland estuary. We have a haze in the sky that continues. Expect hazy conditions and poor air quality over portions of the bay area. When it comes to the advisories, the start of the weekend, they continue until 9 00 tonight. The heat advisory is for the coastline with the excessive heat warning for the bayside as well as the ballot in the hills. This will expire tonight and in its place heightened fire danger to talk about. Take a look at the numbers. 97 degrees right now in novato. 101 in concord. 101 in livermore. 98 in the san jose. Especially inland cities, 510 degrees of warming expected by the end of the day. Around the bay, we will continue to warm as well. As far as the 24 hour temperature change. Half moon bay down by 9 degrees. There is hope that we are seeing a transition. East bayshore are up by 5 degrees over oakland. In his bay as well is a nor
He was pronounced dead at the north bay where strong, gusty scene. No arrests have been made and no motive has been determined offshore winds are happening. In the killing. There is also extreme heat and a manhunt is underway in dry conditions that have authorities concerned about new englands second largest city. Fire danger. Police say someone killed a man the National Weather Service Warning is in effect from 10 00 and injured 7 others when he went on a quote stabbing spree tonight through 8 00 a. M. Wednesday. And the biggest threat in the across birmingham. Four different locations were north bay includes the sonoma targeted, too, and investigators still arent sure mountain range, and much of the of the motive, saying the northwestern portion of sonoma victims were stabbed at random. County, and also covers the another weekend of unrest east bay hills and santa cruz as the nation continues to grapple with the issues of systemic racism and police mountains. Pg e could issue Public
Screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton, and colleagues, supervisor mandelman is going to be about 30 minutes late fore this meeting. Colleagues, is there a motion . Supervisor walton second. Chair peskin ms. Meltocan that without roll or how do i handle that . Because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont need to have because there is no quorum for this meeting, you dont have to call roll for that item. Chair peskin thank you. I want to thank supervisor walton and supervisor yee for convening two weeks ago during our oneweek recess to consider and ultimately approve the onecent sales tax for our caltrain. This will provide much needed reforms and a path for long needed funding f