Good morning and welcome to month late meeting of San Francisco conte Transportation Authority. Im scott wiener, the chair of the authority and mr. Clerk can you call the roll. Commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, absent. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. Commissioner breed, present. We have quorum. Thank you very much. Item number 2. Item 2, chairs report. This is a information item. Thank you. I was pleased earlier this month to join with mayor lee and Transportation Authority to welcome anthony fox to San Francisco. San francisco is among 7 sit ease for challenge grant offered by the department of transportation and volcon transportation and delegation including secretary bock was in town to demonstrate new ways to manage transportation mpt secretary f
Members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment at this time on the closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] colleagues can we go into closed session without objection . Without objection, the board will go into closed okay. Colleagues, the board took no action in closed session. May i have a motion to not disclose any portion of the closed session discussion . Moved by supervisor farrell, seconded by supervisor yee. Colleagues can we take that out without objection . Without objection we will not disclose the items discussed in closed session. Madam clerk, this brings us to the end of the agenda and please read the in memoriam. Yes, madam president , todays meeting will be adjourned in the following beloved individual on behalf of the supervisor wiener for late mr. Larry mitch yell and behalf of supervisor campos for the late mr. Legalon ruboon medina. Colleagues this brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, any further business before y
Budget budget to loot and invest in ways that reflect our San Francisco values my budget submissions and the boards deliberations in the coming weeks it city halls way to menu our priorities our city is facing challenges we cant deny that neighborhood crime is up and homelessness is visible and preying concern, the need for reform in our Police Department is evident i hear from resident about those issues they want safe and clean neighborhoods they want us to address homelessness they address it in a humane way 2 respect San Franciscos values and want worldclass City Services well, this budget addresses those needs it invests in answers to homelessness and housing, that invests in Police Reforms and Pedestrian Safety and quality of life in our neighborhoods and the wellbeing of our people were using this unique time to make the lives of all the residents and the city stronger homelessness is a top priority we all know that there are far too of people on the street in fact, in and aroun
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