Good morning. Everyone. Welcome to the october 25th meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im ra fell mandelman. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner [indiscernible] 37 present. Commissioner dorsey, dorsey excused. Chair mandelman. Present. Commissioner mar. Mar present. Commissioner mel guard. Present. Commissioner present. Present. Commissioner Preston Preston present. Ronen present. Commissioner safai. Safai present. Commissioner stephanie. Stefy absent. Commissioner walton. Walton present. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Im going to be excusing commissioner stephanie and dorsey who reached out to me and asked to be excused and i believe you have a Public Comment announcement. I do. For members of the public interested in participating, we welcome nor presence inperson or you may watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream this live. For those wishing to make Public Comment remotely, dial 415 6550001 and when prompted put in the access cod
Lwv board of education. The League Women Voters were a Nonprofit Organization and if you would like to support our work, please become a member or donate on our website. Today im pleased to introduce maxine anderson. Born and raised, and the california criminal justice reform. Respond for travel and readers im really pleased and welcome maxine our moderator for this evening. [applause] thank you allison. And welcome to the candidates for San Francisco board of education. And welcome to all of you who have come out this evening, either via electronic or here in person to hear what they have to say. The candidates will have a chance to present their views on issues affecting the city and to answer questions about those issues that were submitted in advance for tonights forum. First, i would like to remind you of our ground rules. Response to see questions should be on the issues and policies related. Candidates are expected to be respectful of other candidates and ask to not make persona
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