Announcer sfgov tv. San francisco government television. [gavel] chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, may 19th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. If you could please call the roll. Clerk commissioner fewer . Commissioner fewer present. Clerk commissioner haney . Commissioner haney present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Commissioner mandelman present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Hold on. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai . Safai absents. Commissioner walton . Walton absent. Commissioner yee . Commissioner yee present. Clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, i do. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987
Welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, may 12th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin. And i am the chair. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Ms. Tsao, if you could please call the roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Commissioner haney present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Commissioner mandelman present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Supervisor safai is here. Clerk safai present. Thank you. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, i do. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. 2045987. Enter access code, as seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you
To the next hearing and see if we can agenized that. I appreciate all claudia and rick and regina for you participating today. Im sure you have a million things going on and same with you shelly, were appreciating your spending the time so can you get us an update. It takes time to prepare and its not as easy for you to just jump in a meeting and talk about things. We appreciate your time. We would like the conversation to continue so maybe we can take this off line and figure out how to agenda. If i may, i think this direction is fairly clear and we can simply add an action item that would be quick since most of the bullet points have already been vetted during this informational presentation and a draft can be circulated ahead of that hearing for commissioner review and allow for Public Comment on any of those Public Matters that would be incorporate inside that letter. We would agenized that malt matter on may 20th if we receive authorization from the Mayors Office to proceed with a
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