Madam secretary, please call the roll. [roll call] clerk madam chair and carrs, you have a quorum directors, you have a quorum. Because we are on soundproducing electronic devices, we will not make this usual presentation. Item 4, discussion whether to invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed privilege. Madam chair, it would be appropriate at this time to open the Public Comment line for Public Comment only on the invoking the attorneyclient privilege. Great. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on us going into closed session. Moderator, please let us know. Clerk all right. And for members of the public, the phone number, if you are listening via sfgovtv call 8888086929. The code is 9961164. In order to join the queue for Public Comment, you must press one, zero. Well just pause for a moment to wait for anyone who wishes to address the board only about going into the closed session for matters in the closed session to do so. Great. We cant hear opera
Clerk members of the public, the m. T. A. Met in closed session discussing hiring of a secretary to the board of directors and also discussing litigation with the City Attorney but took no action with either matter. Item 10 will be a motion to disclose or not disclose matters discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Madam secretary, roll call. [roll call] clerk madam chair, the motion to not disclose is approved. Moving on, at this point, madam chair, is approval of minutes from the september 15 regular meeting. Anyone on the board have any additions or corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, we can open it to Public Comment for the addition or corrections to our minutes. Moderator, is the phone line open . Operator you have one question remaining. Wonderful. Commenter . Mr. Pillpow, is that you . Hello . Hi. I think i dialled in by mistake. Okay. Are there any other commenters on our minutes . Operator you have one question remaining. Okay. Commenter . Hello . Hi
Clerk members of the public, the m. T. A. Met in closed session discussing hiring of a secretary to the board of directors and also discussing litigation with the City Attorney but took no action with either matter. Item 10 will be a motion to disclose or not disclose matters discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Madam secretary, roll call. [roll call] clerk madam chair, the motion to not disclose is approved. Moving on, at this point, madam chair, is approval of minutes from the september 15 regular meeting. Anyone on the board have any additions or corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, we can open it to Public Comment for the addition or corrections to our minutes. Moderator, is the phone line open . Operator you have one question remaining. Wonderful. Commenter . Mr. Pillpow, is that you . Hello . Hi. I think i dialled in by mistake. Okay. Are there any other commenters on our minutes . Operator you have one question remaining. Okay. Commenter . Hello . Hi
He made the announcement this morning. Again, the new plan called for 5,500 troops to remain in afghanistan when Obama Leaves Office in two years. The shift retreats from his promise to end the war during his tenure. The president calls the security situation in afghanistan still very fragile and says in some cases there are risks of deterioration. This modest, but meaningful extension of our presence while sticking to our current missions, can make a real difference. Its the right thing to do. The president says the Afghan Military has made gains but still is not as strong as it needs to be. Obama says the mission in afghanistan wont change. He says theyll focus on counterterrorism and Training Afghan troops. Live in the digital operations center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. Emergency repairs under way right now on a philadelphia bridge. A crack was discovered, forcing it to be shut down. Take a look at where this Emergency Repair is happening, its at Chestnut Street and front street al
If you are 73 in new jersey, heading towards the bridge, no problems headed northbound. This is the toll plaza, everything is moving along, no openings right now. As for the rest of the area bridges, the ben franklin is clear as well. We do have ongoing construction westbound into the city. You want to touch on the Chestnut Street bridge repair. It is closed at front street. They are diverted north and southbound. The best alternate is to take spruce street to columbus boulevard. They will be right by the scene. We have nbc 10 katy zachary has more on this. Hi, jessica. Thanks. As startling as this sounds, someone found a crack in the cessna bridge yesterday. Right now sky force 10 is over the chestnut bridge, crews are below repairing that crack. It was discovered in the support tier. It helps to hold the bridge up. Now i did just hear minutes ago from a penndot spokesperson, they believe its a sign of normal wear and tear and at this time he doesnt know how long the repairs will take