On books is last night is taking. It again in china where the head of a hospital and will han the center of the epicenter that is of this corona Virus Outbreak the doctor has now died from the disease lesion meaning the director of the rouhani shang hospital died this morning Chinas Health authority says over 3000 Health Workers have now contracted the virus and 6 have now died and total coronaviruses killed more than 1800 people 98 people have died in the last 24 hours in China Mainland who have a province thats the epicenter of all this the illness is affecting the countrys economy and chinas finance minister says theyre offering tariff exemptions on nearly 700. 00 u. S. Products including medical equipment. Lets go now to beijing rocketry is reporting live for us so katrina that the death of this. Doctor whos the director of the hospital obviously thats got to be raising concerns for Health Workers and if they dont have a handle on dealing with with their own health how difficult mu
Our work order estimates with particularly Public Utilities and public works, but also sfmta, planning and other city agencies to prepare our budget projections for next year. And well bring informational presence on the budget to our next tida Board Meeting as well before making our initial budget to the mayor office on february 21st. Well come back in april for formal adoption of the budget. And then the Mayors Office will submit the budget to the board on may 1st. For the board next year, at the main highlight here is were expecting to have the onisland meetings in march, july and november. And that also will be doing budget information presentations this year. Our annual contract renewal is in june. And then election of officers next fall. And then per our conversations at our december meeting, were incorporating quarterly Sustainability Committee meetings beginning with our first meeting on january 21st and then well have infrastructure and transportation meetings in march and kee
Item. Clerk item 2, chairs report. This is informational item. Chair haney thank you. And thank you, colleagues, for convening as the Treasure Island management committee. As you know, housing on Treasure Island is ever closer to reality. The first new homes are anticipated on Yerba Buena Island as soon as 18 months from now. Significant construction is underway, and with that, the new year requires some important decision including toll policy for future workers workers current workers as well as residents and future workers. This month, i offered our full support for the water emergency transportation authoritys innovative application to the California State Transportation Agency for the 2020 transit and inner city rail capital program. The requested funds will support the construction of an allelectric 99passenger ferry vellve, and the required shoring infrastructure to serve the new Treasure Island route, demonstrating the nations first all electric zero emission ferry to the downt
Item, please. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to address the Treasure Island Development Board on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Treasure Island Development Board that do not appear on the agenda. You will hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Please state your name and the organization you are representing, if any, for the record. Are there any members of the public who would like to address the board . Yes. Im here to challenge this board that was put together by the former mayor, willie brown, to develop a former radio active site. Theres corruption here, and when we talk about corruption in the city and county of San Francisco, we have to look at this commission and at this whole project, and at robert beck, the director because there has been a cover up at Treasure Island. Students have got sick, people have got sick, families have got sick. Theres radio active material that has been f
Incorporating more technology in communicating with our riders about our services and such. We partner with slide wheel to allow our paratransit taxi riders to use their app to request a taxi. In particular, if you are a wheelchair user, you can specifically ask for a wheelchairaccessible taxi using the app. We have launched a taxi online portal, which allows for paratransit taxi riders to pay their portion of the taxi of their taxi debit card as well as view their trip history and report lost or stolen cards through this online interface. And we have two advisory committees who advise the m. T. A. Paratransit about the accessibility issues that they face throughout the city. One of them is the paratransit council. This is comprised of paratransit riders, Service Providers and communitybased represent i haves. They advise the m. T. A. On Service Quality issues with paratransit as well as help assist us in policy development. The second one is the multimode accessibility advisory commit