Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
On kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, looking live outside this morning over the bay bridge as we start this thursday morning together. Good morning. It is october 22. I am len kiese. I am michelle griego. A new red flag warning and thousands of residents have begun losing power. The latest to go dark are folks in napa and sonoma. Almost 3500 customers are impacted. An hour earlier more than 200 in santa clara had their power shut off. The first, a little over 500 customers in alameda and contra costa counties. Here we go again, our second red flag warning of the week. It does look more extensive with bay area hills, mountains, Higher Elevations above 1,000 feet under that red flag warning until 8 00 a. M. Friday. North bay mountains, santa cruz mountains, San Mateo County coast under that warning with gusts to 40 to 50 Miles Per Hour and low relative humidity values. Everything is just so dry out there. Our temperatures as we go through the day are cooler compared to yesterday. Abo
Changing, were navigating a different route. It feels unreal. Reporter gabriel is the president of the Billy Defrank lgbtq plus Community Service in san jose and left the Catholic Church in the 80s. She says she might go to church this sunday for the first time in 40 years. Many of us have been hurt by the church and so a lot of healing has to happen. To hear the pope supporting us is part of that healing and the rest of it has to come in time. What is the San Francisco archdiocese saying about the popes comments . Sorry, the bell are playing in the background there. Reporter the archdiocese met with pope francis in january of this year and they said that the civil unions did come up. They said the pope made it clear there is a distinction between civil union and marriage and the rest of their statement is long, nuanced and complex, so we put it on our web site kpix. Com so you can read it for yourself. Developing story this evening. High fire danger triggering pg e blackouts. The firs
Over the last few weeks not only is it a think was tasked, but he has been subject to character assassination as democrats put them in the cause hears of a hyperbolic false narrative perpetrated to gain political advantage. I hope we can stick to the facts today. One factor that needs to be highlighted is that the postmaster general is not appointed by president trump. The postal board of governors engaged in identified was the joy as an outstanding candidate with the necessary background and skill set to tackle the challenges facing the postal system. They unanimously approved his appointment. He reports to the board, not the president. , failingalse narrative to provide funding to the Postal Service will undermine the election. The Postal Service has 50. 1 billion in cash on hand following a better than expected performance during the pandemic. Tax delivery, in rather than being down, the Postal Service revenue is 1. 5 billion higher than during the same period last year. The longter