Director brinkman here. Vice chair eaken present. Director heminger present. Director lai present. Madame chair, direct ors, you have a quorum. Were legally required to put this on the agenda. Were using sound producing devices. Approval of the minutes of the september 1, 2020 regular meeting. Directors, any amendments to the minutes before we open up for Public Comment . Seeing none, moderator, can you let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is
Let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. Members of the public who do wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use as printed on the agenda and web page, is 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure youre in a quiet location. You turn off tvs and radios and if youre Live Streaming the meeting, you reduce the sound. At the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
What the European Union is all about how everyone for france 24. 00 m. Falls will be governed paris and im melinda crane for dutch of ella in berlin in the European Union health care has always been handled at the National Level so as the corona pandemic swept the continent it was nation states that were calling the shots even between close e. U. Neighbors borders were closed crucial medical exports were stopped and solidarity was looking pretty illusory but that is now changing with french patients for example being treated in german hospitals and melinda with a crisis that were 2 months into which shows some are calling the biggest test for this continent since world war 2 a lot of questions Going Forward the french president and u. N. Michael calling it a moment of truth ahead of thursdays Virtual Summit there are those that are eyeing did to. De confinements and then other nations that are doubling down what common response can france and germany often dubbed the motor of european
Tonight should be a humdinger. Im looking forward to it. To moderate, we have nothing less than a judge, seated in the center. Many of you know him. To the ninthted circuit november 2, 1985, and served as chief judge from 2007 to 2014, graduating from ucla ,nd from Ucla Law School receiving a jv in 1975 and prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, judge kaczynski served as chief judge of the United States claims court from 1982 to 1985 and special counsel to the merit Systems Protection Board and he retired from the bench in 2017 after 35 years of judicial service. [applause] judge kaczynski is married to Marcy Tiffany and has children and three grandchildren. We thank you for being here, judge kaczynski. Now, we mentioned ucla, so we must give usc equal time. [applause] we are really honored to have robert shrum, the chair in practical politics. [applause] and director of the usc door and site center for the political future. Professor shrum is director of the center and hes a