Of the weather with our meteorologist. Reporter its going to be another morning where its a mix of marine layer and smoke. The air quality is exactly the same as yesterday at this time. Thats the view over the east bay. Plenty of clouds in that scene. We will put some numbers in front of the day. Its 57 in concord. 50 in oakland. 56 in san jose. You can see how widespread the marine layer is. We are all waking up to low grade clouds. Here is the airquality forecast. Even though we burned back the marine layer we get rid of that layer of clouds, the hayes sticks around and airquality is going to be unhealthy for sensitive groups today. You might notice a little bit of a warmup if you are inland today. Really settle by a couple of degrees putting us into the low 90s for the daytime highs. We will stay in the low 70s for the bay. Will be back with a full forecast in a few minutes. Another right night of protest. Police tweeted out these videos of people in the ground throwing Water Bottle
You may address the board once per agenda item for two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. [roll call] president tsen here. Director dunlop here. Vice president lai here. Director richardson here. We do have a quorum. President tsen excellent. Before we begin, hello, directors and members of the public. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am sorry that we still to conduct our meetings by teleconferencing. And i ask that everybody be patient as there is a lag time sometimes to hear the Public Comment. But our able secretary kate austin will guide us through the process. I would like to start the meeting with a quote, whose life and words inspired so many of us. He wrote a letter which was published and i quote from that letter. He says, ordinary people with extraordinary visions can redeem the soul of america by getting into what i call good trouble, necessary trouble, building and participating in the democratic process are key. Democracy is not a state. It is not an act. Each
Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
The recommendations written in 2009 about how they are thinking about that. Obviously, we need to reconsider that. I totally understand the board of supervisors position. This is the wrong time for fare increases. We should be using every other tool before we get there. I get why s. F. M. T. A. Was between a rock and hard place. Lets remove that and make that not a problem any more. Lets revise how we think about fare increases. I get where that rationale may have been attractive 10 years ago. It doesnt make sense now. Lets move forward to figure out how to stabilize m. T. A. Without doing that on the backs of our most vulnerable riders. A couple months ago you werent clear. Now you will not increase fares during the recovery or pandemic . I would like to look at weighs to avoid doing that in the future. I dont want to increase them now or going forward. I dont think there are better ways to support muni. I have heard that loud and clear. That is what we need to do. This is so importan
Because tomorrow. Thats when the heat is really going to crank up lets take a look at temperatures out there right now tracking widespread low to mid 70s for most of the north bay in the low to mid 80s for the tribe valleys even san jose cooling down to 78 degrees mid 70s right now for oakland and hayward 81 degrees as you step outside right now low 80s for those of you in redwood city. But you cant beat the beach in fact lets take a look at temperatures right now that the San Francisco peninsula coastline. Downtown San Francisco in the mid 60s, most of us dont even need a sweater if youre heading out for your thursday night Half Moon Bay, though rebel 59 degrees out there currently because of that cool sea breeze, but fortunately this is going to be our saving grace with the heat wave wind speeds going to be about 20 per hour or less but just keep in mind even with a light sea breeze or any light breeze for that matter in the coming days with this hot and dry weather heading our way i