Good morning and welcome to the to the monthly meeting the of Transportation Authority im supervisor wiener the chair of the tort i want to thank sfgov for broadcasting Jennifer Lowe and bill dillon mr. Clerk, please call the roll supervisor avalos commissioner breed commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner kim commissioner kim . Here commissioner mar chens chang commissioner tang commissioner wiener commissioner yee commissioner yee . Sorry commissioner yee present we have quorum. Thank you very much item 2. Item 2 chairs report this is an information item. Thank you and colleagues over the past year the Transportation Authority has clocked collaborated with our agency and Community Partners to achieve a number of milestones for the transportation including including the wins and federal, state, and local let me thank you vice chair malia cohen and thank caging for the Program Committee and commissioner avalos for chairing the finance committee about al
You just have to ask yourself this question, does it matter . Do we have unique perspectives, the unique voice of people who were born and raised in upstate new york, in the District Courts will that be will certainly Congress Edges becoming one of the group of democrats or a group of republicans were either individual voice will be totally lost. My supposition is green in congress we noticeable. National meet will pay attention. Talk to issues that matter to workers. Woolf if you walk down the street in elizabethtown and ask almost anybody theyre likely to know me. Thats not just because of my for congress. My family has been there since i did safety. As i said in my opening my fathers ashes are there. Ive been there in every season for years and years. I rebuilt my home there. The kind of work ive done to the 20 in a North Country sets me so part from a republican opponent. Community work, conservation work, helping to create jobs. It seems kind of come on glad matt was so openminded
Year of the many dragon. Of course i want to recognize Carmen Chu Hao district 4 supervisor as well; she has been a strong leader helping us promote the new years as well of course taking care of her district, working as a wonderful supervisor. I am excited about this new year too because it has an opportunity to unveil many of our cultural aspirations in the city of San Francisco. It has been 160 years, and we know our history well. My ascension to this office has been one of those things that people still consider me pretty special so much special not because of me but because of our community. This tab will have international status. Gobs of people will want to have it, reflective of not only our history but if i go to washington dc tomorrow we will have an opportunity to talk with the rest of the mayors across the country is to how to celebrate new years. This would be another example. Want to congratulate again claudine and the whole team, postmaster general, is leadership is alwa
They were coming forward with a proposal to charge for parking in a really unwise way. And im going to be working with them to do it more smartly. Okay, great, thank you very much. Good luck. Thank you. Janet reilly. Well, good afternoon, supervisors. My name is janet reilly and i want to thank you for taking the time today to consider my reappointment to the Golden Gate Bridge board. It has been an absolute pleasure to serve on this board and i am just coming off of my twoyear term as president and it was a very eventful two years. I have to say. Last year at the district we celebrated 40 years of providing transit to sonoma and to marin counties to downtown San Francisco. And, of course, the highlight was we celebrated our 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, which i think we put on this spectacular civic celebration that was inclusive of kids and nonprofits, as well as people from all over the state of california and beyond. So, were really, really proud of that. And because
Know, are in much different condition and in a much different place than other states. Its going to be very, very close, maybe even before the date of may 1st. So keeping him honest, as constitutional scholars and other experts on the subject have pointed out and as we pointed out last night, the governors do not need the president s authorization. They are not sitting by the phone waiting for an official authorization to reopen their states. In addition, saying before the date of may 1st, as the president puts it, that is before the expiration of the centers for disease controls social distancing guidelines as they now stand. And just today dr. Anthony fauci called even a may 1st reopening in parts of the country, quote, a bit overly optimistic and said that the widespread testing that would be needed to safely lift restrictions, quote, were not there yet. That said, it was as close to a total aboutface as one could imagine, though unacknowledged. And though it certainly is the lead s