Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
And right now we have a little guest with us this morning, vianey arana in for kari. How is it looking today . Its going to be so nice but i miss all you guys. I miss the today in the bay squad. I hope youre doing good. So its going to be a Beautiful Day san jose right now a live look. We are going to get plenty of sunshine and its going to get warm. Warm pretty quickly. Temperatures in the 40s and the 50s. 53 degrees in san jose. 54 in palo alto. By noon we will be in the upper 60s, even a couple low 70s. Concord will be one of our warmest spots for the day copping out into the 80s. How long will this warm weather last . Ill have that answer coming up. Back to you. Thank you very much, vianey. New this morning a teenager is dead after plunging his car into a Contra Costa County canal. It happened overnight on railroad avenue in pittsburg. The Fire Department says when they arrived the car was upsidedown and fully submerged in the water. They performed cpr. He was rushed to the hospita
A more robust way. All of the gaskets were replaced again under warranty. So that we didnt have water in the cameras. The second issue that were experiencing and that were still troubleshooting is in some instances, the cameras will freeze or pixelate, requiring them to bring the train in or have a mechanic review it. We would never operate a train without fully functioning monitors. So we are working through those issues, as we experience them. But they are software related. Chair peskin thank you for your candor around all of those issues. We have a number of people for Public Comment. Commissioner walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair peskin, and thank you for your presentation. A few questions this is just for my clarity, it may sound like a silly question. As were working through the improvements and get ising to a point getting to a point of ordering new vehicles, are they redesigning and making the improvements on the vehicles we order in the future, that were curre
Yee absent. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. With that well go to the chairs report. Colleagues, this month we began with we begin with congratulations to the Bay Area Rapid transit district, for its award last week of a longawaited 300 million core capacity grant from the federal transit administration. This award is the first installment of what potentially could be 1. 2 billion pursuant to a full Funding Grant agreement, to boost capacity on barts transbased service by over 30 , increasing the current 23 tencar trains per hour to 30 trains per hour. I think we all agree this is good news for the 28,000 people that travel by bart across the bay during the peak. Twice number who travel by car on the bay bridge. Barts program is extensive, consisting of 300 new rail cars, train control upgrade, and new maintenance facilities. This is what riders have been asking for and its really something transformative for our Regional Transit system. Our thanks go to our bay area congres
Heinicke are absent with notification. Id like to welcome our newest director, director hemminger. Were delighted t to have him jn us on the board. Would you like to say a few words . It appears you put the rookies next to the executive director. Ed had me under surveillance for years. Its nothing new. I look forward to our work together. Thank you. Item 3, announcements of sound producing devices during the meeting. Be aware the ringing and use of cellphones, pagers and soundproducing devices are prohibited and any person responsible for the rimming of use of a cell phone or similar Electronic Devices may be removed from the meeting. Cellphones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and we request they are in the off position. Approval of the remember meeting minutes. Any comments among the board on the minutes from june 4th . Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . I have not received any speaker cards. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Those are approved.