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
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. Item 5. Communications. I have no communications so well move on to item 6. Introductio
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. Item 5. Communications. I have no communications so well move on to item 6. Introduction of new or Unfinished Business. Board members. Do you have any new or Unfinished Business . Yes. I wanted to put on the agenda for our next meeting an update on the letter we received from 75 women that work for our agency that are concerned that work being done is peace meal in our agency and ed has done an incredible so far but they are still urging us to look at this and i would like to take that as a separate item. Thank you. Thank
A suspect in the killing of an official from the german chancellor Angela Merkels party as an extremist background its alleged he shot this official in the head at close range before his arrest this past weekend. And at the womens world cup germany have easily down to south africa to wind their group and set up an easier looking opponent in the last 16. Its good to have you with us we begin tonight with news out of egypt former president Mohamed Morsi died today at the age of 60 morsi reportedly collapsed during a Court Session in cairo and was rushed to the hospital. Passed away he was a key figure in egypts Muslim Brotherhood and he was the 1st democratically elected president in egypts modern history morsy to have been imprisoned since 2013 after the military ousted him his ousting forward as you may remember you see the images fall of protests massive protests against his route. Im joined here in the big table now by the w. s very own. He was from egypt and has been covering this s
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