Good morning ladies and gentlemen, i want to welcome you to the Transportation Authority finance Commission Good morning i am not your regular chair our chair is here shes ill ill be stepping in and supervisor cohen i think im the vice chair of this committee laughter to my left is supervisor ronen and to my right is supervisor yee want to recognize sfgovtv Charles Kremenak and Jennifer Lowe for broadcasting this Committee Meeting happy valentines day to you all my valentines day gift to you will be a swift yet thorough and efficient meeting lets start with roll call. Item one supervisor cohen commissioner fewer commissioner kim is present commissioner ronen commissioner yee. We have quorum. Excellent thank you very much please next item, please. Items 2 through 3 comprise the consent calendar their countered route not prepared e prepared to present but if unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Colleagues is a approval for the minutes. Ill move. Motion by
Probable are a robust packet for you next month so the bills were recommending e recommending positions on the main one is are ab one and the transportation funding bill youve probably heard about 6 billion and passages being negotiated the governor has indicated his own passage that is 4 billion a year and that he expects it to be resolved by april 6th i think is what was said so expect to be taken up on that soon were r were recommending a support position on ab 28 the urgent bills for the corrections to reinstate caltrans authorization to be signing on behalf of the permit holder Highway Administration for the documents that is critically important for the Construction Projects especially in Southern California so near the top of peoples priority lists and finally a core position on the bill 342 that is celebrated earlier this week with the automated enforcement legislation and then ear recommending one position on ab 65 there is one bill that one bill trying to kill high speed rail
Valentines day gift to you will be a swift yet thorough and efficient meeting lets start with roll call. Item one supervisor cohen commissioner fewer commissioner kim is present commissioner ronen commissioner yee. We have quorum. Excellent thank you very much please next item, please. Items 2 through 3 comprise the consent calendar their countered route not prepared e prepared to present but if unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Colleagues is a approval for the minutes. Ill move. Motion by supervisor yee and without objection. Public comment. Oh, youre absolutely right ladies and gentlemen, time for Public Comment please step up two minutes to in the center seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Roll call vote. Commissioner cohen commissioner fewer commissioner ronen commissioner yee consent calendar is approved. Thank you next item. Federal, state, and local an update. Welcome back back with the deputy City Attorney in the Program Division
Hello. We begin in brazil where protests have erupted outside of Parliament Following the swearing in of the former president as cabinet chief. Shortly after the ceremony, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking lulas appointment on the grounds that by taking office it will derail an ongoing investigation. The lower house of congress has decided to begin impeachment proceedings against the current president. Brazilian prosecutors have charged former president lula with Money Laundering and fraud. If his appointment is ratified he would be immune from prosecution by all, except brazilS Supreme Court. Margo is covering this developing and coplex story, and joins us on the story from rio where more protests have broken out. Does this mean that former president lula has been stopped from joining the cabinet now . Reporter technically, yes, but the federal government is actually appealing that decision of the federal judge. What has happened here is they had a formal ceremony just a f
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