We saw a last minute rush with biden, hairs, mr. Trump campaigning there in the last few days. We 63 a reliablely red state. President trump leading 53 to joe bidens 46. Thats just 14 reporting. Again those polls just closed in the last couple of minutes here. We want to take you to end end. Vice president mike pences state. Donald trump leading 64 to 34 with just 7 reporting. This is also where amy coney barrett, new Justice Amy Coney barrett was teaching at notre dame, so this state certainly expected to go if President Trump and mike pences favor. Now joe biden spent his morning at his home state of pennsylvania. One last opportunity to get out the vote in another crucial swing state. As always, all eyes on pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. Part of the three midwest states President Trump flipped in 2016 to lead him to victory. President trump made a stop at his Campaign Headquarters in virginia this morning. Hell spend the evening watching returns at the white house. We also
Madam secretary, please call the roll. [roll call] clerk madam chair and carrs, you have a quorum directors, you have a quorum. Because we are on soundproducing electronic devices, we will not make this usual presentation. Item 4, discussion whether to invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed privilege. Madam chair, it would be appropriate at this time to open the Public Comment line for Public Comment only on the invoking the attorneyclient privilege. Great. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on us going into closed session. Moderator, please let us know. Clerk all right. And for members of the public, the phone number, if you are listening via sfgovtv call 8888086929. The code is 9961164. In order to join the queue for Public Comment, you must press one, zero. Well just pause for a moment to wait for anyone who wishes to address the board only about going into the closed session for matters in the closed session to do so. Great. We cant hear opera
House democrats accuse apple, google, facebook and amazon of abusing their market power and that Congress Needs to rein them in. Eli lilly asking the fda to authorize emergency use for its experimental covid19 antibody cocktail those shares are rallying ahead of the open. Jim, markets trying to do a bit of a reset now as goldman weighs in this morning and says airline stimulus likely, further ppp probably not likely. What are we . Well, i mean, i think that the market went down after what the president said the president was talking about market hitting new highs and the only person that was sending them down was him. I think he does react. I think it is probably, youre not going to get that, say, listen, the dow was down, there is really in other reason. He completely dismissed Speaker Pelosi i dont know what he did with what secretary mnuchin was speaking about, whether there were phone call going on and they were irrelevant obviously he addressed the fact that the senate was interes
Into the fare or Something Like that . And unfortunately, this is not a questionandanswer session, and i know this is being studied, so nothing has been determined yet. Okay. Well, i would like to advocate for taxis to, like, maybe, like, exempt from the congestion pricing so we can get our passengers where we need to go to from the financial, and thank you very much. Have a good afternoon. Thank you very much. Next caller, please. Operator you have one question remaining. Hi, its Hayden Miller calling in. I just wanted to support the motion in regards to surface l. R. V. Operation. I think that would be great to free up buses, as well as opening up the [inaudible] Creek Division on the weekends. Im seeing some of those buses out, which is great. Just getting the l. R. V. s out, it would be great and safer for passengers, and we can have more buses. Overall, its a great idea. Thank you. Thank you. Moderator, are there any additional callers . Operator you have zero questions remaining.
Clerk members of the public, the m. T. A. Met in closed session discussing hiring of a secretary to the board of directors and also discussing litigation with the City Attorney but took no action with either matter. Item 10 will be a motion to disclose or not disclose matters discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Madam secretary, roll call. [roll call] clerk madam chair, the motion to not disclose is approved. Moving on, at this point, madam chair, is approval of minutes from the september 15 regular meeting. Anyone on the board have any additions or corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, we can open it to Public Comment for the addition or corrections to our minutes. Moderator, is the phone line open . Operator you have one question remaining. Wonderful. Commenter . Mr. Pillpow, is that you . Hello . Hi. I think i dialled in by mistake. Okay. Are there any other commenters on our minutes . Operator you have one question remaining. Okay. Commenter . Hello . Hi