Director brinkman, director torez will not be with you today but you do have a quorum. Item 3, producing devices during the meeting, please be advised the ringing of cell phones, pagers and other Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting and any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Please put them in the off position rather than vibrate because it may cause microphone interference. Item 4, approval of minutes. Directors, any comments or additions to the minutes from the 1s 19th . No Public Comment. Communications . Item 5, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Directors, any items to address at this time . No, seeing none, well move on. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon, directors. So im going to start by asking my colleague, nadine tahere to come up and give an award. I dont see him, ill ask my colleague to come up and ill give an award to him. [ laughter ] so mr. Lee has been an employee of the city of the count
Interference. Item 4, approval of minutes. Directors, any comments or additions to the minutes from the 1s 19th . No Public Comment. Communications . Item 5, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Directors, any items to address at this time . No, seeing none, well move on. Item 7, directors report. Good afternoon, directors. So im going to start by asking my colleague, nadine tahere to come up and give an award. I dont see him, ill ask my colleague to come up and ill give an award to him. [ laughter ] so mr. Lee has been an employee of the city of the county of San Francisco for 20 years and has been here since construction began. Serves as the resident engineer for the chinatown station, the most complex station and part of the subway that is most in the public eye during the construction phase and he is a native deciding to take on this project pa because of his love r the city and chinatown community. This will be a Critical Link in integrating chinatown m
Be given the chance to serve the community that i grew up in. I wouldnt be standing here today receiving this award without all of the teammates i work with daily. I have a whole bunch of them at 530 bush street. If you visited my office, we have multiple floors with a bunch of people that we work day in and day out and we would not progress with the amount of construction without everyones help and everyones hard work and i want to say thank you to my team and to our leadership, nadine and eric and mr. Mcguire here. Its a real honor and thank you for the recognition. Thank you and thank you for all of your hard work. [cheers and applause] moving on to our version zero update, at last meeting, you asked for a detailed summary of all of the the fatalities weve had to date. Its up from 23 in all of 2018. The breakdown of the people who died, 16 are pedestrians, six people driving vehicles and two were passengers in vehicles and one was a bicyclist and one as motor cyclist. 20 victims hav
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fairly small percentage of taxpayers, but the reviews it got from its initial users were overwhelmingly positive. It seems like a whole lot of people were very stunned that a federal agency, particularly one as frequently vilified as the irs, was able to build a helpful website that works. Tens of thousands of taxpayers who use direct file this year collectively save millions on fees that they wouldve paid to one of the tax software giants. Website is userfriendly. It is quick and easy to use and di
The hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. Chair Wyden Finance Committee will come to order. Today the Committee Meets to discuss tax Filing Season, which closed yesterday. I think thank commissioner werfel for being here at a busy time for everybody in the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss, and one that certainly is important to the American People is direct file. Anyone who denies that the direct file was a huge success, my guess is just living in another universe. It is open to a fairly small percentage of taxpayers, but the reviews it got from its initial users were overwhelmingly positive. It seems like a whole lot of people were very stunned that a federal agency, particularly one as frequently vilified as the irs, was able to build a helpful website that works. Tens of thousands of taxpayers who use direct file this year collectively save millions on fees that they wouldve paid to one of the tax software giants. Website is userfriendly. It is quick and easy to use and di