Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, november 17th, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Ms. Millton, can you please make any announcements and then call the roll. Clerk yes. I will call the roll and then follow it up with my Public Comment announcement. Commissioner. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner present. Absent. Commissioner mar . Mar absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk commissioner stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk commissioner walton . Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee. Supervisor yee present. Clerk im sorry . Ill now make an announcement oh, thank you. Commissioner haney present. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item on th
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Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
A sudden look on the other side of the atlantic and find a friend and a partner and a not i once once again said they would be a sort of. Incredible relief if you like in in europe and in having you know our 1st and foremost partner to work with on a number of issues you know from Foreign Policy to climate to sort of rebuilding a post economy now on the flipside of that there would also be in a sense a sort of temptation of europeans to sort of fall back into their comfort zone and put back into the closet the idea of assuming greater responsibility in Foreign Policy a because of an Ongoing Alliance and in fact dependence on the United States it is a little after i was 600 hours g. M. T. This is 0 of the special coverage of the u. S. Election market Mark Jacobson looking at nato donald trump called it obsolete before taking office he. Almost pulled out of the alliance in 2018 before National Security adviser thats on john bolton talked him out of it President Trump has been effective i
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