Good morning and welcome to had monthly meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority. Ill scott wiener the chairman the authority and want to thank sf gov t jennifer and chals crim nack for todays herem. Avalos present. Commissioner breed, abstant. Commissioner christensen, present. Commissioner farrell, presentism commissioner mar, abstant. Commissioner yang, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quarm thank you very much. Can you please call item 2 item 2, chairs report. This is a nrfgz item. Colleague yz hope everyone had a great recess and break. Since we last convened in last july of this year a lot has happened around transportation in our satey and region. At the state level as you may have followed in the press we were very hopeful the governor and legislature through the legislative session on transportation would actually produce sig cnts revenue for transpor maintenance and infrastructure impruchbments. Assembly members chew and mullen strongly advocate
Turn your phones off if there is no seats well open up a room in a little bit thank you. So. speaking foreign language. thank you. speaking foreign language. thank you very much good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco full board of supervisors of tuesday, october 20, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Thank you madam president commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president all members are present. Were joined by mayor ed lee and ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you colleagues are there any changes for the september 8th percent or september 15th regular board minutes seeing none, motion by supervisor cohen and seconded by the supervisor farrell
This meeting will now come to order this is the regular meeting the Land Use Commission im chair and to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left supervisor kim and victor young it our clerk and thank you leo and herb from sfgovtv for broadcasting this mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the october 6, 2015, bobs agenda oracles. A call item one. Is the regulation for the freeway operation with the state of california permitting maintenance responsibility for hoig 101 and the director ever public works to accept the agreement. Ladies and gentlemen, so this item number one is supported before i the sfmta i believe we have both mta and dpw staff with us today deanna from dpw and mr. Paul from mta lets see im not sure who will be speaking first mta please come on up thank you for joining us today. Good afternoon, supervisors im deanna im with the Sa
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Experts discuss several myths surrounding the starspangled banner and what led to the rise of the National Anthem in everyday society. Also, the law signed by president hoover in 1931 that made it the official National Anthem. The library of Congress Posted this program. It is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. We are going to talk about the history of the starspangled banner, especially addressing certain myths that have grown up over the years about its composition, origins, and so forth. It is a thrill for susan and i to be here. It is great to see a full house. In for a treat, i have been doing rehearsals with robert the last couple of days. It has been incredible to see his process and the history the song tells us about ourselves and growing up as a country, to be brought to life by a great artist is incredible. We thought we would start off with some background on the starspangled banner, and talk about some of the misunderstandings. It is so much a part of our life. We sing it a