Inquiry procedures. Tracie potts joins us live. How soon is that vote expected to begin, tracie . Reporter in about an hour t. Could take a few hours, maybe even less. Its not to formally authorize the inquiry. What it is is laying out ground rules for how public hearings will work when they supposedly get started in just a few weeks. Democrats and republicans with equal time to ask questions, allowing the president s attorneys to participate in some hearings but not for republicans to call witnesses. They still argue the rules are unfair, that it doesnt provide the president due process, that some committees like intelligence can still hold private hearings with private testimony where the transcript isnt shared. The vote happens today and both sides eager to move forward before we get knee deep into president ial primary season where people are seeing this process move forward and they may blame one party or the other or both for playing politics. Theyre eager to move forward but in
Request but not require that you fill out a speaker card. Commissioner buell, how many minutes three. Clerk you will have three minutes to speak. If you dont have the opportunity to speak on item 4 because it is for only 15 minutes, you may speak on item 12. Its continued from item 4. When you address your comments to the commission, please note that neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions during Public Comment in order to allow equal time for all. The commission may ask questions of staff when Public Comment is closed. Last, if the firearm alarm goes off, you must exit the building in an ordinarily fashion. Please note that the elevators will return to the first floor and are not available for use. If you require an elevator, please make your way to the closest gathering area, which is in the mens rest room. Use the box. It will ring the fire department, and they will be able to assist you. I did receive a communication regarding the passing of an employee, doct
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Has picked up reports. This is work that came up from the community through the commission. We have the agency and the commission. So its in cecredibly important work. Also, ban the box started with the human rights commission, the equity advisory committee. Now thats also something thats traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. One of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. So we were able to it was an idea we had at the commission. I brought it to the commission. I wasnt the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a Pilot Program going with the mayors support and the supporter support of the family. Kimberlypapinon, we were able to work with her to create a program and the mayor funded it. So that was an amazing thing. And i know now that the department of human rights is dism administering a program and i really look forward to hearing
The director of transportation. Before i get into that whole presentation, i want to call up supervisor aaron peskin to speak and give his presentation, then we will move through the director to do presentations, and many others want to recognize you today. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, vice vice chair. Commissioners, director, and to the remarkable staff of the sfmta, my name is aaron peskin and im not here in my capacity as a supervisor, that will happen later. I am here in my capacity as chair of the littleknown Funding Agency called the San Francisco county transportation authority. Momentarily to be joined by our executive director, tilly chang, for the purpose of saying what is rarely said to the public, which are words of sincere and profound thanks to our outgoing director, address given, and to acknowledge and celebrate and ruskin, and the fact that i have been a constant pain in his but. [laughter] so lets be real. This is the toughest job in San Francisco government, maybe