All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the september 12 meeting of San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman im chair. Vice chair is melgar. I want to thank sfgovtv. That is who im thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Commissioner engardio. Present. Why chair mandelman. Why present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner with theon. Present we have quorum thank you, mr. Clerk and commissioner safai is excused and im going to excuse him. And i think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do, thank you. Members of public interested in participate negligent Board Meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment r
All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the september 12 meeting of San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman im chair. Vice chair is melgar. I want to thank sfgovtv. That is who im thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Commissioner engardio. Present. Why chair mandelman. Why present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner with theon. Present we have quorum thank you, mr. Clerk and commissioner safai is excused and im going to excuse him. And i think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do, thank you. Members of public interested in participate negligent Board Meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment r
All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the september 12 meeting of San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im supervisor mandelman im chair. Vice chair is melgar. I want to thank sfgovtv. That is who im thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Commissioner engardio. Present. Why chair mandelman. Why present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner with theon. Present we have quorum thank you, mr. Clerk and commissioner safai is excused and im going to excuse him. And i think you have a Public Comment announcement. I do, thank you. Members of public interested in participate negligent Board Meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment r
Committee examined executive branch nominations. At a senate hearing, witnesses from the trucking and shipping industry talked about the importance of freight to the u. S. Economy and the infrastructure needs of the u. S. Highways, courts and waterways. Senator and half chairs this environment and public works subcommittee. This is one hour 30 minutes. The meeting will come to order. We are honored to have some great Witnesses Today and i will save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that would be made from up here. This morning ill go ahead with Opening Statements were honored to have the chairman of the raking member. Then i understand senator cardin you have an instruction to make also. Will do that. Lets recognize first senator carper because he is going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Very briefly, welcome to the support hearing and i want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for putting this all together. I have a statement by the act t
Cardin, you have an introduction to make also. We will do that. Lets recognize first senator carper because he is going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Very briefly, welcome to the important hearing and i want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for putting this all together. I have a statement by the act to ask unanimous consent that appear in the record of have a. I have a statement by the act to ask unanimous consent that appear in the record of have a chance to come back and give alive later this morning i will do that. Again, its good to see you all. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. We want to thank all of you for being here today, i would like to thank my friend and Ranking Member for his staff and the help in getting this hearing together. Ive taken count and i think the last was other than you and me that came in to this congress is retiring this year end that leaves you and me. I hope thats not a message. But anyway, we did come in and we spent a lot