A last minute delay my guest this week from poland is dominic touchin ski publisher i meet people from the ruling gore and Justice Party was his government guilty of trying to put politics ahead of peoples lives. Somebody he welcomes conflict on. Thank you for having me lets go back to the beginning of this month when your party was still hoping to hold a president ial election donald tusk former Prime Minister of poland said that only a madman or a criminal would proceed with an election during an International Health crisis but you didnt care about the risk to people did you expected to win and that was all that mattered are you trying to say that donald tosk called people from germany of our europe and from switzerland and from south korea are mad people because these are the places where elections took place maybe hes calling americans a mad people as they are having their primaries now so we we resign from this idea of elections at the moment but the language is using is unaccepta
Security is. Also on the day venezuelan migrants and that battle to feed their families during the coronavirus pandemic. Always afraid afraid to affect my family when i go back home to my children but its something that has to be faced and i have to continue working to put food on the table. China is preparing to impose a new law on hong kong potentially bypassing the territories law makers and banning what beijing calls treatments secession sedition and subversion critics accuse beijing of attempting to kill the citys prodemocracy movement and believe that it will be effectively brought under direct rule beijing says a change is needed to counter threats to National Security. Beijings new security lore is being met with fierce resistance and hong kong residents and lawmakers in a semi autonomous region are fighting to keep their special freedoms prodemocracy lawmakers were removed from the citys Legislative Council on friday after protesting what they say was an attempt by beijing to
Chair haney thank you, mr. Clerk. Will you please call the next item. Clerk item 2, chairs report. This is informational item. Chair haney thank you. And thank you, colleagues, for convening as the Treasure Island management committee. As you know, housing on Treasure Island is ever closer to reality. The first new homes are anticipated on Yerba Buena Island as soon as 18 months from now. Significant construction is underway, and with that, the new year requires some important decision including toll policy for future workers workers current workers as well as residents and future workers. This month, i offered our full support for the water emergency transportation authoritys innovative application to the California State Transportation Agency for the 2020 transit and inner city rail capital program. The requested funds will support the construction of an allelectric 99passenger ferry vellve, and the required shoring infrastructure to serve the new Treasure Island route, demonstrating
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
Meeting. This is an action item. Chair haney okay. Is there any questions or comments . Seeing none, can we have a motion to approve the minutes . Motion by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner mandelman. Can we have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion to approve the minutes [roll call] clerk we have final approval. Chair haney thank you, mr. Chair or sorry. Clerk. Also, are there any Public Comments Public Comment on the minutes . All right. Great. Seeing none, can you call the next item. Clerk item 5, election of chair and vice chair for 2020. This is an action item. Chair haney great. So the nominations are now in order for the office of the chair. Are there any nominations for chair . Commissioner mandelman . Supervisor mandelman i nominate matt haney. Chair haney thank you. Is there a second . All right. Second from commissioner ronen. Is there any are there any further nominations . Uhoh, somebody else want to do this . Okay. Thirded by commissioner yee. All ri