The announcement. Unprecedented that there should be a rich abundance of approaches, all of which rich abundance of approaches, all of which are rich abundance of approaches, all of which are essential. And new data shows another covid 19 vaccine developed in the us that may only require a single dose is 66 effective. In other news, primary schools in wales could re open to all pupils after half term though the nationwide lockdown will continue. And thousands of volunteers helping the nhs with the Vaccine Roll Out will be prioritised for a jab. Hello, and a very good afternoon. The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Oxford Astrazeneca Covid Vaccine for use in the eu this afternoon. The uk has been using the Astrazeneca Jab in its Mass Immunisation Programme for weeks now. Meanwhile, the European Commission has published a redacted version of its contract with the pharmaceutical giant in a continuing row about supplies of the vaccine. A contract was signed in august fo
To hot weather expected although not quite as hot as we were early in the week. Temperatures similar to yesterday after taking a little fall. Temperatures around antioch in the upper 90s. Pacifica and Half Moon Bay in the mid to upper 60s. The cloud and fog is back. What to expect for this afternoon, coming up. Lets check on the highways now. Good morning. We have traffic doing very well. I want to talk about the east bay where we still have slow traffic that wont go away, it seems. Theyre clearing a crash that was a hitandrun at south 81 near whipple in that house traffic going slow. Otherwise, San Francisco had a stalled vehicle in an earlier accident that excluded. And traffic into San Francisco from east bay looks okay. No problems on the Richmond Bridge this morning and on 880 in oakland, this traffic is moving along very nicely. Brick newsprint more destruction caused by the walbridge buyer, part of the bigger lmu complex fires in the north bay. This video from this morning showi
Shortly. Similar questions have been raised about outbreaks of schools and when they can reopen. Is there a standard on when they will know, or will schools have the ability to keep them private . I expect full transparency. We put out our guidelines. I encourage anyone watching that is interested in looking at the guidelines we put out for Public Education to go to the site and look at the protocols and processes that we have put forth for over 1000 districts in the state as it relates to monitoring and as it relates to opening and the prospect of an outbreak and the prospect of closing a school. We talked about contact tracers and local Health Officers working with school districts. We talked about expectations on testing and cohoarding staff as well as cohoarding our students and our expectations on mask wearing. The differentiation between Elementary Schools and cohorts of older kids. All of that is available and sets forth the expectation that we have and the transparency we think
And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la
I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the county Transportation Authority meemeeting. Could you please call the role. role call . We have a quorum. Can we have our next item, please. May i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987 and enter access code 2858465 as seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you can listen to the meeting as a participant. Dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practises are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report and this is a