Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
This. Well, to go through the papers this morning, im delighted to be joined by australias former high commissioner to the uk, the former minister former foreign minister Alexander Downer, whos now chief not chief chief chair, actually not chief chair policy Exchange Chair of the policy exchange think tank. Nice to see you this morning, thanks morning, alexander. Thanks for joining me, i know weve been talking green room about talking in the green room about these mad stories now about Penny Mordaunt being the answer to tory prayers. Lets talk about that appears about the polling that appears in sunday. First of in the mail on sunday. First of all, basically predicting electoral oblivion. Wipe out whatever word you want. An armageddon for the tories. Do you agree with that analysis that labour could be winning, or on course to win a 250 seat or plus majority . Yes, i must say, as i go around the country that is the impression i get. But people arent very enthusiastic about laboun arent
The Labour Market which were filled by overseas workers. Why offer. 7 why not make them. 7 why offer. 7 why not make them . Why offer. 7 why not make them . And why offer . Why not make them . And andrews book launch for finding margaret took place last night. Look at that. There is night. Look at that. There is you with one of your favourite women. Yeah and also joan collins and me. And also joan collins and me. The great Dame Joan Collins was there, as was bev turner with her young man. Hes very young. It was a lovely day, though, wasnt it . And its an amazing story. It was a great turnout too, and so it was great. And yeah, so its the book comes out on thursday. Super. Right. Let us know your thoughts this morning gbnews. Com. Get involved with the program and each other. You can talk to each other on there as well. First though, the very latest news with Tatiana Sanchez i beth, thank you very much. The top stories from the gb newsroom. The government will outline how it plans to co
Losses in the season breached the threshold of £61 million. Season breached the threshold of 61 million pounds, and that decision has been upheld. It means forest remain 17th and three points clear of the Relegation Zone with two games of the season remaining. Our Sports Correspondent Katie Gornall has been following the story. tx sor they were found to have over spent their limit by 44. 5 million. Because Nottingham Forest spent two years in the championship, their limit was reduced accordingly. They could have been handed a six Point Penalty at the time, but the Premier League to give them a less severe punishment because they took into account the early plea and cooperation. Still, forest were not happy and said the spending restrictions undermined the integrity of the league. Today, we found out the penalty stands. Everton have also been subject to points deductions and will probably feel hard done by because these are so controversial and set to be replaced in the 25 26 season. W