Requirements. As noticed on the agenda, members of the public may observe the meeting by sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the Public Comment phone number. I would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us live on sfgovtv. Madam secretary, please call the roll. Directors please respond when i call your name. Director forbes. Spent. Director heavy rai haney. Present. Director luresh. Present. Director lipkin. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Vice chair gee. Spent and chair sesay. Present. Madam chair you hav you have a. The next item is communications. We would like to provide further instructions for Public Comment. Callers dial into the toll flow number and listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comments. They have three minutes on each item. We will announce when Public Comment is opened on each item or for general Public Comment. During each period viewers and callers will be instructed to dial 18883634735 and enter the passc
The local, state and federal levels and encouraging them to take full advantage of that assistance. We are reviewing the lease terms and very mindful of the significant Financial Hardship our tenants are experiencing. Once the shelterinplace is lifted we will present to the board for consideration our response to tenants request for relief. We understand there will be challenging times ahead for public agencies such as ours and Small Businesses. Our goal is to be fair to our tenants and protect the publics best interest and investment in the Transit Center. We want to be consistent with other agencies such as the boydf San Francisco. This concludes my report. Thank you. Madam secretary. Madam chair, i dont see any members of the board that have indicated they wanted to comment on this item. Moderator has opened the phone lines for Public Comment. Members of the public already dialed in and wish to provide Public Comment under this item would dial 1 and 0 to be added to the cue to speak
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
I am the Deputy Director of the Human Services agency for administration. And i guess id like to start off by talking about our process and where we are in the process and then we will go into the substance of this presentation. So, the department of aging and Adult Services is of course part of the Human Services agency. And the Human Services agency has within it a sort of a large support staff area. It does a number of things, but one of the things we do is we develop the budget for the agency, of course, we do that in cooperation with Shireen Mcspadden and Deputy Directors like cindy and joe, and Program Directors throughout the agency. And we do it with a budget staff and emily gibb and tiffany wong are two of the members who have worked on the daa is budget this year. We reach out to the Program Offices throughout the agency to ask them to identify areas of new need, changing regulation, changing law. Changes in the patterns of consumption of services. And then potentially innova