Clerk members of the public, the m. T. A. Met in closed session discussing hiring of a secretary to the board of directors and also discussing litigation with the City Attorney but took no action with either matter. Item 10 will be a motion to disclose or not disclose matters discussed in closed session. Motion not to disclose. Second. Madam secretary, roll call. [roll call] clerk madam chair, the motion to not disclose is approved. Moving on, at this point, madam chair, is approval of minutes from the september 15 regular meeting. Anyone on the board have any additions or corrections to the minutes . Seeing none, we can open it to Public Comment for the addition or corrections to our minutes. Moderator, is the phone line open . Operator you have one question remaining. Wonderful. Commenter . Mr. Pillpow, is that you . Hello . Hi. I think i dialled in by mistake. Okay. Are there any other commenters on our minutes . Operator you have one question remaining. Okay. Commenter . Hello . Hi
Debate in cleveland on wednesday, there is no word yet on how this could impact the next president ial debate, that is set to happen in a week and a half on october 15. Here is alex presha. Reporter and hicks travels with him often including multiple times this week. This morning the coronavirus pandemic reaching the oval office, President Trump tweeting overnight the first lady and i tested positive for covid19. We will begin our quarantine and Recovery Process immediately. We will get through this together. The first lady adding, as too Many Americans have done this year, the president and i are quarantining at home. Please be sure that you are staying safe and well get through this together. The White House Position saying that both are well and they plan to remain at home within the white house. Late thursday, President Trump announced plans to quarantine after one of his closest advisers hope hicks tested positive for the coronavirus. Sources telling abc news hicks is experiencing
We will begin, though, this morning with of course stocks, futures indicate an additional testing of that 3220 level on the s p. Were also talking about the possibility, however remote it might seem, of a relief package coming out of congress,given some conversation, jim, between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi do you think there is a chance i know that they both care passionately about Small Business if you look at the testimony yesterday by secretary mnuchin, he mentioned restaurants a couple of times. Thats where the yelp numbers that we get, yelp yikes is our vc, where the real damage s youre starting to talk about 50 of the bars and nightlife being closed in this country, thats way too big and i think that the secretary is really alluding to that david, do i think there will be a deal i think there is a sense that both sides feel a deal is bad for them, in other words, if they give if theres a stalemate, they will somehow do better at the election i dont think thats true, but
Okay. Agenda item number 1, call to order. To call the roll call. Clerk agenda item number number 2. President stephen follansbee. Present. Clerk Vice President chris canning . Clerk present. Commissioner Karen Breslin. Present. Clerk commissioner mary hao. Present. Clerk supervisor dean preston. Present. Clerk commissioner claire zvanski. Present. Clerk and commissioner randy scott is absent. President follansbee, we have a quorum. Okay. Can we call the next item agenda, number 3. Clerk agenda item number 3, approval with possible modifications of the minutes set forth in the august 13th, 2020. Is there any discussion on this item . At the corrections or modifications from the board . Ill make a motion to approve the minutes, as presented. Second. Okay. I think we have an opportunity for Public Comment at this point. Clerk okay. The moderator will be opening up the phone lines. The slide presented gives information on the Public Comment callin number, which is 408 4189388, access code
I know a lot of you are going stir crazy, and i will include myself in that. Julian glover is live with more on this. Reporter ad add me to that tally. Yeah, 28 days of the spare the air alert. And it is starting to get to some folks. Lingering wildfire smoke giving the west coast some of the worst air quality in the entire world according to experts. And at a time when getting outside has really been one of the only reliefs during the pandemic. But some Outdoor Activities this weekend were shut down like the oakland zoo and tours of alcatr alcatraz. It caught people off guard. Without masks, we can feel that the air is not healthy. So very disappointed. It is very dangerous to be out in 24 kind of air. So be so have a mask if you have to be outside. And to filter this kind of matter, you really need an n95. And we hate for this to be the impression that tourists good getting of the bay area. We want to point out as the doctor mentioned, if you do have to go outside, make sure that you