The San Francisco county Transportation Commission for our meeting, september 15, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Brittany. Can you please call the roll. Yes. Commissioner fewer. Present. Commission haney. Present. Commissioner mandelman. Present. [roll call] ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good
Chair borden no, not on just that item, temporary versus permanent changes in ceqa. Yes, there is also an exemption for a Pilot Program and then there is the statutory exemption for emergency projects. Chair borden great. Thank you for clarifying that. Directors, are there other questions for the directors report, or comments . Great. With that, we can move on to the next item. I can say im personally excited about the extension of the 30 bus line. Madame chair, there was a request by a member of the public for the board to rescind the minutes based on the comments made and reapprove it and i would assume that i dont know if you want to consider that. Chair borden yes. Lets reconsider the minutes. Madame chair, you would have to ask for a motion to rescind the vote on the minutes and then to reapprove. Chair borden great. Wonderful. So that means just fort publics knowledge, were going back to item number 2, potentially. Is there a motion among the board to rescind the approval of the
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You have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in service. If we could just take a moment of silence. [moment of silence observed] chair borde
A disputed border with china and fired warning shots in the air earlier china made the accusations and said that troops took countermeasures in the disputed western himalayas region but india says it was Chinese Forces that fired shots from the base side usually avoid using firearms in the area tensions have been high since clashes in june left 20 indian soldiers dead katrina you has more from beijing. Both sides india and china have had decades of this kind of tension because they fail to agree to agree over the line of actual control the delineation of the territory between both sides and over the past few months starting about from last year weve seen a build up of troops both on the chinese side and the indian side and according to some analysts we see a situation of quite literally troops from either side staring out staring down each other eyeball to eyeball and there have been some skirmishes although up until recently up until these last few months in june there were no actual