Eakins support and, you know, staff continuing to look for opportunities to get all of the infrastructure work done during this closure period. Very, very glad to hear there may be some improvements on the wifi communication capabilities and stations and that is super important to the User Experience for writers, but also safety, you know, one of the concerns that ive always had, when im stuck underneath the underground and theres delays with my kids and we cant get anywhere and we cant really communicate with the outside world. So this is really very important going forward. So thank you for thinking of that. Before i open it up to Public Comments, any final questions . No, ok. Moderator, can you open the line for Public Commenters. You have two questioning remaining. You may start. Speaker this is herbert winer and my concern is this. I believe that the subway has been under budgeted all along and you dont have uptodate equipment and, basically, the reason is, the funding was reflect
Chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 3, 2020 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of sep
Peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item 1 is a resolution receiving and approving
Where numbers of the Chicago White sox were accused up during world series to the cincinnati reds. It brought about many changes in baseball, including getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that one is not a simple one. It is very complicated. Tonights talk 100alled field of myths, years after the black sox s candal, so it should be a fascinating talk. I am excited to welcome david. Are gathered here on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew there was going to be another world series . Once that scandal was exposed, and trust in baseball was starting to evaporate very rapidly, and as david said, that is, you know, eight men out. That is the story we know. That was the title of a book, a movie. The legends respond about that. It was not the start of trouble in rivers city. Gambling had been rife in baseball since the beginning of the sport. Think of all of the gambling in america. The riverboat gamblers and card s
Mr. Kent i want to welcome you to cooperstown. I am the director here, david kent. We are very fortunate tonight to have an esteemed historian and writer who is not only an historian. He is very into baseball. That is a good combination. Right now, it is the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandal, where numbers of the Chicago White sox were accused up during world series to the cincinnati reds. It brought about many changes in baseball, including getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that one is not a simple one. It is very complicated. So the title of tonights talk is called field of myths, 100 years after the black sox scandal, so it should be a fascinating talk. I am excited to welcome david. David we are gathered here on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew there was going to be another world series . Once that scandal was exposed, and trust in base