[gavel]. Chair peskin good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, august 25, 2020. We have a new clerk today, miss brittany milton, who comes to us from the contracting industry, and we are delighted that she is on board, and someday, well work with her in the board of supervisors chambers. With that, ms. Milton, welcome, and if that, could you please call the roll. Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk we have quorum. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milton. Do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Public comment will be available for any item on this agenda by call 8882045987, and entering access code on the screen. Once told, you will be invited to join the meeting as a participant. When prompted, dial star, three to speak. You will be prompted by the system when it is your turn to speak. Please anow for audio alf delays and a 30second lag time during the course of this meeting. That completes my announcement. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Milt
The doctors and the nurses who are working so hard with this chair and i have been able to and were finding out we need to do those and theyre cost savings but some things are costing more and we should have all that analysis done for the next condition meeting and be for that. Commissioner, any other questions . Seeing none. Thats the presentation. This is not an action item. Thank you. Commissioner, item 11 and other business. Any other business from commissioners . Seeing none. All right. Item 12 is closed session. Do we have a motion to move into closed session . So moved. Second. All right. I will take roll call vote. [ roll call vote ] can everyone who is not in the closed session leave the room. We thank you so much for your the meeting will come to order. We welcome to the thursday, august 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im gordon mar, the chairman of this committee. Joining me is supervisor aaron peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, do you have any ann
We have a quorum. Commissioner very good. Announcements, madame secretary . During the coronavirus disease covid19 emergency, the San Francisco Public Utilities commissions sfpuc regular meeting room, city hall, room 400, is closed. Commissioners and sfpuc staff will convene Commission Meetings remotely by teleconference. Commissioners for those the live stream there be a delay. I would like to extend our thanks to sfgtv staff. If youd like to make a comment dial 18882733658 access code and dial access code 3107452. Youll hear a speaking tone when its expired. Madame president , your first order of business is item 3, aportfolio of the minutes of approval of the minutes july 14, 2020. Commissioner commissioners, before you, you have the minutes of july 14, 2020. Are there any additions or corrections to the minutes . Hearing none id like to ask the secretary to open it up to the Public Comment. Clerk for those who would mike make comments on the minutes of july from july 14, dial 18882
Emails. Welcome, madame mayor. Thank you, very much and good afternoon, everyone. Fire season unfortunately has begun in the state of california. And with that here in San Francisco comes challenges with our air quality. In a normal year wed be able to focus entirely on the air quality challenges but as you know we are not in normal years. Were living in covid. Even as we have been focussed on responding to the Covid Public Health emergency, we havent lost sight of the need to respond to other emergencies. Whether thats an earthquake or air quality event due to wildfire smoke. In San Francisco we know we have to be prepared. Now, i want to start first by recognizing that while our air quality here in the city is a challenge, we have to focus first on those communities that are being impacted by the fire. When peoples lives are at risk and their homes are at risk, that has to be the top priority. We all have friends and family all over the bay area in california. Our communities are con
Coverage in the l a new lightning complex fires have now burned more than 46,000 acres overnight. These fires have destroyed at least 50 structures threatening dozens more theres 0 containment. The flames are and solano napa and sonoma counties right now and cal fire has hundreds of personnel on the scene trying to protect as many homes as possible. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several neighborhoods. Well go over some of them right now this includes rockville road. Sassoon valley road Gordon Valley road Wooden Valley road clayton road. A man casts corner shelton lane northwest Browns Valley road. Also west of blue ridge road to 5 05 and north of cherry glen road. The highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway weve covered that a few times here well get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. Now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in