Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
Generations have allowed their citizens to sink into poverty and despair the explosion was a terrible symbol of that neglect the cause a highly volatile quantity of Ammonium Nitrate the result for years in a warehouse of port officials warned of the dangers posed mornings but was systematically ignored but would anything change in the aftermath would anyone ever be held to account for and sympathy arrived in the shape of Frances Emmanuel macro when he brought an uncompromising message theres no blank check he told people if your Political Class fails we wont come to lebanon say and fail it did days later the government resigned not only did the politicians have no answers they had like so many before the simply given up who would now fill the vacuum. Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the inexorable breakdown of their economy and their state institutions what they told us provides a
Regular meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of this body. Im joined by gordon mar, matt haney and cynthia pollock. I would like to thank michael from sfgov for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, i do madam chair, in order to protect our commissioners, City Employees and the public, city hall is closed. This precaution is being taken pursuant to the local, state orders. Commission meetings will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the same extent as they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call by calling 4156550001. Again, its 4156550001, meeting id 146 7977410. Then press pound and pound again. Then you will hear the meeting discussions which will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interes
Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there 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 s
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