Good moerpg, everyone, the meeting will come to order and, this is october 7th, 2014, plans and Programs Committee of the San Francisco county, transportation, authority. And our clerk is miss erika cheng, could you call the roll . Okay. Commissioner breed . Here. Commissioner campos . Absent. Mar . Here. Mar present. Commissioner kim . Kim absent. Commissioner yee. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you, i would like to thank, first of all jonathan goblock and Jonathan Larson for tell vicing us, call item two, approval of the minutes for the september 16, 2014 meeting this is an action item. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak . Public comment is closed. Breed, aye. Campos, absent. Kim, absent. Mar. Aye. Yee aye. Passes. Thank you. And item 3 . Citizens Advisory Committee report, information item. Good morning, here at 9 30 and i am not sure that he is able to come back, and i am sure that he wanted to pass on the three items that they approved the motion of support
The breaking news. Good afternoon, bruce. Reporter for days [ no audio ] the School Superintendent of Montgomery County, joshua starr, is leaving, pushed out in some ways after losing the confidence of about half of the school board. The news was announced at a Board Meeting just a few minutes ago. There is a News Conference that is going on right to see how they play this, but four members of the board have been saying for quite a little while that starr had failed them. There had been questions about the way hes handled a couple of allegations of employees sexually assaulting children. There have been issues about his on againoff again support for starting school later and allowing children to sleep in. And Board Members have complained in particular that he has no clear vision on how to close the achievement gap between white and African American children. We had a chance to hear a little bit of that News Conference just a few moments ago. Lets take a listen to patricia oneil, the s
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