As president electdonald trump continues to work on his adminstrations transition into the white house hell receive his first tase of foreign diplomacy today. Today. Japans Prime Minister is heading to new york to meet our future commanderinchief where he will likely look for reassurances that the us will remain committed to being strong allies with japan. He might also try to sway trump on the Transpacific Partnership which is a trade agreement trump opposes. President elect trump is still weighing his options on several cabinent members for hes denying alleged turmoil inside his transtion team he isnt behind schedule for making these appointments. Appointments. Looking at the last three president s president obama hadnt made appointments until three weeks after the election. President george w. Bush waited until middecember to make his picks. And bill clinton waited seven weeks before announcing cabinent nominees. Trumps former opponent Hillary Clinton made her first public remarks l
Put your hands together. They will continue to perform throughout the night. Im going to be your host throughout the evening thank you for coming out. Its an incredibly important piece of work. [applause] [cheering] it is incredibly important work when you think the president is setting up policies, targeted assassination, terrorist watch lists and violating peoples civil liberties. So thats why its so important that we do see this kind of work into College Policies because of for the most part i think that when people are uninformed, then they cant necessarily push back. Then things like drum strikes and targeted assassinations or killings as the government likes to call them to come the butt of jokes. I dont know if you watch any of the speeches given by the president and larry will mark this past weekend but they make jokes about raining down bombs on people so thats why its so important that this work is really out there. Thats one thing that i would like to say. [applause] also, i
Allegations there is nothing left that we can do to improve the service and buy new vehicles, whether replacing old ones which is the project that is before you today or buying expansion vehicles and this is why the largest category and in prop k is for the vehicle replacement. Primarily from muni but also, bart and cal train and so this project before you is a combined allocation recommendation for 5 million in prop k funds. That will average, 20 million in federal funds to replace, 14, 60foot, trolly coaches. And then there is also a commitment toal kalt, 6 million and, that is a commitment because the commission has yet to program the matching federal funds that are anticipated to take place this fall and the meeting will come ba back to us afterwards for the rest of the allegation. And because there is a great deal of interest in because muni is in the effort to replace the fleet as well as the light rail vehicles. This chart shows you from left to right. If you cant read it, the t
Good morning, everyone and welcome to our plans and programs meeting of our stowers county Transportation Authority, for may, 2016, im kati e tang the chair, we have commissioner avalos. And london breed, and we would like to thanks sfgtv. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll please . All right, the roll call, avalos. Here. Breed . Here. Farrell absent. Pes . Absent. Tang here. Could you call two. Citizen advisory report. Thank you if we could have chris, our cec chair, if he is here. Okay. Maybe not. Maybe if we could push to this the agenda, and okay, great, we will come back to that and if you can call item three. Approve the minutes of the april, 19. And seeing no questions or comments, if we can get a motion or the Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And if you can get a motion on the minutes . Thank you. And motion by commissioner avalos and he with will take that without objection. Minutes are approved. All right, thank you. Item four, please . I
Here. Farrell absent. Pes . Absent. Tang here. Could you call two. Citizen advisory report. Thank you if we could have chris, our cec chair, if he is here. Okay. Maybe not. Maybe if we could push to this the agenda, and okay, great, we will come back to that and if you can call item three. Approve the minutes of the april, 19. And seeing no questions or comments, if we can get a motion or the Public Comment on the minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And if you can get a motion on the minutes . Thank you. And motion by commissioner avalos and he with will take that without objection. Minutes are approved. All right, thank you. Item four, please . Item four, recommend appointment of two members to the geary corridor bus Rapid Transit Citizens Advisory Committee . We have the Senior Transportation planner here. Good morning, commissioners. So this is item number four, page 19 of your park ket and as you know the project that we are working to improve the transit travel times