Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. Thank you, dr. Aragon. Thank you for let me just say that you for all the questions that i have had, all the ones that i have funneled your way during this crisis, i really appreciate your accessibility and your response and your ability to explain things in a clear manner, joining us for our town halls, and for working so hard to get this information out as quickly as possible. Its been tremendous. I want to ask you, and if i missed it, im sorry because i know that theres been a lot of questions. I want to talk a little bit about our Skilled Nursing facilities. I know ive talked to you about this last time. I know weve had some conversations about when testing would begin in an aggressive manner, and when i see that new york is has issued the governor of new york has issued that all persons in these facilities would be tested twice a week, and they would be moving aggressively, and they then changed their orders that said t
The authorization directs the commission to prioritize consideration of action items pertaining to infrastructure housing and Small Business. Sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each agenda item today. Sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming the tollfree number across the bottom of the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling 8882045984 using access code 3501008 and pressing pound and pound again. When you are connected, you dial one and zero when the q a period opens, and you will be allowed to submit your testimony. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce when your time is up and direct my staff to take the next person in the queue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or computer. At this time i would like to take roll. President hyland. Here. Vice president matsuda. Here. C
Watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 8888086929 and press 9961164. All right. We will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. Director borden, put yourself on mute. All right. Moderator is telling us there are no callers. Seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially . Yes, madam chair t moderator will close Public Comment for the minutes. And there is still a roll call vote on the minutes . A yes, madam chair. Director borden. Aye. Director brinkman . Dr. Brinkman, unmute. Aye. Dr. Eaken . Aye. Heminger. And that is approved by unanimous approval. Item 5, communication. Before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together in a tumultuous time in our city, our state, our country. And we are seeing ravage of a legacy of systemic racism that has been ignored and been overlooked for long period of time.
Were watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. We should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer threecar shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. Were also moving forward rapidly on the van ness Improvement Projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work thats been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that well be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. Ill remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. The work for creating the bus Rapid Transit line so were very much looking forward to that work getting moving and many of yo
Welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, may 12th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin. And i am the chair. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Ms. Tsao, if you could please call the roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Commissioner haney present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Commissioner mandelman present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Supervisor safai is here. Clerk safai present. Thank you. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, i do. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. 2045987. Enter access code, as seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Once you join, you