Supervisor ronen this is commissioner ronen, im here, i might have to jump off. Clerk thank you commissioner ronen present. Commissioner yee . We have a quorum. Supervisor peskin Commission Er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. Well excuse you until you come back. Well go to our Citizens Advisory Committee report. Mr. Larson, the floor is yours. Good morning chair peskin. Vice chair mandelman im reporting on our september 23rd c. A. C. Meeting. There was extensive discussion among c. A. C. Members regarding Program Guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the Traffic Congestion mitigation tax or t. N. C. Tax. Given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c. A. C. Members inquired about the difference between projected amount of tax and lower amount actually collected even before the impact coded. Oversight of time lines and budget delivery of projects and the prioritization of quick build project
Charged until june 4 of this year. While the City Attorneys Office was building the case against mr. Hernandez, a contractor number two or three in the complaint. It did not have the facts by that day. Incredibly, in may 28, 2020, works submitted a bid to be a subcontractor for a new project for the city a new multimillion dollar contract. They did this knowing the fbi had evidence mr. Hernandez bribed city officials. The public, city officials and reporters rightfully asked. How can an indated contractor seek new work with the city . In that case the charging documents had admissions the fbi called as lies. Such as that mr. Hernandez said he only gave 20,000 worth of goods and services. He die understood several hundred thousand worth of services for a vacation home. We were able to use the admission of 20,000 and not sufficient to have him charged with a crime to seek de barment. If that were not in there, in the charging documents we would not have been able to prevent the works fro
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
A landslide election victories New Zealanders reward the covering for. Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in lebanons capital city to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests they have been rejecting corruption in the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened during the pandemic so a quick look at how we got to this point in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor Public Service led to the resignation of the Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 200 people and became another symbol of government incompetence and weeks later a 2nd wave of coronavirus posed a threat for the 10s of thousands of people who lost their homes
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