Level. Thank you tongo for your work and commitment. Were so honored that you will be San Franciscos eighth poet laureate and if there is anything left to say, youre welcome to have the floor. If not, we can turn it back over to michael lambert. I just want to say much love and appreciation. Great. Thank you so much madam mayor. My heart is full, meetmeatthelibrary. Congratulations tongoo. I want to thank all of you for joining us this morning. Our Public Affairs office is happy to help facilitate any interviews with our new poet lawyer laureate, thank you all and have a great day. [ ] [ ] [roll call] we have a quorum. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item by calling 4156550001. Access code 146 8010955. Pound pound. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When the item is called dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will be allowed two minutes to speak. When they are up we will move
[roll call] we have a quorum. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item by calling 4156550001. Access code 146 8010955. Pound pound. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When the item is called dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will be allowed two minutes to speak. When they are up we will move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly and clearly and tun down the volumes. That concludes my announcements. Thank you, madam clerk. Next item. Item 2. Chairs report. Information item. Great. Well, folbes last fellings last week folks last week we celebrated the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President harris. This is our First Authority meeting under the new administration. I know we are all excited. I was excited to see the executive order to rejoin Paris Climate Accord it will depend on shifting away from fossil fuels. It is great to have a pa
[roll call] we have a quorum. I will now make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be available for each item by calling 4156550001. Access code 146 8010955. Pound pound. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When the item is called dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will be allowed two minutes to speak. When they are up we will move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly and clearly and tun down the volumes. That concludes my announcements. Thank you, madam clerk. Next item. Item 2. Chairs report. Information item. Great. Well, folbes last fellings last week folks last week we celebrated the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President harris. This is our First Authority meeting under the new administration. I know we are all excited. I was excited to see the executive order to rejoin Paris Climate Accord it will depend on shifting away from fossil fuels. It is great to have a pa
Vice chair eaken. Here. Eaken present. Director heminger. Here. Have you a quorum. Though were legally required to have on the agenda to make its announcement because its clear were all using sound producing devices during the meeting we wont make the announcement. Approval of the october 20, 2020 meeting. Im ask the moderator to open the bridge and ask colleagues if theres amendments to the Meeting Minutes from october 20. Seeing none, is there Public Comment . Moderator is anyone on the line . Have you zero questions remaining. Well close Public Comment. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Chair borden secretary boomer please call the roll. [roll call] director eaken youre very faint. [roll call] madame chair, we can approve the minutes. Item 5, communications. Chair borden i lovely speech i get to give at every meeting. All members are participating Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors and public. In the published notice for the meeting a
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou