Weve got it in the studio this morning. It is wednesday, february 26th and fbn a. M. Starts right now. Feel the rain on your skin. No one else can feel it for you. Only you can let it in. No one else, no one else can see the words on your lips. Treat yourself in words unspoken. Lauren good morning welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, everybody. Im cheryl casone. Another wild ride for everybody today. Lauren lets take a look at how your money is moving this morning and we have more selling. The s p has lost for perspective 1. 7 trillion in value this week, dow is down 221 this morning, s p is down 18, nasdaq is down 66. Fears of the coronavirus spreading, really making investors nervous. Cheryl oil and gold right now, oil we see the selloff continuing this morning. That contract is down 1. 5 . Again, think about consumption in china and now other countries. That is affecting oil. Gold is the opposite, a little bit of a bump here. That safety play continues. Lau
Incorporating more technology in communicating with our riders about our services and such. We partner with slide wheel to allow our paratransit taxi riders to use their app to request a taxi. In particular, if you are a wheelchair user, you can specifically ask for a wheelchairaccessible taxi using the app. We have launched a taxi online portal, which allows for paratransit taxi riders to pay their portion of the taxi of their taxi debit card as well as view their trip history and report lost or stolen cards through this online interface. And we have two advisory committees who advise the m. T. A. Paratransit about the accessibility issues that they face throughout the city. One of them is the paratransit council. This is comprised of paratransit riders, Service Providers and communitybased represent i haves. They advise the m. T. A. On Service Quality issues with paratransit as well as help assist us in policy development. The second one is the multimode accessibility advisory commit
Is so far we are not finished with the assessment yet. Reporter epa investigators are testing 34 nearby properties to see if they are sitting on a led dumping ground. So far tests around her home have come up negative. But she is fully aware of what this does to her property value. The value of these properties and they are nice homes but the value will go down. This unfolded last spring when workers repairing a damaged line started to dig up plastic debris and the ensuing epa investigation reveal that sometime before the houses were built 20 years ago someone buried several tons of car battery casings in this area. The family is living in a hotel until their property is cleaned up and the testing in the neighborhood is months away from completion. The good news is we are here and well clean it up. And eventually well be done and gone and this will be long forgotten. Back out live, e px a officials are looking to see if this toxic dump is linked to a Super Fund Site a mile away. The ho
Thank you. Mdm. Clerk any communications . Yes that were in receipt of the communication by mayor ed wu lee march 11 26 in communicating his beat out of file number 15 1257 the Transportation Sustainability fee for nonresidential projects. Supervisor john avalos has requested the scheduling of the veto override at the next possible date so supervisor avalos theyll be on march 22 agenda. Peter thank you. Colleagues, either any changes to the feathery 9th 2016 regular Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Collies can we take those Meeting Minutes without objection . Without objection those minutes will pass after Public Comments. [gavel] madam clerk, please read the Consent Agenda items one through 7 are on consent is considered routine. Whenever the object server and item that considered separately seen no names on the roster, adam clark please call the roll on items 17 supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye,
Item that considered separately seen no names on the roster, adam clark please call the roll on items 17 supervisor avalos aye, breed aye, campos aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, the camp absent among mar aye, the peskin aye, tang aye, wiener aye, yee aye there are 10 aye these items are fat pass any adopted unanimously [gavel] madam clerk, please will to item number 8 item 8 resolution to approve the agreement doing business as San Francisco auto return for towing storage and disposal of abandon and illegally parked vehicles burn amount not to exceed 65. 4 million to march 31, 2021 with the option to extend for up to 5 additional years. To approve a license proportion of the premises at 2650 bayshore blvd. And longterm vehicle storage and auction facility for fiveyear term in a fiveyear option. Supervisor avalos thank you. Colleagues, im still waiting to hear back from the mta whether they went down this or not get a believe we can actually be referred this to later in the agenda. That we