I would like to begin this meeting by welcoming our newest member c. A. Q. I think the 307 th member of the sfcta that i have served with c. A. Q. Commissioner dean preston c. A. Q. To the Transportation Authority board. And we look forward to working with you and your staff not only on district five issues c. A. Q. But on citywide issues and regional transportation issues. Now that i have acknowledged commissioner preston c. A. Q. I want to have him participate in his First Official act. Is there a motion to excuse commissioner haney . Would you like to raise your hand and make that motion . I would. Is there a second for that motion . As much as this will upset our attorney c. A. Q. We will take that without objection without a roll call vote. Commissioner haney is excused. Welcome to commissioner walton and before i make the chairs comments c. A. Q. I would like to afford commissioner preston a moment to say a few words on his first day in his First Official meeting as an elected of
Please read the next item. Approve the minutes of the december 5, meeting. This is an action meeting. Any changing or comment on the minutes. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We are joined by vicechairman delman and commissioner mandelman, we are approving the commentexhibit minutes from dec5 is there a motion . Motion made by commissioner ronen. Why dont you call the rolling othe roll onthat. roll call . We have final approval. Next item, please. Item 3. Remember adoption of rail Program Manager job classification and revised Organization Chart. Good morning. We convene once a year on personnel related items. Last december i brought before you staff reorganization plan with updated Job Description and reclassification of six positions and asked for a Salary Structure increase as well for all staff except for executive director. October 2018 the board had asked staff to convene a Disciplinary Panel review to review the current and alternative oversight project delivery of
Please read the next item. Approve the minutes of the december 5, meeting. This is an action meeting. Any changing or comment on the minutes. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We are joined by vicechairman delman and commissioner mandelman, we are approving the commentexhibit minutes from dec5 is there a motion . Motion made by commissioner ronen. Why dont you call the rolling othe roll onthat. roll call . We have final approval. Next item, please. Item 3. Remember adoption of rail Program Manager job classification and revised Organization Chart. Good morning. We convene once a year on personnel related items. Last december i brought before you staff reorganization plan with updated Job Description and reclassification of six positions and asked for a Salary Structure increase as well for all staff except for executive director. October 2018 the board had asked staff to convene a Disciplinary Panel review to review the current and alternative oversight project delivery of
The communicators. Madam chair, thanks for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. Host before we get into some of the issues, some of the telecommunications and technical issues that your committee deals with, i wanted to ask you abot s. T. E. M. Education. You come from a science background, science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to s. T. E. M. Education and what do you think congress should be doing . Guest let me start with the committee. The committee has passed out two major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan. A matteroffact passed on a consent calendar but it has a long way to go in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments in the empire but, the education environment, to make sure that women and minorities are told about the important of s. T. E. M. Courses. Innovation is our future and if we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now wi
Committee deals with, i wanted to ask you about Stem Education area you come from a science background. Science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to Stem Education and what do you think the congress should be doing. Let me start with the committee. The committee has asked path to major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan, pass on a consent calendar but it has lower in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments and in the environment, and the environment to make sure that women and minorities arent told about the importance of stem courses and were seeing it every day. Because innovation is our future and we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now with affecting theimmigration. H1b visas are topped out, we are seeing fewer and fewer students coming from india, china we have had lots of support in that area. We just all recently for example the nobel laur