director brinkman: here. vice chair eaken: present. director heminger: present. director lai: present. madame chair, direct ors, you have a quorum. we re legally required to put this on the agenda. we re using sound producing devices. approval of the minutes of the september 1, 2020 regular meeting. directors, any amendments to the minutes before we open up for public comment? seeing none, moderator, can you let us know if there is anyone on the line for public comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. staff is opening the line. you have zero questions remaining. chair borden: with that, we will close public comment. motion to approve? a second? i ll second. great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. chair borden: aye. director brinkman: aye. vice chair eaken: aye. director heminger: aye. director lai: aye. sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. if you re watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment o
let us know if there is anyone on the line for public comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. staff is opening the line. you have zero questions remaining. chair borden: with that, we will close public comment. motion to approve? a second? i ll second. great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. chair borden: aye. director brinkman: aye. vice chair eaken: aye. director heminger: aye. director lai: aye. sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. if you re watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. members of the public who do wish to make public comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use as printed on the agenda and web page, is 1-888-808-6929. the access code is 9961164. please make sure you re in a quiet location. you turn off tvs and radios and if you re live streaming the meeting, you reduce the sound. at the appropriate time, t
chair and directors, yes, i do. so if you re ready, i ll begin with this. meeting of the citizens i m sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. chair borden: it s not the same as what you re seeing on tv. your audio is a little bit labored. i don t know if your internet quality is well. okay. okay. see if that helps. if it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. no problem, go ahead. great. so at the last meeting of the citizens advisory council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. thank you, again, for stopping by. we always appreciate welcoming board directors at our meetings. also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. and i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. at our september meeting we h
next speaker, please. welcome. question: hi. so a number of individuals have discussed the system and i would like to remark on it. by the way, i believe i live in district 2. first of all, i would like to remark that before this week, i never even realized that people could go to could attend board of supervisors meetings and i feel this is something that should be more widely advertised to residents of the city because certainly, i think i was in more active in local politics and i know there was a venue beyond simply emailing my supervisor or calling if i knew that i could actually attend meetings and make comments. i would have felt more emparamedic aempoweredas a citi. also, the schedule on the website had a more of a time frame because, for example, there was a time that was noted when comments could be made where i could have tuned out and did something else and called back in or when the relevant discussions were. also, for people who have addressed the issue of
four, three, two ready to go. okay. i see the red box. good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority commission meeting for today, june 23rd, 2020. our clerk is ms. angela, could you call the roll? fewer present. haney present. mandelman present. mar present. peskin present. preston present. ronen present. safai? safai absent. stefani present. walton present. yee present. should i do one more call for commissioner safai? supervisor peskin: i don t see him being logged in, so i think we have a quorum. correct. supervisor peskin: any announcements? clerk: yes. public comment is will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone, by calling (888) 204-5987, access code as seen on the screen. then follow the system s prompts. once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. when you wish to speak on an item, dial 1-0 to be added to the queue to speak. each caller will be allowed two minutes to