present. supervisor stefani. present. supervisor walton. present. supervisor yee. mr. president. all members are present. thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. place your right hand over your heart, please. i pledge allegiance to the flago f america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. what i would like to do is before we go to communications, and before we get into our special order at 2:00 p.m., i would like to at least say a word or two. before we get started i want to acknowledge george floyd s funeral today and thank the city family, particularly m.t.a., for halting all public transit from 12:00 to 12:08 p.m. to acknowledge the wrong that happened to mr. floyd and to the many other black and brown indivi
before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. my mistake. open up for public comment on this item. to the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 888-808-6929 and press 9961164. all right. we will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. director borden, put yourself on mute. all right. moderator is telling us there are no callers. seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially? yes, madam chair t moderator will close public comment for the minutes. and there is still a roll call vote on the minutes? a yes, madam chair. director borden. aye. director brinkman? dr. brinkman, unmute. aye. dr. eaken? aye. heminger. and that is approved by unanimous approval. item 5, communication. before i get into
not joining us and i know she s on the call and i d like to open it up to directors and i ll start with brinkman. thank you, very much, chair board and it s going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and we re a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we won t have to sensor ourselves at all. thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. director eakin. thank you. christina, director rubke, it s been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. you bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. you are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. i ve learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose
public who wish to address the board. my mistake. open up for public comment on this item. to the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 888-808-6929 and press 9961164. all right. we will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. director borden, put yourself on mute. all right. moderator is telling us there are no callers. seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially? yes, madam chair t moderator will close public comment for the minutes. and there is still a roll call vote on the minutes? a yes, madam chair. director borden. aye. director brinkman? dr. brinkman, unmute. aye. dr. eaken? aye. heminger. and that is approved by unanimous approval. item 5, communication. before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few
chair peskin: welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority board for our meeting today, tuesday, june 9th, 2020. our clerk is ms. angela tsao. madam clerk, could you please call the roll. clerk: commissioner fewer? present. clerk: commissioner haney? present. clerk: commissioner mandelman? present. clerk: commissioner mar. present. clerk: commissioner peskin? chair peskin: present. clerk: commissioner preston? present. clerk: commissioner ronen? present. clerk: commissioner safai. commissioner safai? safai absent. commissioner stefani. present. clerk: commissioner walton? present. clerk: commissioner yee? present. clerk: we have coreium. chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. do you have an announcement? clerk: yes. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, via telephone, by calling (888)204-5987, enter access 2858465 as seen on the screen. and then follow the system prompts. once you join,