we d just like to stand in unity with our non-profit partners that have spoke and some of the staff members that have spoken so we can be baselined and to offer our staff members pay equity. clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. clerk: on february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid-19, and on april 3, 2020, the planning commission received authorization from the mayor s office to recon convenient remotely through the end of the shelter in place. this will be our 50 remote hearing, and i m sure you all will be pleased to know i m going to stop counting now. remote hearings require everyone s patience. if you are not speaking, please mute your microphone. sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live, and we will be offering opportunities for public comment. to offer public comment, please 415-655-0001, and end meeting code 187-744-4056. when you hear your item you want to comment on, press star, three to enter the
clerk: on february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to covid-19, and on april 3, 2020, the planning commission received authorization from the mayor s office to recon convenient remotely through the end of the shelter in place. this will be our 50 remote hearing, and i m sure you all will be pleased to know i m going to stop counting now. remote hearings require everyone s patience. if you are not speaking, please mute your microphone. sfgovtv is streaming this hearing live, and we will be offering opportunities for public comment. to offer public comment, please 415-655-0001, and end meeting code 187-744-4056. when you hear your item you want to comment on, press star, three to enter the queue. you will have three minutes to speak, and when your time is up, i will mute your microphone and proceed to the next caller in the queue. i will take roll call now. [roll call] clerk: first on your agenda is item 1, consideration of items proposed for
good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for october 27, 2020. i am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. our clerk is here. could you please call the. (roll call). haney absent. we have a quorum. haney is present also. commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. we have a quorum. do you have any announcements. i would like to make a comment about public comment. it will be available for each item. call (415)655-0001. you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. thank you. i will move to the chair s report. mostly good and happy news this month. we are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our transportation authority. one for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. this year marks the 30th anniversary of the half cent sales tax program as one
good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for october 27, 2020. i am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. our clerk is here. could you please call the. (roll call). haney absent. we have a quorum. haney is present also. commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. we have a quorum. do you have any announcements. i would like to make a comment about public comment. it will be available for each item. call (415)655-0001. you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. thank you. i will move to the chair s report. mostly good and happy news this month. we are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our transportation authority. one for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. this year marks the 30th anniversary of the half cent sales tax program as on
event, and thanks sponsoring, i should say, and thanks to all the folks at urban who helped to put this on. as you can imagine, an event of this size is neither inexpensive nor easy to pull off, so thanks, everybody, for the help. tonight we ll have two panels that will run until roughly 7:45 and then we ll have another reception until about 8:15, plus or minus. i ll say a few words to sort of tie the thinking behind the two panels together, and then we ll wade right in to the first panel. but again, thank you guys for coming, for braving the heat and the 5:00 traffic. this is a fun way to kick off the urban space. i will note that the picture behind the title is unintentionally ironic. we say administrative reform. we mean that which can be done without the help of the building behind it, so keep that in mind as you hear us. so for the last 10 years of debate over housing finance reform, much of the focus has been on how to reduce the dominance of fannie and freddie in the