Safai eabsent. Commissioner walton. He is here. Wall torch absent. We have a quorum. I would like to announce about Public Comment. It will be available for each item via telephone by calling 4156550001 when it is your turn to speak you will hear your line is unmuted and the operator will advise you are allowed two minutes to speak. Then we will move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly and clearly. Would you please read the next item. Item 2. Approve the minutes of the december 15, 2020 meeting. Action item. Any Public Comment on this item . I am checking Public Comment and item two. I do not see any. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from december 15, 2020 made by. Mandelman. Commissioner mandelman. Commissioner chung is present. Madam clerk, commissioner walton are you there. Supervisor safai is present. Commissioner safai present. Is there a second for to motion. Second safai. Seconded by commissioner ronen. Madam clerk. Roll call, please.
Good morning and welcome to the first San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for the new year. Today, tuesday january 12, 2021. Our clerk is ms. Brittany milton. Could you please call the roll. roll call . Chen absent. Safai eabsent. Commissioner walton. He is here. Wall torch absent. We have a quorum. I would like to announce about Public Comment. It will be available for each item via telephone by calling 4156550001 when it is your turn to speak you will hear your line is unmuted and the operator will advise you are allowed two minutes to speak. Then we will move to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order received. Speak slowly and clearly. Would you please read the next item. Item 2. Approve the minutes of the december 15, 2020 meeting. Action item. Any Public Comment on this item . I am checking Public Comment and item two. I do not see any. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from december 15, 2020 made by. Mandelman. Commissioner mandelman. Commissioner
The public to speak. Public comment is closed. Please call the roll on the motion. The motion to elect commissioner mandelman as chair and commissioner peskin as vice chair. Commissioner chung. Aye. Commissioner mandelman. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. Commissioner melgar. Aye. Commissioner peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner safai. Aye. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. 11 ayes. The motion carries. Supervisor peskin i am going to run down the hallway to put my mask on to give this gavel to chair mandleman so he can preside over the next item. Congratulations, chair mandleman or condolences. I look forward to working with you. I am bringing you the gavel right now. Thank you, colleagues. I do want to echo some of what my colleagues said. I called tilley earlier, the executive director that i continue to work with and talked about your four years at the helm of this body. The list of your accomplishments and work in this job is
Grants and they will help to stabilize our Small Businesses through the challenging months ahead. As i said, this new 62 million plan will triple what weve done so far. Our previous efforts include 29 million in grants, loans and fee waivers. In addition to the grants and loans, weve also provided through programs like great place which pays local restaurants to provide meals to those in need. We have also launched our jobs now program which will help to pay a portion of staff wages so that businesses can hire people as they start to reopen. And, of course, we are continuing to do the work to streamline the process permitting us to open up businesses in San Francisco. Were implementing prop h, approved by the voters this past november, which requires the city to grant permits to new businesses within 30 days. This streamlined process will be essential as we begin to reopen our economy in the months ahead. We have to make it easier to open and operate businesses in our city. For more in
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