see whether tariffs will be impose or not, the focus is on jobs. at 63.30.e we ll have a roundup of opec and saudi aramco and the pound. we are six days away, the u.k. election is holding at the moment. today, have an important leaders debate. coming up a little later, don t miss our interview with the u.s. national economic director at 2:30 p.m. u.k. to. time. first, look at straight to first word news. let s get straight to first word news. president donald trump might be impeached before christmas, but there s no chance you ll be convicted in the senate. nancy pelosi says the house will draft articles of impeachment against the president for abusing his office high pressure ukraine. donald trump remains defiant. north korea may be preparing to conduct engine tests. base kim jong-un sexy dismantled as a concession to president trump. says he dismantled as a concession to president trump. political uncertainty is quote playing havoc with the uk s labor market. this i
secretary: yes. but for today, we are done. secretary: yes. okay. see everyone next week. happy new year everyone. happy new year. chair borden: please call the roll. [ roll call ] you have a quorum. chair borden: next item. clerk: announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. we have no announcements. item 4, approval of minutes forever the december 7, regular meeting. chair borden: is there any additions at this time? seeing none, we ll open up public comment. are there any callers on the line? hello mr. pilpel? caller: hello. how did you guess? [ laughter ] chair borden: you re our best proofreader. caller: i apologize i have not gone through everything. i do see couple of things on the minutes on page 2 on my public comment. i would never said motion. i hate that word. i believe it should say recording as well as recording who made and seconded either items or motion. that s page 2. page 3, eric rozzel. page 5 and per
line? hello mr. pilpel? caller: hello. how did you guess? [ laughter ] chair borden: you re our best proofreader. caller: i apologize i have not gone through everything. i do see couple of things on the minutes on page 2 on my public comment. i would never said motion. i hate that word. i believe it should say recording as well as recording who made and seconded either items or motion. that s page 2. page 3, eric rozzel. page 5 and perhaps elsewhere bob finebaum, fourth commenter. those are the things immediately jumped out at me. chair borden: thank you. are there any other callers on the line? next speaker. caller: hey. it is spelled corrected,rozel. chair borden: are there any additional callers on the line? we ll close public comment. is there a motion on the minutes? i ll move it. chair borden: please call the roll. clerk: on motion to approve the minutes. [roll call vote] the minutes are approved. chair borden: that moves on to our next item. clerk
which buy us the necessary time in order to close structural deficit. we are utterly delighted by this report. it confirms all of our financial planning to date and basically says that yes, the sfmta has a deep and growing structural deficit. we hopefully have enough time to actually deal with it. in the meanwhile time, we can keep up the same pace of hiring right up through the november election and if we re successful in getting new additional ongoing revenue in november, we can keep and sustain that hiring place through full recovery. the report also confirms that it is really currently our high vacancy rate that remains only to restoring transit service. all that very good news for us. the next topic is central subway. we started automatic chrome testing and real testing and we re now working on finalizing all of the elevators and escalators. they are all functioning. ticket vending machines have been installed and testing is expected to be completed in july. that said, w
which buy us the necessary time in order to close structural deficit. we are utterly delighted by this report. it confirms all of our financial planning to date and basically says that yes, the sfmta has a deep and growing structural deficit. we hopefully have enough time to actually deal with it. in the meanwhile time, we can keep up the same pace of hiring right up through the november election and if we re successful in getting new additional ongoing revenue in november, we can keep and sustain that hiring place through full recovery. the report also confirms that it is really currently our high vacancy rate that remains only to restoring transit service. all that very good news for us. the next topic is central subway. we started automatic chrome testing and real testing and we re now working on finalizing all of the elevators and escalators. they are all functioning. ticket vending machines have been installed and testing is expected to be completed in july. that said, w