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and electronic devices. complete speaker cards and document to be included as part of the file should be submit today the clerk. thank you. today we have item 1, so if you can please call item 1. orbd nons approving and authorizing the exectv director of port of san francisco to execute project agreement with army corp of engineering to allow dredging of central basin by pier 70, not to exceed $2.2 million for project cost and port providing a 10 percent matching share nod to exceed $900,000 of the central basin payable over the 30 years for matching fair from the port not to exceed $3.1 million. thank you we have the port staff here to explain why we are here on a monday for the item. yes. good afternoon supervisors. [inaudible] project sponsor [inaudible] and the new deputy commander of the san francisco district of army corp of engineer major kevinmic cormic. before i go further like to express on behalf of director forbes heartfelt gratitude for being here t ....
electronic devices are prohibitedat this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room or any persons responsible for the ringing of one or use of a cell phone, pagerer or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. it s strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card and submit the completed cards to the commission secretary. the next order of business is item 3 report on actions taken at a previous closed session meeting, if any. there are no reportable actions. the next the order of business is item 4 matter of unfinished business. there are no matters of unfinished business. the next order of business is item 5, matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. first the consent agenda, 5a approval of minutes, october 4, 2016. madam chair. thank you. do we have speaker cards for this item? no, we don t. commissioners, we have the minutes of ....
item 5, commune ications. i like to ask we adjourn the meelting in memory of normal bray. worked for public works insuch with traffic engineering department for over 30 year jz a pred ses squr made huge contributions. also we have another one. because item 18 was removed the agenda published we will do the closed session at the end thf meeting. just so for the public is aware item 18 regarding taxis medallion program form is removed from the agenda and following we will move closed session to the end of meeting. item 6, introduction of new or unfunshed business. i had one thing to bring up, we had information and a lot of public comment on the commuter shuttle program alt the last meetjug a number of public commenters brought up the fact shuttle buserize not running at capacity. i think the number is 60 percent capacity and it was opponented out by someone after i left the meeting that the priveerate carerize running at 20 percent if you look at the number of seat bel ....
who were murdered. and also prince harry. failure to expel ken livingstone from the party over his hitler remarks ‘shames us all‘, says labour s deputy leader tom watson. also this hour, tackling the environmental damage caused by some diesel engines. diesel car owners could get compensation from the government if cities adopt new charges to tackle pollution. that was hinted by theresa may. members of the public are being given an opportunity to test a d riverless given an opportunity to test a driverless shuttle bus for the first time. the un security council is to hold emergency talks following a suspected chemical attack in syria which has left at least 72 people dead, including children. the assad regime denies using chemical weapons. syria s ally russia has blamed the rebels accusing them of storing toxic agents in a factory which was hit by a syrian air strike. sarah corker reports. it includes some distressing images. hundreds of innocent syrians, including m ....
you are looking at the national museum of african american history and culture on the mall in washington dc. it is the newest smithsonian museum. it welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. we will take you inside the museum gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the african-american experience and tell a shared american story. we will be live for the next 2.5 hours. we will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. we are joined with judge robert wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the national museum of african american history and culture. talk of this museum began back in 1916. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. judge wilkins: in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the national memorial association. its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s c ....