The city of San Francisco, sfgtv meeting of the Municipal Transportation Agency of january 17, 2017 will begin shortly. Borden is anticipated. Director heinicke, present. Director hsu, present. Nolan, present. Romose, present. Rubke, present. You have a quorum. Announcement of sound producing devices. Ringing of and use of cell, phone pagers and devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for the ringing and use of cell phone and pager or any other device may be removed from the meeting. Cell phones on vibrate cause micro phone interference. Approval of minutes for january 3 regular meeting. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor say aye. The ayes have it. Item 5, communication. I know of none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. I like to [inaudible] i nominate Malcolm Heinicke. For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated a
For chair . I thought we were doing both at the same time. We are just doing the chair. Any members care to address the board . Seeing nonenominating cheryl to do it this she is dedicated and knowledgeable person. The agency and staff and colleagueerize very fortunate to have sheryl step in. She is knowledgeable about mta and transit agencies around the country and world. She is very artechulate advocate for the goals of the agency and spend Many Community meetings during the year so will be a outstanding member of the board. All in favor of Cheryl Brickman say aye . Opposed . Thank you. [applause]. Call for election of the vice chair. We have a nomination . I know this is surprising but like to nominate Malcolm Heinicke. Any other nominations . Members of the public have comments . Seeing none. I like to say we are very fortunate malcolm stepping into the position. So knowledgeable and dedicated and thoughtful and not afraid to take on hard issues. That is the bft benefit of the agenc
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Wants to see, might not want to hold his breath but he will be addressing the crowd in florida, we will be listening closely to see what comes of that. Trump supporter, press secretary, you are seeing what is going on and i am wondering, timing is everything. I am not dismissing these allegations of these women, but timing is curious. I agree timing is curious. Im not in the habit of silencing women and telling them they dont have the right to speak out. I wouldnt do it to these women or the large number of women who have come out to accuse bill clinton and accused secretary clinton of having intimidated them and bullied them so i am not in the habit of doing that but i believe reports came out 27 days, 26 days before the election, very curious to me and we had an onslaught of emails that indicated the Clinton Campaign has a cozy relationship with the media. This is something we have always known but these emails prove it. I am not in the habit of telling women they dont have the right
Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. At grand valley state university. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figures of the 18thcentury scottish enlightened. This morning