Item number four, approval of minutes for the August 3 Regular meeting and August 17 Special meeting. Directors, are there any additions to the meeting minutes or changes . Seeing none, i open up to public comment. For those of you on the line, if youd like to comment on the approval of the minutes, which is Item Number 4, we have two meetings that we have minutes from, which would be the august 3 and august 17. You can dial the access number, 8888086929, Access Code 9961164. And then press 10 to be in the queue to comment. So, moderator, are there any callers on the line . You have one question remaining. Yes, please. Our first speaker. Caller hi, thank you. Im calling to ask that you to tell you that you need an extra bus on the 48 line because the bus is so full im sorry. This is not the time to comment on that. We are actually on the approval of minutes from the august 3 or 17th meeting. Do you have comments on that . Caller no. But i was taken off of mute and said i was live so i
Momentarily and youll have two minutes. Moderator if you could go ahead and open up the phone line. This is just for Public Comment. David, first time this year. I feel like i havent talked to you all since last year. Just one item on the minutes. Its actually not about me. Its the bottom of page two, the first Public Comment, i believe from correspondence to the board of supervisors. It should be gary. The rest of the minutes, i think are fine. Thank you. Any additional commenters on the minutes. You have zero questions remaining. With that well close Public Comments. Well make that amendment. Is there a motion for motion to amend and approve. Great. Thank you. Second. Can you please call the roll. Sure. roll call . That motion passes. Okay. Item five. Communication. I get to read, my favorite thing to talk about. Due to the covid 19 emergency this meeting is being held virtually. All members are being asked to participate remotely. If you left a voice mail message prior to today, we
Emergency use authorization to pfizers vaccine and if it does the bay area could see doses here as soon as next tuesday. With a shot in the arm, a 90 yearold british woman became the first to receive the Coronavirus Vaccine tuesday. The u. S. Fda scientists reviewed the data and gave their approval on tuesday. They have a independent hearing to decide whether to grant a emergency authorization use. Resident trump held a warp speed vaccine summit at the white house and signed in a vaccine order saying americans should get priority for the vaccine. If for every reason we have problems we will be instituting the per defense production act. Reporter President Joe Biden says he is setting the goal of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days. We are hearing from the state we could be receiving vaccines shipped to our Health Department as soon as 15 december. Reporter county Officials Say they purchased one of the specialized ultralow freezers needed for pfizers vaccine. They both requi
Getting the goahead in the u. S. Good evening. The first inoculations outside of trials happened in the uk this morning but the vaccine still has a couple of hurdles to clear in the u. S. Before the first doses are shipped. We are joined now with where the approval now stands. Reporter the fda has a hearing scheduled for thursday to determine whether the vaccines can be distributed and california has its own Scientific Review Panel but if it all goes smoothly than the first shipments to the bay area could be a week away. With a shot in the arm, a 90 yearold the reddish woman became the first to receive the vaccine tuesday. Pfizer says it is safe and data shows a efficacy rate above 90 . Usda scientists reviewed the data and gave their approval tuesday. The fdas advisors have a meeting on thursday to decide whether to grant emergency authorization use. President trump held a summit at the white house and signed a executive order saying americans should get priority for the vaccines by p
We have a quorum. Thank you, colleagues. I have a request from commissioner valley brown to be excused from todays meeting. Is there a motion to that effect made by commissioner stephanie and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we will take that without objection, even though it might upset council. With that, can we go to the Citizens Advisory Committee. Mr. Larsen, good morning. Turn your microphone on, john, and go ahead. Good morning. Im the care of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the most recent meeting of the cac. Beginning with item 5, allocation and appropriations of prop k funds for 6. 5 million, cac members expressed concerns of tacs used the express lane by the doorpool and express lane project request. The main issue was t n cs adding to congestion in similar ways to add congestion on city streets. There was also keen interest in the equity study and how it would be structured and conducted. They were to free up regular lanes from slower moving h