Mostly covered with snow and ice. Wind chill is a factor this morning right around zero. Snow sticking around to the morning. Thankfully, temperatures rise. By early afternoon, the snow starts to move out. Bigtime warm up just around the corner, i will tell you win coming up. Alyx an electionyear battle brewing on the future of the Supreme Court. With the death of Justice Scalia setting off a debate about who should nominate the replacement. President obama says he will nominate Justice Scalias successor in due time but it will likely be an uphill battle. After his sudden death, president obama expressed 79yearold a brilliant, energetic justice. There will be plenty of time responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. Mitch mcconnell who sets the Senate Schedule says the American People should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice and it should not be filled until we have a new president. The candidates weighed in during the cbs news
Someone that is predisposed and it was useful in guiding them as were going ongoing through the epidemic i was wondering an opportunity to learn how the department handles communications. Im a little bit concerned. But cnn and fox and everybody the headlines by far most serious than ebola what is the role we think your department in terms of corrective communications or an updated accommodations the facts are the best way to get things out i find it effective as well as perhaps meeting some of the conditions of the Latino Community who is traveling back and forth and may have higher concerns. Right for the Latino Community that is actually a lot of dlament and intensive communication from the Health Organization theyve been good about getting out the information in english and spanish we agree were actively the process of redesigning how to communicate with the physicians at the city level we have a new vendor that is working on Emergency Communications for the city fast and were going
General Public Safety health bond and to forward it out as Committee Reports to hear them have them forwarded for tomorrows board of supervisors full board and if you could call items one and 1. Item 1, ordinance calling and providing for a accept election to be held in the city and county of San Francisco on tuesday, june 7, 2016 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the following bonded debt of the city and county of San Francisco. To finance the [stkroupbgs ], acquisition improvement seismic facilities and related costs to be paid out of ordinary annual income and revenue of the city and county and will indebtness. Thank you, madame clerk. First of all, supervisor yee, could we entertain a motion to excuse supervisor tang from todays meet i will make the molestation. Take that out objection [ gavel ] mr. Strong and ms. Garcia are here i dont know that we have any questions. If there is no formal presentation, why dont we potentially hold of
Metro. If you want the federal government at all. It is liability because the federal government didnt give us control over our own system. If keith d. C. Not one thin dime. Cityistrict is the only that has any responsibility for state functions. I agree with what mr. Evans has said. I want to focus on the fact that for the first time in its history as i understand it this system is doing shortterm borrowing. In order to get operating funds is that true . Yes it is. You have a rollover borrowing of about 500 million at this point. You are borrowing just to keep the system running. Weve got to face this fast. There werehat, handwritten drawdown restrictions. To get any of the federal money that is due to you you got to voucher andand the effect. I do have any problems with that because of what fda found in terms of control and so i understand in the beginning that after having had written correspondence over this it looks like to do this process and getting to validation. It looks like
Resources into all the stations and as youre going through the process. The organizational span of control, we know is too wide, as you noted in your in the meeting we had yesterday and its not mission focused. So i appreciate particularly what youve been highlighting on the customer focus of metro and the need to have a much more customer focused work force and to have that be certainly a top priority. I was able to go up to the rock recently, the rail operations control center, and i know one of the biggest concerns that i had had when i read articles like the washingtonian back in december, was the training program. I noticed in the recent audit that they identified training as a key problem area. Any way we can help you as you go through that process of revitalizing and changing that training so we have the best people available and get the most value for the money and resources were putting in here. I thank the chairman for allowing us to join you here today. I thank the general m