Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Of the Trump Administrations muslim ban, i would like to welcome the members of t the subcommittee and oversight and investigations to this hearing. We are happy to be working on this important issue with you all today. Id also like to thank all of the majorityminority members in staff of both subcommittees for coordination and flexibility while planning this joint hearing particularly given the cancellation of yesterdays vote, i want to note that because of the cancellation not every member is able to be here today, but i did make a point of talking to mr. Columns and mr. Buck to be assure that they would be okay with proceeding and they assured me that they were since mr. Bigg and zeldon will be here, we do appreciate that flexibility and our opportunity to learn more and to probe issues about this matter. I really do think the hearing in many ways is overdue for 2 and a half years the administration has been allowed to arbitrarily ban from predominantly muslim countries and no overs
252,500 as of january 27th. Those totals will change slightly as we close the books on fiscal year 1819. Our approach to budgeting is to aim high so we have have flexibility and meet the needs of our residents. However, we maintain mindfulness and we maintain financial stewardship of this valuable resource. And i wish to take my direction from you as the information you require or what you are most interested. Any Public Comment . No Public Comment requested. Its in the hands of the commission. Commissioners please. Thank you. The year to date is actually the full fiscal year to june 30th so a number of these items were not fully expended. Thats correct. And so is there some reason that youve maintained the level that you think theyre at . I mean there were reasons that you believe those programs need that much allocations and are there any new programs you all considered and did or did not well, you obviously didnt fund them because theyre not in here. No new programs. We have some of
This. Even though you may not be prepared to give us a report on august, just tell us were live. [laughter] we can do that. I just wanted to add to that question about each worked for the office of health in order to develop their own dash boards and epic. These are standards reports so they got to define one of the key metrics clinical and operational that they want to see and theyll be able to produce out of this multimillion dollar project that weve put forward. Those have already been established and theyll be going as time goes by and readily available to report. Thank you. I just really want to acknowledge her leadership and her perseverance and her courage moving things forward and also to acknowledge that she had a little bit to do with attracting our new talent. So i just really want to acknowledge that. As someone that came into this department with this huge epic piece, she really educated me in a way that was extremely helpful and im really excited shes going to continue to