Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner walton. Present we have quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, thank you. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch channel 26 or 99. Or stream it live at www. Sfgov. Org. For those wish to make Public Comment remote low dial 4156550001, access code 2660 908 7338 and then press pound and pound again you will listen in role time of had Public Comment is called you wish to speak on press star 3 to be added to speak. Dont press it again or you will be removed from the queue. The system had the system says your line is muted unmute it. The live operator will advise you allowed two minutes to speak when 2 minutes are up we will move
Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bonnie gene von crow. Sfmta building Progress Public Affairs manager. Such a title. Good morning. Im bonnie von crow, Public Affairs manager im theme proviedz an update on the paratransit electrification process. Our paratransit fleet is a van and taxi program. For people with disabilities that are unable to take our muni service. Unlike municipal theruns on fixed routes paratransit is a door to door program. We have been provideing for 40 plus years last year served approximately 500,000 trips per
Good morning, welcome to the october 24 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority im Rafael Mandelman i am chair our vice chair is melgar. Thank sfgovtv and our clerk is angela, will you call the roll . Yes, chair. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Why commissioner engardio. Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner walton. Present we have quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, thank you. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch channel 26 or 99. Or stream it live at www. Sfgov. Org. For those wish to make Public Comment remote low dial 4156550001, access code 2660 908 7338 and then press pound and pound again you will listen
South africas president jay cab zuma appoints a third finance minister in less than a week. More signs of trouble for brazil embattled president and thousands call for her to step down. First we have some breaking news from north around iraq and within the last ten minutes or so we heard turkish troops close to the city of mosul have now been withdrawn. Their deployment led to a diplomatic spat between baghdad and ankara and we will go to our correspondent who is in irbill and how many turkish troops are moving and where are they moving to . Yes, marteen the details are still emerging and know the troops are between 150 to about a thousand. The Kurdish Regional Government Office has confirmed to us this happened after extensive negotiations between the Iraqi Government and the turkish government. As you know there has been a continuous talk in the last few days between baghdad and the ankara about these troops that have been deployed and a large number of troops, heavy military equipme
And you can send an email. The phone lines are open. You can start dialing in. Lets begin with the Foreign Relations Committee Hearing yesterday where secretary of the john kerry was asked about his reaction to the gop letter. [video clip] my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. During my 29 years here in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed, anything comparable to this. If i had, i can guarantee you that no matter what the issue and no matter who was president , i would have certainly rejected it. No one is questioning anyones right to dissent. Any senator can go to the floor any day and raise any of the questions that were raised in that. But the right to the leaders in the middle of a negotiation, particularly the leader that they have criticized other people for even engaging with the writing to, to write them and suggest that theyre going to get a constitutional lesson which by the way was absolutely incorrect, was quite stunning. Host the secret