888 3982342 the Access Code is 8647385. We apologize for the inconvenience. Were updating the website to advise people of this new number. Its 888 3982342. Today i like to adjourn the meeting in honor of carl payne. I feel fortunate that i had a chance to meet him. He passed away on august 7th. The way i got to meet him, he won the Car Bell ringing contest a record ten times. He was the gentlest soul and wonderful human being to be around. He spent 29 years with muni. After his time in muni, he spent another 25 years with the Police Department and then he became a ranger with golden gate park. With that i want to make sure we adjourn in his honor. As you all know, we are in the middle of the covid19 health emergency. As such, this meeting is being held via teleconference. We ask you to participate remotely by writing the board or leaving a voice mail message. You still can write us, we dont see it Today M. T. A. Board at sfgov tv. Com. Also, if you happen to missed my previous announce
We are backed by people who send us donations every year. We have a Fundraising Dinner most years. We have not the last year or so because of the covid 19 situation. We get funding from the Peter Peterson Foundation among others. Host i want to ask about the passage of not only the Budget Reconciliation but the infrastructure built. I want to start on the debt limit. It has been in the news. Tell people exactly what it is and how it works. Guest sure. We have a statutory debt limit, which means there is a particular dollar cap, now around 28 trillion, he on which the treasury cannot borrow to finance the governments operations. It was originally enactedin World War i enacted in World War i to facilitate government borrowing. At that time congress needed to approve every issuance of debt. They said borrow up to this limit. Ironically it was meant to make it easier to borrow money. We think of it now is a way to prevent the debt from going up. That is not what it does though. I think the
Time with school approaching. Vaccinations among adolescents are lagging. How concerning is this . Its very concerning. This is a significant chunk of the u. S. Population. Also, think about it, children under 12 cant get vaccinated. So a lot of them have older siblings who are 12 to 15. So we rely on those to protect the younger ones, but the numbers are not looking great. Only 25 u. S. Children ages 12 to 15 is fully vaccinated. You can see thats really lagging behind other age groups. Kids that age started out great and the numbers really took a nose dive. Lets see what parents say about why theyre not vaccinating their 12 to 15yearolds. First of all, about a third have received at least one dose. 18 of parents are saying im going to wait and see. I want to wait and see how other kids 12 to 15 do. Spoiler alert. They do great. They dont die of covid. Its amazing. They should try it. In the definitely not group is 25 . 1 in 4 parents of a child 12 to 17 say they will definitely not v
Athletes arriving in tokyo. Plus, as President Biden says facebook is killing people with vaccine disinformation, an e. R. Doctor says he blames fox, not his unvaccinated patients. A Capitol Rioter learns his fate today. What could be a Benchmark Sentencing for insurrectionists. And the mysterious Health Attacks targeting american diplomats seem to be getting worse where the socalled Havana Syndrome has struck again. Good morning to viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Its monday, july 19th. Opening ceremonies for the Tokyo Olympics begin in four days. The games are already taking a troubling turn. There are 58 coronavirus cases linked to the event, three athletes who are living in the Olympic Village just tested positive. Two from South Africa, one from the Czech Republic. And as has american Tennis Star Coco gauff, shes out of the olympic games. Tokyo reported over 1,000 new cases for the fifth day in a row. Capital currently under a Covid State Of Emergency until
Chair mandelman good morning everyone. I am rafael mandelman. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk [roll call] Chair Mandelman commissioner chan is absent and i would like to excuse her. Supervisor peskin do we have to vote on that . Chair mandelman i dont think we do. Clerk no worries. Chan is excused. [roll call] we have quorum. Chair mandelman thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, id like to begin today with a moment of silence and adjourn Todays Meeting in memory of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority employees. Our sincere condolences go out to the families of those victims. Id also like to express our appreciation for others providing mutual aid to v. T. A. While light rail is suspended. Lets have that moment of silence now. [moment of silence] thank you. Madam clerk, please read your public comment announcement. Clerk thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 415 6550001. And when prompted enter acces