Civility toward cities and the challenge that cities face. I future looks promising and i look forward to 2021. Regarding phase 2, i was joined by the chair, c. F. O. To provide an update to the california project of transportation, tony tavares and numerous staff from the cal tran team and the statewide division of rail and mass transit. We provided an overview on project history, outlined work completed since the projects reactivation in june, provided forecast of upcoming information and the funding plan. Further, to our advancing phase 2, on october 15, we provided a project update to the bay area delegation which included senator and board chair jerry hill, san mateo counties. Along with the senate and Assembly Transportation Committee Staff and offices. 20 legislative offices participated. We provided information about the project history, current status and activities as well as future plans to advance the project. The presentation was well received and we plan to continue our c
Role. Thank you, deborah. Members of the public may observe this teleconferencing meeting at sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and the staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. I also want to wish please call the roll. Before i begin, i will note for the record that due to a scheduling conflict, director tavares is not expected to join us. Directors, please respond. E. Forbes here. Supervisor haney here. M. Hursh here. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin here. Vice chair gee here. Chair sesay present. We have quorum. The next item is item 3, communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the number, 18552826330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. Then pound and pound again. And then listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on e
The last 7 days. This is in the United States of America Today 200000 bedroom coburg 19 over 6000000. 00 more at just over 26. 00 trillion dollars but yet this is supposedly the greatest country in the world according to our elected officials at our meat ball of a president. A country where today 9 to 14 percent of adults with children reported that their children sometimes or often didnt eat anough in the last 7 days why is that because my friends honestly they couldnt afford it. You see this is were neo liberalism has has brought us this is what unbridled an unregulated capitalist system has wrought. This is what political hacks and Corporate Party yes men like Chuck Schumer Mitch Mcconnell jim jordan and nancy pelosi as congress has done to the American People this without a doubt as Donald Trumps america. A country a one time leaders fought for the greater good of the people not the greater good of themselves and their next election. United states of america is starving morally and
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Greetings and sell you take its with just over 5 weeks left until that fateful tuesday evening in this november that will decide the next 4 years of our political future here in the United States of america the failure of our elected leaders especially on the federal level are beginning to multiply rapidly and nowhere is that more apparent than in the latest data from the Census Bureau and department of agriculture which according to John Schwartz of the intercept has revealed that the level of hunger in u. S. Households almost tripled between 2019 and august of this year. It gets even scarier as we dig deeper into the statistics. Things get it truly grim the center on budget and policy priorities discovered that 3. 7 percent of adults reported that their household had not enough to eat sometimes or often in the 12 in the entire 12 months of 2019 and that as recently as the end of august in Early September of this year just 2 weeks ago my friends about 10 percent of all adults reported