The meeting for april 14, 2020 is now called to order. Role call, please. Pair role call . It looks like were missing one board member . Miss collins. Do we know why . Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and t
Reporter Lauren Anthony where she heard from the governor. Reporter thats right. Im actually standing outside the uc davis medical center. This is where the Solano County patient is being treated. It is the first confirmed case of transmission from an unknown origin. It sounds alarming. But the governor said it wasnt a matter of if but when a case like the would come along. Their the case yesterday are understandably gentle rated a lot of attention but didnt surprise anybody standing here. Reporter Governor Newsom tried reassure an anxious public in the wake of californias first confirmed case of coronavirus covid19 with an unknown origin. We knew this was inevitable as it relates to the nature, the epidemiology, the nature of these viruses, that incident would occur. Reporter Little Information is being released about the patient from Solano County but currently in treatment. Shes a female who was out in the community for several days. She was not in contact withist in evacuees isolat
Drop in temperatures. 60s at 4 00. The rest of us in the 70s. Jobina . Happy friday to you. We made it. We have our mass transit updates. Ferries running with no delays. B. A. R. T. Has 12 training running on time. Ace 1 is on time as well. I have a vta commuter alert. The blue and green lines will have a bus bridge in place between the karina and civic center stations. Julian and kumasi . Thank you. Some developing news to get to. Countries around the world are taking steps this morning to protect their Public Transit systems from the spread of the coronavirus. In the bay area, transit officials are preparing. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with more on this. Amy . Hi, good morning. B. A. R. T. Officials say right now theyre not doing anything major yesterday. Theyre taking a wait and see approach. So its business as usual right now. The b. A. R. T. Board of directors had a lot of questions yesterday for the general manager at the Board Meeting about what was being don trepare
But this has moved off to the shoulder. Moving over to hayward, following two crashes, southbound 880 before winton avenue and southbound 880 at 92. Both of these incidents are blocking one lane and involving three cars each. So you can expect delays in this area. Mexico is confirming the first two cases of the coronavirus in the country. One patient is in mexico city, tneither of them is seriously ill and likely contracted the virus while visiting illny. The cdc transferred a patient with coronavirus to San Mateo County. Few details are being released about the case but county Health Officials are warning people to take extra precautions, wash those hands often, stock up on supplies and have a plan just in case a family or employee gets sick somewhere where you work. San mateo Health Officials plan to meet with all School Districts in the county today to discuss what to do if an outbreak happens there. Solano county declared a state of emergency. Youll recall yesterday we told you tha
Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was mad. And i decided to do something about it. And thats why im speaking today. Please vote with your heart and not with your pocketbook. I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is candice fault. Im a resident of our fine city of San Francisco. And im also one of the coleaders of the San Francisco chapter of citizens climate lobby. I would like to thank all of you for the tim