Whats at stake in terms of fighting against hate and those efforts to divide us, and i do know that im in a position to do something about it, so i felt a great responsibility. And the incredible power of people, right, who and im not the only leader in this. Were all leaders in this. This is so much bigger than me. Vice president Kamala Harris Last Night talking to oprah about her rise to the top of the democratic ticket for president. Well have much more from that starstudded sitdown just ahead. Also coming up, the trumpbacked republican candidate for governor in North Carolina is vowing to stay in the race despite a damning report on offensive and racist posts he made on a pornographic website some years ago. And well bring you the latest from the Middle East as israel continues its attacks against the Hezbollah Terrorist Group In Lebanon. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, september 20th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we will b
The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu
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
Just come on into the conversation if you like. What im hearing is that we actually have pretty much consensus on item number 1. Item number 2, i feel there is a pathway there. Item number 3, i believe it will take more work with the Sheriffs Department. As a board member, we dont have the authority to actually change the rules and procedures within the electronic monitoring in the Sheriffs Department, but we can actually help facilitate a conversation that we reach a consensus and agreement on how we can better serve those people, those clients we are serving. I think these three recommendations brought forth is an attempt to do that. Before we go any further and we lose some of our Public Commenters, i would like to open this up for Public Comment on items number one and two. Can you see how many speakers we have in the queue . My apologies everyone that this hearing has gone on for such a long time, but as i said, that we have continued this item, i think five times. I felt like we