Vice chair eaken. Here. Eaken present. Director heminger. Here. Have you a quorum. Though were legally required to have on the agenda to make its announcement because its clear were all using sound producing devices during the meeting we wont make the announcement. Approval of the october 20, 2020 meeting. Im ask the moderator to open the bridge and ask colleagues if theres amendments to the Meeting Minutes from october 20. Seeing none, is there Public Comment . Moderator is anyone on the line . Have you zero questions remaining. Well close Public Comment. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Chair borden secretary boomer please call the roll. [roll call] director eaken youre very faint. [roll call] madame chair, we can approve the minutes. Item 5, communications. Chair borden i lovely speech i get to give at every meeting. All members are participating Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors and public. In the published notice for the meeting a
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Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
Before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. My mistake. Open up for Public Comment on this item. To the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. Members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 8888086929 and press 9961164. All right. We will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. Director borden, put yourself on mute. All right. Moderator is telling us there are no callers. Seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially . Yes, madam chair t moderator will close Public Comment for the minutes. And there is still a roll call vote on the minutes . A yes, madam chair. Director borden. Aye. Director brinkman . Dr. Brinkman, unmute. Aye. Dr. Eaken . Aye. Heminger. And that is approved by unanimous approval. Item 5, communication. Before i get into the extensive directions here, i just w