San francisco county Transportation Authority for todays meeting, tuesday, september 22, 2020, our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Could you call the roll. Supervisor fewer present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor mar present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor preston present. Supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. Yee absent, we have quorum. I would like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, via telephone by calling 14156550001 and when prompted entering access code, 146 226 7339. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. The operator will advise that you will be allowed two minutes to speak. When the two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Calls are taken in the order
I had two roll call votes i had to participate in. The environment of public works, we have a quirky rule in the sena senate, in our committees. If you want to vote no by proxy, that counts. If you want to vote yes by proxy, that doesnt count. So i had to be there in person. We can now get started. Rhea, are you ready . Yes. Thank you so much. This hearing will come to order. Today the committee convenes to discuss the issue of compensating student athletes for the use of their name, image and likeness, nil. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today, we will hear from keith carter, vice chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics for university of mississippi, my alma mater, where i lettered in zero sports. Mr. Michael drake, chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association board of governors and president emeritus of the Ohio State University. Ms. Deion collar, professor of law and director of the center for sport and the law at the universit
Purposely left on the floor for safety. Thank you very much. My name is sports to fly. Can you follow me on instagram and facebook at force to fly to see my tour throughout mexico. Thank you for your time. Good afternoon. Im here to introduce this years recipient of the neighbor award. Its my great honor to introduce roger. I go way back with him, when he was just a youngster, organizing his mission district, organize his block, his family, his neighbors against an unlawful eviction during that time. And i got to meet him as an organizer, got to really see his revolutionary spirit, eagerness, his boldness to just, you know, fight for the rights of people, and i see it to this day as president of the twu, 258, and so im just proud of him. Im proud to introduce him. Hes my comrade, my confidentant, good friend. For many of us, a great source of pride, and we look forward to so we looked at him to do many more amazing big things, fight for the needs of our people. My name is roger moreko,
Have the ability to make appointments for. Or if you decide to run for Public Office. You know, when i decided to run for supervisor, i wanted to be a good supervisor for the people of the district i represent, where i grew up in. And so that entailed making sure i knew how to do policy and legislation and i understand how the process worked and the city worked. And the good news id been on commissions and other places. So i understood it. But i actually went back to school late in life, before i ran, to get my masters in public administration. And i ended up graduating from u. S. F. With honors, because i was committed to making sure that i was the best policymaker for the people that i represented. And im not suggesting that you do that. Its just that whatever role you want to play, you set your sights on that role and you make sure that youre prepared to take it on and all that it entails. And unfortunately in the world of politics, and in the world of public service, it also comes
Objection. The senator from ohio. Mr. Portman thank you. Mr. Portman thank you. Im on the floor today to tug about the coronavirus pandemic and what we can and should do here w in the United States sene and congress as a whole. To actually address the ongoing problem. We are not out of the woods yet. We have a Health Care Crisis and of course an economic crisis as a consequence of that. We have done some good bipartisan work over the past six months. In fact not many people realize the past five or six bills with strong bipartisan majority. What people know about most is that it is when the cares act to gut 97 votes here on the floor of the senate, 970. So we have in the past been able to figure a out a way to come together as republicans and democrats as americans to be able to address this crisis. We need to do it again because we still do have a crisis. We still do have an acceptably high levels of people getting in fact did, hospitalized in being in the icu fatalities in their econ