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Id to call to or the meeting of the Public Utilities commission. Today is tuesday, march 10. If we could have the roll call. President Ann Moller Caen is expected shortly. The vietor here. Moran here. Maxwell here. Paulson here. The next item is the approval of the minutes. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Hearing none, all those in favor . Opposed . Motion carried. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the co...

10 year. Crude now below 30. And not emphasize enough how much pain that will be causing to producers. To get a sense of where we are in the market, if you switch of the board, you can see some of the heavy hitters within the market, like apple and microsoft, down 10 , 11 . Also seeing bank of america off by 16 . The index which tracks the s p is down by almost 10 . Again, a world of hurt within the next two and half hours. We have some breaking news. The boe is pledging further prompt action wh...

Rerecu recuse myself for the closed session. Id like to ask that director hirsch, as i did so last time, take control of the closed session. So ill be back in the board room and hopefully come back out today. Good luck in closed session. All right. Thank you, vice chair gee. As he noted, we are going into closed session. This is an opportunity clerk all right. The tjpa board of directors meeting is back in session. And in item 8, closed session, there is nothing to report. Go ahead and move into...

Maxwell here. Paulson here. The next item is the approval of the minutes. Any Public Comments on the minutes . Hearing none, all those in favor . Opposed . Motion carried. Next item. Item 4 is general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissioners jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. I have three speaker cards here. The first is eileen. Good afternoon. Eileen, coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods on my own behalf. I live t...

Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite ...

For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizati...

Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian,...

And has been integral to our efforts to effectively work with the supervisors and their staff. So the summary of local priorities is included in this calendar item and touches on broabroad topics which i wont l out individuals. Theyre familiar in terms of contract vision zero and priority projects. Moving to the state priorities, the proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues...

The proposed 2020 state legislative program, and transportation funding, emersion and parking, land use and housing and sustainability and i would note these are issues carrying over into the second year into january, year two of the current session and the dynamics are different in year two. I think were looking for opportunities to build on some of the conversations that started in year one. But also, perhaps, advance a little more aggressively some of the proposals have been eluded to around ...

Facing some pretty significant challenges. The first is that we do not have sufficient staffing to realize the benefits of the technology. And the best way i can describe this is i think this thinking was the technology was going to do it for us. And what we are finding is that the technology has incredible potential but it needs bodies to react to the information. So what happened when we moved to the Transportation Management center and the new radio, we were running a call centre. An emergenc...