Victory came the vindication of a leader who wants to actually lead through hard times. His call to common concern. Bidens call to coming together. What beats deep in the hearts of the American People is this, democracy. The right to be heard, to have your vote counted, to choose leaders of this nation to govern ourselves. In america, politicians dont take power. People grant power to them. The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power can extinguish that flame. It is my sincere hope we never genesee anyone subjected to the kind of threats and abuse we saw in this election. Its simply unconscionable. Even more stunning, 17 republican attorneys general and 126 republican members of the congress actually, they actually signed on to a lawsuit filed by the state of texas. Democracy prevailed. We, the people, voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And now its tim
Any time on demand. It has been a remarkable day. The news continues. Lets hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. Remarkable indeed. Were making the right kind of history here. Making some progress, democracy in work. Now comes the vaccine, our first good chance to really limit the exposure here. So, anderson, thank you very much for carrying the coverage. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. Big day for our country. You heard coop. Hes right. And on two of the most important fronts. Americas big win in court friday meant that our democracy could advance today. And so today the Electoral College met. The electors cemented president elect bidens victory. Retrumplican threats to stall it amounted to nothing once again. 538 electors from all 50 states and washington, d. C. Reaffirming the votes cast by you. More than 150 million americans. And with this validation of the victory came the vindication of a leader who wants to actually lead through hard times. His call to calm and c
Tax informing for the Transportation Authority back in 05 and 06 is the funds we had in fiscal year 09 and needing were slowing creeping up 4 to 5 percent and will be at our high point in n. Y. 20142015. As we see it right now, were expecting to grow over the next few years at this rate. In terms of expenditures we have 4 point plus Million Dollars for the bulk is in the pie chart our Capital Expenditure thats 215 million of costs representing 95 percent. And the majority of the cost fall into four projects either sfmta Communication System Computer Aided Dispatch replacement the Transbay Transit Center downtown estimation and the parkway. Were working on maintenance improvements and pedestrian and bicycle projects the personnel costs the salaries for the 33 positions at the Transportation Authority. In terms of salaries theres no change from the previous years we have a small increase to offset the medical premiums thats enabling that we anticipate in the next year. In terms of nonper
None, Public Comment is closed. We should take Public Comment on item 3 seeing none, Public Comment is closed madam clerk, this is an action item on item 3. Supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Absent commissioner walker. Supervisor wiener. This item passes please call item 4. The preliminary 20142015 an amendment a thought prop k this is an informational item. Good morning, commissioners. What we have before you is a preliminary fiscal year 20142015 you recall this is our first look at the Transportation Authority 20142015 budget well have another opportunity to review the budget at the at the maze Financial Committee were looking for information we have a presentation ill walk through the financial numbers newer the authority and have my colleague talk about the other program just a little bit of why we present this budget to this committee according to the state statutes weve got to adapt a budget by june this is the sales tax revenue and the state and local revenu
Treasure island represents an Exciting Initiative for our agency this refers to the System Design and development and eventually the chart idling transportation project. The third street phase 3 represents one of the ways were collaborating with the sfmta on Capital Projects and doing that work will be important and exciting this year. The Planning Division the Planning Division is charged with implemented this year what we adapted last year including the San Francisco transportation and the transbay area and the emerging studies are the capacity study well be bringing and the freeway Management Study really how San Francisco, california connection erection with the carpool lanes and in addition to strengthening the major bart and muni and ferry and agent transit. The capital promotions youve seen through the years the gar brt which is the final draft we hope to bring in and the brt is moving along it includes a small rail component on geneva boulevard and the transbay transportation i