Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for october 27, 2020. I am the chair of the authority aaron peskin. Our clerk is here. Could you please call the. roll call . Haney absent. We have a quorum. Haney is present also. Commissioner haney is present. 11 are present. We have a quorum. Do you have any announcements. I would like to make a comment about Public Comment. It will be available for each item. Call 415 6550001. You will be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30 second live time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. I will move to the chairs report. Mostly good and happy news this month. We are pleased to celebrate two milestones for our Transportation Authority. One for the agency itself and one for a special staff member who has been here from almost the beginning. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Half Cent Sales Tax Program as one of the early selfhelp countie
Event, and thanks sponsoring, i should say, and thanks to all the folks at urban who helped to put this on. As you can imagine, an event of this size is neither inexpensive nor easy to pull off, so thanks, everybody, for the help. Tonight well have two panels that will run until roughly 7 45 and then well have another reception until about 8 15, plus or minus. Ill say a few words to sort of tie the thinking behind the two panels together, and then well wade right in to the first panel. But again, thank you guys for coming, for braving the heat and the 5 00 traffic. This is a fun way to kick off the urban space. I will note that the picture behind the title is unintentionally ironic. We say administrative reform. We mean that which can be done without the help of the building behind it, so keep that in mind as you hear us. So for the last 10 years of debate over Housing Finance reform, much of the focus has been on how to reduce the dominance of fannie and freddie in the system. So whet
Out with barb mcquade a whole shes the show shes why were tonight i have got some reminders that i have to read to you are you guys the obedient type . Will you follow directions . Oh, rebels. All right. I love my group already. Im told to remind you that tonights is being recorded. So we kindly ask that you silence your cell phones for the duration of the program. And most importantly, if you have questions for barb, please fill them out on the questions cards that were on your seats or if youre joining us through the youtube chat, they will bring the questions up to me so i can ask them periodically. Um, it really is a pleasure to get to introduce to you. Shes terrified about whats going to come out of my mouth. Yeah i think. I think shes said enough you. So look barb and i serve together United States attorneys during the administration, i was in birmingham. We love the applause for boss barb was in detroit. And what you may also know is that melinda hague, whos seated in the front
Im a professor the university of Alabama Law School and i hang out with barb mcquade a whole shes the show shes why were tonight i have got some reminders that i have to read to you are you guys the obedient type . Will you follow directions . Oh, rebels. All right. I love my group already. Im told to remind you that tonights is being recorded. So we kindly ask that you silence your cell phones for the duration of the program. And most importantly, if you have questions for barb, please fill them out on the questions cards that were on your seats or if youre joining us through the youtube chat, they will bring the questions up to me so i can ask them periodically. Um, it really is a pleasure to get to introduce to you. Shes terrified about whats going to come out of my mouth. Yeah i think. I think shes said enough you. So look barb and i serve together United States attorneys during the administration, i was in birmingham. We love the applause for boss barb was in detroit. And what you