Good morning. And welcome to the monthly meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, im scott weiner, the chair of the authority. And mr. Clerk will you please call the roll . All right, item one, roll call. Avalos . Here. Breed, present. Campos chl present. Cohen. Present e farrell. Absent. Kim absent. Mar. Absent. Peskin. Present. Tang. Present. Weiner. Present. Yee. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you very much. And before going any further i want to thank sfgov tv, for broadcasting todays hearing. And item two, please . Item two, chairs report, this is an information item. Thank you. Colleagues, this has been an exciting month for the Transportation Authority. Last friday i was very happy to join with commissioner kims office to to the cal tran and the chp, and the federal highway administration, and the metropolitan commission, and this was the first major capitol project delivered by the traness powertation authority. And the new ramps provide safe access, and
Policy. And i also wanted to say that a lot of the tours were Pretty Amazing for the visitors from around the country as well. And a great panel with Christie Wang from spur on housing and how we merge Housing Developments that is equitable with the transportation policy as well. And i wanted to last say that was a fun conference, and they, kind of wonky but building in lots of interesting ways to talk about complex and challenging policies. I think that kim, from the tech crunch to many of the others, talked about the challenges with the innovation capitol of the world. The San Francisco sil con, valley, bay area, but many other regions are looking towards us for how we do it right. And i wanted to at last say that i think that conferences like this are great for the networking but for me, it is like the synergism and the intersectionality of the work that a lot of people are doing and hats off to the organizers, especially the low Income Investment fund and others who really insuring
All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee for tuesday, november 15, 2016, like to thank our clerk steve stamos and leo and mark from sfgovtv madam clerk, any announcements . No announce. Mr. Clerk item one. Roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed absent commissioner farrell commissioner peskin commissioner hwang absent we have quorum okay. Thank you very much colleagu colleagues commissioner tang had a previous engagement can i have a motion can we take that without objection . 70 all right. Mr. Clerk item number 2. Sense advisory report this is an informational item. Good morning item number 4 the 3. 1 million for the traffic calming most of questions or comments from the cca the clarifications on specification by the degree to which federal dollars we need to continue the operations of the cable car and to replace the gear boxed in the overhaul funded made this monthly attractive were happy to have this and have the
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