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Chair borden Municipal Transportation Agency commission. [indiscernible]. Please call the roll. [roll call] director you have a quorum. Item four communications. Chair borden due coth chair borden we ask the public to participate remotely. For all comments received in advance of the meeting, we have received an appreciate these comments. Thank you for honoring our request. We continue to urge the public to write the board. While this Technology Allows us to hold these meetings via teleconference, there maybe gap and silence as staff is transitioning the technology between speakers. We are doing our best and we ask for your patience and understanding. If we lose the connection during the meeting, we will pause the meeting until the connection has been reestablished. Lastly i want to thank the village that it takes to keep this meeting possible. This meeting is televised by sfgov tv, theres a time lag between the actual meeting and what members of the public is seeing on sfgov tv. If you
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
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