Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the october 17 meeting of Transportation Authority board im Rafael Mandelman chair of this board our vice chair is Marina Melgar i thank matthew from sfgovtv and our clerk is elijia saunders. Commissioner chan. Present. Why commissioner dorsey. Present. Engardio. Present. Machine man. Present. Voice chair melgar present. Why commissioner supervisor peskin, absent. Preston present commissioner ronen. Absent commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Commissioner walton. Present. And commissioner ronen, present. Chair we have quorum. Great. Thank you, mr. Clerk i believe you have a Public Comment announcement for members of public interested in participating we welcome your tenants in person in room 250 in city hall or watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream it live on sfgov. Org. For those wishing to comment remote dial 4156550001, access code 2661 002 6574. Press pound and pounds again you will listen to the meet not
All right. You know, you gotta a hard on the boy. Oh, you will go learning and everything will be all everything will be everything yeah, well. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is dr. Jim ginter. I am the supervisory archivist for the Dwight D Eisenhower president ial library. And welcome to. Before we start, i just wanted to take a moment to mention that as it happens, as we gather today for this program, that it is also the. 50th anniversary of the death of president eisenhower. And so i just thought before we get started, take a moment and just take a moment of remembrance for president eisenhower in his work on behalf of our country. Thank you. I want to welcome you all to the eisenhower president ial Library Luncheon Learn Program for march 28th, 2020, for this year, a programing team has been waging peace. And in this series were looking at some of the ways that president eisenhower sought global peace. This month, were looking at Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. President e
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is dr. Jim ginter. I am the supervisory archivist for the Dwight D Eisenhower president ial library. And welcome to. Before we start, i just wanted to take a moment to mention that as it happens, as we gather today for this program, that it is also the. 50th anniversary of the death of president eisenhower. And so i just thought before we get started, take a moment and just take a moment of remembrance for president eisenhower in his work on behalf of our country. Thank you. I want to welcome you all to the eisenhower president ial Library Luncheon Learn Program for march 28th, 2020, for this year, a programing team has been waging peace. And in this series were looking at some of the ways that president eisenhower sought global peace. This month, were looking at Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. President eisenhower believed that, quote, Radio Free Europe and the crusade for freedom are vital to success in the battle for mens minds. With that in mi
Im the advisor board president for the American Indian cultural district, as well as a member of Mission Destino and other committees and councils here in San Francisco. So i am ariana ortega, peace people of nicaragua. From my mothers side and the seneca nation on my fathers side. I was born and raised here in San Francisco and retired in 2020 from a senior manager position with the sfmta to after 32 years of service. But as i mentioned and what im doing now is important work that i am many of you are doing on behalf of our community is that work is never done and should be reflected in all the work you do and all aspects of your lives. We are brought together by our ancestors is to fulfill the prophecy of the eagle and the condor. The prophecy tells of this time when the Indigenous Peoples of the north and the south earth would reunite to renew you and protect our original knowledge, strength and connection to our earth. Mother this is a time of reconciliation. Mission. Reunion educa
Now lets start with leadership. First of all, Political Leadership is critical to moving the ball forward in this city. And we want to really thank the mayor and we want to thank the board of supervisors for working together politically to sustain these programs because its taken about five years for us to get to this point. And that could not be done in isolation. So thank you , madam mayor. Thank you, jonah ortega, coeur dalene gang. But we also want to thank our city departments and the leaders from our city departments for the collaboration that theyve done in getting this program to where it is. We want to give a big, big thank you to the Housing Authority led by tanya liturgy and chaired the commission chaired by Joaquin Torres. Thanks for coming out today. We want to give a big thank you to the Mayors Office of housing, eric shaw. And of course, we want to thank the department of building inspection. Who in many ways built the foundation for this program over the long term. All