Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at the Transportation Authority. In particular i wish to thank vice chair scott wiener for your partnership and leadership on transportation issues and eric mar for plans and programs and on behalf of my colleagues i wish to thank all of our aids to help with the large work we have here and the transportation staff. During the Selection Process i would like to thank you maria for your great work keeping the Organization Running smoothly and helped
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Are the chances the oligarchs are going to keep bowing down, especially given the signals . So it doesnt matter who owns it. Youre not going to get putin. You see my point. I think there are two positive possible outcomes to sanctions, in addition to a range of negatives but lets talk about positive. Positive hospital outcomes to sanctions. One is that we will set them against each other. I would imagine that the u. S. Government and talking about sanctions thought this was a positive thing. Instead of having stable, unified leadership, why dont we start it up and see what happens . So there is that, that it will decrease the stability of putins hold on power. I think that that is regarded by those governments that have gone through with the sanctions as positive. Theres also a second, maybe this is just a fanciful positive outcome, in the book i talk a lot about the ideas of the transition from authoritarian to democratic regime and how you need to great and incentives for the rule of
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Work. I also want to recognize great staff work on innovative tools such as my street sf. Com easy tools to find out where transportation projects are happening and weigh in on priorities. To congestion management and neighborhood access together were tackling important issues. The agency also kept the funds flowing this year helping with our economic recovery and addressing pressing needs in every neighborhood across the city. This year the Transportation Authority passed the one billion mark for our Sales Tax Program allocating funds for projects to improve the safety and accessibility of our Transportation System citywide. Weve moved a strong group of projects forward. The brt program moved ahead and the major Capital Projects of the prop k plan are all under construction. To the. Our impact extends beyond the investments on the ground. Were Engaging Community based organizations in our outreach to communities of concern and increasing the involvement of neighborhood groups in the d