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gavel welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting this morning at 10 00 am. , tuesday, february 27, 2024. Im chair mandelman i chair this board and commissioner melgar thank you, jeanette is from sfgov and madam clerk please call the roll. Chair mandelman present. Commissioner melgar . Madam clerk can you speak into mic please. Turn the mic on it helps. Commissioner stefani absent. Commissioner walton present. We have quorum. Thank you, madam clerk i think you have a couple of comments for location legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider watch www. Sfgovtv. Org. Or watch cable channel cable channel location legislative chamber, room 250, city hall watch sf cable channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider watch www. Sfgovtv. Org. May watch them on demand. Phone number 1 415 6550001 access code 2664 215 8026 to raise your hand, press 3 when Public Comment is called press star three and do not press it a
Is extremely rare. But friends dont have to be. When youre connected, youre not alone. A house Veterans Affairsn. Subcommittee hears testimony about efforts to improve the va Financial Management. Officials from the Veterans Affairs department spoke specifically about the agencys Financial Management Business Transformation Program which is the third attempt to modernize its financial and Accounting Systems good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. We are here to review the progress in the Financial Management Business Transformation Program with efm bt, the vas third attempt toie modernize the hodgepodge of aging and adequate financial and Accounting Systems. The systems are a serious problem. Every year the va barely manages to pay the Financial Statement audit with a clean opinion despitefi carrying the same Material Weaknesses and deficiencies. At the same time the departments Spending Continues to be much similar to the wild west. Its been nearly ten years since the for
Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
Two stations a year, and this was considered, well, quite normal. Because moscow had no money. The federal budget did not give money for this, and it was like that. An excuse to do nothing. But they made a decision. It was implemented by the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, the solntsevo metro line, the metro, dozens of new metro stations, half of what was built in the entire history of the metro. Lines the moscow central diameter connected disparate suburban routes mcd3 will connect two Railway Lines to st. Petersburg and kazan, while mcd4 will connect beyond and east. Kaluga Nizhny Novgorod direction and will pass through the seven Central Railway stations of the capital. Railways that would seem, in general, some kind of monsters from the past, which just need to be buried and forgotten, it seemed that in general one of the best transport solutions was connected by suburban lines, the metro of the center. What was impossible to realize for almost a century, we have realized it. Out of five