Aware of the increase of fupds that would increase our staffing needs and preparing this by determining now when we will need the new staff, and what roles they will fill and when it will make sense to hire new employees or contract out to consultants and and shows the staffing needs and our division and the construction that will show an uptick in work as we begin delivering more projects. This slide provides members with an overview of the changes that we have implemented and at a high level, we can see the concerns that were identified in providing in terms of recommendations from the audit, and things like time and cost over runs and reporting an oversight and confusing financial information, and trying to rectify that and process improvements of the projects and as we go through the presentation, we will talk about how we are doing the improvements to some of these items. Capitol planning and analysis. Sfmta capitol policies have been, in effect, really since 2011 providing the po
And you can see the escalator projects is what will be incorporated in phase two due to the popular projects and the control and the communication projects are under way and the enterprise and the as ses management is also under way and in particular, something that might hear addressed in the management update and because the efforts that the mta is undertaking to manage the resources. So for the proposed projects for the next five years, dpw is doing, early planning work, right now, to verify the scope in the needed improvements of the various different facilities that will help to address the needs of the projects Going Forward. The paint booths at the muni metro east facility in the woods and will improve efficiency as mta shifts to the motor coach fleet. Okay. Some of the quick highlights, and we will get the amount of funds that are nonprop k that are left to be identified and the funding plan already assumes revenues from the November Ballot measure and prop k is funding concept
And that, audit, was completed and presented to the board in 2011 in like both audited had a list of recommendations that were reviewed by the sfmta and provided an update and this is a Progress Report that commissioner campos has asked for and i will ask miss harris who is the director of the Capitol Programs and construction at sfmta to give the presentation and i will say that many of the things that he will talk about, also, benefit the Small Projects and some of these are highlighted by the director at the vision zero meeting last week and a special thank you to patricia who is chairing the task force and alicia who made the time to meet with us during the difficult periods last week. Thank you. Thank you, for being here. Thank you, maria. Mr. Chairman and commissioners, good morning, im vince harris and direct for, sfmta and joined by the other staff and i want to acknowledge in particular, the manager for the project controls and alica who will be here to answer any questions th
And flying Surveillance Missions over iraq, they traditionally attack aircraft and so they know that they are there, but regardless of that, the defense secretary thinks iran should be involved in the joint chief chairman is convinced of what is happening now will not happen in afghanistan. This despite the president s plan to pull out of afghanistan in much the same way that he pulled out of iraq. Is it fair to say that the reality, talking about this probably makes some sense. I agree, committee know that there have been some sideline conversations. On a scale of one to 10, if we pull out of our troops out, general dempsey, what is the likelihood of what happened in iraq and afghanistan . Tending highly likely. I think based on the reports i received, i would have to make an assumption about this government. But i think that it would be unlikely in the lower thirds. Prefacing his prediction, as you heard, his analysis is on an assumption about the capability of the afghan government.
There are no localized hot spots anymore either. The whole country is experien experiencing a major spread. If you follow the yellow line on your screen you see that deaths in the midwest are roughly double that of any other region. The u. S. Right now averaging 1,500 deaths and 164,000 new infections per day. Just on thanksgiving, the nation reported roughly 110,000 new cases. That actually does not even include reports from 20 states. They didnt report new numbers because of the holiday. The virus is raging with one of the busiest days of travel of the year still to come on sunday. More than 6 Million People have defied cdc guidance to stay at home and not travel this thanksgiving. Despite consistent guidance from Health Officials the state of florida remains defiant over the issues of masks and social distancing. The governor there, ron desantis extending an order this week that bans local municipalities for issuing fines for violating pandemic related mandates like face masks or li