Us, it takes a minimum of three months. And so by virtue of that time schedule, it makes this a retroactive approval. It doesnt mean normally, retroactive is it has it refers to the timing difference between when the accept and expend is approved versus when is the grant award start date. And so because we cant chair fewer when is the grant award start date . 912019. Chair fewer so mr. Leong, i just want to be perfectly transparent with you to say that if it was a start date, that you tell me it takes you three months for your department to go through an accept and expend is somewhat unacceptable, and the fact that now its five months since that, i think to bring that to us retroactively, i just want to say i think its a little i dont think your reasoning actually is somewhat valid. I actually do think the departments approve the accept and expend grants all the time. Its because theyre notified later and this is because its retroactive. Okay. So i just want to caution you that before
International womens day. Welcome to the program our top story of course here of italys population that is 16000000 people are now under lockdown following an emergency government decree to contain the corona virus the illness has spread rapidly there with almost 6000. 00 infections confirmed in 233. 00 deaths and austrias chancellor is saying that its only a matter of time before more European Countries adopt the same aggressive measures as italy with a knockdown includes the entire region of lombardy where the deaths have been most of the deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people on the Financial Capital milan no one can move in or out of the area the lock down has also been imposed on 14 all the provinces including venice affecting all the 6. 1000000 people left their restrictions aimed to limit gatherings and movement and is set to remain until early april sonic erica as. In padua in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was
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Around the clock across the world this is our to international from the team myself you dont know me oh hello and welcome to the program our top story. This thursday in moscow the russian and turkish leaders are expected to scale spiraling d tensions in the deescalation zone in syria the countrys armies are operating in close proximity to one another on opposing sides raising the risk of a direct head of the meeting tempers boiled over in the Turkish Parliament m. P. s from the ruling and rival parties brawled after an opposition m. P. Criticized president over the military intervention in syria. Describing the opposition. Dishonorable and treacherous for questioning Turkish Military operations. Those for the fighting back in syria its long ceased being a local conflict between the government and insurgents reaffirm the optional looks now at the other states weighing in on how its affecting the region. And you wave of refugees flooding towards europe nato losing his patients Turkey Rus
Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think the first photo is ready. Everyday our overhead line unit performs preventative maintenance and keeping our Service Running safely. Theyve also been one of the teams thats been pivotal in really taking advantage of the extended maintenance window and have replaced thousands of feet of overhead wire and i think removed over 30 slices from the system. But they also have a responsibility to respond to emergencies and addressed quickly as possible so we can get service that going. That means theyre working between trains, sometimes that means that theyre working on hours or under tremendous amount