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Good morning today is december 17th 2013 welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority my name is john avalos the chair of the authority and todays Authority Meeting is broadcast to us by jessie lar larson thank you for your work. Madam clerk will you please call the roll. Campos absent. Chiu absent. 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 it...

And muni and ac transit and the change since that time has been a proposal to change the core capacity formulas to savor some of the smaller operators proposes 30 percent to the big 3 and seventy percent to the other operators. The Regional Transit ridership is about eighty percent carried by the big 3 operators and the balance carried by the other operators so that will continue and hope there will be more time to make that formula more equitable across the region. So were monitoring the transp...

Macon, were learning the best. Firefighting below the deck, members on the flight deck learning about aircraft rescue, firefighting. Similarly, and i wont be able to stay the whole day today because soon ill be headed over to treasure island, a former navy firefighting school, well have that facility about 14 years and well be welcoming 40 members from the u. S. Marine corps, 20 members from the u. S. Navy, 10 members the u. S. Coast guard, where we will then partner with them and cross train th...

Uptai uptake thanks to supply reductions before year end. And lets twist again. The fed set to announce a fresh around of bond purchases to match the outgoing twist program at the end of the year. The International Community blasts north korea after it successfully launches a longrange rocket, prompting an emergency u. N. Security council meeting. All right. A very good morning to you. We are going to be on to opec later. Weve got the latest i. A. Data out this morning. Theyre saying Global Oil ...

[ bell tolling ] for the next hour well hear from family members because they want a voice and we want to give it to them, a voice to tell us about their children and how wonderful they were and how special they were and we dont want to focus just on how they died but how they lived and the lives they touched and they touch so many lives. Well hear from the Mcdonald Family that graciously invited me into their home to tell me about their bright and talented 7yearold daughter grace. Graces funera...

Little girls, the 8 little boys, and the 6 dedicated women who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago. Today, here in newtown, at 9 30 in the morning, bells rang out for each of the people whose lives were lost, mothers and daughters, sons and nieces and nephews. We remember them all. [ bell tolling ] for the next hour, well hear from family members because they want a voice, and we want to give to them. A voice to tell us about their children, how special they were, the lives they li...

Connecticut, a town that for a week now has felt much longer than seven days has been heavy under grief and also full of love and full of resolve to remember the lives cut far too short. We wanted to come back to newtown tonight not to argue or point fingers but to honor and to remember the 12 little girls, the eight little boys, six dedicated women who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School one week ago today. Today here in newtown at 9 30 in the morning bells rang out for each of those lives los...

For the next hour well hear from family members because they want a voice and we want to give it to them, a voice to tell us about their children and how wonderful they were and how special they were and we dont want to focus just on how they died but how they lived and the lives they touched and they touch so many lives. Well hear from the Mcdonald Family that graciously invited me into their home to tell me about their bright and talented 7yearold daughter grace. Graces funeral was today. Ther...

But definitely look forward to engage in discussions around policy with regard to Financial Education, which is a term that we prefer at pace as opposed to Financial Literacy. Because oftentimes implies that people are illiterate. Perhaps Financial Empowerment might be a better term. I was born in, on a pineapple plantation in hawaii where the common term today is in farm worker housing. We were poor but didnt know it because we thought everybody lived like that. I dont member very much in havin...

So theres been a concerted effort in ac 21 to continue to focus on these issues. The labeling issue is a challenging one because historically our labeling has been for either nutrition or because of a known hazard or something that requires a warning. I think its fair to say that this isnt about nutrition and at least from my perspective, its not about any kind i have safety hazard. This is more about consumers right to know. Candidly i think the debate is a 20th century debate in the 21st centu...