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Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, april 25th, 2017 i am the chair of the ta, aaron peskin. And mr. Clerk, could you call the roll . Breed . Present. Cohen . Present. Farrell . Absent. Fewer . Absent. Kim. Absent. Peskin. Present. Rohnen. Absent, safahir. Tang, present. Yee, is absent. We have a quorum, commissioner would like to make a motion to excuse commissioners farrell, ronen yee and fewer. Motion made by commissioner ...

Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the may 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much call the first item Revenue Bonds or commercial placing the total Principal Amount of San Francisco International Airport subordinate commercial paper notes for any lawful airport. Thank you id like at a call kathy from the airport to make a brief presentation on this item. Good morning chai...

And talk with the commission hopefully the board and everyone and flush out those options. Sorry we were distrusting the first meeting in september after the august break. This is exceptional for me as long as question have solutions. As the chair the committee im also very open to schedule this hearing whenever the appropriate time is my district is pressed with cayuga and the most impacted areas i have a ton of interest topic mike maybe national set a particular date if we can do that earlier ...

Be moderated the for we are discussing the new book from mark zupan t11 teeleven. Mr. Zupan looks at the sources of national decline typically when people think about the sources Philip Gossett of government as special Interest Groups to coopt government for their own benefit. However mr. Zupan takes a different approach to look at that decline from inside government from government insiders that could cause even more harm to countries and civilizations and the harm from outside of government. W...

So before we get to our keynote speaker, our second keynote speaker, well have our first keynote speaker, right . I learned to count. So while format, each keynote speaker will be introduced and then they do the talk and then they sit down and we quiz them a little bit. I think my quizzing may be a little more aggressive but maybe not. And then we go to the audience and you get a chance to ask questions. We have robert door. We invited approximate one had republicans and none of them were willin...

Panel. [ applause ]. Okay, so before we get to our key notes speaker, our second key notes speaker, were going to have our first key notes speaker, right . I wanted to count. So our format is that each keynote speaker will be introduced and then they give a talk. Then they sit down, we quiz them a little bit. And i think my quizzing may be a little more aggressive, but maybe not. And then we go to audience and youll have a chance to ask questions. So we have robert doar. I told people parming in...

Maybe not today. I might opt out of that. The weather is not that exciting. If youre stuck underneath this area of cloud you probably wish it would dance. Many areas grey and rizzoli. That is not moving anywhere fast. Away from those areas, chances of sunshine. Some sunny spells for northern ireland. It will turn murky and drizzly. We will lose the rain from the south. Tomorrow, we will still have cloud around in the north and east. The odd spot of drizzle. The best of the sunshine in the south ...

Maybe not today. I might opt out of that. The weather is not that exciting. If youre stuck underneath this area of cloud you probably wish it would dance. Many areas grey and rizzoli. That is not moving anywhere fast. Away from those areas, chances of sunshine. Some sunny spells for northern ireland. It will turn murky and drizzly. We will lose the rain from the south. Tomorrow, we will still have cloud around in the north and east. The odd spot of drizzle. The best of the sunshine in the south ...

Dr. Zupans book look at the sources of national decline. Typically when people think about the sources of national decline they often look outside of government at specialInterest Groups that try to coopt government for their own benefit. However dr. Zupan takes a different approach and looks at the sources of national decline that come from inside government , from government insiders and it may cause even more harm to countries and civilizations than the harm that comes from outside of governm...

Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker...