Francisco mayor ed lee. clapping. and next, we welcome our retiring be airport director john martin. clapping. and please welcome our newly appointed director art. clapping. all right. Were also going to invite a couple members of the gail Labor Council please welcome shelly kessler. clapping. representing the sgerm broadly from oregon jeff and tina smith. clapping. representing the terminal one c project terminal one central john and pencil phelps. clapping. from the new broadly the design belt ralph. clapping. from construction management. Okay. Well pause for a moment to take photos and let those gentlemen take us away. yeah . All right. Ed come on down. Yeah. clapping. yeah. There we go. Yeah. All right. clapping. tin in a. Come john all right. clapping. there we go there we go. Yeah. clapping. all right. I need to get the range and the colors so sorry i see it down here you know, before we get started it is just a appropriate to recognize the suffering that is going on from the te
Order. This is the regular meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee for thursday, july 7, 2016. Im supervisor norman yee vice chair of the committee todays meeting im joined by supervisor scott weiner good the Committee Clerk is erica meijer. The committee would also like to acknowledge the that that sfgov tv winnowed the asus and jim smith who recorded each of its meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to sounds all cell phones electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 19 board of supervisors agenda. Okay. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin and supervisor breed . So we will with no objections the motion passes [gavel] mdm. Clerk these item the first item yes. Item number one, [reading code] it thank you. I would like to hand this off to supervisor weiner the sponsor of this legislation. Thank you very much mr. Chairman and thank you for agenda icing
Well so i think this is an exciting time this is an excited project and it is signals a trofrpgs and is perfect opportunity to talk about the trofrpgs that happens over the past 20 years as you may know our director john martin is retiring on 21 years as airport director a big round of applause for john, please. clapping. and you know talk about transformers that airport over the past 21 years has seen essentially redevelopment of every facility under johns leadership a tremendous thing for the airport and the traffic light public as well as the city and county of San Francisco and you know, i think about the 1990s and the transformers that occurred in the 90s and john lead a 3 billion dollars renovation a master plan expansion for the rim and a new International Train system and bart to sfo new cargo facilities we also have a new rental car center you think the transformers of the 90s and impactful to the customer dmrerns a positive way and the revenues of this airport i think about a
You can visit in person at the city hall or visit us online so lets get started. Okay per to me e item call to order and roll call commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortizcartagena is excused. Commissioner toursarkissian commissioner yeeriley commissioner zouzounis mr. Vice president we have quorum. Item two. Our speakers is not here perhaps go to item number 4. A yeah, since the pertinent is the same for items two and three. No, no action item and well call those together the draft minutes november 23, 2015, june 22, 2015. Commissioners any comments on the minutes. June 22nd item Leona Helmsley Vice President report we put down commissioner dwight that is commissioner white that was for the june 22nd. Yes. Any other comments art is there any Public Comment on item those Meeting Minutes seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I motion the approve the minutes of june 22, 2015, november 23, 2015, and june 2, 2015. All in favor, say i. I. Or t
Anna welcome to countdown. It is just now 6 00. , letsgen is a big story think about what is happening in the markets. That hasr index, but been doing since the Federal Reserve met, you can see it bounces up since the post fed fall from the dollar. We see it heading steadily upwards since last week. We have seen a number of hawkish comments coming through from the fmo say. Fmo see. Still on the table at the time when the Federal Reserve could increase Interest Rates . Janet yellen will be speaking later today, 10 00 london time. Anna lets talk about volkswagen. They are looking for a new chief executive after Martin Winterkorn step down. Stepped down. They will meet tomorrow to select his successor. Hans nichols is live on location at volkswagens headquarters. Said he did not know about the cheating, why did he leave . Transport the pressure the pressure was mounting. Among statements we had last night, most interesting is that volkswagen has pledged and referred this matter for crimin