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Welcome to the Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, may 12th, 2020. My name is aaron peskin. And i am the chair. Our clerk is ms. Angela tsao. Ms. Tsao, if you could please call the roll. Clerk yes. Commissioner fewer . Present. Clerk commissioner haney . Commissioner haney present. Clerk commissioner mandelman . Commissioner mandelman present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . ...

Present. Clerk commissioner mar . Commissioner mar present. Clerk commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin present. Clerk commissioner preston . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissioner safai . Absent. Commissioner yee . Yee absent. We have quorum. Supervisor safai is here. Clerk safai present. Thank you. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes, i do. Thank you. Public comment will be available for each item on this a...

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They have been for many of us that means the return of 70s later today. More in your forecast still to come on robin alright, several slow spots out there, especially 80. The bay bridge the approach to the toll plaza heading into San Francisco, pretty backed up its be on 8. 80 be on west grand now its at the bottom of the maze. So yeah it has reached that point but no problems to report your at 11 minutes for your average to fremont street, heres a trouble spot. The east shore freeway 80 west. E...

Sinatra. I still love frank. Its a great way to start our thursday. Its a holiday classic, when he sings dean martin and all those guys. You know whos in the holiday mood . The department of motor vehicles. Everyone was pleasant it only took like 10 or 15 minutes. I had my documents ready to go. I went to the one in novato. It could not have been a better experience. Did you make an appointment . I did and i brought the documents that you need to bring. As long as youre prepared and schedule an ...

At the world darts championship. We have had more rain on already saturated ground. Plenty of Flood Warning and plenty of mist and fog. Essentially, a day of sunshine and showers. More detail on that in the next half hour. Its sunday the 22nd of december. Our top story the authorities in australia are warning people its still not safe to return to areas devastated by wild fires, even where the flames appear to have been extinguished. The countrys Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who was criticise...

This is where the dear friend just played. His cards. Close. To piracy is on the increase off west africa our correspondent finds out whats being done to protect lives and should make their. Im so much going to thank you for joining us in new zealand at least 5 people have been killed in a volcanic eruption on white island a popular Tourist Destination around 50 people are believed to have been on the island at the time of the eruption Emergency Services say the number of people missing is in do...

Law you heard about oh we cant do anything about adus because the state says we cant. We cant do anything about this because the state says you cant. Youre widening authority is being constantly narrowed by these state projects that are, these state laws that are one size fits all. And that one size does not fit San Francisco. Youve got to find a way to push back on some of this stuff and particularly in the mission we cant have, you know projects that are done with such low affordability and fa...

That doesnt include trees on private property. I realize that these are not all the urban forestrys fault. It is the only group in the city dedicated to our urban canopy. Better than anyone else, they understand just how bad our tree situation is. The recent urban Forestry Council noted at the citys current funding we have barely enough money to replant trees at the rate we are removing them. Putting all these things together if the city is serious about slowing down Climate Change and making th...

Clear, i mean, this is like eight affordable units out of 60. Okay . So its not 18 percent. And even 18 percent is way lower than the mission needs. These large state projects that come under state law you heard about oh we cant do anything about adus because the state says we cant. We cant do anything about this because the state says you cant. Youre widening authority is being constantly narrowed by these state projects that are, these state laws that are one size fits all. And that one size d...