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We have quorum. Please call item two. Approval of the minutes. Before we take action to this item. Is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, you have the minutes of the meeting before you. If we can take a motion to approve the minutes. Motion by commissioner avalos. Seconded by commissioner farrell. We will take that without objection. On item two. Roll call. Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a...

Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting of tuesday october 23rd order, 2012. My name is david campos and i am the chair of the authority. Madam secretary, if we can roll commissioner present. Commissioner chu carmen chuy. Commissioner cohen commissioner elsbernd present. Commissioner commissioner present. Vice chair wiener. We have quorum. Please call item two. Approval of the minutes. Before we take action to this item. Is there a member of the public that would like to speak on item two . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, you hav...

Campos, roll call taken. Item passes. If you can please call item number three. Report, this is an information item. Thank you very much. Colleagues i have a very brief report today. We had two significant transportation events. On october 11th, we hosted the u. S. Secretary of transportation, ray lahood as well as our House Minority leader, nancy pelosi at at ceremony to mark the approval of the federal government grant for the central subway. This is a commitment of almost a billion dollars to a project that has been on i books for a very long time. We want to take this opportunity to congra...

His strategy, deploying 475 more military advisers to iraq and authorizing air strikes in syria for the very first time. Lawmakers already weighing in on this. Senators john mccain and Lindsey Graham issuing a joint statement saying, in part, he described the correct goal to degrade and ultimately destroy isis. However the president s plan will likely be the insufficient to destroy isis, which is the worlds largest, richest terrorist army. Now, prior to the president s speech, senator tom harkin dismissed the idea that isis even poses a direct threat to the u. S. Saying, quote, it is fearmonge...

This. Because they realize and know students who are struggling to meet these high requirements. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner. One thing that i would like to discuss at some point and i dont know that today is necessarily the day to do this, but as were looking at the objective of giving every student the opportunity to go to college by allowing them to meet these requirements. The focus isnt necessarily on what the School District is doing, but i would like to say more and have more of a discussion about what else the city can do to help the School District reach that objective . And i ...