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commissioner campos: good morning, everyone. welcome to the transportation authority plans and programs committee. happy new year to everyone. we are joined this morning by a committee vice chair commissioner carmen chu, john avalos, david chiu and scott wiener on on routes -- are en route. please call item no. 2. >> approve the minutes of the december 6, 2011 meeting. this is an action item. commissioner campos: we have the minutes from the december 6 meeting. before we act on it, let me open up to public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on ...

you'll give me an analysis of those, what you think the existing agreements are and how they work and -- >> yes, senator. >> thank you. do you think -- i mean, god forbid such an oil spill would happen in canadian waters, do you think according to whatever this is, verbal agreement or things that you have now, do you think the united states can enter those waters without the oil spill entering the united states? >> we have ship writer agreements where we do law enforcement in canadian waters just as we invite rcnp officers on to our vessels so we eliminate the seam between the united...

secured, which she to happen in short time. i know that the solution we have at hand will have creative funding swaps including proposition k money. i hope the director will help us navigate through the steps. this is not the first time we're doing something like this with state and federal dollars. i'm looking forward to making a great case to securing the funds. with that, i will conclude my remarks. mr. executive director. >> good morning, mr. chairman and commissioners. i have a report on your desk that will highlight a few things. i think that the price this week goes to the hig...

commissioner mirkarimi: good morning and welcome to the transportation authority. i am the commission in the chair. i would like to thank sfgtv for their excellent an ongoing work. >> commissioner david chu. commissioner dufty. commissioner maxwell absent. >> thank you. please read item two. >> approval of minutes. >> public comment? public comment is closed. without objection, so moved. please read items 3 and 4. item three, chairs report. item four, directors' report. >> vercommissioner mirkarimi: very good. my comments are a breeze. there's never a dull moment in transportation. e...

good. so moved. please read and item five. >> progress report on limited scope performance audit. commissioner mirkarimi: it was earlier this year, colleagues, that we recommended and then we pursued an audit of the municipal transportation authority. with the guidance of commissioner campos, we initiated a two phase process of the mta transportatiotransporta. the first was by our own budget analyst and focused on compliance with state and federal regulation in identifying areas where there could be potential savings to the operating budget. that effort did identify some welcome oppo...