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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 . Commissioner preston present. Clerk commissioner ronen . Commissioner ronen present. Clerk commissio...

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 agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045984. 2045987. Enter access code, as seen on the screen. Then ...

Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this a...

To technology. Just a little more about rana, she was named by forbes in their list of americas top 50 women in tech and fortune included her in their list of 40 under 40. She was also the cohost of pbs nova series on ai in 2018 its really great to have you here rana. Before we dive in. I want to share how this topic into the iv overall mission. It ivy everything we do is to help unlock our own potential and the potential of people around us. So that happens through learning and through community. The more we learn about the world and about ourselves and the more we surround ourselves with oth...

In 1973 i saw him first, across a loud, profane, filthy newsroom in downtown raleigh. He was right out of school. I was still in school. I looked across at a city summit, who is that . Thats david zucchino. Is going to be the new star here. He had long, dark hair, over his shoulders, sick, jet black mustache. It was a long time ago. David is a grad of the unc Journalism School and in the burnout of the journalism hall of fame. In raleigh, he became famous very quickly in the newsroom when a new young editor came in and sent out a memo to the reporting staff saying each report will submit to hi...