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Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to com ....
Is held in hybrid format in person and city hall room 416 broadcast on sfgovtv and available to view on zoom or listen by calling 16699006833. Using the meeting id, 82525267431. We welcome the participation during Public Comment. There is is a opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting and a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. For those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of Public Comment total for each item because of the 20minute time limit it is possible not every person in the queue will have a opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote Public Comment from those who ....
[whistle] i oknow there is going to be a lot of shoveling and it will not come easy. I know it will not be given to me. Am i going to be able to keep up and do all the physical a pects of what the academy will request of me . On the hand you have been given a opportunity you worked so hard to get to, but on the other hand you dont have the job yet and have so much work you have to do to get in the field so it is double edge sword. I need it but this is just the beginning. [music] we are entrusted with people. Our job is indiscernible we want people to be firefighters. The chief picked the people. Our job is train them. We make sure that we are challenging them, but at the same time supporting them and that is a fine line, because we want to see how these people react. It is imperative for the Training Academy and Training Staff to make sure we are getting the best out of th ....
[applause] the entire budget team um [applause] you know, i dont know if you know but i dont have turn over with the directors of the budget team because i am a difficult person to work for. [laughter] you know this budget process is so intense this they are like, look im doing one budget process and im out of here. We are grateful to you ana you have been with the budget team for year bunkham get us through the process and adjustments from the board and from the budget, the legislative analyst from the board and also the various departments and me and everything in between. And to come up with this balanced budget. Thank you to each one of you for your hard work. [applause] i dont know if Ben Rosenfield is here. He is not here. You drove him out of here. [laughter] these budgets are hard. So, you know thank you to ben because you know, this is like superbowl to him and he gets excited and when it is over he is out. Like i know mo ....
Good morning. Welcome to our august meeting of the transbay joint powers authority. Hope you are having a good summer the best is yet to come grownup and lived and born in San Francisco the best weather is the month of september. Roll call, please. Good morning. Directors. Prior to taking roll i note that director chang is not here but is expected. And director eltawansy and vice chair mandelman are absent. Director chang and are alternates. Il call roll. Director forbes. Here. Director baptiste. Present. Why director lipkin. Why present. Director syed. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Chair gee. Here. Directors we have quorum. Am item 3 is communications. Wield like to note process for the public to comment. Members of the public may comment on the meeting during Public Comment period in person or remotely. The call in line as a courtesy and may be disrupted due to technica ....