director brinkman?> we were able to go to the operator completion ceremony last friday, and thank you for leting me join you there, vice chair. it was the biggest class anyone had seen in a long time. so i want to thank the training dlases class, and the next class is equally as large, and i think they're feeling the stress of having such large classes. when asked if there was anything we could do to help, they did mention the civil service job classification, 1136, and if there is anything we can do to speed up that new classification, that will help take the stress off the training team. i just want to thank them all for being so amazing and so present for these large classes, as they are for every other class. what a great team. >> defense attorney: chair, chair? >> yes. there were 44 people in the class. >> chairman: thank you for the update. and thank you both for attending. i was out of town. any new or unfinished business from other board members? okay. i have one small item, i will direct throug

i would like to express my disappointment with commissioners eakin, brinkman and rupky for not understanding the fine grain nature of the city and county of san francisco, from not understanding who are extents constituents are, but i will not leave this alone and colleagues, i apologize to you, for this will continue. and with that, i commend this resolution to all of you. i thank almost every single one of you who have affixed your names to this instrument and i ask for your support. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. let me say a few words here. i actually grew up in -- i was born and raised and grew up in chinatown. i worked most of my adult life in chinatown in organizations to try to make things better for our children and families there. and in many ways, my road to community work started almost the same time as rose pak, when she started our activism in chinatown. we were both from but didn't cross paths. so i don't know her as deeply as others, but i know her by reputation and so i can tell you what i saw from afar. and maybe sometimes not so afar. what i saw was that -- there were a

>> i agree with the director brinkman. [laughter] bad timing to get your names mixed up. i think under our board policy about naming assets, and the reason i supported that policy is that we take a station name based on the geographic location for clarity of our transit users , so i would be, you know, i think our policy says that in extra ordinary circumstances, and certainly director gordon pointed out direct -- extraordinary circumstances that we would name a portion of the station after an individual who has made immense contributions, and that case seems to be present here, but i can't support naming a station after a person in this case. >> okay. >> i keep trying to weigh the benefits and the costs of this, and really try to evaluate in that aspect. to me, my concerns are that it is clearly divisive. i'm not coming down on one side or the other, i'm just observing that this is very divisive, and it is clearly making enough people upset that they are willing to spend an afternoon here voicing those concerns. i also, in a case like this, i would also default to the na

. >> brinkman. >> present. >> rubke. >> here. >> torres. >> here. >> madam chair you have a quorum both directors eakin and heinicke are absent with notification. >> i'd like to welcome our newest director, director

i appreciate, especially director brinkman, i know when this happened you reached out and got things corrected and i am glad that we have that and i know mistakes happen and now it's just the question of what we deal with and what we do with that going forward. so, to me i think it's a simple solution to try and ask for speakers pronounce on the comment cards. it's an easy way to respect the people coming in this room to share their ideas or tell you about challenges they're facing with sfmta. >> thank you for sharing that and we're sorry. >> i spoken with our regular secretary, ms. boomer about moving to just gender neutral usage but i think your idea of asking for their pronounce i pri will bring it up. thank you and we a poll joys for that happening. >> david walton and chin shane. >> thank you for letting me speak. last meeting i attended a meeting on behalf of the 20th avenue bike project and at the meeting, i was surprised to learn that i had not heard of how to giffin put to the meeting and one of the merchants complained that they felt they were not given adequate opportuniti

. >> brinkman. >> present. >> rubke. >> here. >> torres. >> here. >> madam chair you have a quorum botheinicke are absent with notification. >> i'd like to welcome our newest director, director hemminger. we're delighted t to have him jn us on the board. would you like to say a few words? >> it appears you put the rookies next to the executive director. ed had me under surveillance for years. it's nothing new. i look forward to our work together. >> thank you. item 3, announcements of sound producing devices during the meeting. be aware the ringing and use of cellphones, pagers and

. >> brinkman. >> present. >> rubke. >> here. >> torres. >> here. >> madam chair you have a quorum both directors eakin and heinicke are absent with notification. >> i'd like to welcome our newest director, director hemminger. we're delighted t to have him jn us on the board. would you like to say a few words? >> it appears you put the rookies next to the executive director. ed had me under surveillance for years. it's nothing new. i look forward to our work together. >> thank you. item 3, announcements of sound producing devices during the meeting. be aware the ringing and use of cellphones, pagers and sound-producing devices are prohibited and any person responsible for the rimming of use of a cell phone or similar electronic devices may be removed from the meeting. cellphones set on vibrate cause microphone interference and we request they are in the off position. approval of the remember meeting minutes. >> any comments among the board on the minutes from june 4th? >> is there any public comment on the minutes? >> i have not received any speaker cards. >> motion to approve. >> secon

my name is cheryl brinkman. i serve on the sfmta board of directors but i'm here as a private citizen and neighbor to speak in approval. the live in a fantastic neighborhood. i agree with the gentleman who owns the bar de barbershop it's friendly. we're transit rich. wore walkable, bike able. there's so many neighborhoods serving businesses. i am quite confident that the new neighbors that will welcome in aren't going to be driving a lot because you can really accomplish so much of your life without getting into a car in our neighborhood. so i just want to say i'm totally in support of this project and i look forward to the gas station which is a big cara tractor going away and to welcoming new neighbors to our neighborhood and thank you so much for your service because i know serving on a commission is a labor of love and it takes a lot of time and it is frequently very thank less so thank you all for doing this and we look forward to more neighbors in our neighborhood. >> thank you. >> i'm lawrence lee i serve

he sells style the great negotiator and that is what he is always been a brinkman at heart even in realate deals and when this comes along and he does this at the last minute, sure we can criticize him for waiting for the last minute but that has been his style and my point is this, iran deal, that she's a poa, that was always meant to lead to further negotiation to buy time, we have to keep iran from getting a nuclear weapon, the jcpoa was structured exactly for that. present has some this. i listen to everybody, any debts, he listens to speaker pelosi he listens to the hawks, he listens to them all. my recommendation would become the sit down with junk carry, this man, secretary of state, john kerry poured himself into creating the iran deal which left open the idea for the negotiations and i would like to see president trump sit down and pick secretary carries brain. >> i want to get your take and when asked about senator tom cotton who is on the armed services committee and intelligence many. and they're talking about the strategy, here is what he had to say about president trump's

but you saw this extraordinary series of brinkman xin ovship o the last 24 hours and i don't know if we're going to see more or if we're going to see some diplomatic activity in the run-up to the g-20 almost a week from today. >> that's right. no doubt iran will be at the top of the list for those countries gathered. general clark, let me turn to you for a moment and just to piggyback off something richard said there. this idea that the president of the united states is detailing plans and even taking us inside his head and doing that on social media, calling off a strike, a military strike ten minutes before it's set to happen. this idea, general clark, that the president calls it off because he finds out 150 people could die ten minutes before a strike, is that -- is that possible? would that -- would that be how that process would unfold? >> well, doesn't sound right because normally when these plans are prepared the possible kaushlts a casualties are discussed. but it is possible he was thinking about it and said remind me again how many people could get killed or maybe he didn't

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