Increase you dont have to sell your stocks to beat some kind of Capital Gains rate that is quo going to be punitive for rich people im not saying it is solely business as usual. But i am saying that if you own tech stocks, which a lot of people do, there is nothing to keep the stocks from going higher remarkable night, pollsters seem to think there would be this blue wave that got avoided if anything, there is, i think, a recognition that whatever the heck we had before election day seems to be the same after so, david, you know, i feel kind of business as usual for us. Well, it is, carl, not business as usual this morning as you say as the votes continue to be counted in important battleground states. Three you mentioned. Want to add georgia in there, potentially North Carolina, still those early votes, carl, being counted and tabulated and were paying close attention we are, guys. In fact, front and center this hour, the president ial election remains unsettled as voting continues as
Absolutely. I understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. How has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic . There are 100 people assigned as Emergency Operations centres. They have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. We have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. We are trying to solve problems as best we can. Some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and remove graffiti. Yeah, and that really and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. The one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is th
Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, colina and michael, who record each of our meetings and make them available to the public online. Today, i would like to start off maybe saying a little bit, but not much, just to make sure that people understand what this is. This is a hand sanitizer, and which is very easy to use. If you either use this or soap, either, its healthy, and you can keep your loved ones healthy. If you want to find out more information and find out how the city is responding, you can go to the website, sf72. Org. Sf72. Org. So now that im all sanitized, we can begin. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk i have none to report, mr. President. President yee okay. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the january 21, 2020 special Board Meeting and the janu
My name is caitlin emma. I am a federal budget and congressional appropriations reporter on capitol hill for politico. Just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tuning in on the lifestream, tweet your questions with the hashtag statesolutions. I have a circuit here and i will track those and hopefully we will get to one or two at the end of our time today. So i am here with rhode island governor gina raimondo, shes serving in the second term as estates democratic governor and she recently delivered her sixth state of the dress. We have a lot to get to and we definitely want to talk on state policy with the time that we have. But i kinda wanted to start with some news that you made earlier this week regarding 2020. I saw you endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president. Youre the former chair of the democratic governor association. We have a number of candidates to choose from here. I know mayor bloomberg has previously backed your gubernatorial ambitions. But Vice Pr
Have governor of rhode island. Thank you everyone for staying patient. We have had our fair share of trouble issues today so we appreciate you sticking with us. We will have to cut our time a little short because she has places to be but we will get down to a lot of questions and really good discussion of state policy. My name is caitlin emma i am a federal budget and congressional appropriation on capitol hill for politico and just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tuning in on the lifestream, tweet your questions with the state solution. I have a circuit here and i will track those and hopefully we will get to one or two at the end of our time today. So i am here with rhode island governor gina raimondo, shes serving in the second term as estates democratic governor and she recently delivered her sixth state of the dress. We have a lot to get to and we definitely want to talk on state policy with the time that we have. But i kinda wanted to start with some n