Nightclub. Busy bar on the weekends friday and saturday nights. We are not the only bar in the neighborhood. Across the street is the horseshoe and five or six other restaurants down the street. We are the corner where everybody mingles. It is not necessarily the dorian. I cant control across the street what happens in the door doorways. What we are trying to do is we are a neighborhood bar trying to additional element to it to bring in more people, to bring in more people to the neighborhood to have the neighborhood people join us more often, add another experience to it. We dont want to do crazy bands to 4 00 a. M. We have another nightclub. We are not that. We are a restaurant with a jazz band on thursday night during happy hour, not doing craziness. That is not our plan. Other than that, we are just trying to support the neighborhood and move forward. Anyone here to testify in support of the project sponsor . Come on up. Thanks for listening to me. I am liz miller speaking on behal
An islamist attack killed 12 people out of berlin Christmas Market opposition politicians in germany say authorities still have plenty of questions to ask. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the u. S. House of representatives has voted to impeach u. S. President donald trump on 2 charges stemming from his alleged attempt to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden now both votes fell along party lines almost all democrats voted for the charges republicans voting unanimously against them but this doesnt mean that President Trump will be removed from office the process now heads on to the senate where hes likely to be acquitted by its republican majority. After hours of debating the 1st article of impeachment for abuse of power past the hives. On this vote the yeas are 230 the nasal 197 present is one. Article one is adopted and just minutes later the 2nd article for obstruction of Congress Went as planned for the democrats on this vote the yeas are 229 th
Auction yesterday. Today, iee rising should point out the 30 year u. S. Treasury yield of flirting with the 2 mark. We are at 1. 5 on the 10 year. 1. 43 on the twoyear. Some interesting activity on the bond market. Interesting activity in the fx market. Were seeing some bids in yen and gold as well. Volume is reasonably light. Stocks are trading lower. A bit like the United States were just off the session lows. We currently have 104 stocks up in europe. 489 trading lower. Very negative today when it comes to the european stock market. The pound is certainly training trading lower. Under the current terms it looks like a brexit deal is impossible. Lets pick up on that theme. Chairman ofs the the European Banking Authority. Brexit potentially 24 days away. Our europes banks ready . We just sent out communication today on we think the infrastructure is in place. Thanks should be ready for contingency particularly hard brexit. We think that in terms of actual hard movement, movement of da
So, we want to at least build the foundation for something that can be ongoing. Oewd believes they can manage that and implement it. I think in hearing from the board of supervisors and briefing them and speaking with them, the businesses are feeling the pain so they want to see the money get out as quickly as possible. So i think we increase the proportion that will go directly to grants in response to that concern. Any other questions before i open it up to the public for Public Comment . Chair, i guess im just having a hard time drawing a bead on this. Who would want a loan if they can get a grant . I mean, who asked for the loans . The guys who are, i mean, i dont understand. Just i think the criteria right now for the grants, only available after the 24month project is delayed. The recommendation is for loans to be available at the inception of the project, which is a difference. That makes the loan more attractive. Attractive to help them sustain during the period of time when co
Construction sites clean. That was the biggest, biggest concern, and so we made sure in our Construction Contracts that there is a specific condition that they do that, and that inspectors and resident engineers regularly check and make sure there is compliance, ambassadors will inform project managers or resident engineers if we are not complying. We have hired a fulltime person who will manage the program in the m. T. A. Daytoday, working specifically with project managers on developing specific plans prior to construction, so we are ready to go on day one as soon as construction starts. And we are also working with oewd, the point of todays discussion on finalizing some of the technical aspects of the program. So, here is some specific examples of projects, central subway project you just discussed, twin peaks tunnel, probably the first project where we fully implemented the suite of Different Things that we would do in this particular project and the van ness improvement project, s