Lets look at that stock, nosedive here. Were deep in the red. Triple digit losses as brian mentioned on the Dow Jones Industrial average, down by 165 points. The s p 500, off the session lows by four points or two, 22 points the loss. Nasdaq feeling it down, down 1. 3 . Apple, a bright spot on the nasdaq, helping that index. Biotech down big time. It is down by 3. 5 . And, again, as we mentioned, apple is holding up. We should note too that telecom in terms of s p sectors, the only one in the green. Thank you very much, melissa. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Im tyler mathisen. Here is what else is happening at this hour. The Supreme Court hearing the arguments in the long running patent dispute between apple, which had won at the lower court level and sam susung. Small Business Optimism taking a dip ahead of the election. Well have more on that in the next hour. And Tropical Storm nicole expected to strengthen over the next few days, could become a hurricane by tomorrow. Meantime,
Welcome to the tuesday february 9there is echo on this. February 9, 2016 meeting of the finance committee of transportation authority. Im eric mar and to my right is london greedbreed and to my left is norman yee. The clerk is steve stomose and being broadcast today by [inaudible] and charles kremenak. Any announce mentds no announcement; breed present. Campos, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum. I forgot to say [inaudible] happy year the mungy everyone. Please call the next item consent calendar items 2 to 3 are considered row teen. Staff isnt [inaudible] present if desired. If a member objects the items may be removaled and considered separately. Thank you. Lets open up for Public Comment. Anyone want to talk about the minutes . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve the minutes. I have a question. Y r i wasnt at the last meeting so need to rekoos myself from voting on the minutes. It looks like we d
Items on the special committee is related but we will call them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibility studies. We have staff here. We will have this presentation and if you get the powerpoint on the screen thank you. I want to be very clear the clear of this Initiative Ordinance is establish a pathway to maximize the amount of Affordable Housing that the city can require of developers. The current requirements are too low. Not only are they too low but theyre a one size fits all rules and acts if a luxury tower downtown has the same economics as a project in another neighborhood. The economics are different and the rules need to be different the mayor directed staff to bring working groups to bring stakeholders together for
And electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and files somebody submitted to the clerk. Thank you and i know both items on the special committee is related but we will call them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibility studies. We have staff here. We will have this presentation and if you get the powerpoint on the screen thank you. I want to be very clear the clear of this Initiative Ordinance is establish a pathway to maximize the amount of Affordable Housing that the city can require of developers. The current requirements are too low. Not only are they too low but theyre a one size fits all rules and acts if a luxury tower downtown has the same economics as a project in another neighborhood. The economics are different a
Them separately so please item 1 please. Item 1 is a initiative oar from the mayor for the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted are by the mayor for the voters for june 7, 2016 for election entitled ordinance mending the planning code to maximize inclusionary or Affordable Housing and Economic Feasibility studies. We have staff here. We will have this presentation and if you get the powerpoint on the screen thank you. I want to be very clear the clear of this Initiative Ordinance is establish a pathway to maximize the amount of Affordable Housing that the city can require of developers. The current requirements are too low. Not only are they too low but theyre a one size fits all rules and acts if a luxury tower downtown has the same economics as a project in another neighborhood. The economics are different and the rules need to be different the mayor directed staff to bring working groups to bring stakeholders together for these requirements and its underpinned by a Feasibility St