Overnight ising obviously the snow and how it has impacted the morning commute. Thousands of flights were canceled, tom. The li ee, a road i spend multiple hours on, east of new york city to get to long island, was shut down, so a treacherous morning commute. Most people look like they are staying home. The roads were pretty quiet. Data, 9 45 a. M. Not that exciting. Auto sales are a big deal. We get throughout the morning, released from the individual carmakers, and then at 5 00 today, we get an aggregate number from the government. At 2 30 p. M. , Rockstar Bernanke takes to the night takes to the microphone. Bernanke with clearly the most important speech, but we philadelphia. Jeff lacher speaks out of richmond. And jeremy sky is speaking as well. Pour the tea and open the bars in philadelphia. Rockstar ben bernanke . It is his final speech, and it is a big deal. You wonder if he will go back to princeton after his tenure of duty. Difficulties yesterday to begin the year. Stasis righ
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Swimming pool and so share the wealth and the city is always looking for a little bit of extra cash and we do have more than 300 signatures of people opposing this and thank you, to everybody. Thank you. Are there additional public speakers . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And commissioner antonini . Maybe i could ask teddy, from at t project sponsor to answer some questions and a lot of speakers have been talking about the pool across the street. And to my knowledge, you have to go down that john, young drive quite a ways before you get to that, am i thinking of a different location . Because the Police Station and the pool are down at the end and so that in itself is a few 100 yards i would say to get to that but what about the pool . Is it high enough, even if you were able to talk park and rec into it for a site for to give you the coverage . So, thank you commissioner for your question. Our rf team sent, went out there several different times to try to find locations
The preliminary that i am seeing and they are not insurmountable either. Have you talked to rec and park . Yes, on many occasions, discussed at t and other carriers. I know that the city has installations on the roof but does rec and park have none. Ill not aware of any on any parks with the exception of near the park merced but those mostly stayed on the property. And the mono poles. Commissioner sugaya . One of the difficulties that we run into, and especially i hate to say this with at t is the amount of coverage that at t is much less i can characterize it that way, mess less than verizon or sprint or the other carriers and so there are a lot more, if you will, at t around the city than the other carriers but that is a technical issue. And i dont know in the future, you know, whether they will be new technology, or whether they will be taking them down, or whether we are going to go even further the other direction, but i just wanted to say that for the members of the public as to
Through. But, we are nowhere closer than we were when we first approached them four years ago. So, so supervisor avaloss office we asked if he could help us to reach an agreement with rec and park that we would be happy to decommission that sector, but i am a little skeptical having been at this for a long time, and i think that at t will be fine accepting the con condition that we build this site and if a certain amount of time, six or 12 months if we could reach an agreement with rec and park that we would decommission the sector with four antennas. Thank you that sounds like a reasonable proposal. Because i am familiar with the area and this is the only relatively Tall Building around there that i am aware of, and so you need and it is a preference one, which is you know, the highest preference, we have been through all of the different frequency emission, things and we have to go along with what the federal government tell us, and you know, nobody is at that height, and unless you