Supervisor fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the july 29, 2020 regular board and finance Committee Meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair. And i am joined by supervisors mandelman and walton. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Again, 146 812 0226 then press pound twi
Spiking cases of coronavirus. Not entirely. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis. Reporter it was news the markets climbing higher because of news of potential positive data coming from an ongoing pfizer, buy on tech covid19 vaccine trial. That got the ball rolling this morning with the optimism. Remember, the market looks at it this way, the sooner there is a vaccine the sooner businesses can resume in the normal way without threats of reclose you are sure or slower reopenings. In texas, testing sites are being flooded in the state as it extend as ban on elective surgeries. Last week, texas shut the bars, reduced restaurant capacity to help reduce the spike of coronavirus cases. That flowed to other states. Theyre looking to that as the model. Here in new york city, it definitely postponed Indoor Dining because it is closed spaces believed to be more problematic. American airlines is taking even another step, sort of turning a blind eye to this, resuming full flights starting today, ahead of t
Pandemic. We follow the advice of the attending physician and the sergeant of arms that were seated at least 6 feet apart. That means theres no room for the public or media here, but the media is participating we hope. And we hope the public is as well. Our website. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference which is change for the United States senate and a welcome one because it makes it possible for us to attract witnesses to have busy schedules on the same day such as today some are participating by Video Conference senators may remove their masks since we are great thank yout a part to the press gallery and the architect in the capital police, Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i each have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses we think for being with usfoo today we ask that you summarize your remarks and five minutes to have time for the large number of senators we expect to iparticipate we will have one roun
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U. K. s chief negotiator rejects a proposal to avoid a no deal. Him ask exclusively with he plans to shore up recovery. A lot of things for markets to grapple with. We have concerns about the record cases in the u. S. A number of states, not just texas, pausing on reopening. The initial jobless claims causing some concerns. Could we see layoffs coming through, even with the reopening . We look ahead to Consumer Spending data in the u. S. , and the news flow yesterday and overnight. On the one hand, given one hand to the banks volcker rule, and dividends. We did see the s p 500 yesterday. Chinese markets are closed. We do see a risk on trade in equities. In terms of her features are positioned, muted, up to 10th of 1 . 1 2 10 of 1 . The bloomberg other index is pretty much unchanged. The 10 year yield is study. For oil is study. For is steady. , its beenor oil tempered with a sharp drop in export plants. It is headed for its highest weekly decline since april. Wall street lenders will s