Clerk madam chair, you have a quorum. Wonderful. Clerk item 3, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Its clear were using sound producing devicing duries duri meeting, so we wont announce this. Item 4, approval of minutes of the november 3, 2020 meeting. Directors, is there anyone who wishes to make any comment . Okay. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who wish to make Public Comment this item on the agenda . You have zero questions remaining. Okay. With that, ill turn it back over to the directors. Directors, do i have a motion . Motion to approve. Second. Okay. Secretary silva, would you please call the roll. [roll call]. Clerk madam chair, you have five votes to approve the minutes. You are on item five, communications. Due to the covid19 health emergency, this meeting is being held virtually, and all members of the staff and the public are attending via teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors, t
We have concerns about the accountability section of the plan. Specifically the lack of clarity around how feed paback will wor. Furthermore, we would like to see key indicators and metrics for successful implementation of the Racial Equity action plan shared at the beginning of each quarter with various Infinity Groups within the agency. Thank director borden for your comments. Sfmta executive team and our m. T. A. Board of directors on the implementation of the plan including proactive plan to report on key indicators and metrics as well as the opportunities to address challenges within the plan as they arrive. We know this is a draft. We might have to pivot. We want to make sure that Infinity Groups are part of that conversation in office of engagement. We are supportive of the plan and ensure right processes in place to ensure effective implement takes. Director tumlin, you mentioned you havent been able to meet with all at the groups. We to look forward to you attending your first
It is still up there, unchanged for now. President the suspended temporarily visas of hundreds of thousands of workers used to work in the united visas, including the h1b used widely for immigrant employees in Silicon Valley. First, a check of the markets. Ending the day slightly up despite all the political commotion. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Investors again looking past the bad news. Why . Most part, they are looking past the bad news. Relatively risk on close. Close itself in the past couple of hours, not so great. At the highs, the s p 500 and nasdaq up more than 1 . The nasdaq of course closing at yet another record high. That has to do with todays strength, the stayathome stocks and stayathome sectors. Both at aamazon closing time. The longest winning streak since july of 2019. The stayathome team has emerged. A couple of weeks where the cyclical sectors were doing better. As the virus has started to hotspotscertain areas, created fear. Weeks, thest
Here and pw partner mitch rochell. Happy monday everybody. Good to see you. Congress back in session, weve got markets trading up, deal on china in terms of a meeting, of course, early october, lot to talk about this morning. Also on deck, my interview with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Were going to talk about trade, the fed, fannie and freddy, reform, fannie mae and freddy reform, the latest iteration of a plan, certainly out of the treasury this morning, about Housing Finance and housing reform. Well talk about fannie mae and freddie mac. And the founder of papa johns pizza speaking out this morning exclusively to me in his first interview since being pushed out of the company that he founded. John bar a aso is here talking about peace talks with afghanistan, Niles Gardner is here talking brexit and senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano on big techs antitrust suit and doug collins on the upcoming Inspector General report as well as the new move out of the judiciary to
And weve had. Weve had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. And that has a cost, a human cost. In milton keynes, i met will, whos a fireman, and he has a simple dream, not an unreasonable dream. He wants to own his own home. Hes got two extra jobs on top of being a fireman, but he still cant afford it because the chaos and division of this government has robbed him of that dream. That is the price that he is paying. Sir keir starmer spent about all those supporters with banners saying change. Strategists always say during a campaign to have a simple message and keep repeating it until voters buy it and then do it some more. Im sure over the next six weeks that is how it is going to play out. More in a moment or two, i hope to speak to laura trott from the conservatives in the next little while but why dont we pause and catch up with some of the Sports Headlines of the day. Lets cross. Hello there. Thank