Commissioner avalos . Present. Breed . Here. Campos . Absent. Coen . Present. Farrell . Ab scent. Kim. Here. Peskin present. Tang, present. Weiner present, commissioner yee . Yee is absent and we have the quorum. Okay, we will go to the chairs report, colleagues i would like to again by reporting that our transportation Charter Amendment revenue measure and proposed sales tax increase have been placed on the ballot as propation jand k. Each one requires a majority vote of the voters to pass during the summer, contra and santa clara also put on to sales tax on the ballot. In addition to barts regional bond measure is on the ballot and all three part counties, San Francisco, alamena and contra costa and the city of oakland, and ac transit are also going to the voters to approve local measures all of these measures are needed to be part of the streets and Transit Systems continue to require repair and vinestment and we cannot wait for the state and the federal government to take up the ta
Next big rail lines and we are glad to see them partnering with the agencies on the solution to reduce the crowding on the systems including the various, incentives and this pay lot program, the trip to a less busy time, such as before or after the morning peak rush hour, and about the passengers who do shift the travel times could earn the points with the fun online game, 16,000 sign ups and 29,000 in rewards, to providers were optimistic about this program and i thank you and that concludes my program remarks. Colleagues any comments in is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will move to item three, the executive directors reports. Good morning, commissioners. Executive director, chang is on a jury panel for the new bus terminal and so keep you postd on that. You sh you had have the executive directors reports in front of you. And i will highlight a few of the items that were not addressed by the chair already in the chairs remarks. But it seems like
Unchanged reading. Yearoveryear it is still a gain of 4 , but that number disappointing, a sevenmonth low. Contract signed to purchase homes. This was the third decline in contract signings in the last four months, so adding to some recent weaker than expected data on the housing recovery. On the flipside, read on gdp this morning for last quarter that came in better than estimated, so a mixed picture on that front. If you look at stocks and where we are trading, we are seeing very little change, as we see a push and pull both in the data and also in one oil has been doing. Little changed as well. Crude oil prices right now moving up slightly as investors try to figure out what that opec Production Cut plan really means and how much of a difference it may mean to the market. I was looking at a note from , and analyst questioned the meaningfulness of this. We will be speaking with him at noon today. Take a look at one of our charts on the bloomberg. This looks that opec production as a
Over 47, brent crude below 49. Goldman sachs says oil has two state lower for longer. That is the way the market will be rebalance. Gas prices have fallen . 27 a gallon. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is 2. 20. It has fallen below 2 a gallon in 17 states. A breakthrough in finding out what happened to the air asia plane. One of the black box recorders that may tell what happened in the final moments before the plane crashed two weeks ago. The black box is composed of 2 parts, a flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. The one thing we managed to find is the flight data recorder. The wreckage is 105 feet below the service of the java sea. The crash killed 162 on board. The biggest crowd in modern history in france, 3. 7 Million People marched to mark the terror attack. French president Francois Hollande proclaimed paris as the capital of the world today. John kerry will fly to paris at the end of the week. That may be an answer to criticism that the u. S. Only
Where the illnesses found. Of course, the gravity of the situation as has been described by panelists leaves no doubt about the vital need for the International Community to undertake urgent action in order to reverse the current trend. As you said, mr. President , at present the time has come for specific actions. We need to act quickly. Not only to suppress the spread of the disease, not only to save human lives while theres still time, but also and especially in order to maintain stability and the gains of the last few years. As part of peace building and social peace. It is essential for unmeer, the u. N. Mission, to be deployed as quickly as possible so that it can respond effectively to the most pressing needs of the affected countries. In our opinion, this mission should also help build local health capacities, as was said, through making available mobile hospitals, helicopters, protected vehicles and qualified medical workers and older to take care of sick people. Therefore, le