Well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. And this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. So in a way this is not really about fire safety. It was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. If we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. So enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. His name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. That was the name of the laundromat. When the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didnt get the guys name right, which showed you how much they cared about Peop
Not. Reporter they put out surveys, they had town Hall Meetings and in the end, they found that people were very divided when it came to reopening schools and i think districts have always wanted someone highup to help them with that decision. School districts in the bay area had every intention ofn the fal covid19 numbers recently forced the state to roll back business reopenings in several counties. Marin county, for example, is one of the districts on the states watch list because of its rising numbers. Yet this morning, some parents came out to support inperson learning. There are chern who have not schooled since march 16th and 17th who need to get back in front of the eyes of our teachers. We believe that it can safely be done. Reporter the white house has threatened to cut funding if schools dont fully reopen. When he says open, he means open in full, kids being able to attend, each and every day at their school. Reporter therefore, continuing with the Distance Learning model ha
The bill nar has the blews these days he will explain why his businesses are struggling and the things that could get worse beyond that and what hes trying to do about that power lunch starts right now yes, it does the nasdaq hitting another all time high today. Its on strachan for its sixth straight day in the green. Bob has more for us. Modest weakness on the day. That tends to mean tech will still out perform. Thats happening today. Its airlines under perform and transports and Logistics Companies like jb hunt and fedex tend to out perform. This has been going on since the coronavirus issue back in february and march and again you can see that happening today. Ben carlson pointed this out the top ten stocks by market caps are up 10 so far this year the top 50 are up 2 but look at the bottom 50. Down 39 thats not a typo. Thats a huge disparity. Its true big stocks tend to be important. They always move the market. Bottom line is they have never been more important than they are right
Our ability to be able to respond to that demand a really predicated on the number of individuals that we have to serve the Business Community. The San Francisco business portal was up until this last year was being managed through Digital Services and we are not going to be doing any more Technology Enhancements to the business portal. Much of what was being planned, it will now be service through the Onestop Center at 49 south venice. Were talking about equity and the individuals that our business councillors serve. The highest percentage of who we counsel are businesses in their prestartup mode, which is very critical because this really helps the businesses know what is ahead of them so that theyre planning early in advance of what are the citys requirements, connecting them to resources, so if they have not drafted a business plan, were connecting them to one of our Economic Development organizations. To help them with that. If theres a need for access to capital and financing, we
Simply based on the long delays that the public has been observing with the work with public works. But we should have an update soon i would imagine. But, yeah, the timeframe i think that theyre reevaluating right now. Theres been many of our smaller projects, however, that were not allowed to proceed during shelterinplace and like neighborhood and traffic on main and the required work by actual work crews working together, they were deemed nonessential. Okay, thank you. Okay. Commissioner safai. Commissioner safai thank you, chair peskin and thank you mr. Tumlin. So i understand the fiscal outlook. Can you talk a little bit more about what some of your adjustments would be if and when and hopefully the cares act passes and theres additional moneys that come down to the transportation agencies, because i know that you have to present the situation based on the funding scenarios that we have. But i also know that the state and the federal government are going to do everything they can