Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
Deal with single occupancy vehicles, how we get private cars to either to certainly reduce their number, electrify those that are there, and thirdly, very important on that private sector of transportation is how do we electrify the dirtiest vehicles, diesel trucks. That is a big task for us to figure out how our asthma corridors, which are related to our transportation corridors which are related to our movement of goods, how we elect reelect electrify that. But certainly, supporting public transportation, getting people out of vehicle, owning our grid, those are the areas that i think were ripe to have leadership and help. Supervisor mandelman thank you, director raphael. I didnt give you the heads up that i was going to ask that. Great answer. But i was hoping for it. Supervisor mandelman i certainly thank you again for sticking with us and for your leadership on these issues with zero waste and waste and construction waste and im done. Thank you. Supervisor safai ill just i didnt w
Function within the confines of our Delivery Services so thats a real key piece. The last piece is as an equity issue, Disaster Preparedness is key because we know that population thats suffer from the greatest health and equity of chronic diseases are the most at risk in disaster for Poor Health Outcomes so dr. Gurly has been a real champion across the department. I want to thank her and her team for that leadership and thank you in terms of how we have moved from a less frequent execution of these duties to a frequent one. Ensuring the department and the commission is aware of these and that we prepare accordingly. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 11 is other business and the counter is before you and its just a reminder the august 20th meet be will be held at the chinatown ymca at 5 00. Anything else . We can move on to item 1. The report back from the july 9th, 2019jcc meeting and i believe commissioner green attended. Yes, the laguna honda hospital the committee discu
Rip that thing down. And by the time thenstate senator quentin kopp transferred the property to the city for one american dollar, willie brown was mayor. And there was a little neighborhood fight about what we were going to do with those parcels. One was going to be a police station, one was going to be a butterfly museum, one was going to be Affordable Housing. I am pleased to say that today, they are all Affordable Housing for the city and county of San Francisco. That is remarkable. [applause] supervisor peskin now, it is true that i wanted this site, even though my friends at the Barbary Coast neighbors disagreed, i wanted this to be a temporary navigation site. But the mayor and i and supervisor haney have teamed up to find one not so far away. And i also want to agree with the mayor that Affordable Housing is actually not that affordable, and we all know the numbers that we just saw, the homeless count. And its just not San Francisco, its portland, seattle, and los angeles, conti
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the july 22, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my right is vicechair shamann walton, and seated to my left is rules Committee Member gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young. And i would like to thank the staff for staffing this meeting. Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted items acted upon today will appear on the july 30 supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chair ronen thank you so much. Can you read item number 1. Clerk item number 1 the to the clerk. Motion approving rejecting the mayoral nomination for the appointment of Eduardo Santacana to the board of appeals, for a chair ronen thank you so much. Mr. Santacana, come on up. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I am honoured to be nochl nateded to serve