A consultancy so far so friday taking a trip online the Tourism Industry looks to technology as the coronavirus pandemic limits global travel. Im joined again with the sport as parents celebrate every turn to the Champions League semifinals for the 1st time in 25 years following a stunning comeback win. We begin this news in lebanon where parliament has approved the state of emergency in beirut it gives authorities considerable power to crack down on street demonstrations that the days of protests calling for a complete political overhaul demonstrators are furious the politicians for what they see as in action at entrenched corruption last weeks explosion killed more than 200 people lets go live now to beirut now to serious but its myth is. Well it looks like you were at the scene of last weeks explosion brothers. Major in the grain silo just barely to his rights was the science of the explosion and in front of it the mongol wreckage of the warehouses and in front of me the mangled bei
Continue on funding for u. S. Coronavirus response in house and Senate Negotiators are working on a total Funding Amount and the house is exciting to see a bill early this week with the Senate Taking it up after the house. Gary shapiros president and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. Esther shapiro, what is the cpa and what do you represent . Guest is great to be back here. Thank you. The Consumer Technology association represents over 2000 American Technology companies and we produce the greatest, honest, coolest most amazing event in the world and that is the ces in las vegas. Host and will we will get to ces in a moment but who are some of the Member Companies . Guest everyone you check to see when you walk into your local best buy, walmart, but we also have sony and apple and you name it. 80 of our companies are Small Businesses but the 20 of the big ones we have everywhere from google to air b b to lift and the disruptor
Allows for collaborative management while ultimately maintaining port control. While the mechanics of the park and how they are managed or customized, the far park will be incidenintegrated into the manat of the parks. It will have a variety of responsibilities that will be memorialized through a concession agreement and vary from daytoday responsibilities, such a coordination of maintenance and security crews, to programming and special events. Annual responsibilities will include delivering key documents such as the operating the operating budget and the performance report. Both of which will be subject to port approval. The parks plan identified periodic responsibilities that include Housing Community meets and coordinating with port staff. The Management Entity will manage the following concession opportunities, two restaurants, four retail kiosk and one rental kiosk, estimated to be 7,000 square feet in space. As you know, programming and activation is a key been provided through
pledge of allegiance . Cell phones, pagers and Electronic Devices are prohibited. Any person responsible for the ringing of any electronic device. A member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item on the supPort Commission on any item. Item 8, Public Comment items notlessenotlisted on the agenda. Any Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 9, public directors report. Good afternoon. Im the support director and first, i would like to update you on the fire station at pier 22 and a half, the expansion project. This will be the ports first floating facility and were excited about this important lifesafety project. We have issued the first of two in a series of Building Permits and Construction Activity is set to start this month. The project should be completed april of 2021. The initial work will consist of demolition of the existing finger pier and fire boat shed behind the historic firehouse and were anticipating a groundbreaking
And it was sent by a committee to the full board with no recommendation. Thank you. Do you have updates for budget . I also wanted to say that the new school was presented, we put it forward with no recommendation and also wanted to let the public know that, at that meeting, the Budget Office shared a lot of helpful information about the timeline for the year, and i encourage folks, budgets are important, and i encourage folks to come out to budget meetings. It is the best committee ever. If they go online they can also see what we are going to be covering over the year, so that when we make decisions those things are not surprises. I encourage folks to come out. You can also reach out to me im happy to share with communities how were trying to make things more transparent for families and staff, how we make budget decisions. That will be happening throughout the year. There is lot of opportunities for folks. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any board member delegate membership updates