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
, most amazing event in the world. That is the ces held each january in las vegas. We will get to that in a moment. For some of the Member Companies . Everybody would expect to see at your local best buy. Startups as well. The you take policy positions . We have very strong and clear policy positions. We are very strong in certain areas. We stay out of other areas. What is one policy decision . We believe strongly in the concept that innovation is a good thing and we should foster innovation. It is something that is in our dna. We excel at it. We want to make sure that people can create something without having to get permission from government. We want to make sure that the United States is the leader in innovation. We try to push policies that favor innovations. What did you learn at ces this year . Wilbur ross was there with many other government officials. Said,ke for board and coming to this event gives me faith in the future of our country. Its the optimism that innovation produc
Be in tomorrows debate, 19 in poll, hes on the vegas stage, he bought his way in over 400 million of Campaign Spending so far, item two that poll pulls Bernie Sanders way out front, 31 , hes now the clear leader. Item 3, more taper tape emerges and black and latino males dont know how to behave in the workplace, ouch, what a day, what a week to come, 3 trump rallies, by the way. Varney company is about to begin enormous cohort of black and latino males age lets says 6 to 25 that dont have jobs, dont have any prospects, dont know how the find jobs, dont know what their skill sets are, dont know how to behave in the workplace. Stuart last the latest Mike Bloomberg tape to emerge. Joining us james freeman, those kinds of comments and hes made several of them, thats not the way to go in politics, youre insulting population, hes going to be in the debate, he will be a target. I think what we will talk about the debate is results, he will talk about the thousands of young minority lives that
That amount. The housing subsidy is about 231,000. As you can see on page three of our report. We recommend approval. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I see no questions or comments on the roster. I would like to move these items to the board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Thank you for the presentation today. Can you please call item number nine . Nine is a resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to submit a Grant Application for the California State Department of housing and Community Development for funding in the amount of 5 million under the cal home program. Thank you very much. His gene here . Im with the Mayors Office of housing. Please speak into the microphone. We are trying to apply for a grant on the state of california for 5 million, which is to bring 5 million for firsttime homebuyers. [indiscernible] thank you very much. Is that
Representative lisa grady. We can answer your questions. There is no bla report. Lets open for Public Comment. Any members of the comment to comment item 4 . It is now closed. I would like to move to board with positive recommendation without objection. Thank you very much. Having said that, we are going to now recess this meeting and then we will reconvene after inauguration of mayor london thank you very much. Ondon this is the january 8th, 2020 meeting of the budget and finance committee. We are reconvening now and supervisor mandelman will be joining us shortly. Thank you for the patients showed joke your patience as we recess to see the mayor being inaugurated. Madame clerk, can you please call item five and six together . Resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multi housing revenue and in one or more series in aggregate for providing financing for the construction of the 108 unit multifamily rental Housing Project. Item number six is a resolution approving and aut