Justice for all. Thank you. Our secretary will call the roll. Roll call. President scott. Present. Vice president lim, excused. Commissioner follansbee, excused. Commission sass expected. We dont have a quorum but we will by the time we get to an action item ive been assured by those expected commissioners. We do have some opening remarks so if youd call on discussion item 1 please. Item one opening remarks, Health Service board president and acting director. Mitchell, ill take the privilege of going first, if i may. Thank you. This forum is designed to do several things. Not only to provide more in depth information on certain tommics and issues that topics and issues that will bear on the work and policies in part as well as the issues as we work win providers. Some of these are not unique to the system but theres changes year to year well be addressing today. We began to do this three years ago. The premise was we werent going to try to cover everything. The landscape has changed dr
The Federal Reserve kept its rates near zero. Now to see how markets here are reacting, lets go to ai uchida who is standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. Mayu, how is it kicking off today . No change in rates was widely expected but the fed did upgrade its assessment on the labor market. That prompted many on wall street to buy stocks. Here in tokyo, markets are tracking the rally. Shares are losing the fourday losing streak. The nikkei is up to 20,456. And the topix is opening higher as well up. 82 . Now, basically the focus is still on whether the fed will raise rates in september or possibly december. But many market watchers are saying that the fed gave no clues about the timing of rate hikes this time. And theyre calling it another poker face statement. One analyst said thats probably because the feds dont want to rattle the markets. Wall street finished higher following the feds decision the dow closed up neil. 7 of a percent. Earnings here in the u. S. Are playing into the ma
The Federal Reserve kept its rates near zero. Now to see how markets here are reacting, lets go to ai uchida who is standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. Mayu, how is it kicking off today . No change in rates was widely expected but the fed did upgradets assessment on the labor market. That prompted many on wall street to buy stocks. Here in toky markets are tracking the rally. Shares are losing the fourday losing streak. The nikkei is up to 20,456. And the topix is opening higher as well up. 82 . Now, basically the focus is still on whether the fed will raise rates in september or possibly december. But many market watchers are saying that the fed gave no clues about the timing of rate hikes this time. And theyre calling it another poker face statement. One analyst said thats probably because the feds dont want to rattle the markets. Wall street finished higher following the feds decision the dow closed up neil. 7 of a percent. Earnings here in the u. S. Are playing into the market
Are expressing their desire for freedom by expressing some extreme measures. Japanese people are living up to their reputation for longevity. Figures for last year show the women had the longest average life span in the world for the third year running. The men were not far behind with the third longest. Japanese government officials put the average female life span at 86. 83 years. They put the figure for men at 80. 5. On average, the women were living 0. 22 of a year longer. The increase for the men was 0. 29. The average life span for each gender is a japanese record. The women were followed by those in spain and france. The men came behind those in hong kong and iceland. A Japanese Health Ministry Official highlighted the role of medical advances. Translator japanese are living longer because its possible to prevent illnesses from leading to death. Officials say a growing number of elderly japanese are Health Conscious and trying to improve their diet. They say life spans could get
Converted to electric vehicle that we would be potentially able to pilot Going Forward. My last comment is following what has been going on the Ev Working Group meetings and based on what i have observed during the budget season. There is a lot every assistance to switch to different typings of vehicles or to zero emission vehicles. I hope that we can push these departments to see this is the direction we absolutely have to go. It is not an option. We need to be creative in reaching the climate goals here. Thank you for the comments. There was some recent articles with regard to automatic shut off systems in the m un i fleet and have the fleet has these. I discussed this with mr. Riskin. The other half of the fleet do not have them. What is the status of procuring those . That is a question the transit colleagues are better equipped to answer. I can look into that and get you a response to the status of those switches. That would be great. Any steps we can take relative to our fleet. W