Expected to hold steady at 7. 7 . You have a few economists who revised their predictions, moving them higher after yesterdays strong adp report. Forecasters at Goldman Sachs are now expecting a gain of 200,000 jobs. Credit suisse is calling for 185,000 nonfarm payrolls and the u. S. Equity futures are barely budging at this point. Theyre going to wait and see what happens at 8 po been right now, s p futures are unfractionally. This is coming after modest declines yesterday following two strong days of gains. And, of course, the other big economic story were talking about this morning is the fed. The markets were surprised by the minutes from the fomc meetings. The notes showing several policymakers would like to stop the feds Bond Buying Program before the end of the year, citing concerns about Financial Stability and the size of the Balance Sheet. The news prompting some to speculate about an early end to the Central Banks fouryear Stimulus Program and the threat of higher Interest R
Design decisions around the muni bus shelters, particularly, you know, given how narrow some of the walkways, some of the sidewalks are . Yeah, i believe thats the case where we did a sort of blanket general plan referral. Im not exactly sure actually. [inaudible]. Is that the review we did for yes, gail for the mta thev planning did both a ceqa approval for the replacement shelters and for the new locations. ~ okay. I guess my question for mr. Barrett goes beyond that. I mean, it would seem yeah, id like to understand because again, i just saw on some of the photos we saw earlier, its in some situations its very quite dramatic where literally people have to walk single file to get past these bus shelters because theyre so wide. Advertising is a source of revenue for muni. These are complicated policy questions, but it would seem to me in that kind of situation the Planning Department should be involved in terms of ensuring that the better streets plan is being taken into account. And
Similarly, there are bus shelters, because of our bus shelters are rather wide, there are some sidewalks where you almost have to walk single file to get past the bus shelter. So, one of my legislative aides is here and we have some photos were going to show of some examples around the city in terms of our placement of Street Furniture. ~ andres powers is here is that andres power with supervisor squalor. Ill show a quick set of slides with some of the issues weve asked the department to speak about ~ and as the supervisor has mentioned in his introduction. So, here, we see sort of a large kiosk intersection crowding at one point a pedestrian crossing. We is see all kinds of random pieces of furniture on sidewalks blocking pedestrian access. Some of it, again, useful, some of it questionable. We have a large advertising kiosk and hidv that is you may or may not be able to see the pedestrian crosswalk, visibility obviously is quite obscured. We have portable we have toilets, public toil
That it discusses in order to achieve this. The first is to minimize unwanted or not unnecessary elements. So, think about what were putting out on the streetscape, whether its necessary, whether there are other places it could go like on private parcels, and really being conscious about what we put out there. The second would be to consolidate or share different elements as possible. This could mean utility [speaker not understood], it could mean street lights, it could mean street tree guards that double as bike racks or anything like that, sort of capote atev i have thinking about how elements can serve more than one purpose. And the last and perhaps most important is when placing the elements we should be considering the overall streetscape design including whats out there in the existing condition, but also what might be there in the future. For example, opportunities for planting street trees. And this is usually best, most achievable by when we do comprehensive streetscape desig
The deferred maintenance, the digesters can no longer operate and if there is a big one, hundreds of homes will be inundated with raw sewage. So simply put, whether we like it or not because the supervisors do not follow the trend or that proposition, you need to give your blessings because you represent the constituents and because the residents are suffering and this maintenance job has to be done. One of the reasons we have to do this right now is to capture sand and the aggregate that is going to further impact this treatment plant. Im asking you supervisors of San Francisco to do the right thing. Thank you for expanding the monies because thats the right thing to do. Thank you. Next speaker. Christina sandoval . Good morning, supervisors. Im a resident of bay view hunters voice. After finally talking about doing something you have the right to do this. Please pass this contract for not only for us but for our kids. We also have local schools around this and local day cares that ha