Announced a new partnership with a local laboratory 11 the state to test more people for covid19. Her state or conference with state Public Health officials is about an hour. Gov. Mills good morning, good afternoon. We have good news for you today. 67 days, our Coronavirus Task force has worked day and night to provide the resources to make every man, woman, and child in maine safe. Has talkeddr. Shah about the critical need for testing of the virus in any number of settings, particularly when it comes to protecting our most Vulnerable People and our frontline workers whose lives are on the line every day. Who lives or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, a
Members will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state way stay at home order. All proceeding local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference or telephone and participate to the extent as if they were physically comment. Comments will be available on each item. Channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. You can call 888 2045984. 888 2045984 access code 3501008. When connected Public Comment is open and dial one and zero to be added to the cue to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television or radio. Alternatively yo you make Public Comment by emailing myself sfgovtv at lindawong at sfgovtv. If you submit by email it will be included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today will appear on the april 14th board of supervisors for consideration unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Madam clerk can you call items one
Inspect a face mask production facility. Its a clear signal hes out and about for the first time in weeks. The markets like this. The opening up, that is. Look first at the price of oil. Th 23 a barrel. Thats because production has dropped sharply, limited supply and the likelihood of a pickup in demand as more businesses open up. The president just tweeting on that literally moments ago. Here it is. Oil prices moving up nicely as demand begins again. Thats the backtowork movement evident in the oil market. Stocks, they are going up, too. Reopening is popular with investors. Look at this. Lot of green, lefthand side of the screen. The dow is going to be up about 300. The s p up 36 and better than a 100 point gain for the nasdaq. Yeah, tuesday, may 5th, a positive tone today, if you ignore the everwhining media. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart lets get right at it. We will bring you an update on the reopening of the country. California and new york, both outlining their plans.
The meeting has started. The meeting will come to order. This is the april 8th meeting of budget and finance committee. I am calling it to order at 10 00 a. M. It is a rescheduled meeting at 10 05 a. M. And the meeting scheduled for 10 10 a. M. There are other supervisors present. Will you please identify yourself. Anybody else who is not on the budget and Appropriations Committee . Thank you very much. I would like to thank Daniel Williams from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees and the public the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will participate remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state way stay at home order. All proceeding local and state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through Video Conference or telephone and participate to the extent as if they were physically comment. Comments will be
Of a job since mid march and Business Activity grinding to a halt around the world and finally, Energy Stocks are jumping on a rebound in oil prices by far the best performing on the s p 500, which is higher, wilfred, by about. 6 though off the highs of the day. Went briefly flat as well so improving for the last hour or so the dows up 0. 9 or 200 points. Coming up, well speak with former bp ceo, lord browne about the oil markets this week as crude sees another double digit move today plus Tiger Management president , Alex Robertson, will join us to talk about investing and how his company is helping to support new yorks front line workers. Zblncht mike is tracking the Market Action for us as always meg has the details on the possible setback for gileads coronavirus trials, which sent the market off its highs during the session as we mentioned along the hannah, from the ft, who cowrote the story that broke that news and kayla is covering the house vote on the next round o the stimulus,