Announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. President caen commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. Are there a
Good governance to avoid soul sourcing and have many of the earlier activities have been identified to be proactive rather than reactive . Right, and thank you for the question. It certainly its an issue, right, for us, that we dont have the gec on board and we are procuring and we understand why thats necessary to support that. Some have the onall bert benchh perhaps through the Engineering Resources might be able to back receive fill a few areas, but really, we do rely on the gec contract for the majority of the work going forward. As far as the procurements, theres been some need to backfill some of the gecs for the current sixmonth period that were in and in addition, we will be needing to support caltrain and highspeed rail as they procure that operations consultant that steven mentioned for the rail operation analysis. I would rather be proactive instead of catching up with the project. Could not agree with you more and the esc has discussed this as a potential risk item. You hav
I would rather be proactive instead of catching up with the project. Could not agree with you more and the esc has discussed this as a potential risk item. You have asked for this, an ongoing risk register and just tracking and i know thats something director lipkin will do and project development, as well as vice chair. So were all aware and appreciate your interests in getting ahead and not just reacting and playing catchup and that way were doing the best work we can to try to get ahead of these things. Thank you. And i didnt want to go too far and ask what the register was or the p1 questioned for the 400 items and i wont go there. Twelcome to the team, steven. Are you interested in pursuing the permanent position . Theres a lot of questions about the interim versus permanent recruitment. You put me on the spot, director. This is an important project for me and feels like a capstone of my career and i think im in a better position to support this leading the pmpc team and thank you
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Bit of the rising yield. 65 basis points on the 10year. Throughout the day, i think my theme has been trained to gauge investor sentiment. Maintains, stocks can these high levels. If you go up to 1 or one and a quarter, he has to massively rethink his price target. Then you get to the relative trade. Of course, earnings yield lower than the 10 year treasury at the moment. But if it starts to climb a little bit, how does that affect the relative value . Caroline we have had that sort of worry. Mike wilkins at Morgan Stanley also saying, we are worried about rates going higher and what that would mean for stocks. Whiting is still with us. This week, we get a little bit of messaging out of the fed. Are you expecting to hear anything out of powell or any of the other members that would give you a better assessment of where Monetary Policy might go . Steven it is possible. Chairman powell has been relatively quiet about healthy Federal Reserve might adjust its framework for achieving its in