Pandemic, everyday we suffer losses. People are losing their jobs, people are losing their grip on their Mental Health. Worst of all, people are losing family members to this disease. Even as we endure these losses, im hopeful for the future. These months of Public Health crises and social unrest has shown us that when we come together, we can have the hard conversations and make the tough choices to do what needs to be done. Not just save lives but to address systemic racism head on and change society as we know it. I know today is about our budget and our path forward. As we step into the future, one that im hopeful for, is important we take a moment to recognize where weve come from. At the beginning of this year, we were living in a different world. Our Unemployment Rate was at a historic low. Tourism was at alltime high. Hotels were full, we had all plans to shape the future of this city we all love. I know i have plans to address homelessness and housing, to reimagine our Mental
Welcome to the july 23 twep twenty. Im supervisor chair of the meeting. Do you have any announcements . yes. Due to the covid 19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members City Employees and the public. The chambers are closed. This precaution is pursuant to the state wide stay at home order and complies with all the regulations and directives. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. By calling 415 6550001. The meeting i. D is 126 4284197 press pound and pound again. When connected youll hear the meeting discussions but be on mute. And in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up police press star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. You may submit Public Comment by emailing myself the joint City School Board and city clerk. If you submit Public Comment via email it will be forwarded to the board of supervisors and submitted as part of the file. thank you. Can you ple
Doesnt hurt that they beat on the top and bottom lines, earnings per share at 86 cents versus 71, but the real big deal here was the settlement with hauwai is this the end of qualcomms Business Model they faced problems with apple refusing to pay them telling them that their suppliers refused to pay qualcomm. I will, some people say i hate to say i told you so no one hates to say that i did tell you so, qualcomm is really good at this legal stuff. They have been fighting the legal battles throughout their career tom brady, Fourth Quarter in the super bowl, you cant count them out. That is why the stock is up catching a lot of people by surprise, julia. That is right, just looking at the opportunities they see in 5g as that continues to roll out and the idea that maybe the regulatory hurdles are behind them they have the ftc case they won that is under appeal, but really notable looking at those two Business Models looking at the sale of the chips and the licensing. Yeah, the pressure t
It is official. The pandemic has triggered the steepest Economic Contraction in history, but markets in this final hour dont look nearly as bad as they did when the number for gdp q2 came out earlier. Right now, the dow is down 193 points but the low had been a loss of more than 500 points. Yes, we saw that the covid had created a stunning collapse in growth but nowhere at the moment where we see the nasdaq up 56, thats where we see some real strength. But the reaction is most prevalent in safe haven government treasuries. To the tenyear yield which moves, by the way, inversely to the bonds price, diving into a hole. We are at. 55 for the tenyear yield, as worried investors decide it is risk off. All right. So President Trump is making comments right now at the headquarters of the American Red Cross in washington, d. C. Lets listen in for a moment. These therapies transfuse powerful antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat those battling the current infection that
Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue t