Start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your insights. Thank you so much for your eight years of service and encourage you again to pleas
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the may 20th, 2020, rescheduled budget and finance committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee. Im joined by Committee Members Shamann Walton and rafael mandelman. Our clerk is miss linda wong. Id like to thank Lawrence Bryant from sfgov tv for broadcasting this meeting. Madam clerk, do you have any announcement . Clerk yes, maam. The board of supervisors, legislative chair and Committee Room are closed. However, members will participate in the meeting remotely, at the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available both channel 26 andsfgovtv. Org are dreaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 888 2045984, access 35010083501008. Code 3501008. And then press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial one then
The race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he beat still trump joined us for continuing coverage of the u. S. Election 2020 on aljazeera. And you know the terrible. Getting our objective is to kill a black. If im going to get hurt now. Because they got caught and theyve taken the right approach another day another politician standing official with. Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles that were covering from home this week the casualty figures are climbing in the u. K. Yet most of the british media are failing to hold the government to account locked in with covert 19 across the world prisoners are trying to get their stories out israels Prime Minister decides mass surveillance is the best way to check the spread of the virus he has a ready made template to do it and say you cannot i mean a reminder in britain of a contribution that can
With overwhelming debt in argentina now the pandemic is making the Economic Situation even once. And a milestone for iran but a cause for concern from the u. S. As the country launches its 1st military satellites into orbit. Now u. S. President donald trump has dismissed the possibility of a severe 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the year that during his Daily Briefing he asked the director of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention to clarify his earlier remarks that another bout of infections during the flu season could be even worse than whats being witnessed now around 840000. 00 people have been infected in the u. S. And nearly 50000. 00 have died those are the highest numbers anywhere in the wild. Well you know. We were not because we could have some leverage a groan and you could have a big blue system and if they combined your thing come together they come together its not great but we will not go through what we went through for the last 2 months getting a
Debt as collateral for loans as eu leaders meet today to discuss a 2. 2 trillion revival plan. Loan provisions jump at Credit Suisse as the lender builds reserves to withstand the coronavirus pandemic. We will speak exclusively with the banks new ceo just after 9 00 a. M. Hopes forrs crafted higher profit in 2020. And the earnings deluge continues. Revenueetting hermes out, down 6. 5 percent, which does not seem quite so bad all things considered. Anna we are getting numbers out of unilever as well, so the earnings daily continues. Things not looking great for unilever. Delucia the earnings deluge continues. Growth of zero, so 0 . The estimate was of an increase and itr just over 2 , seems on pricing and on volume they missed estimates. Pricing looks to be lower than estimates and volume looks to be lower than estimates. That seems to be where we are on the top line. They are also saying they are withdrawing their previous 2020. Uidance First Quarter underlying sales slack, as i mentio