Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He was always a professional and managed to make things clear
Alexandertut here. Clinch here. Jacobo here. Lee here. Moss here. Tam here. We have a quorum. And our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy good morning and welcome to the bic meeting of january, 2020, first of the year. And welcome, everybody. Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he
Growth in the apriljune quarter. The growth trend is only down very, very slightly. This was a positive gdp report. And here is the market reaction, fairly muted. Around 2 00 even this afternoon, well find out what the Federal Reserve is doing with Interest Rates. A quarterpoint cut widely expected, but its what comes after that, that has invest terse on edge. The dows up a couple of points, same with the nasdaq. Look at these stocks premarket, facebook and apple. They report at four eastern today. Well be watching to see how apple forecasts upcoming holiday sales. As for facebook, we want to know how many people droppedded off the platform with all that negative publicity. We also want to know if their ad revenue continues to surge. Facebook and apple up premarket. Youve got to look at this, california faces a real crisis today. The fires are raging, and today the wind picks up bigtime. Our heart goes out to the millions without power and the hundreds of thousands evacuated. Californi
Out. A little bit of brinksmanship, or brinkmanship, i should say, as joe corrected me. Less is more there are a couple more brinks, a couple senators youve got to wonder about. Okay, then. What happens with Susan Collins, what happens with lee from utah, who said hes undecided lee who mike lee . Oh, mike lee. Who wanted got two first names its confusing i dont trust people with two first names. Do you yes, generally. You do . Yeah. I think its confusing. Well youve got three, youre fine. Ive got three, three names some people say andrew ross, two first names, even though no, im talking about when your last name is a first name. Chris christie . Theres a lot of them, bill george, ted david. I just made that one up. I dont really think there is a person by that name. All right, lets look at what else has been happening in the markets. The tenyear note, one weve been paying attention to, too. Earlier this week you saw the tenyear pushing above 2. 4 , but now were back below 2. 36 . A cou
Getting really hard for artists to live here. So what do we want our city to look like . What do we want our city to be . On 24th street, that is what were trying to do. Were trying to take a moment and figure out what we want our neighborhood to look like . How we want to move forward . And how can we be a mixed neighborhood . We dont have to be a poor neighborhood. We dont have to be a completely rich neighborhood. But we can be an integrated neighborhood, with all kinds of people, with all kinds of services, with all kinds of community. So i ask you to support this ordinance. Thank you, next speaker, please. Thank you everyone for puting your hearts and mind into the challenges and opportunities our city. My name is pam and i live on harris between 24th and 25th since june of 20006789 i was able to buy my house a time of overbiding and very high rents and here we are again. In 2000, when i bought the park was a place of daily drug selling and now its soccer leagues 24th was dark wit