Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
Team. Dr. Matthews team with him and all those that supported the mou that well be voting on later today. I know it wases a lot o it was d i wanted to express my gratitude moving forward. The first item is approval of the board minutes for the meeting of july 2020. I need a motion and a second. roll call thank you. Thats five ayes. Thank you. First and foremost i want to welcome everyone back. We are so close to the start of the school year which is next monday august 17th. Our Student Learning will begin for the 2020, 2021 school year. You should know that our School Staff Members are working extremely hard preparing to welcome our students on monday. This past monday was the fifth annual Digital District day. This year was all online. There was overwhelming consent. When we needed to close registration on sunday night. Those that participated, it was thirst first time attending digital event. Teachers with a wide variety of other roles, including para professionals, substitutes, coun
Is it hyphenated . Just the last time. Thank you. President sanchez can you pronounce your first name. I dont want to mess it up. Katia. Okay, thank you, welcome. Youre going to have a report in a minute or so. Welcome, everybody, to our meeting. I really am happy to be here with everybody. Its good to see so many people out there. We have hundreds of folks. Its going to grow probably. In these times of pandemic, i think its important, we would agree, to offer compassion, kindness and a gentle spirit as we all move through this ordeal together. That were all in it together and we obviously must Work Together to make this during these times. I count on that. Again, welcome, thank you for being here. Section b is opening items. We need approval of the Board Meeting. And two is superintendents report, dr. Matthews. Superintendent matthews good afternoon, everyone. Im glad to see so many you out there and welcome to our new Student Board members. Excited youre on board. So my report for th
Mask up and make good choices. These are the 19 counties impacted by the governors order today, affecting about 70 of the states population. The bay area counties on the list are could notra costa, santa clara and solano. Not all of them have opened the types of business thats newsom is concerned about. This would put on hold any planning for reopening the businesses and taking a look at the numbers that led to this decision. You can see the positivity rate, the percentage of tests coming back positive for coronavirus, has jumped to 6 over the last 14 days and 6. 4 over the last seven days. Compare that to two weeks ago when it was just 4. For y4 . A big change. Melanie joins us live. These new rules apply to the 19 counties that have been on the states watch list for the last three consecutive days. As californians head into the holiday weekend, indoor activities in 19 california counties including could notra costa, santa clara and solano counties will cease immediately. Please do no
New york, Edward Lawrence in washington. But jackie, we start with you. Reporter can we say party like it is 1999 . Fourth quarter 1999 is the last time we saw a quarter this good. That is positive given the fact weve been through so much this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. You can see the dow is up 17. 7 for the second quarter. S p 500 almost 20 . And the nasdaq composite, really the winner there, 30 for the second quarter. So we are watching those numbers as were processing what happened today, a 215 point gain on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Youre seeing more optimism in this market. Youre seeing investors digest some of the news about the spike in coronavirus cases. And seeing some hope in this as we move forward, that hospitalizations are down and it may not be illness has to run its course. Theyre taking it in stride at least for today, to close the quarter. Meantime i want to talk about another merge are potentially happening in the space, in the field today. I s