Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill 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 wil
Challenges theyre facing in q2 from a production standpoint we think it might there may be a few things at work here. The pain from having production shutdown is clearly, you know, probably more than an annoyance. I think people signing up to the tesla dream longer term dont doubt tesla has the liquidity to ride it out and could access more without a problem but i think elon, part of his part of his style has been kind of lets play to win, a play to win strategy, a play to dominant with, how can i say it, wanton disregard for traditional business communication norms and while that will ruffle some feathers along the way, many investors absolutely adore that and see that as a strength so investors, in a way, the starting up earlier and mitigating the cash burn with the potential liability that all auto makers face by maybe starting too early and contributing to some persontoperson contagion so it sounds like i mean, absolutely i think everybody agrees with you that his ability to play t
Were watching up on some of that work as well as completing the westportal cross over that the former director advocated for. We should be able to complete the westportal cross over in time for the restorative rail service allowing us to be able to potentially offer threecar shuttles in the subway between westportal and embarcadero stations. Were also moving forward rapidly on the van ness Improvement Projects and the lack of transportation on van ness avenue and it has been able to allow the crews to accelerate the sewer and water work thats been the source of so much of the disruption on that street and that work is continuing quickly and it means that well be able to start the sfmta portion of that project and the transit portion starting this spring. Ill remind you all, that while the sfmta is in the lead of the brt project, none of our work has started yet. The work for creating the bus Rapid Transit line so were very much looking forward to that work getting moving and many of yo
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
And independents, 2027488002. U can text us if you want at 2027488003. You can tweet us and post on our Facebook Page. It was over the weekend that ed markey out of massachusetts appeared on a Boston Television station highlighting this proposal that he and california senator Kamala Harris, vermont senator Bernie Sanders have laid out for this proposal this payment based on the coronavirus pandemic. Right now, we are in the midst of the greatest economic down turn in our lives. Massachusetts senator ed markey, along with senators Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders, unveiled new legislation that would send americans a check every month until this Public Health emergency is over. Americans need more than just one payment. The bill would provide 2,000 a month to every individual with an income below 120,000 a year. Married couples would receive 4,000. Families would receive 2,000 per child for up to three children. And the legislation would give payments to all u. S. Residents, even if they