Assistant to the energy and Airline Sector . Well, its a very good first measure. But as i said to the deputy Prime Minister today, i suspect that the canadian economy will need measures that are in order of magnitude larger than this. I noted yesterday, the British Government announced an good morning, everyone. The meeting will come tomorrow. Welcome to the august 31, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on Video Conference is supervisor kathrin stefani, and supervisor gordon mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the city, and the public, the board room and legislative chambers are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each comment on this agenda. Both channel 26 a
Available on each comment on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the numbers across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1466702563. Again, that is 1466702563. Then press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item comes up, press star, three to be entered into the comment line. Best practices is to speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit comments the following ways. Email myself, the clerk, victor. Young sfgov. Org. That concludes my Public Comments. Supervisor ronen thank you. Can you please read item 1 . Clerk madam chair, i just wanted to let you know that i made an error on item 1. This is a direct appointment by the board of supervisors, and i it does not need to be heard by the rules
Boarding house to large corporations. So the capacity to forgive rent will probably vary a great deal but well look at that. Dan . The referral programme, how does that work . Is that something albertans are to apply for and with the 90 days when thats up, theres no extension on that, do albertans have to pay that back in a lump sum or is that distributed . So the Utility Companies will go directly with their customers. We went through the alberta utilitys commission to provide a payment flexibility. The bottom line, we have asked and they agreed that they will not cut off service if people do not pay their utility bills over the next 90 days and i believe the Utility Companies will be communicating directly with their customers on that. Well review where were at after 90 days and ill leave it to the municipalities to comment on whether they match some of th exactly whos eligible . Quite frankly, its an estimate, a bit of a shot in the dark and we dont know how many test test test test
Closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. Committee members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each comment on this agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the numbers across the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1466702563. Again, that is 1466702563. Then press pound, and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item comes up, press star, three to be entered into the comment line. Best practices is to speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit comments the following ways. Email myself, the clerk, victor. Young sfgov. Org. That concludes my Public Comments. Supervisor ronen thank you. Can you please r
Distancing social from future tense in partnership, a partnership of slate, new America Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and then joined by Priscilla Painton who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, and Brandon Tensley was the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you have to unmute. A, nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to moderate this, one of the things that it brought up, brought to mind area broader in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at the time, did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. In particular, y