Taking on this particular contract, but this is just a way for us to view these things. In so far as this is ongoing service, and we Fund Services for periods of time, generally a fiscal year, and the service is not provided to the full extent in one fiscal year. Yes, it pushes it out. But it means that there is a cost savings in that particular fiscal year when the service is not provided. Right . Yes. Youred noing your head. Youre nodding your head. I see you nodding your head. Sorry. I cant see myself. [laughter] as commissioner safai said and we heard from commissioner fewer and others, this is not going going forward, it is not going to be business as usual. Well have like a lot of very hard decisions to make, so its better to make them sooner rather than later for whatever that is worth. But please proceed. And the board will see this next month as well. We have a bunch of requests from public works for their annual programs for curb repair and Tree Planting and equipment and oth
Conference today because we have we have a lot of information to update the public with. So i want to first start with city test s. F. And we know that every single day there are people who are working, City Employees who are on the front lines. Our police officers, our firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need i
Welcome to the Land Use Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisorses. Im the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined virtually on Microsoft Teams by vicechair supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Erica major. Ms. Major, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely at the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and ff gov. Org are streaming the channel across the sf gov. Org are streaming the channel across screen. You can call 8882045984. The access code is 3501008. Then press pound and then press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the qu queueu to speak. The system will notify phi you w
Maria and we kick it off with Global Markets lets taken a look at european indices a selloff there as well. S p 200 down 250 points right now and paris down 165 and dax index in germany lower by 362. The European Union announcing the closing of its borders for 30 days to slow spread of coronavirus. In asia is overnight markets started with early rally on heels of wall street rally but then reverse course to finish in the red. Take a look at these numbers you have all of the major down better than 4 as you can see, the nikkei and japan and shanghai and composite 1. 8 and then theres oil. Oil prices tumbling touches levels not seen since 2003. As price of oil between russia and saudi arabia wages on demand is dropping oil prices right now at 25. 40 a barrel havent seen those numbs in quite some time. Check treasuries and yields right now on tenure treasury rising this morning once again, it is back above 1 . Tenure now sitting at 1. 8 that is up ten and a half basis points. The coronavir
President trump hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you very much. Thank you. Beautiful day. Very good what youre doing. Look at all those empty seats. Never seen it like that. Oh, boy. How the world has changed. How the world has changed. Right . But its going to end up being better than ever. I want to thank you very much for being here and i want to update you on the steps were on our ongoing fight to defeat the coronavirus. I spoke to the leaders of the g20. Had a great meeting. We have a lot of different ideas, a lot of good ideas. Were working together. The leaders gathered virtually around the world to discuss the whole subject of the problem that right now 151 nations have got we had president fernandez of argentina, Prime Minister Scott Morrison of australia, prime of brazil minister trudeau of canada, president xi of china, president macron of france, chancellor Angela Merkel of germany, Prime Minister mudey of india. The president of indonesia. The Prime Minister of italy. Prime