Good morning, everybody. The maoe willing come to order. Welcome to the october 8, 2020 regular meeting of the Public Safety services committee. Im rafael mandleman, the chair of this committee, and im joined by our vice chair and supervisor, our clerk is john carroll. As usual, id like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for staffing the meeting and i. T. In lending their support. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I do. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, board member and City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee will close v. This was pursuant to declarations and directives. Community members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically presentment Public Comment will be available for each item on this agenda. There a Public Comment callin number across your screenful your opportunity to speak and speak during Public Comment speder available via phone
That broadly speaking if we dont get that, there would certainly be Downside Risks certainly through the channel i mentioned. Thank you cnn. Thanks for taking my question chairman powell, give us an update to the policy framework and repeated calls for this and this event, is the fed open to other parts of the economy such as income inequality and Affordable Housing we monitor everything we think is important in the u. S. Economy. In a broad sense, all of it goes into thinking about Monetary Policy you mentioned inequality so disparities in income and Financial Wellbeing demographic and racial categories, something we monitor carefully, inequality, which i would point to its a multifaceted thing, stagnation of nat the lower end of the income and lower mobility those are things that hold back our economy. They are the thing is we dont really have the tools to address those. We have Interest Rates and Bank Supervision and Financial Stability policy and things like that, but we cant get a
Zealand is set for a shallower recession than previous years. The pandemic may have a lingering impact when it comes to government expenses. We bring you the numbers breaking this hour. Lets get you started with our lets get you started with a quick check of our markets trading at this hour. We had a mixed finish. Stocks, in fact, fell, erasing earlier gains after that selloff intensified. Tech fed chair powell not sure if this economic recovery will continue, that really dampening the moon. Tech communications leading declines. Switch of the board and you can see what small and midcaps did with the russell 2000, outperforming, look at that, up 9 of the close. We had the fed really keeping rates low, helping that entire sector. Pressure, andf that paired most of its losses with treasury yields climbing after chair powell also said the current size of the Asset Purchase Program was appropriate, the 10year yield hanging around the highest levels in almost a week. We also have the 530 yie
We are meeting today to conduct an important hearing on the Small Business administration Paycheck Protection Program, or ppp, specifically, review review of the loan forgiveness process. I want to thank each of the witnesses for their testimonies today. Over the past several months, this committee has held numerous hearings on the ppp, and weve heard from borrowers and lenders about the challenges theyve faced in accessing the program. Ive also traveled across my district of burlington and ocean counties in new jersey to speak with Business Owners about how theyve fared during the pandemic, and ive heard some of the successes and challenges theyve faced with ppp and uncertainty about what the future holds. From borrowers who eventually did access a loan, the Committee Heard concerns about complicated, unclear, and sometimes conflicting Program Rules and other requirements associated with loan forgiveness. Lenders also expressed a great deal of frustration over the needlessly complicat
Hearings on the ppp, and weve heard from borrowers and lenders about the challenges theyve faced in accessing the program. Ive also traveled across my district of burlington and ocean counties in new jersey to speak with Business Owners about how theyve fared during the pandemic, and ive heard some of the successes and challenges theyve faced with ppp and uncertainty about what the future holds. From borrowers who eventually did access a loan, the Committee Heard concerns about complicated, unclear, and sometimes conflicting Program Rules and other requirements associated with loan forgiveness. Lenders also expressed a great deal of frustration over the needlessly complicated rules and reported feeling unable to adequately help their borrowers through the forgiveness process. Through it all, borrowers simply wanted to ensure they were using loan proceeds consistent with the law so they could qualify for full loan forgiveness, and effectively convert the loan into a grant, which was the