Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely communicating, commenting on the issue saturday, some at nasa, and largely leaving his response to twitter. What are your thoughts . Republicans, use 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, all others, 2027488002. You can also send us a text, that line is 2027488003. And make sure that you leave us your name, tell us where youre texting from. cspanwj. , were, your comments welcome on
Make this area into a pedestrian promenade in order to do that theyre going to have to close down some of the streets and immersion say that this is a safe and helpful plan for them and their customers. Owners of tightly packed shops and restaurants and upper grant avenue say they need space to better serve their customers where cars have been lining up along the narrow streets of north beach businesses would like to take over basically what happens is people come here, they parked their cars and they dont use the businesses right now. Merchants Association President dan mock erie nice as by expanding into the parking spots it will allow shops like his more room. It will also allow his customers to move more freely. Mikey rini is hoping the city will take it one step further by closing the street so the area can essentially become a pedestrian promenade partially by taking over those patients we are reasserting. The idea that that for support Small Businesses in the neighborhood once s
[inaudible] can you hear me . Even though it doesnt even though we hadnt gotten together in more than a month, it feels like all of us are all together all the time. Number of Staff Meetings is up 2x. Number of management meetings is up 2x. We were set up to work remotely. We do that because were on the road quite a bit, and we have nontraditional hours where were conducting meetings after hours, on weekends and evenings. This was a seamless transition for us. Weve had access to digital presentations, software of every kind, from excel to powerpoint, email. Access to our custodian. Its really been a seamless operation. The only disruption is that we havent been able to do travel to meet with external managers, but the number of manager meetings is still up 2x. And i would say that we benefited from good timing. We actually deployed all of the laptops to the investment teams with docking stations to be able to work here as well as remotely three months before the covid emergency, so the
Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are opening two additional meal pickup sites. These sites will be open from 11 00
It looks like were missing one board member . Miss collins. Do we know why . Here we are in this Virtual World and i hope the public is able to access this meeting and future meetings. Well do our very best to make sure that that happens. I also want to say that meetings by our advisory groups will get started up again, hopefully soon, as well as Many Committee meetings by the board. But we do have capacity issues at the moment, but we want to make sure at the same time that the public is engaged and that we have a transparent process for all of our decisionmaking processes. Board minutes, section b, of the march 24, 2020, we need a motion and a second. So moved. Why dont we just assign two people to do the motions and the second. Anany objections . Seeing none, role call. role call . Good afternoon, everyone. Its great to see you all. I would like to start tonight with a couple of thoughts and then im going to show a quick video. So first of all, beginning wednesday, april 15, we are