Time when President Donald Trump suspended h 1 b visas to the end of this year. So canada is putting it out there. Their doors are open in Silicon Valley and ceos are seeing the impact. Sitting in board members, ceos have related theyre trying to hire programmers from russia or other parts of the world. Reporter how worried should Silicon Valley be, with them trying to poach talent from our area . We should always be concerned that we are protecting and preserving our competitive advantage as the hub of the innovation economy. Reporter the pandemic and immigration halt has take an toll. But the pay in canada still does not compare to Silicon Valleys. On average, the tech workers here in the United States in Silicon Valley can make almost double what theyre making in some of the tech hubs in canada. Reporter but the hope is that when the pandemic ends, the talent comes back or holds on. Or theres always canada. In San Francisco, luz pena, abc7 news. Making the bay area a better place to
Good morning and welcome to the transportation, board, april, 11, could you call the roll commissioner breed. Present. Cohen. Absent. Far ril chl absent. Kim . Absent. Fewer. Absent. Commissioner rohnen. Safai. Present. Tang is absent and we have a kwar um. Could we have a motion to excuse commissioner cohen . And we will take that without objection, and would you please read the second item on the agenda. Item, 2, Citizen Advisory Committee report this is is an information item. Thank you, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I want to start out by saying, on march 24th, two members of the cac and myself and tanen received a tour, and with one group remaining, and it was the Planning Department staff that have prepared the email notification system. I am glaed to see that is getting fixed. Thank you. Item seven, most of the questions in the request, regarding the brt will be resolving around the lawsuit and so we, for that reason, we didnt get a lot of up date on
Kwar um. Could we have a motion to excuse commissioner cohen . And we will take that without objection, and would you please read the second item on the agenda. Item, 2, Citizen Advisory Committee report this is is an information item. Thank you, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I want to start out by saying, on march 24th, two members of the cac and myself and tanen received a tour, and with one group remaining, and it was the Planning Department staff that have prepared the email notification system. I am glaed to see that is getting fixed. Thank you. Item seven, most of the questions in the request, regarding the brt will be resolving around the lawsuit and so we, for that reason, we didnt get a lot of up date on that. And then the other item was by the coalition allocation, and i want to pointed out and i did point out to the staff, that we give the ta gives a lot of money to the bike to workday. And i think that our acknowledgment on the bike key ligs web
And want to say that i want to thank the puc harlan and staff for innovate just one way about a solution the offered quite a few variety of thinking at this point i actually like some of the Long Term Solutions that can impact a few of those areas unfortunately smoeld because your issue is one of the tougher ones but i think our capacity to put Solutions Together will come of something i also appreciate that youre thinking about those other short term types of solutions particularly like the concept of raising the homes a little bit so with the basement or whatever is in the basement that for instance, involve could be raised and damaging that im hoping that youll come up the department will study that further and ill significant that you study you can look at quite a few of those individual homes and see what are the sort of different possibilities what that takes and so forth because one thing to say raise that and so many factors in regards to what is practical and not practical id
Could we have a motion to excuse commissioner cohen . And we will take that without objection, and would you please read the second item on the agenda. Item, 2, Citizen Advisory Committee report this is is an information item. Thank you, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I want to start out by saying, on march 24th, two members of the cac and myself and tanen received a tour, and with one group remaining, and it was the Planning Department staff that have prepared the email notification system. I am glaed to see that is getting fixed. Thank you. Item seven, most of the questions in the request, regarding the brt will be resolving around the lawsuit and so we, for that reason, we didnt get a lot of up date on that. And then the other item was by the coalition allocation, and i want to pointed out and i did point out to the staff, that we give the ta gives a lot of money to the bike to workday. And i think that our acknowledgment on the bike key ligs website shou