Public comment. Reminder to all participants to mute themselves to minimize background noise. Please note gray indicates unmuted. This is caption test. Use the live item 5 action item. Of the august 12, 2020 retirement Board Meeting. Its a motion for the august 12, 2020 Board Meeting. So moved. Madame president we received a request to the Administrative Changes to the minutes. She made Public Comment and we indicated she represented the retired employees. She would like the title of her organization to be spelled out in the minutes. I would propose that we make that one correction on page 9 [indiscernible]. Sorry for the interruption. Ill second it. Accept the change. Moved and seconded. Well adopt the minutes with the requested changes and accepted by executive director huish. At this time well take Public Comment. Thank you. Callers, if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added. For those already on hold please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been un
Integrated device with connectivity built right in dramatically increases the chances that learning is available from anywhere. I think if theres a Silver Lining with covid, its classes like this one. Reporter with classes starting next monday, the Oakland Unified School district is is looking for laptops for 2,000 students. They ordered 2500 laptops in june but theyre not ready yet so students will receive the computers they got last spring. Were going to be using our own devices that are delegated for schools in order to meet the gap. And once the devices came in, well be swapping out. Reporter stateunding to strn Distance Learning. Apple and tmobile say the cost to a School District for an ipad and Internet Service is 580 per student per year, including tech support. Were going to have teams that are dedicated to each one of your districts. If you need anything or have students that need to stay connected or are having issues, were going to be there for you. The Companies Say they c
Sick leave. Health Officials Say the goal is to slow the spread of the virus in Alameda County where many people who test positive continue to work for fear of getting fired. Heres a look at the numbers in the bay area. There were 973 new cases for a total of over 56,000. San francisco and santa clara had the highest numbers with about 240 new cases each. 16 deaths were reported in the bay area including six in marin county and four in contra costa county. The bay area has now seen 858 deaths. As for the state numbers today, a total of more than 524,000. And there were 202 deaths bringing in the state death toll above 9700. The superintendent of california schools says work is underway to connect up to a Million Students to help with distance learning. The state is getting help from two high tech giants to get those kids connected. The start of school is just days away for some School Districts. Hundreds of thousands of students in california dont have access to computers, have poor in
Is working on billions of allars of aid to help salve plundering economy. Even elections are being affected. Of of this is in the hope keeping coronavirus from getting worse. Our question for you this morning, what do you think about President Trumps declaration of a National Emergency on covid19 . Late, or soon, too justintime . We are going to open up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones your telephone number is going to be 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Thisve a special line open morning. This will be a line for medical professionals. If you are in the medical field we want to know what you are seeing out there. If you are in the medical field we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind you can always text. S at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media. This now, late last night the house of representatives passed a billiondollar aid package for figh
Fall. Is this a blip or something more meaningful happening, live from london, im guy johnson brayden counting you down to the european close right here on bloomberg markets. Romaine lets get a check on the u. S. Markets. A lot of questions about the sustainability of economic expansion. A lot of uncertainty about manufacturing, can this expansion go on . The answer from the market, you can see is pretty much we dont know. 20 point range over the past month, 40 point range over the past two months. We are going somewhere on the Philadelphia Semiconductor index. Of far off that record high 1625 set back earlier this month. Getting a boost, people looking for a bottom in the semiconductor sector. Research adding to a little bit of optimism. A lot of those concerns about texas instruments, a lot of people shrugging those off. Calling it the tom brady of the market right now. Year,es barclays 20 tracking the long bonds in the u. S. Seeing bids back into this. Short on safety despite the fa