Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the appropriations committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very muc
Website as jessica and heather are talking, please submit your questions for heather or Jessica Jessica will entertain questions as well. The q a features are at the bottom of your screen. We will get to as many of those as time allows. Heather lende has contributed a ashes the author of the best selling book buying the good take good care of the ab heather will be interviewed by Jessica Hendler, Jessica Hendler is the author of the novel the magnetic girl winner of the 2027 book prize. Also nominee for the townsend prize. Her memoir the invisible sisters was named one of the book s all georgian should read in her craft guide reading afire a guide to writing about grief was praised by vanity fair magazine many others. She teaches creative writing and directs minor writing at a university in atlanta. She lectures International Writing and we are so delighted she is joining us tonight. Heather and jessica, welcome, i will let jessica take it from here. Thank you kate. Heather, im so glad
More important, new york has had three times the deaths california has had. Back in april almost ten times as many people in the bay area may have had the virus than reported. It is explained it could mean a lot more testing. The mayor says testing will increase significantly. Locations like this will add more appointments. One expert said testing is critical and so are studies that give a clearer picture of where we are with this virus. I am excited to announce a significant expansion of testing in San Francisco. San francisco is recently adding more than 3,000 covid tests each day and that will be going up. In total we will have an additional 1400 testing spots per day. The embarcadero location will have 14 spots and a third city site and two popup sites will be coming for higher infection rates. Turn around time can be 72 hours to several days, an issue that extends beyond the state. They say testing and Contact Tracing is a way to contain the virus. We need to do more, now especial
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At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing