This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal orders declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent as if theyre physically present. Public comments will be available on each item on this agenda and streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 415 6550001. 415 6550001. Meeting i. D. 1460772734, a
Lauren simonetti watching the markets, Edward Lawrence reporting from washington and lauren as we close out the week we start with you. Investors are weighing stimulus, the vaccine hope against the infection, the dow is lower above 2 this week and up three weeks in a low, with s p 500 in the nasdaq again but snapping a twoweek winning streak. Take a look my dear mike, a lot of momentum for the biotech, it is up more than 50 on the week. One of five drugmakers that are testifying week on their work before congress. Also there is reports that these drugmakers are negotiated in advance purchase deals with European Union and you can see outside gains for novavaxs in a novena. Another game that we saw this week is rotation out of the big tech stocks, some investors used a source for other purchases, on the weekend amazon down seven and half percent, microsoft down 5 and netflix fell 10 on disappointing subscriber Growth Expectation for this current quarter. Investors question the momentum t
Needs or just feedback overall from our English Learners. As you can see from the presentation, there was definitely higher, you know, urgent requests from e. L. S and what that means for our work this fall, especially taking off, again, with this initial recommendation of Distance Learning in the fall or at least the first, you know, as they kick off the new academic year. Hi. Ill try that, devon, and you can jump in if you want. What i think you hear you seeing, commissioner lam, is how are we using this to address some of these call programs Going Forward with these English Learners. That was the first part of the question. The second was do we have this aggregated data around some of these English Learners, and some additional framework, particularly, like, our e. L. S in high school. Some people, i know, had to call four, five, six times, and just, like, how does that guide our work forward with e. L. S im sorry, work with English Learners . So with our work on the data, we dont h
We will be remembering lewis, who spent decades in congress with reports from lee could you wan and others. And then we turn to the future. Even as the nation debates how to safely reopen its schools, an equally baffling issue faces employers what it will take to game guarantee that a day at the office will be safe for every returning worker . A question john black stone will tackle in our cover story. The office, as we have come to know it in recent years is one of those things that the pandemic may have changed forever. Is it time to say rest in peace, the open office plan . The open office is over. It was already over for a lot of reasons. It was too noisy and you couldnt concentrate and it was well on the way out of the door. A new office with a new normal ahead on sunday morning. Pauley choir directors havent been able to say altogether now, at least in person, to their singers for months, which has not stopped the maestro david probe. We will introduce him. These days choirs cant
We are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally everybody is cop us right now. The people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. I didnt think we would have a location at the airport. Weve set the bar higher with the customer commerce. Telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. So first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sitdown we go to the neighborhoods in San Francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. We have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. They are planning on extending. We that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and its all good. How long for a vendor to move through the process. I wo