Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
Orientation and her identity have come to divide and define the world in an entirely new ways in the 21st century and he is joined in the conversation by andrew solomon, National Book Award Winning writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology. You can find the full biographies on the librarys website. An ideal place to post this conversation because we have one of the greatest collections of lgbtq history in the United States and archives of pivotal organizations such as the society of new york and individual activists and key cultural figures from Virginia Woolf to james baldwin. Please remember this event is being recorded, not you but for me the event itself. Mark will take some of your questions at the end and you can send them any time during the conversation by typing your question into the qanda box at the bottom of the app. We will make sure they get to mark and andrew and they will answer as many as they can. At the end of tonights conversation we will be showing a
415. 00 parts per 1000000 an increase of over 45 percent from preindustrial levels these admissions are at the highest level in at least 3000000 years even if we stop all Carbon Emissions today the heat trapped in the oceans will continue to push the temperature of the planet upwards for over a decade in the face of this global emergency our ruling elites have done nothing to halt the death march what to quote lennon must be done roger how the cofounder of Extinction Rebellion in his new book common sense for the 21st century argues that our last hope lies in mass civil disobedience to disrupt and overthrow the ruling global elites and end our reliance on fossil fuels the activism protests lobbying titians appeals to the United Nations and the Democratic Party along with the work of countless n. G. O. S e r. Used a failed they havent been accompanied by a 60 percent rise in Global Carbon dioxide emissions since 1900 how him who has long been a part of the Environmental Movement says of
That the recovery will be as strong as possible and to limit lasting damage to the economy. In recent months Economic Activity picked up as the economy began to rope. Many businesses opened their doors. Factories restarted production and many left their homes to engage in various activities. As a result Household Spending looks to have recovered about half of its earlier decline although spending for services such as air travel and hotels has shown much less of a pickup he recovery in Household Spending owes to benefits which provided substantial and timely support to household incomes. In contrast, indicators of businessfixeded investment have yet to show a recovery. Even with the improved Economic News in may and june, overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic. The contraction in g. D. P. Will likely be the largest on record. The labor market has followed a similar pattern. After drops in march and april, employment rose strongly in may an june as many returne
Interest rates, remains unchanged for the recent rise in covid19 cases. This runs an hour. The pandemic continues to cause tremendous human and Economic Hardship in the United States and around the world. The most important response to this Public Health crisis has come from our healthcare workers and remaining grateful to them and many other essential workers for putting themselves at risk day after day in service to others and our country. All of us have a role to play in our nations responsibility to the pandemic. The Federal Reserve remains committed for using tools to do what we can to do as long as it takes to relieve stability and be as strong as possible. And lasting damage to the economy. In recent months Economic Activity picked up as the economy began to reopen. Many businesses opened their doors, restarted production and more people left their homes to engage in various activities which as a result Household Spending looks to have recovered half of its earlier decline, like