Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, june 18th meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carol and thank you to sfgovtv for staffing this remote meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . In order to protect Board Members during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local, state and federal orders and directives. Committee members attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. While the comments will be available for each item. Cable 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number across the screen. Comments and opportunities to speak are available at 415 6550001. Once connected and prompted to the access code which is 145 4314683. Then press pound and press pound a second time to be connected to the meeting. When connected you will hear the discussions. You will
I look at gold as the gold capital of the world. Still in we are lockdown pays, although the economy is gradually reopening. I dont think we are effervescent at the moment about anything. But certainly, it did move the markets quite a lot when you saw it above that line. We had a good conversation with jay hambro about that. I know we will look at metals a little more in depth later on. Tom going to be interesting, to say the least. Serious dues on the pandemic worldwide. I emphasized this is not just about america and united kingdom, but real worldwide pandemic. That news here and there some of optimism but it is a challenging story. Diseasesectious Anthony Fauci once the u. S. Is going in the wrong direction. He told the Senate Committee the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, from the current level of about 40,000. Several dozen in western states are seeing increases in infections. That is prompting some to put reopening plans on hold. A new poll shows joe biden w
Great. Colleagues, are there any items that you all would like to put forward . Seeing no one on the roster. Are there any members of the public that would like to speak on item eight . There are no members of the public. Great. Madam clerk, will you please call the next item, item number 9. Item 9, Public Comment. Great. Operator, are there any members of the public who would like to speak . Chair, there are no members of the public. Okay. Public comment is closed. Madam clerk, will you please call the next item. Item ten, adjournment. Fantastic. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you everyone. Have a wonderful day. Thank you. [ ] welcome to members of the public watching the meeting. We will call the meeting to order. Secretary morewitz, will you call the roll, please. [ roll call ] great. Thank you, secretary morewitz. Well move on to the second item, approval of the Health Commission Meeting Minutes from the june which meeting . June 3rd meeting. Sorry. So commissioners, upon rev
Surging this morning. Away from that, a jumble of news as we try to reframe for the second half of 2020. Francine we will look at the second half of 2020 shortly. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Morning. Accountd south america from is two thirds of a new coronavirus cases and the latest reports. The death toll in brazil has now passed 50,000. There were a record 4500 new cases until or near. Florida reported more than 4000 cases on saturday, also a record. Back in england, Andrew Bailey has signaled a major shift in the strategy for removing emergency stimulus. Tos stressing the need reduce the Central Bank Balance sheet before raising Interest Rates. He has an oped in bloomberg opinion. He says this would give them more firepower in future crises. The disappointing turnout at was just the latest warning sign for his campaigns. Criticismrshadowed by about the pandemic in the protest against police brutality. The president has fallen behind joe biden in National Poll
This was about half an hour. Governor cuomo good morning, thank you for being here. To my right is new york city police. To my left is melissa derosa. To her left is the budget director. It is another long and ugly night in the United States of america. Last night, as it was in new york state. Day 97 of the coronavirus crisis, day 12 of the civil unrest dealing with the aftermath of mr. Floyds murder, and this is a dangerous combination, colliding crises, compounding each other. But, our job is to address what is presented, and this is the reality presented, and this is what we will deal with. On the coronavirus situation, there is a lot to learn from what we just went through, and i believe it is a transformative situation for society, and something that we can really learn from going forward. Coronavirus was a medical issue, and economic issue, but more than anything, it was a social issue. It was about how people behave, and to address coronavirus, what we had to do was to change so