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Nobody has turned in a speaker card. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion to approve these items a motion. Second. Item five, communications, i have none for you today. Item six. Board members, new or unfinished business. Wow, a remarkably silent group. Ill volunteer one thing. I put myself out there on that one. I first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. It was really rich and substantive. And you came to a lot of new conclusions. And i wanted to share ive had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. Ive had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on Market Street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. I just wanted to share that. Im sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. But i think it is a great success, and it is clearly have an immediate impact. Wonderful, thank
Against each of them. In quick summary, our Human Resources director, kimberly acreman, has been leading that effort, along with donte king, and virginia harmon. They have been busy creating some standards that did not exist, about treating all employees fairly. It includes written recruitment policies that make the process more transparent. Integrating diversity into all of our h. R. Initiatives. Providing better training opportunities to managers and supervisors, as well as frontline employees, in partnership with the department of Human Resources. Reviving the e. O. Process to make it more easily understandable, and improving communication and transparency throughout. We are also, as you saw last week in our budget exercise, we have a significant ask around creating a new division for race and equity within the department, as well as a significant ask of increasing staffing at the department of resources in order to meet all of these goals. I believi think were making god progress,
That House Democrats may be too afraid, too afraid to transmit their shoddy work product to the senate. Mr. President , looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet. Neil whether it is cold feet or whatever, the fact of the matter, it is unusual, not unprecedented for the house after impeaching to say, wait a minute, well see exactly what the senate plans to do before we pass along the articles of impeachment to the senate. Wall street journal Global Economics editor jon hilsenrath, democratic strategist capri cafaro, exactly how long the markets will ignore this uncertainty. It is rather remarkable, if you think about it, jon, by and large, actually throughout this process the markets have focused on everything from trade, corporate earnings, the strength of the consumer, the market, housing, not a one, not a one on impeachment. What do you make of that . Well i mean i think the market sees an economy that is doing pretty well. Were going, were in our 11th year of economic expansi
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