The departments working equity group and drafting a plan that addresses racial and equity issues within the department, as well as we will be proposing ways to address these issues. As a key first step, the department recently distributed a confidential and anonymous Racial Equity survey to all d. B. I. Employees, and i urge all employees to review and participate in this. [inaudible] an Important Survey by the close of october 30. I stress october 30 would be the perfect day to get that in there. The survey is anonymous, so be candid and constructive in your suggestions to make d. B. I. A place to work for all. Finally, i want to say that d. B. I. Is fulfilling its duties on behalf of all professionals, so thank you to all the staff during this pandemic. The Public Health requires multiple challenges under alleging conditions, and we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. Madam secretary and everyone, thank you for attending our Virtual Meeting today and contin
Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a half hours. This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of t
Really interesting flow out of the United Kingdom. Weve got a very nice lift to the market. I dont want to oversell it, but in the last 20 minutes or so, a lift to the market. I see sterling coming in and even the yield space with a little bit lower yield. Certainly not the risk of agony we saw yesterday. Jonathan sterling lower. Down about 0. 2 on cable. Reuters reporting that the Prime Minister is about to say get ready for an australia style brexit deal. When i say australia, think something closer to no deal. When i say canada, think something closer to a freetrade agreement. If the Prime Minister frustrated with the eu . October 15 was meant to be a deadline. Mr. Prime minister trying to ramp things up to get concessions from the other side, something he has failed to do in the last month. Tom and there is the norway deal. An australian deal is a much more distant deal, a much more traditional agreement. The love and affection of a canada deal where you respect the agricultural pr
Okay. Source with that, if there are no other caller on the line, are there any other so to go to that one more time. A great presentation. The graphics were great. And is easy reading and thanks to the presentation and i am pearing what i see when i drive and when i work. And what i see is double parking is an alltime high. Part of the problem is that some of the restaurants need to have the delivery space to pick up to park and increase the restaurants. You also need to work with some of the restaurants to clear space or enforce the space. And also some of the taxi stands that are occupied by private vehicles and people who block the taxi zones and the transit areas and the high business areas. Thank you very much. Are there any additional callers on the line . With that, Public Comment is closed. Did get the note and obviously more about the status of the budget. And we didnt talk about the other Revenue Sources and so if you have an asked on the ask amount that we want. We want as
Thank you to the press and the immediate why for getting the word out and most importantly, we want to make sure that voting is easy. If you have any questions or concerns, what is interesting this past weekend, i heard from a lot of folks that said i didnt get my ballot yet, what is going on . What is happening. So people seem to be very excited about voting. We also want to make sure that folks are able to get their ballots and theyre able to get their questions answered and we make it as simple as possible and we also keep everybody safe. When were showing up to our polling places, or our Dropoff Center or this particular center here across the street from city hall, were all using the wash center to wash our hands and were wearing our masks and complying with our Health Orders because thats how were going to be able to continue to not only get through this but adapt to the needs to make sure that we are able to not only vote but vote safely. Thats what this is all about and so than