The holiday period. Federal reserve chairman Jerome Powell says the central bank will maintain its efforts to support the flow of as americans hunker down from the spokevirus pandemic, he on the nbc today show. We are not going to run out of ammunition. That doesnt happen. ,e set Interest Rates in time what we think is giving the economy the right level of support. If we raised Interest Rates more, it would have been higher than we thought and Economic Growth would have been slower. It would not have mattered in the end. We are always setting our Interest Rates at the level we think is appropriate. Carowell says mortgages and loans are among the areas that the fed can step in. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in armorhan 120 countries, ritika gupta. This is bloomberg. I am ritika gupta. This is numbered. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and want to click a. M. In hong kong. In
Please welcome doctor lynne cheney. And our moderator. [applause]. You dont want to follow the steps when you enter. Lindsaycarl, you do know the die between right and left right. Okay. [laughter]. Welcome everybody. I am Susan Eisenhower and is a terrific pleasure to be here today to have a conversation with doctor lynne cheney and karl rove. This is a real honor for me. In a real treat to be able to have a kind of intimate conversation about the executive power in the United States. Alongside the president of the United States and also to talk about what its like to be behind the scenes. Let me just a very quickly by, i am not sick. If i cough i must take. You came back from wuhan without cough . [laughter]. Are you feeling all right. Youre a little warm. [laughter]. I had cam cleanup somebodies fireplace and it was fire smoke. So the way you want if im coughing. Again, its really thrilled to be here. With had some experiences as child with what it is like to be in the company of peo
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
Any discussion . Call the question, all in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion carryies. Now item number 4, the directors report, executive director Shireen Mcspadden. Good morning and happy new year. Is this mic on . So i feel like we just met because the holidays kind of sucked up much of december, so i dont have a huge amount to report. I was in washington dc the second week of december which was actually after we met last month. And i was there for the meetings and they are the National Association of area agencies on aging. The december meeting is when we put together the policy priorities for the next year. So we spent quite a bit of time working on that and the issues that came up were the ones that you would expect. Things like aging and homelessness, food insecurity, the big kind of big ticket items and basic needs issues that are kind of hitting older adults across the country. So i think everybody was really saying we are experiencing the same issues. There also continues
Year, and we are well into that. And one of the things that im not going to go through every single action, because that would take all morning, and president serina would not appreciate that. [laughter] its difficult to contain my enthusiasm. Right . But i did want to talk about a few highlights. And so im going to go goal by goal and just kind of highlight one or two things in each goal. So goal one, strategy c if you have your plan in front of you, strategy c is to strengthen San Franciscos caregiver network, including enhanced support for Informal Caregivers and supporting a robust provider workforce. Our action was to strengthen processes to enroll and support ihss independent providers. Previously the Service Center was operating in a small office with really inadequate space and we used to have lines down the street, even in the rain and things like that. So this is really better. And its also better because our Service Center, being able to serve providers as well as clients is