This meeting will come to order. And welcome to the september 25th special meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, chair of the committee. Our clerk today is erica major. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect the City Employees and the public, the elective chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken to the local state and orders and directives. The members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if physically present. However, Public Comment will be available on each item of the agenda. Cable channel 26, 78 or 99 as well as sfgovtv. Org are streaming the callin number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. And comments are opportunities to speak during the comment public via phone by calling the number 1 415 6550001. Again, that n
Instituted. This is two and a half hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chairman is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The chair asks that ms. Debbie ms. Scanlan,ultz, else mr. Cooper, ms. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and representative mary gay scanlon, b waved onto the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement, then i will record as the Ranking Member. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her, with your after. Ion, mr. Hice, lawrence, i will recognize. If somebody else on your side wants to have additional. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of our federal government. It serves every household and business every day. 630,000 brief individuals who live in every congressional district. According to pew research, 91 of americans have a favorable view of the Postal Service. Leaps and bounds above that of any other federal entity. During
Pandemic . The ceo of opentable will be my guest. Rents are plummeting. Ceo joins us to talk about his ambition next. First, lets check of the market. The u. S. Stocks climbing today led by big tex. Big tech. We are waiting on the last jobs report before the election. How are investors handling this . Volatility is the theme of the year. Up dow at one point was nearly 1 , then down. That tells you theres a lot of uncertainty around the fact that we dont have another round of stimulus. The jobs report tomorrow, jobless claims today came down a little bit but still above pandemic levels. It looks as though september is expected to be less good than august. 875,000 jobs are expected to have been added in the month of september versus 1. 3 7 million added in the month of august. We will be looking for revisions also. Be aob picture is going to huge key to the economy going forward. All of this as we might be on the cusp of a second wave of layoffs. Yesterday, Goldman Sachs announced they a
Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. I have agreed is the chairwoman on . Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . Ill recognize here with your permission after myself. O our colleague ms. Lawrence is going to issue have an Opening Statement. I will recognize if somebodyv on your side wants to have additional okay. That would be fine. The cr you justow let me know. Okay. Theit s Postal Service is the crowned jewel of our federal government. It emplo serves every household b
Its something we couldd have done in july if we had been willing to actually do our job and vote on the appropriation bills after the house of representatives have already shown the way. Four weeks ago the Trump Administration and Senate Republican leadership walked away from the negotiating table. Democrats have offered compromise. Republicans said my way or the highway and left town, just walked away from the capital when we had all these things that needed to be done. Here we are, back 40 later. As the situation better, of course not. Across the country families are sitting there, children back to School Without the necessary resources to ensure that they are safe. Still Summer Learning from home but without reliable access to the internet. Evictions are rising. Families are struggling to find child care. Unemployment is at the highest level i can remember and other unacceptable levels. States are preparing for novembers elections without the resources they need to make sure people