The San Francisco county Transportation Commission for our meeting, september 15, 2020. Our clerk is ms. Brittany. Can you please call the roll. Yes. Commissioner fewer. Present. Commission haney. Present. Commissioner mandelman. Present. [roll call] ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
Rob roth joins us from city hall. The mayor calls Mohammed Nuru a close personal friend. Reporter thats right. With rumors swirling around city hall, the mayor did acknowledge that she once had a romantic relationship with Mohammed Nuru. She said the romance ended many years ago, the controversy surrounding it has not. San francisco mayor, says she wants to set the record straight in a News Conference and on an online post to reveal that she and disgraced former public works director, Mohammed Nuru, dated about 20 years ago. May not have even been a year. After we were no longer dating, we were still very close. Reporter that relationship was an open secret around city hall. The mayor wanted to put to rest any rumors that the relationship was more recent. I decided to go forward with this because there were a number of rumors. Also, i wanted to make sure that people heard about our relationship. Reporter they may be facing a problem more serious than who she dated. She acknowledged a 5
And alters the earths climate. Yet, scientists tell us more of the Carbon Pollution thats been emitted into the atmosphere has occurred hearing in 1988. 2007 been in Congress Since and weve done some good things since then. We raised auto efficiency standards. Supported the dramatic expansion of wind and solar power. The kind ted to fund of Climate Resilience to protect the places that we know and love. Enough, not by a long shot. Piece ed our first major of climate legislation in 10 years. 9, partisan vote sent h. R. Climate action now, to the action. Here it awaits that bill takes a commonsense approach of keeping the united paris climate agreement. Because the u. S. , we shouldnt back down. Shouldnt surrender. Not in the face of the Climate Crisis. To take bold action now. Now. F 70 of young people in america say they worry about Climate Change. I dont blame them. Theyre doing more than paying class. On in science this generation is the most wellinformed and connected in history, an
The Health Concerns stemming from Climate Change. And what congress should do to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. This is 90 minutes. As we get in, we are joined by a select committee on Climate Crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses. The voices leading to the next generation. On the global Climate Crisis. Know if you were witnesses have a hard stop at 11 30 to get to their next event advocating on these issues. I ask all members keep their questioning to five minutes. Or less. So we can fit in as many members as possible. Without objection, all the members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extra his materials for the record. Subject to length, limitation and the roles. I would like to call on the chairman of the full committee who has a few words to offer, chairman engel. Good morning everyone. I just want to invite everyone to come to the Foreign Affairs committee, i want to welcome everybody. On Climate Change. It is certainly something that is so important. In