ve wawona good afternoon, everyone. Welcome back from the break. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 11, 2023 regular meeting of land use and Transportation Committee of the board of supervisors. I am supervisor melgar chair and joined by vygotskies chair supervisor dean preston and board supervisor president supervisor peskin. The Committee Clerk is brent jalipa. Thank you. You would like to acknowledge james at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk . For those here make sure to silence Electronic Devices not to interrupt the chamber. Convening hybrid meetings allow in person and Public Comment and Remote Access and Public Comment. Public comment will be taken on each item. Those in person will speak first then those on the line. For those remote the comment call in number is streaming and when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but mou exclude in listening mode. When your item come up and Public Comment is called those in person line xup those
And with the s p 500 gain, too, we are looking at another weekly gain there. The best weekly winning streak of the year. Pretty impressive. Lets look at one of the drivers for this impressive amount. The earnings season, the Third Quarter earnings season. Andopped into the bloomberg look at g btv 26. The companies that have beaten estimates 2346. The companies that have beaten estimates. Season is likely to be a talent because the expectation was for yearoveryear growth of lust and 2 . 75 ofseeing that with the copies that have reported in the s p 500 so far beating, and it gives us a tailwind for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. Lets take a look at some of the tech winners for the nasdaq. All of these companies, as you can see, absolutely soaring, putting up huge, huge Third Quarters. Both microsoft and also that at alltime highs. Intel at its highs level since 2000. It seems the cloud is helping all of these counties. Microsoft Beat Estimates for the legacy units. For amazon, the cloud wa
National committee behind me bringing this convention into session. Its a convention with high stakes for the Republican Party because donald trump is trailing Hillary Clinton. If you look at our nbc the wall street journal poll just out over the weekend, shes leading him 46 to 41 . Donald trump leads only in the south, trails every other region. Hes got to make up some ground. And hes got a task to both identify a broadly appealing message and also persuade voters that he is up to the job of being commander in chief. Interestingly though as at a time when donald trump is trying to unite the party and his choice of mike pence as running mate was a step in that direction, his Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort has taken a strong stance against the antitrump hold out. This morning he said Governor John Kasich ran against donald trump was not speaking at this convention, was embarrassing his state. Also said people like kasich, like mitt romney, like the bush family members who are not comin
Down as chairman . In Jon Erlichman and corey. Y. Cloudhas run these businesses which are the future of computing and microsoft has had success growing these businesses when they have not had success over the last 15 years with the great exception of xbox. The other thing that you get , this is anadella guy who is a microsoft guy, has been for more than 20 years, 22 years, in fact. And he is a technologist in the same way that bill gates is. He is likely to think about product first, how to sell it second. He does have some of those same top 50 fortune ceo relationships. So he does satisfy the multiple roles the company has. He has been there since 1992. Jon, talk about what is going on with the board. John thompson has been leading the search. How did he become a potential replacement of bill gates as potential chairman . This is a company that has explored the idea of having internal and external candidates as the next chief executive. Early on in the process there was a feeling from