Clerk thank you. We have four yeses. Motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Please call next item, please. Clerk next item, number 20, discussion item, executive directors report. I will keep mine very short, however, i do want to point out that weve been extremely lucky since the shelter in place order. Weve been able to hire two of our t members of our Leadership Team into permanent positions. Ba do is on the reporting side, and were more than happy that bill and his team have adopted him and have assured us that they will be always available to help him be successful in his job. A second key hire that we have brought on board last month and a project that ive been working on for 15 years, and that is to get a Quality Assurance Operational Risk office started in the department, and i have been working with mr. Derwin brown for nearly two years, i think over two years, frankly. Tried to convince him that he needed to leave the l. A. County plan and come up and join us in San Franc
Have alllied through in this past year. And, kevin, thats one of the things that, you know, as i was reading this book, which is just, its gripping, but i had to keep reminding myself that it has happened just in the last year. I think for a lot of us, 2020 feels like its been a decade long. And so this fall, two months from now, we are going to be, we are going to be facing an election which will be the First Time Ever that an um peached president impeached president appears on the ballot. So could you talk a little bit about the dynamics that were set into motion by this investigation, by the these subsequent impeachments and the acquittal that are still playing out today as we, as we head into this final stretch before the election . Well, thanks, karen. I think ill just start there. Two big, big things. One is emboldened donald trump. He hates this. Hes angry. He doesnt like the stain, and he wants to win. The very night the house voted to impeach, he flew to michigan, he got a big
Be really, really intentional about. Okay. Thank you very much. Great to have you here and thanks for participating. And i thought wed start whats before the senate, thats the next round of relief from the pandemic from the cares act, much has gone through. And whats next on the agenda . Were trying to get our friend on the other side to get to the table and talk about what should be next. So far theyve been unwilling to do so and weve worked hard on any version of the act to focus on a few tax revisions, increasing the charitable deduction and also something called a School Choice now act that will keep kids going to the same schools prepandemic. Were focusing on vaccines and therapy. Unfortunately, theres been so little cooperation on the other side, what they want and what we want are miles apart. Frankly, truly, and its hard to appreciate the challenge we are facing, the headwinds were facing. And i do think theres a moment that can be helpful to see how 4 trillion basically speaki
Some spots are okay other spots are tough this morning. It all depends on where you are heading, but lets start off with some good news. And that is we are trouble free here on the bay bridge into San Francisco, the traffic that were looking at is completely normal slow and go from west grand 13 minutes to make it and thats a decent average the opposite end for San Francisco, northbound one oh one in vermont. We have a stalled truck thats blocking one of those northbound lanes and thats why its so heavy from 2. 80 so north one is crawling from 2. 80 to vermont. The scene of the stall and then after that youre right back at the limit. If you dont want to deal with that slow traffic on north one oh one stick with north to 80 instead, especially if youre only heading to downtown San Francisco. Thats a great alternate can get around that back up one of our major problems is an overturned big rig its been blocking for hours in benicia and im showing you this because its impacting traffic th
Bookstores. Thank you for watching. And some pretty compelling conversations into the fall probably no more life events through 2021 we went to be mail about that and be safe and smart and conversations with authors we have an event coming up in october and all that matthew mcconnaughhay. You can follow all of our events on magic city books. Com. Tonight i am thrilled to have a conversation with michael denzil smith in a conversation that seems it was written for the moment we are living in although they are written before they are published in printed but sometimes to what is going on. And this is one of my favorite books and the book that can understand the pandemic debts americas response. In the world were living in in this very moment thank you for writing the book. That is a mere for us to see who we are what we are doing. s we held a great pleasure of these conversations i am always so proud to hand that off to another wonderful writer to be in conversation and has an awardwinni