Throughout this conversation, you have been talking a little bit about the housing market. It was interesting that the university of Michigan Survey actually now says that about 64 of people think it is a good time to buy a home. Fannie mae came out with a survey today. They are showing a nine point increase, to now 76. 5 of the survey respondents would like to buy a home, that now is a good time. A lot of that in part is due to valuations. Then the low mortgage rates, as you assume lower for longer thanks in part to the fed. Very curious as we sort of touch on equities and go into real estate. Before we get onto the election risk. That theot surprised university of Michigan Survey would be positive, because rates are low. People are not walking through a home. I dont know anyone who would buy a home virtually. Most of the home sales are people who had seen the property ahead of time before we had all the shutdowns. Commercial real estate, where we invest, it is impossible to figure ou
Lets get going. Good afternoon. Please take your seat. We will get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the december 10th, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report today, mr. President. Okay. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . So moved. To moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen without objection, those minutes will be approved after public c
We saved a lot of money. We saved a good 70,000 on not having to conduct big elections. Ive provided you a copy of the october dashboard, operations dashboard. Also, again, weve been reminded make sure you mark your calender, the off site board retreat is scheduled for wednesday, february 19th, starting at noon. It will be held at 50 california street. And we anticipate that it potentially run beyond five but hopefully not much beyond 5 00. President driscoll, thank you for reminding me, theres a requirement that each of you complete the implicit bias training before december 31st. Ive included in my report the instructions on how to access that. My understanding is that its a 45minute course that you need to have a certificate of completion and you must file it can darlene before december 31st. Im not familiar with this training. Department heads have to take a full day training. Which im going to be take on december 20th. So i just a reminder, i believe that there is a list that need
Lets get going. Good afternoon. Please take your seat. We will get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the december 10th, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report today, mr. President. Okay. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . So moved. To moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen without objection, those minutes will be approved after public c
With us and brew Group Investment banker and nfl star jack brewer great to see you this morning. Thank you so much for swroining us here we are looking at futures which are lower this morning going into another week. This is an important week because were going to begin Third Quarter earnings give us a window into the economy and corporates dow and s p 500 trying to snap a threeweek losing streak, with all eye on the china trade meetings this week on thursday. The two sides expected to resume the negotiation thursday. Beijing reportedly ready to talk about a narrow focus deal. Narrower than weve been talking about with full scale reform of stroll sector off the table whats your deal given the fact that president has been adamant about industrial issues and the behavior of china particularly with the intellectual property . Market clearsly not liking it maria. I mean listen the pressure is on certainly hong kong is not getting any better an chinese economy isnt getting any better our ec