Good morning. The committee will come to order. Thank you for joining us today. Im pleased to welcome federal trade commissioner Joseph Simons and commissioner chopra. Batting. 100 so far . 1000. Its the cupping im thinking of. It has been more than seven years since the ftc has appeared before this Sub Committee. Youre right. Its overdue, and ftc is one of the most important agencies this Sub Committee funds. And its only gotten more important over the last few years. You have enormous jurisdiction. Policing most sectors of our economy for bad behavior. You crack down on abusive robocallers. They investigate data breaches that expose sensitive personal information. They analyze consolidation in the health care market. Helping to limit abusive pricing for essential drugs and health services. Perhaps at the front of mind they are the top cop on the beat for Consumer Privacy violations and other issues in the Technology Sector. This is something everyone worries about these days. Democra
Turs the dow and s p are a little lower. Nasdaq is on pace for the fourth weekly gain. Being looking at raise yeah, the nikkei up and shanghai composite. The ftse is down slightly, actually flat. So is the dax. The cac is up about. 2 . The 10year is yielding 1. 779 in our tariff news du jour, the u. S. Is going to temporarily free more than 400 products from the 250 billion in tariffs imposed. According to documents said to be published by trade representatives today. Including items such as Christmas Tree lights, retractible dog leashes. What . How did that get on the list that wouldnt work for my dogs if it went out, when i brought it in, something would be attached to the mouth. Filters for kcups, tiki torches, grills, electric skate boards stemming from more than 1,100 requests from companies. Holding lower level talks in preparation for higher level talks expected in october. Here is what Vice President pence and black stones steve squartsman had to say. For too long, one administ
Ashley . Hi. Were waiting for okay. Great. I want to thank you, commissioners, for having us . My name is ashley scarborough, and im working in primary care central . Its my pleasure to represent a large and Interdisciplinary Group and working to include lgbt in the group, so thank you . For this initiative, its really more than Data Collection . It offers an opportunity for staff to align with our values and moving towards True North Equity creating culture change and ultimately providing more inclusive care for the lgbtq population. I want to recognize the longer term efforts in the department for gender equity Data Collection . And just the staff advocating for this data and advocating for this community so aligning with that over the last few years has also been structural policy incentives and mandates that have been elevating the priority of Data Collection, including local ordinances authored by scott wiener, state legislative bills, and payforperformance dollars, part of the pr
For everybody, it is easy to understand it. If they come to chinatown, they see that chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. I want to show you guys a video about the chinatown station. I want to show you guys a video about it. [ music playing ] thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im here to air the video given by a merchant, from easy travel. He cannot come to this meeting, he was too busy. I support chinatown station. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am here on behalf of the owner of the chinatown hair salon. He cannot come today. [video playing] i support chinatown station only because it represents all chinese. This is what i want to say. Thank you. This video is also from chinatown. The owner could not be here. I am glad to play for her. [video playing] next speaker, please. Hello board of supervisors. Today i am here to speak on behalf of of eight chinatown Business Owners. Like thousands of San Francisco residents against most of
Good morning. So im mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. Welcome. Were here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a Technology Perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. So ive been the director here for a year, and its just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. Were so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their daytoday lives in their personal technology have above what 911 is. This is going to make our calltaking more efficient and honestly its going to save lives, which is really the bottom line and why were here. Thank you so much and ill hand it over to our mayor. Mayor breed thank you so much for being here today. I want to add to what mary ellen said about what we need to do to take our Emergency Resp