Enjoy book tv on cspan2. Dental Daarel Burnette joins us on School Reopening. EnPresident Trump has made it clear will open in the fall and has gone so far as to say last week he will cut off federal funding for schools that dont reopen, can he do that . Know or it would be very difficult for them to do that. The biggest thing is that most federal funding has already been set out for the school year. This thing is that congress controls the Purse Strings so they have created rules around exactly when money gets sent out, how much money gets sent out and exactly what School Districts need to do toreceive that money. And then the last thing is that if the congress decides to provide more bailout money for School Districts, they would have to agree to get the strength to betsy devos to decide when to fill out money and how to dole any extramoney out. Our understanding is no one of the things i want to point out is federal money is targeted for low income schools so what betsy devos and do
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou
This astrazeneca oxford. I do say at this point, carl, you get the pfizer news about germ germany. What you have to watch is the crawl underneath there will be endless buying and things like vaccine inc. And im seeing buying of glaxo i think people want to calm down i have sorrento tonight. Not all news are good. 100 companies doing vaccines and lets take a breath because other things including a stimulus which is needed if the vaccines fail. The analysts are not discouraging traders or investors from trying to play the vaccine race jpm cuts moderna run and no one is preaching a message of slow and steady wins the race here. Nova just continually up. People who love these. Mark cuban had some great comments, carl people who come to this market, initially were in the early phase of this, but people who cannot resist. When i get up at 4 00, 3 30, theyre in there buying these stocks i dont know who these people are, but theyre having the time of their life and i just hope they take someth
The minutes should so reflect, thank you. Great. Should we include that amendment on the minutes . Directors, are there any additional callers at this time . Operator you have two questions remaining. So for members of the public on the line, this is an opportunity to comment on approval of the minutes from the june 16th regular meeting. If you would like to comment on the minutes, please state your name and we will start your two minutes. Hello . Operator sorry, hit the wrong button. Operator you have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment and directors, do i have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the 16th. Motion to approve. Second. All in favour. Do we have to do role call . Yes, madam chair. role call . The minutes are approved in a 40 vote. Item 5. As some of may know, we lost a member, art curtis, who passed away with a long battle with brain cancer. In his early union, he fulfilled his dream with sfmta driving trolley buses and conductor on th
The Senate Environment and public works Works Committee held a hearing on how infrastructure legislation can help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Senators and panelists discuss the best way to fund road and bridge projects. Good morning. I called his hearing to order. Before i discussed todays hearing i want to say a few words about what is happening in communities across the country today. This is a time of great pain and unrest for our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary. They listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Some of the peaceful protests were hijacked by filing criminal, distraction, looting and arson stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause and the Peaceful Pro