Percent of the u. S. Spend do you think its just a jobs program or do we really need to occupy all these countries where our special forces are in 70 percent of all nations across the world what is this about war has become of very ambiguous project in our life time you know it has lately evolved to more like occupying certain countries in kind of a desperate attempt to stabilize problems that weve created i think we have to consider that a lot of it comes from the evolution of what the condition of the world was in 1905 after the 2nd world war our intentions were not always wholly bad and probably still are not wholly bad but they have become distorted in perverted and it certainly doesnt help that so much of our Gross Domestic Product is now dedicated to the enterprise of the. Big u. S. Warfare yeah seems like the war is definitely the number one export for the us but i would posit that antiwar and this is one of the reasons why being attacked by whats called the deep state of the de
Right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards, but today, we are no
Believe that he can strong arm trying to into these commitments as he has preemptively promised farmers a 3rd ag bailout package and as Global Markets sink friday on fears of corona outbreak spreading lets take a look at the Positive Side of this with more than 76000 confirmed cases worldwide only 2247 deaths have been reported as of friday the overall death rate from c. D. C. Study is about 2. 3 percent which is much higher than the death rate of the flu which is around point one percent in the u. S. But it is much less deadly than sawyers which had a mortality rate of 9. 6 percent china report says 7862 patients have made full recovery since the outbreak began and this number will continue to improve as researchers develop new Combination Therapies to treat the virus kristie its very important to know here that this is something you dont hear all the time you hear about how many cases we have how many deaths we have and i guess youre just to assume that the people who didnt die have.
Hello, mine is not turned on. Mr. President , supervisor aaron peskin is rising to make a motion to recess the Board Meeting pending legal counsels answer to our last question. Second . Second. Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Can i ask a question. Could we could i make a friendly amendment to your motion and say that we we leave it to our president to decide whether or not we need a special meeting on monday or or if were unable to vote down the order number three . Yeah, thats what i suggested earlier that if we dont get a clear answer then we could always do that. And we dont need a motion. Excuse me. Can you get to the mike, i cant hear you. Theres a motion on the floor to vote on the first and second supplement and there wasnt any questions about that, except supervisor peskin asked if we read it point of order. Actually there is a motion to go into recess. So i think we need to address that motion first. Oh, okay, i was getting there. Can i make a friendly amendment to the motio
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years