Civility toward cities and the challenge that cities face. I future looks promising and i look forward to 2021. Regarding phase 2, i was joined by the chair, c. F. O. To provide an update to the california project of transportation, tony tavares and numerous staff from the cal tran team and the statewide division of rail and mass transit. We provided an overview on project history, outlined work completed since the projects reactivation in june, provided forecast of upcoming information and the funding plan. Further, to our advancing phase 2, on october 15, we provided a project update to the bay area delegation which included senator and board chair jerry hill, san mateo counties. Along with the senate and Assembly Transportation Committee Staff and offices. 20 legislative offices participated. We provided information about the project history, current status and activities as well as future plans to advance the project. The presentation was well received and we plan to continue our c
Role. Thank you, deborah. Members of the public may observe this teleconferencing meeting at sfgovtv and they may offer Public Comment by calling the phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and the staff for watching us live on sfgovtv. I also want to wish please call the roll. Before i begin, i will note for the record that due to a scheduling conflict, director tavares is not expected to join us. Directors, please respond. E. Forbes here. Supervisor haney here. M. Hursh here. B. Lipkin present. J. Tumlin here. Vice chair gee here. Chair sesay present. We have quorum. The next item is item 3, communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process. To provide Public Comment, callers should dial into the number, 18552826330, and enter access code 126 698 0794. Then pound and pound again. And then listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. Members of the public have up to three minutes to provide comment on e
[inaudible] thank you. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee not on this subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to meet themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations of a Company House resolution 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. We not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. This hearing is entitled Holding Financial regulators accountable for diversity and inclusion. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing fo
We do know this is an unprecedented amount of money. Congress has never passed a rescue package like this before before, 1. 5 trillion on top of about 200 billion that was in the legislation that passed only a couple of weeks ago on top of the 8. 3 billion that was in the first one. This this is phase three. And then, finally, number three, this legislation does provide the help to the Health Care System, quickly, the Public Health care system to be able to provide the protective gear thats needed for Health Care Workers, the additional ventilators needed in our hospitals. The antiviral medication that can help when someone tests positive to know theres going to be a way to minimize to reduce the effects of this virus, the infection. And really significantly to not only lab corps said they can do 300,000 tests a week. We need to use the cotton swab to get them the swabs. There needs to be a process to get them. Now were starting to come online, this funding legislation will help them t
Memorial in arlington, virginia, a special veterans day edition of Halftime Report. Now, heres scott wapner and the halftime investment committee. [ cheers and applause and welcome to the womens memorial here in arlington, virginia. We have a great lineup of womens veterans in business including the ahead of womens veterans on wall street and some of todays highest ranking female officers. Were happy to be with you to honor women who have served this great country. Our traders today were going to get to our guests in a few moments. We honor your service. Lets kick things off with the markets. Stocks have been trading around record highs. Im going to defer to you first for obvious reasons. Thank you for being a part of our program. Trade. Thats what it all comes down to yet again. Trump earlier today, the president saying he hasnt agreed to a rollback of tariffs with china in any way. Were still up a little bit. Before we do that, thank you again. More importantly, i think thank you to