Evictions but protecting folks from being taken advantage of during this time, and very concerned around price gouging issues and Consumer Protection and things that we have only seen the beginnings of, and particularly if this is prolonged that well see more. And i think theres a lot to do on that front as well. And then just more broadly what we have been doing, and i look forward to comparing notes with folks on whats working and whats effective is on the outreach side. So we have been calling every senior facility in district 5, all places of worship in district 5. Were moving on now to cutting lists of seniors individually and having oneonone calls with folks in the district. And i really do believe that the beauty of district representation is that were able to do that. We have a relatively manageable group of people to reach out to. So were doing that by phone and were going to also be launching Virtual Office hours and some other ways that folks can participate and meet online.
Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time. Members of the public are ad
And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi
Welcome to the meeting of the Transportation Authority board. Im Rafael Mandelman and serve as chair. Vice chair is aaron peskin and clerk is i liegea saunders. We have sfgovtv to thank and mr. Seaneder call the roll. Commissioner chan. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Chair mandelman. Why present. Commissioner mar. Present. Commissioner melgar. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Absent commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Commissioner walton. Present. Chair we have i quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. For the members interested in paymented in the meeting we welcome your attention in person in the chamber room 215 stele hull or watch channel 26 or 99 or stream live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment remote low dial 4156550001 then access code 2486 332 3637 you will listen in real time when Public Comment is called press star 3 to be added to the queue. Dont press star 3 a
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Some calm has returned to Financial Markets after a week of record breaking falls. Global shares have been able to hang on to some modest gains and crude oil had its best day in history, soaring 25 . All this comes after a barrage of stimulus measures from Central Banks. In the uk the bank of england cut Interest Rates to almost zero, following a surprise pledge by the European Central bank to pump 750 billion euros into the Financial System this year. Us treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, is urging congress to pass a 1 trillion emergency stimulus package immediately, after a smaller package was signed into law by President Trump earlier this week. What are the markets in asia doing . Lets get some reaction from Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. How are the markets react to what has been happening over the last 2a hours . What has been happening over the last 24 hours . It is a final day to a really tumultuous week. You can almost hear investors and trading a