Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
Chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation meeting for june 8, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by vice chair ahsha safai and dean preston. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Because of the covid19 pandemic, the board of supervisors and legislative chamber are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments
Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Because of the covid19 pandemic, the board of supervisors and legislative chamber are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments in the following ways. Email myself at erica. Major sfgof. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org. Lastly, the director of the office of civic engagement, adrian pond, has applied a spanish interpreter on item 1 to assist speakers in
Locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments in the following ways. Email myself at erica. Major sfgof. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org. Lastly, the director of the office of civic engagement, adrian pond, has applied a spanish interpreter on item 1 to assist speakers in their native language with our Public Comment. Lets have arturo consenza interpret the public remarks. [speaking spanish language]. Interpreter thats everything. Thank you. Chair peskin gracias, arturo.
Big tech is seen as a haven and growth play because they continue see demand for their products and services and have sheet to write out this disruption. Havens are in favor. You can see 68 basis points. The dollar edges higher for the fourth day in five. Indexes are coming off their lows. There is still a lot of trading day to go, but by the dip but buy the dip seems to be in effect. David another narrative we have been seeing is a divergence between mason street and wall street between main street and wall street. When will we see something that might help main street . Scarlet that will be critical this week, especially with jay powell speaking to congress. That will be a big issue, especially since you see data like interim manufacturing come in better than expected. We also get retail sales as well as Industrial Production on tuesday. Housing starts on wednesday. Housing has been doing very well in this economy as Mortgage Rates have come down and a lot of people are looking to re