Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order
Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
I want to thank her for an sent the National League of cities in the National Association of counties for their sheer dedication to this issue on badly needed federal assistance as we continue to fight the covid19 pandemic. A quick note for members of the press joining us today, we will take questions after brief opening remarks. If you have a question, please put your name and media outlet in the chat and well call on you. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We r
And that because your point on bonds. Right now we have the 10 year yield backing up six basis points on the week, up 14 basis points. The worst week for bonds going back to august. Bonds selling off. That pushes yields higher on the idea there is some kind of recovery happening around the stimulus. It is going to be interesting to see whether or not the 10 year yield can break out of this range. David we will have to watch that carefully. We knew the job numbers would not reflect all of the covid surge, but we did not expect them to be showing downward trend before the covid came roaring back. To take us through what the numbers may indicate we welcome douglas holtzeakin, president of American Action forum. He earlier served as director of the Congressional Budget Office as well as chief economist under president george w. Bush. Great to have you back with us. Disappointing on the downside. How much should we read into that . Douglas the real significant piece is on the Household Surv
Way to go. Its not designed to handle all of the traffic. On weekends and commute hours theres a large backup there. Plus chain of lake intersects with mlk and jfk and i hate to say this, but not all people who use the roadway obey those stop signs. I had a scary incident, i was on jfk and chain of lake and i had the right of way according to the rule book and this lady on a bicycle just whizzed by, didnt look or stop. Scared the heck out of me. Lucky i stopped. You need to look at the big picture. Also, you need to look at 19th avenue. 19th avenue cannot handle any increase in traffic. Clerk 30 seconds. Caller you need to look at the big picture when you make the decision. Maybe there was an alternative that sounded good, maybe dividing the road into half. Thank you. Bye. Clerk next speaker please. You have five questions remaining. Caller this is barry toronto. I first wanted to say that roberta boomer did this more than christina, announce you have to hit 10 to participate in Public