Repairing our Nations Infrastructure is clear. Its no surprise, again that these president s, through the modern times including donald trump, have suggested it. Frankly, i believe donald trumps advocacy on the infrastructure helped change the way many in the republican Party View these kinds of investments. This investment in repairing and upgrading our infrastructure will also have a real and lasting impact on our economy long term. There is a lot of discussion about inflation right now. Again, making the economy more efficient, more productive, growing the economy. Thats what economists would call by investing in hard assets and jobs the supplyside. These are supplyside investments. This is why economists have said including Michael Strain of the conservative american enterprise institute, this will be counterinflationary. Thats important to note, too. By the way this money is not going to be spent next year. Its not going to be spent hardly at all the next year. Its going to be spe
Row seat to democracy. Host Gary Shapiro is President And Ceo of the consumer technology association, which puts on the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. Will you be live in Las Vegas in 2022 . We plan to be. I want to thank you. Ive been on your show over a dozen times and as we go forward, you will always be on my mind, and i have a permanent record, and i think for centuries this will be a source of information. Some people have said used against them in the future. It is a service you are running to todays people and the future. Ces, we have already signed up 1000 exhibitors. We have a lot of announcements coming. Very strong participation. Weve been looking at the global Situation But Weve got so much interest and commitments. We will be there. We will have additional presence as well, so if you want to enjoy the keynotes and speakers remotely. It will be an interactive, phenomenal experience where innovation will occur, business will be done and vertical industries w
Have we been paying anything for the extra capability of the 5g . That was just going that mackay threw in the pot for us was here you go. Its something thats going to be capable of 4g and then 5g should the Industry Shift there, so it isnt anything extra that we paid for, but simply that were technology proofing the device for the future. Thank you, steve, and thank you, supervisor preston. So we dont really know when the switch will occur, but what we do know, these meters were buying these meters for the next ten years. Just to answer Supervisor Chans question. Its a fiveyear contract plus an additional five years, and theres an option to buy an additional fiveyear warrant. During the decade, we are fairly certain that theres going to be some switch, you know, from 4g to the 5g and maybe beyond 5g, so we were just lucky to have that available for the hardware thats going to be out there and would have that feature. Should it come in the future, theres no need to spend any funds in t
Result result the pandemic we had to make difficult choices because we did not have the staffing or the resources to provide all of our Service Ex because some of additional protocols that we put in place to keep our employees or our customers safe during covid, we also had some built in efficiencies that further limited our ability to deliver service. We started out in april of 2020 with less than half of our pre covid service hours and we focused that service on equity neighborhoods and places where people relied on muni to do their very basic and we stood up supplemental programs like essential trip programs which provided seniors and people with disabilities living in areas that we were not well serving very discounted taxi rideS And Since april, weve been able to restore service steadily in preparation for the return to City Business and our next big push to restore Service Alliance with the School Directings plan to restart school in midaugust. This is a map that shows gray. All
Director bringman is not expected at Todays Meeting. Item 3, announcement of sound producing devices during the meeting. Theres no announcement. Item number 4, approval of minutes for the may 4th regular meeting. For members of the public who wish to make public comment, the Phone Number is 8888086929. Meeting i. D. Is 9961164. Chair borden are there any additions to the minute . Seeing none. Are there any callers on the line. Were on item 4 approval of the may 4, 2021 regular meeting. Caller good afternoon david my only suggested Change Top of page 4 on my public comment recognized recent organizational change on Market Street. I think it would be more accurate to say recognize the change from the sustainable streets to the Streets Division Name and acknowledged trained testing in the Market Street subway. I did not make any comment about Train Testing on Market Street. It was specifically about the Market Street subway. Chair borden thank you mr. Pilpel. Are there any additional comm