The coronavirus, author chris recentlypoke about his released book the spy masters the c. I. A. Director in the future. By the brookings institution, this is about an hour. Hello, im director the intelligence of the project for institution and today were having a program on covid19, how well he Intelligence Community anticipates the worldwide pandemic which is now covering world. Ire im very happy to say that my chris whipple, he is the author and published a a few years ago called most recently publish spy masters which is a book about how policy directors shape history for the future. Its the first book that looks modern directors of. Entral intelligence they have s how interpreted their jobs. In the ve time Later Program to talk about all of and to purchase well be e book, [indiscernible]. Were going to focus today, at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community it ppears actually did a fairly good job of warning and pandemic was coming. Should i ask you, chris, to g
Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Finalized theres a process and theres a lot of things already baked into provide checks and balances. Moving down, we also have from a more kind of Performance Management framework struck youre, we have our competency model which ive mh370 to and i believe even jenny rice has come to this commission to talk more about the competency model and its basically a Performance Management framework that shows to every employee what success in the job, in their job, looks like. Its also a way for them to understand, how can i progress in my career. Then you can see what kind of competencies may be required for jobs that you are interested in. And so, we are developing this framework and its currently underway and been underway since want to say 2014. Through out our organization and that is such an important thing to show people what success looks like so discipline isnt even an issue, right. And and lastly things we are going to do is a huge focus of our employee Labor Relations group in a hr
Trade after huge gains yesterday. Lets get your top headlines today. The grand reopening. Italy removes most restrictions on life after months of coronavirus lockdown. International visitors will not be subject to quarantine. European futures gain across the merkelespite a delay in s stimulus plan. Lufthansa commits to a deep Restructuring Plan after seeing a firstquarter net loss of more than 2 billion. Plus, thousands deny curfews in the United States but clashes with police are limited. The pentagon sent activeduty army units into d. C. , calling it a planning measure. Just under an hour away from the cash trading in europe. Any of those negative headlines dont look set to deter this rally. We are looking at big gains in futures. The futures up 1. 5 after germany future index put up a points more than 430 yesterday, powering about 12,000, looking set to open very risk on. Today you can see ftse futures up more than 1 . U. S. Futures are gaining as well. Dow jones futures are up more
[gavel]. Good afternoon. Like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, february 25, 2020. Roll call, please. [roll call] clerk we have a quorum. Very good. Commissioners, you have before you are the minutes of february 11. Are there any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. Second. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes of february 11 . All those in favor . Opposed . The motion carries. At this time, id like to call for a general Public Comment. Clerk madam president , we need to hear oh, im sorry. Thats okay. Clerk its been a long day. Shake the sand out of your shoes. General Public Comment, item 4. Members of the public may address the commission on items that are within the commissions jurisdiction but not on the agenda. Beiokay. I have six speaker cards. Bill collins. Bill collins for pacifica. First, id like to thank the commissioners for serving and particularly you, president caen, for your years