Definitely running away from risky assets on virus fears over the weekend. We have a number of cases initially climbing, putting extra pressure on the ftse made. Mib. Down 4 . Travel and leisure down significantly so the fact the epicenter has moved from china, korea, and some of the asian economies in europe, it is freaking out investors, saying the spread may come to europe. But, two. 3 higher, 1682, outside to quality italia and markets. Italian sovereign bonds, dropping quite a lot as italy is the epicenter for the coronavirus in europe. Plenty more on that throughout the day but lets get to first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump in india. Moments ago, he said he is countries can reach a great trade deal, as he announced they are to sign a deal worth 3 billion in military sales. It also comes during his official status visit. Mp spoke at a namaste tru event and will visit the taj mahal. Reforms. S want sweeping boats in iran and other
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
Trying to do that [speaker not understood] way a possible. It is such a big, big problem to get your hands around, but we agree that, you know, using thea kinds of organizations, doing it this way is the very way to do it. You can hire the experts you need for the problems you identify. But then what do you do once youve done that . And how do you evaluate those in a realistic way Going Forward . Thats not working, we should look at doing it in a different way. Thank you, i appreciate it. [multiple voices] thank you so much for your presentation and your work on the civil grand jury. My pleasure. Thank you. John anderson, is he here to make comments . No . Okay. So, i am going to open this item up to Public Comment. And right now i have i think this is not this is for item 4. So, i want to open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues, do we have any questions or comments a
This is not this is for item 4. So, i want to open this up for Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] colleagues, do we have any questions or comments about this particular item . Ill just wrap it up by saying that i do think its important that from a citywide perspective we look at our various departments that provide services through our cbos, whether its to help individuals with Mental Health issues or to help family who are struggling or in bad situations, to help our young people. I mean, there are numerous cbos all over San Francisco that provide incredible services, but there are also challenges that some cbos and it is really difficult to measure what success is in some instances and i do think that by making sure that our systems are, you know, up to par technology wise, but more importantly that our systems are able to actively engage with one another. We need to figure out a better w
Of impact, we really need to we really need to take that seriously. And then the last thing i want to ask for is i think part of why its difficult to talk about a full funding level is has to do with the financial situation facing power enterprise. And i know that we have heard today a number of people who have asked for audit of power enterprise. I want to ask, ms. Hale, is there an audit that is being conducted on this . And just so we can understand because the information of the challenges that your department has faced have been so sudden, i think many of us want to understand how did we get here over the last five or six years and wondering what kind of analysis is going to help us understand that. Yes. So, the different pucs funds are audited every year. And we publish audited financial statements. We have obligations on that. We have reached out, as we are looking forward. We have reached out through the Controllers Office and to the Budget Analysts Office and been briefing the