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each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. when you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating when your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will indicate that your time is up and take the next person to speak. best practice is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and mute volume on your computer. i would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] clerk: thank you, commissioners. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. items 1-a, b, and c for case numbers 2019-000494 dnx, cua, and vnr are proposed for continuance to september 4, 2020. item 3, case number 2019-016388 cua, item 4, case number 2019-017022 cua, is proposed for continuance to october 29, 2020. further, commissioners, under your regular calendar, item 10, case 2019-021010 cua at 717 california street, conditional use is requesting a continuance to november 11, 2020, and item 19, is requesting a continuance ....
each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. when you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating when your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will indicate that your time is up and take the next person to speak. best practice is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and mute volume on your computer. i would like to take roll at this time. [roll call] clerk: thank you, commissioners. first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. items 1-a, b, and c for case numbers 2019-000494 dnx, cua, and vnr are proposed for continuance to september 4, 2020. item 3, case number 2019-016388 cua, item 4, case number 2019-017022 cua, is proposed for continuance to october 29, 2020. further, commissioners, under your regular calendar, item 10, case 2019-021010 cua at 717 california street, conditional use is requesting a continuance to november 11, 2020, and item 19, is requesting a continuance ....
but still red for each of the major indices. joining us for the full first hour of the show courtney gibson from loop capital markets. courtney, thanks for joining us. what s your take on today? investors in a sort of holding pattern, are they, until we get to the fed unbelievable holding pattern. i mean, volumes are down precipitously today. at least they were before i came on the show today. i talked to our equity desk at loop capital and in the u.s. alone volumes were down somewhere near 30% and even in europe spain was down i think somewhere near 40% on volumes our desk flow today was down substantially as well. it looks and feels as though investors right now are really kind of sitting on their hands markets as you can see, dow down just slightly but recovering back to the highs of the session. russell is lagging down 0.7% utilities, real estate the best-performing sectors. energy and tech towards the bottom we have got apple down about 0.7%, albeit higher for ....
supervisor fewer: yes, i ll be very brief. supervisor yee, i ll be very happy to work with you on more aggressive tactics. and also, i did not hear from oewd that icon staptly hear from my small businesses is that they are having a harder and harder time getting employees to work in their stores. many of our businesses have wanted signs, and the retension rate is abysmal. they can t keep people working in their small businesses because they can t compete with the wages, and quite frankly people aren t willing to come in two hours to a job that pays $15 an hour, so i d like that addressed at our next hearing, also. thank you. thank you very much. so much to say. i will just concur with my colleagues, and at this time i think i heard that we would like to continue items 1 actually, let s just continue item 1 to the call of the chair, and then, item 2, let ease file that one, if that s okay. okay. we ll do that, supervisor kim, without objection, okay? those motion ....
good afternoon, supervisors. my name is deidre vonne rock. i am the president of the rest portal rock merchants association. while i m proud that we have the lowest vacancy, that is not how it appears on an objective view. in west portal, absentee land lowers who have no interest in the block of a huge problem. for example, we had a discussion in anchoring a project on the west tunnel because they were still collecting rent on a formula retailer. we had a radio shack that sat vacant for years because the owner wanted another radio shack. finally, verizon showed some interest in it, but it s been meyered in planning for well over a year. just recently, one of the owners of the four buildings where three of our businesses recently has been devastated has been unresponsive, delaying the recovery efforts of all the other businesses. the merchant association is often asked about the status of the vacancies and what can be done, and our answer is nothing. not until there is ....