Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
Director brinkman here. Vice chair eaken present. Director heminger present. Director lai present. Madame chair, direct ors, you have a quorum. Were legally required to put this on the agenda. Were using sound producing devices. Approval of the minutes of the september 1, 2020 regular meeting. Directors, any amendments to the minutes before we open up for Public Comment . Seeing none, moderator, can you let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is
Let us know if there is anyone on the line for Public Comment on the september 1, regular meeting minutes. Staff is opening the line. You have zero questions remaining. Chair borden with that, we will close Public Comment. Motion to approve . A second . Ill second. Great, secretary boomer, can you call the roll. Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Sfgovtv has the phone number scrolling at the bottom of their screen. If youre watching sfgovtv and you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is being called. Members of the public who do wish to make Public Comment on items on the agenda, the phone number to use as printed on the agenda and web page, is 18888086929. The access code is 9961164. Please make sure youre in a quiet location. You turn off tvs and radios and if youre Live Streaming the meeting, you reduce the sound. At the appropriate time, the chair will ask for the phone lines to be
Chair and directors, yes, i do. So if youre ready, ill begin with this. Meeting of the citizens im sorry, i think there seems to be a lag here. Chair borden its not the same as what youre seeing on tv. Your audio is a little bit labored. I dont know if your internet quality is well. Okay. Okay. See if that helps. If it gets really bad, just let me know and i can just submit my report as a written report. No problem, go ahead. Great. So at the last meeting of the Citizens Advisory Council, we met director lai and welcomed her to the board. Thank you, again, for stopping by. We always appreciate welcoming Board Directors at our meetings. Also at our september meeting, i expressed disappointment and dissatisfaction with the rollout and subsequent rollback of rail service. And i hope that, if nothing else, the problems with rail revealed opportunities to fix and strengthen our system starting with more support at central on that. At our september meeting we heard from operators and members
Phone lines to be open to see if there is a Public Comment . Chair borden yep and is there you have chair borden how many . You have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment. Directors, do i have a motion . Secretary boomer, please call roll . Chair borden aye. Director brinkman aye. Vice chair eaken aye. Director heminger aye. Director lai aye. Madame chair, the minutes are approved. Item 5, communications. Madame chair. Chair borden as many of you have learned, our heart was broken this weekend with the untimely passing of one of our own. Antonio, a muni operator with the Transportation Agency for 19 years, was known for being deeply committed to his job and well known by the people on his buses and in many communities. He was born and raised in the Richmond District and leaves behind wife jennifer, three children and grandchildren. Well have this meeting adjourned in his memory, but im devastated. I want to thank his family to loaning him to us. He did die in s