[reading names] reading names] [bell ringing] [reading names] the reading of the names this year. An audio recording with the names of those who died in 2001 with families in the plaza area. Also two moments of silence to observe the fall of the south tower in new york city anticrash of United Airlines flight 93 in shanksville, pennsylvania. A different memorial. We are looking to that final moment of silence on the north tower fell in about 20 minutes time. We do want to give you an update whats making headlines outside the Business World and over the rest of the world. For that we want to give you bloombergs first word news. Thanks, President Trump and joe biden will mark the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks in the same place but not at the same time. The president intends a Memorial Service in shanksville, pennsylvania, for one of the high jacked planes crashed. Biden will go to shanks bill but not until later in the day. Pennsylvania is one of the battleground states. Poll show
My radarhich means is up. Francine lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika Mitch Mcconnell insists that businesses, schools, and other organizations be protected against coronavirus lawsuits, and that has bogged down talks over a new stemless package. Demanding that changes to Liability Law include wholesale in the legislation. Nancy pelosi says that shows he is not serious about reaching a deal. Federal reserve policy makers will turn their attention on how to jumpstart a stronger rebound from their sessions. They are all but set to keep their benchmark overnight rate unchanged when they wrap up their meeting today. The fed releases a statement at 2 00 p. M. New york time, Jerome Powell holding a News Conference 30 minutes later. Telln Ceo Jeff Bezos will will say that his customers his company he will strike a patriotic tone for his appearance before the house antitrust subcommittee. U. K. May loosen its coronavirus quarantine rules after a backlash from tourists and sp
Costs as a result of the economic downturn. 600,000 of the tax collectors to administer individual loans for Small Businesses impactedded by sarscov2. Members of the public who wish to speak should be dialing to be added to the speakers list. You might recall we continued this item from last weeks meeting. Today we have with us supervisor ronen. Would you like to make some comments . We also heard the report last week, too. Supervisor ronen . I want to thank you for the question you posed last week. My intention with this ordinance is to get assistance to Small Businesses who are suffering enormous losses at this moment and do it quickly. Sorry. Let me shut the window. Sorry. Hard to work from home. Basically, what has happened between then and now is i have been working with the Mayors Office and with the director of the office of economic and Work Force Development, and with the enormous leadership of my chief of staff, and we have reached an agreement that will make this legislation
Costs as a result of the economic downturn. 600,000 of the tax collectors to administer individual loans for Small Businesses impactedded by sarscov2. Members of the public who wish to speak should be dialing to be added to the speakers list. You might recall we continued this item from last weeks meeting. Today we have with us supervisor ronen. Would you like to make some comments . We also heard the report last week, too. Supervisor ronen . I want to thank you for the question you posed last week. My intention with this ordinance is to get assistance to Small Businesses who are suffering enormous losses at this moment and do it quickly. Sorry. Let me shut the window. Sorry. Hard to work from home. Basically, what has happened between then and now is i have been working with the Mayors Office and with the director of the office of economic and Work Force Development, and with the enormous leadership of my chief of staff, and we have reached an agreement that will make this legislation
Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted the attendance of Board Members by telephone, directors rubke and torres will be participating by phone at my request. Caroline and others in the room here to assist with our City Attorney deputy City Attorney, susan cleavelandknowles. We will say, at the end, get through this together. I will ask Board Members to mute their phones. It sounds great right now, but if you want to speak, unmute the phones and let us know. For this meeting, we would like public to participate remotely about writing a question and contacting us electronically. Thank you for honoring this request. Going forward, we urge the public to write the board at mtaboard sfmta. Gov or calling 4154464470. That information is also on our website if you need that. We usually ask for speaker cards