Not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your in
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Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
Reporter its sort of a food chain of problems. Yesterday we heard about the states budget problems and today we are going to talk about the county. Who do you think theyre going to go to for help . Were looking at deficits between 10 and 20 million over the next two years, the timing is a little uncertain at this point but at least 10 million next year. Reporter with mauldin many businesses still shuttered putting sales tax revenue on its own kind of lock down, marin is just another county looking at a steep and sudden budget shortfall print the different size of the counties makes a difference in terms of total number but i think relatively speaking we are all in the same boat. Reporter sonoma county, 15 million, napa 20 million, alameda 140, santa clara, 285 million and then there is the city and county of sanford cisco. We anticipate a 1. 1 to 1. 7 billion budget deficit paid reporter that means counties will be lining up for help from the state. The current Budget Proposal reflects
Get the green light. The new health order giving grads something to look forward to in the east bay. And clear skies right now but that is about to change. The late season storm thats expected to soak the bay area this weekend. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im janelle wang. As most bay area counties move toward reopening more businesses in just a matter of days, Santa Clara County is the lone holdout. Some stores are getting frustrated and fear theyll be overlooked as shoppers go elsewhere. Heres nbc bay areas ian cull in san jose. He begins our coverage. Reporter as popular strips like downtown willow glen start bustling again for takeout, Santa Clara County still wont allow nonessential businesses to offer we assume its for our safety, so we just follow suit. Reporter the ibis boutique owner said she launched a website when the pandemic hit, and online sales have helped. But she worries shoppers might move on to counties with a relaxed health order. When were clo