President caen im the president of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. At this time i would like to call to order the regular meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Todays date is tuesday, september 8, 2020. Roll call, please. President caen . Here. Vice president vietor here. Commissioner moran here. Commissioner maxwell here. Commissioner paulson here. And we have a quorum. President caen good. Will you please read the announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to
Between the union and the school board and the School District, it feels like from those those other entities, and i want to say that the purpose of this meeting was to figure out how the city can best support families and the School District and educators. Because i agree with the comments of Susan Sullivan that the caste that the educators have in front of them is so monumental. And it is difficult to roll out distance teaching and learning, which is what you are doing, and also at the same time to simultaneously provide for the needs of families to do what needs to be done in households to make that education work and meaningful. So what i see the role of the city is and i want to take my at off to maria sue and her staff and the mayor who stepped up and are trying to play a useful role in in the in one area of where families need help. And it is the area that is most complicated because how to provide safe child care so that theres an adult, you know, helping the teachers to teach
In this election. So, the answer is yes and regarding demographics and when people register to vote, dem demographic information is optional. But when it comes to knowing where the high turnout parts of the city are, we know that each election because we provide by default, extra support for those locations every year, every election cycle. And so, we still expect people to go to polling places and we still expect them to want to capacity a ballot, but i think covid is going to also reduce the number of people that go to polling places. And i think the ballot lanking g in peoples mailboxes are reducing the people in polling places. But having i voted sicker on the insert will reduce the number of people going to polling places. Thats one of the largest statements is that they want their i voted sticker. Thats why they go and drop off ballots. Now they can get the sticker and mail it back to us. I know a lot of voters, my family included, tend to drop off or ballot on election day and t
Announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business is item 3, approval of the minutes of august 25, 2020. President caen commissioners, before you you have the minutes of august 25, 2020. Are there a
Reserve and other central bankers, academics, public and private Sector Economists and members of the news media for this annual gathering. As you well know, its been our custom for nearly four decades to welcome you to wyoming, served for the kansas city that. I look forward to return to the online format, senate expressing my gratitude for those who travel around the globe to attend for managing jet lag. Appreciation to those attempting to manage local. With the current time, ranging from 6 00 a. M. Thursday to 1 00 a. M. Friday. This year has been an extraordinary one for Monetary Policy and central banking. Issues with time including the level of Interest Rates the effects of heightened uncertainty and how to effectively communicate Monetary Policy have been amplified by the economic fallout of the pandemic. For more than a decade, it seems the central has been in the shadow of the Global Financial crisis. It may be that the pandemic stems even further. The truly extraordinary poli