Been filed in there under negotiations. Life coverage now to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. Www. Iowaculture. Gov. I yield the floor and i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday evening the president , the Vice President , and their task force offered an extensive public briefing on ongoing efforts to combat this new virus, which has spread from china throughout the world. As the director of the c. D. C. Explained, officials are now tracking more than 500 cases across our country. Nationwide, the risk to any individual american remains low. But as the Vice President and the experts reminded us, the time is now for all americans to engage in basic commonsense measures and for americans
Down. Evergreen Unified School District sees the closings as a necessity. I do, along with many of my colleagues, support School Consolidation because its the fiscally responsible thing to do. The closing will affect 700 students, the district says the schools were chosen given enrollment trends, cost to operate and maintain and neighboring schools that can take students in. Other alternatives could have been cutting class sizes, layoffs across the district. Spokeswoman says the closures will impact the least number of students overall. The district saving 450,000 a year. Thats the cost to operate a school as it faces a 12 million shortfall. The decision to close schools is not an easy one. Many School Districts across the state of california are having to go through the same process because of declining enrollment. This is not an evergreen only problem. Megatrend consistent with other School Districts in the bay area, many families moving to lowercost areas, declining birth rates a fa
Pick and choose the businesses, but unfortunately, we dont get to choose what goes in. What we do is choose whether the businesses that want to do business can. There are spaces for smaller retailer and wed love to have them. There is spaces for restaurants and wed love to have them. There is a business saying can i be in this space, part of this neighborhood, and i cant see why we would say no. President melgar next speaker, please. My name is brian springfield. I live one block from the location of Sterling Bank. Ive lived there 21 years. And i live across street from a vacant commercial space zoned for restaurant use at 2175 market. Its never leased. Its sat vacant for three years now. 2175 was also the location of a Business Venture called myriad, like a food hall concept, multivendor. That struggled for a while and eventually failed. I support their application to move next door to the Current Location because im really concerned about the vacant store fronts in the castro. Ive se
Case number 2018. 2 henry adams. Conditional use authorization are proposed for continuance to january 30, 2020. Items 2a and b, for 1776 green street, are proposed for continuance to february 13, 2020. I have no other items proposed for continuance and no speaker cards. Commissioner koppel we have a Public Comment. Richard drury for the petitioners on 1776 green street. I and my clients are not available on february 13th. So i was going to request if the commission might consider a date of i think theyre gone for that twoweek period through the 20th. So the 27th or the following thursday, we would request . How is that . Jonas so february 20th . 27th . Jonas okay. February 27th. Thank you very much. Okay you can make the motion. Commissioner koppel motion to continue items 1a and b and 2a and b to february 27th, to the dates set aside. Jonas thank you, on that motion to continue, items 1a and b to january 30 and 2a to february 27, 2020. On that motion, commissioner diamond . Fung . Jo
Was 1st identified in wu han late last year the majority of the confirmed cases of the virus in china are here but a handful have also been identified in other parts of asia where authorities are ramping up their defenses with a mandatory screening of their passengers from move this week china becomes a nation in motion as people travel home to mark the new Lunar New Year but many are also traveling overseas and from will higher and its now possible to fly to 40 International Destinations which is why i say some experts this outbreak is going to be more than just chinas problem china has been here before 17 years ago another virus called sars Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome claimed the lives of around 800 people almost 300 of them in neighboring hong kong that 1st chinas leaders asserted there had been only a handful of cases but later admitted providing false information about the epidemic a city mayor and Health Minister revenge 3 sacked professor so really open to new Hong Kong Un