Fight the wildfires. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including Fire Management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighterrers and First Responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and thats the largest fire in california. Thats the biggest. Yep. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters. We want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, to their lives and extreme danger. Lou and the president is now on his way to phoenix for a Campaign Round table with latino voters there. It will be his seventh state that the president has visited in as many days. And where is joe biden . Well, well find out later in the broadcast. And
We are monitoring his comments right now for any news that breaks. We are on this event for you. Meanwhile, got to look at the markets. Kicking off the first trading day of september with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, and the dow is back in positive territory for the year. We shall see if these numbers hold through the rest of the hour. You know, septembers traditionally the worst month of the year for the stock market. But we are going to ask our floor show traders if they expect september 2020 to follow the usual pattern, because nothing about 2020 has been usual, to be clear. And we will get a view from the farm as harvest season is fast approaching. We will talk to one soybean and corn farmer about how he sees the phase one trade deal playing out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, the state of spacs. A giant in the Media Industry is turning to the world of 3d printing to tell us why he is now taking desktop metal public. Less than an hour to the closing
When looking at fiscal years 20, 21 and 2122, its important to note the significant reduction in state revenue state reassignment, ab109 dollars and while they continue to remain fairly stable, ab109 allocation have been significantly reduced. We are projecting an increase in Grant Funding from the star, which grant through department of publichealth, which is the supporting treatment and reducing recidivism grant, and two additional grants that adult probation has applied for to assist in expanding housing opportunities and treatment for justice involved people with Mental Health and co occurring disorders. Both our bureau of justice funding opportunities that we are very hopeful that we be competitive and eventually decide. To help with that program and then certainly an increase due to the other two grant opportunities if wore fortunate to get those. The increase in rent from 20192021 is over a Million Dollars. And that is due to the departments pending relocation to 945 bryant in t
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Maybe some of these positions wont be necessary. I do not support layoffs this year. Supervisor walton, how do you feel about supervisor ronens proposal. We are hearing from supervisor yee and mandelman that they are opposed to layoffs but open to putting money in the second year on reserve. Excuse me, you are on mute. I am definitely open to putting 7 million on reserve for the second year. Again, it is hard for me at this point. Not an impossibility without knowing the officers it is an issue now. What you are hearing there is an appetite to put money the second year on reserve, not for layoffs. Chief, what you have heard now is that what we are saying is that we are thinking a substantial amount of money on reserve the second year. This committee is opposed to the layoffs. If we put reserves amount of money on the second year, colleagues, we would put it in budget and finance reserve, is that correct. Yes, that is. I think we have a proposal on the table. We are looking at superviso