General Public Comment at this meeting and there will be a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by call in. For each item the board will take Public Comment first for those in person and from people attendeding the meeting remotely. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 4156550001 access code, 26638831727 then and again. When connected you hear the meeting discussions, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added a the speaker line. Call from a quite location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv radio or computer. City policy along with federal, state and local law prohibits discriminatory conduct and will not be tolerated. Public comment is permitted on matters within the jurisdiction of the meeting body and thank you
Item 2, communication. We welcome Public Participation during Public Comment period. There will be a opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting and there will be a opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by call in. For each item the board will take Public Comment first for those in person and from people attendeding the meeting remotely. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 4156550001 access code, 26638831727 then and again. When connected you hear the meeting discussions, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added a the speaker line. Call from a quite location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv radio or computer. City policy along with federal, state and local law prohibits discriminatory conduct and wi
Having the best it infrastructure is very important so thanks again to karen and team for working on the budget. Next in terms of june and Board Meeting, you may have noticed it seems we have ebb and flow of long and briefer meetings. The last meeting of the quarter is more packed with topics. The same will be true in june, so we apt there will be closed session items, quarterly performance review, likely changes to the its related to the approved new Strategic Asset allocation. On the administrative side, provide a update on strategic plan, election of president and vise president and might have policies to approve. A lot of big items to cover in june and wanted you to be aware that might be a longer meeting. With that, as you know, in the materials we always have the board calendar, the conferences and training and this quarters travel expense report. Open up to any questions. Any questions . Thank you. Public comment, please. Do we have inperson Public Comment on this item . Seeing
Christmas. You can see we are set up for a lower open generally speaking on the major averages, s p showing a little more signs of life. European markets, most have been closed for the Christmas Holiday or boxing day as well. So not much to speak of there. Lets get to our own 10year note yield though as we take a look where we stand right now. 2. 483. Crude oil, wti up a few cents and just out the latest shill erin dex shows home prices up 6. 2 in october. That of course year over year from last year lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with apple largest market cap out there, shrinking in the premarket on some reports about next years iphone sales, were going to fill you in. Will this years rally continue as we close out 2017. Finally a retail rebound, how the struggling sector is faring so far this Holiday Season as you may know not too bad. Lets start with apple shares, they are under pressure in the premarket. Reports of sales of the new iphone 10 are slowing accord
Already. So its not like were just making up for things. We actually could have a chance to do something on perhaps broadband, roads, bridges. You name it. Wastewater treatment plants. And you talk about a rural agenda, a state thats a pretty rural state, that would be a big step if we started working on that. How we pay for it, there is some interest in overseas money, trillions of dollars that are overseas. Senator schumer, our leader, has been devoted to this for a long time. I am, as well. And that is finding some way to bring that money back from overseas. It wont be i will say it will be a bit controversial on our side. But finding a way to bring the money back. And then what you could do, if companies voluntarily bring the money back with a rate that we have enough votes to pass, you could then, as part of the deal, have a certain percentage of it go into either an infrastructure Financing Authority. I dont call it an Infrastructure Bank because that creates problems on your sid