Pleasure to be up with everyone this morning. In corona queens. It was a pleasure to get out of the state capital and talk to the people who are actually doing the work. I am a queens boy, so it is coming back home for me. Corona queens. It was called corona queens before the coronavirus. There is no connection between corona queens and the coronavirus paid let me introduce my colleagues. Pat foy is chairman of the mta. Sarah fienberg runs the new York City Transit bureau. Is deputyodes superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. Saturday. I know it because it is on the slide. Therwise, i may not have known i follow the dazed by what is on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, that we have never been here before. And that is true, but even when you are in Uncharted Waters, that does not mean you just seed blindly. You get whatever information that you can, because you want
Roll call vote, please, madame clerk. The motion . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. There are five. Supervisor fewer thank you. Welcome. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Care Emergency and to protect members of the public, the board of supervisors and chamber room are closed. However, members will be participating as if theyre physically present. All the comments will Public Comment will be available. Streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. By calling 888 2045984. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the order. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. [inaudible] and streaming. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio.
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with
And i want to thank my colleague and Ranking Member, senator cantwell, for her cooperation in this regard, and for all of our staff. Convenes toe today discuss the state of the Aviation Industry. Witnesses, which are limited in number by the guidance we received from the senate, include nic calio, president and chief executive officer of airlines for america, todd president and chief executive officer of the American Association of airport effectives, eric fanning, president of the chief executive officer of the Aerospace Industries association, and remotely, dr. Hilary godwin, dean of school of Public Health university of washington. No part of the American Economy has escaped the impact of the covid 19 pandemic. The air and transportation sector has suffered a particularly painful blow, one intensified by Global Travel resections and stay at home orders, Domestic Travel has declined over 95 compared to last year. Flying with 12 passengers on average. Half of the u. S. Passenger aircr
Hogeland discusses Alexander Hamiltons financial ideas. This is about 50 minutes. Now, while the museum, the gallery of the museum is closed because of a flood that we sustained, our robust programming continues, as evidenced by today. And our author who is speaking is william hogeland. Hes written multiple books on early u. S. History, including autumn of the black snake, declaration, the whiskey rebellion, and founding finance. Hes also the author of a recent publication or not author, a contributor, i should say to a recent publication historians on hamilton. Hes also penned many essays and articles that you can read in places like the atlantic monthly, the new york times, boston review, huffington post, but none more important than our own magazine financial history. You can find that magazine at www. Moaf. Org for museum of American Finance. So, it should be no surprise that the topic of williams next book is Alexander Hamilton. Its my pleasure to introduce him, william hogeland.