It is still slow, the pass has slowing on 580 at 238. This is normal traffic. Lets go to the bay bridge and show you that. You can see traffic there is looking good coming into San Francisco, using that bridge there are no major delays. Interstate 880 continues to look good in both directions. He had mentioned to the east bay, we have slowing onto 85 as steve had mentioned, not for any particular reason, just a lot of people show up at that location. Lets go back to the headlines. A bay area county takes the next big step for reopening, napa county has been approved to move into the second part of phase 2 of the governors roadmap to recovery. You have the details, good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, dave, napa county is ahead of bay area counties in moving towards the second part of phase 2. The county is now officially in the second part of phase 2, effective immediately. What does that mean . Restaurants will open for dine in service, you will be able to shop at nonessential s
This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It cost around 34 million and how can we build more because we know the need is there. I am hoping the panel will talk about this. It is my pleasure to introduce the director of Library Services. Susan has done so much in her tenure to elevate libraries in the consciousness and we owe her gratitude and will be sorry to see her go. Susan, please, thank you. [ applause ] i would ask our gentlemen, the two toms if you dont mind joining me on the stage. Good morning, everyone. Well it is so wonderful to
Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. Well, thank you, director. The national museum, Library Services for holding this hearing. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the experience that the bill and ellen Gates Foundation has had with in china access to technology through Public Libraries and our vision of our libraries can drive personal and Community Development. Today the foundation is composed of many programs and initiatives. Helping farmers in africa strengthen their crops, improving the educational system in the United
20th Century Technology to 21st century highspeed Broadband Technology. Its a reallocation of resourcef resources are never easy and never pleasant but they are essential if we are to keep pushing forward. We are moving to broadband to the person at the library. Its not just an external connection but its how do you get using wifi to the individual in a library . We are bringing the application and administrative process into the 21st century as well by using the same kind of ride band tools and we are focusing on fiscal responsibility. The key is not just more money although if more money is warranted we will deal with that but the key is money well spent by encouraging consortia, by creating longer support. So you can have longer contracts with lower rates and by establishing a system of reference phrasing so people know what is a fair price . We dont expect librarians to be Telecom Experts and able to go out there and haggle with Telecom Companies so how do we help in that regard .
[speaker not understood]. Heres the sort of the annual the major budgets changes. 1. Million is the annualized funding for the nondomestic [speaker not understood] that were approved to the supplemental process. There is about 1. 6 million of readjustment. 2 41,000 is an inchrysler in facility rental costs and thats the our satellite as well as the bernal street. And there is the replacement of vehicles that were required by city ordinance. So, were replacing 12 vehicles. Major initiatives that were involved in, the creation of the db unit which was in part by your support. Were getting ready actually to get that unit rolling this month. Well be inviting all of you actually to our opening. Another thing that we started this year is we started with a d. A. Staff. Its the beginning of creating metrics in the system to look at performance to assess areas where we can approve upon not only in terms of productivity for our office, but also want to think were really pushing into becoming a l