Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you move this project forward. Its exactly what we need into san
Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the appropriations committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very muc
Morning. Dow, nasdaq and s p scoring fourth straight month of gains. One of americas old retailers filing for bankruptcy. Lord taylor hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Surprising results of new study ahead. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen global action, european markets up across the board. The euro zone economy showing signs of some growth, purchase Managers Index there for july coming in at 51. 8. Anything over 50 shows growth. In asia overnight mostly higher, private survey of chinas Manufacturing Activity showing growth for july. Purchase manager index hitting 9year high. Gold shines, on a roll closing in on 2,000 an ounce. White house officials and democrats set to meet again today to discuss covid19 stimulus bill. Cheryl white house chief of staff mark meadows says we still have a long way to go and hes not optimistic about reaching a solution soon. Democrats want the extra 600 of Unemployment Benefits which ran out last week extended an republicans want to reduc
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl
Group. All of the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. Futures showing a mix bag as you can see, excuse me, we have that is arrows across the board. Nasdaq up 34 and a half, s p is up 11 this after yesterdays crazy lateday selloff. California announced lockdowns and when the announcement came through that really did hurt the market. The dow barely holding a gain. We will see if we can do better today. Well, jumping species. Animal to human virus contraction may become more common. How to protect yourself, plus, ford taking nostalgia route with newest suv back by popular demand. Mornings with maria is live right now. Coronavirus lockdowns in the United States and scaled back reopenings both impacting european markets. As you can see red across the board. Weve had improvement overnight with europe. As you can see the dax and the cac 40 down more than half percent. Not in asia, red across the board. Different story from yesterday morning. We have pressure on markets especial