Find a seat. Thank you very much. Item for approval of the minutes of the april 5th of regular meeting. A motion to approve. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Thank you. Next item, please. Item 5, communications, directors. Item 6 with new unfinished business. Item 7, directors board. Good afternoon, members of the public and staff. Just a few things to report to you on and give you updates. The first is that we just this week maybe within the last week we released our annual bike count report. This is something weve been doing since 2006. At those intersections from 2006 to 2015 bicycling we saw 184 increase. Last year we hit a million. Market street bike barometer. We hit that in december. It was a 25 decrease over 2014. Extrapolating from the data we got in this report. We are estimating 2,000 bike trips daily in San Francisco. Weve been using automated bike counters and found that weekend bike trips increased from 20142016 to brought you the to 2. 4 million trips to
From other spending that you would be doing another other retailers. As for the broader markets, Oil Continues to be the big driver. Wti crude rallying more than 4 yesterday. That was its best onesession gain since august 2012. But prices are still down about 36 from the high set earlier this year in late june. Take a look at oil prices this morning, youll see right now, down by about 1. 25 for wti. Thats a decline 0686 cents for 68. 14. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. Lets take a look at some stocks to watch this morning. Stocks already on the move, japans asuka pharmaceuticals, buying pharma for 17 a share in cash for about 3. 5 billion. The price tag is roughly 13 premium to yesterdays closing price. Also, cypress Semi Conductor is buying flash memory productmaker expansion in an allstock deal worth about 1. 6 billion. The combined company will keep the cypress name. Each shareholder will get of that entity about 50 of the new company. A mixed quarter for rvmaker Ford Industr
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