First wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Austria is doing well as well. Are seeing the dollar at levels that we have not seen for Something Like two years. The falls in the dollar taking place overnight. Yenre seeing the japanese clamber up as well, reaching the 104 level. 103 yen. Terry gou. That is the current position. Kong is declining just a fraction at the moment. That is where we are without one. That is where markets are standing. Haslinda. Lets get back to our top story. President trump has attacked the credibility of the election, challenging counts and nevada, pennsylvania, georgia, and michigan. Speaking at the white house, the president made several claims and said that the election is being stolen from him. We will not allow the corruption to still this election or any election in that matter. We cannot allow anyone to silence our voters. Haslinda joe biden is urging patience and saying that he is no doubt heading to victory, in an election that hinges on seven states. Mr.
Is that it, supervisor ronen. I remember the first meeting where trent came and we just were on the cusp of it and trent immediately pivoted. It was so crazy. It makes me sad to see this, but trent, i see you have 224 vacancies. I knew you would come to that. 224 vacancies and are those general fund vacancies . So, supervisor, none of our positions are 100 general funds. Either we charge them to a state or federal program and in some cases like a medicale would be federally funded. So because were the county designated Public Human Services agency, were able for every one of our employees, draw at least a portion of funding through federal and state sources. Its generally 40 issue, Nongeneral Fund for each position, yeah. And so its hard. When we say a hiring freeze, youre not hiring a medicale worker and even brings overhead. I think you understand. What i dont understand is that so many vacancies. Yeah, well, its a function of the hiring freeze, the modified hiring freeze, where we o
Major increases in the oec through the prop c opening, as you know, thats in the budget for 2021 and significant increase in our feeding in response to covid and that it will be included in the dos budget and the one Million Dollars increase for ihss is the wage increase and the impact on the general fund of that and given the economic downturn due to covid, we anticipate significant increase in our cash assistance programs in human services, specifically in county and assistance programs for adults and families. You can see the total of 19 million there and the bottom is our attempt to move thousands of people into subsidized employment through our jobs now, expansion to provide paid sick leave to employers in San Francisco so that their employees could take sick patients if they get ill. So next slide. And you asked in our presentation to lay out the fte count and we lay this out by department and you can see the bulk is in the department of human services, almost 1500 employee, dos,
Impact its having on pilots and passengers. And former new york man Mike Bloomberg endorses Joe Bidens White house bit after withdrawing from the president ial race. My. Turkey has Just Announced its deploying a 1000 special Police Forces along its border with greece thousands of people have tried to get to greece on bulgarias and sunk or opens its side of the borders as part of an attempt to pressure the e. U. To help with the turkey says the deployments is to stop them from being pushed back. We got a bit of a goth from now on from the smalling there will be some special Security Forces on the border they will be fully equipped and they will be preventing the pushback of migrants they will also provide inflatable boats and this is within International Law. Well the turkish and russian president s are meeting to discuss the situation in northwest syria its the countrys back opposing sides of the conflicts now they recently came very cool so a direct confrontation in italy province tha
Frozen in time and i. Thought it was a basketball battle in los angeles with le bron is a lakers full of shorts against the clippers we have that and more christmas n. B. A. Action coming up. Iraqs president says he would rather quit the name a new Prime Minister rejected by protesters. Is refusing to designate the nominee of an iran backed parliamentary bloc in a letter to parliament barcella said out of my kin list to avoid bloodshed and protect civil peace i will not name assad danny as a candidate for the next Prime Minister or president saleh has been trying to find a replacement for. Who resigned as Prime Minister last month his decision to quit has done little to calm protests demanding a complete overhaul of the sectarian political system this wave of demonstrations started in october but there were similar scenes last year over the sign compliance many say theyve had enough of corruption unemployment Poor Public Services and a low standard of living hundreds of people have die