members listed marcy adelman, walter devaughn, betty hammond, louise hines and anne kirueshkin, alex mcdonald and anna maria perini and leon schmidt. you heard the names. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposes? ayes have it so the motion is carried. thank you. next. >> okay, the next one is the nomination and approval of commission officers, president edna james and vice president commissioner seriina. >> i move that we accept the nomination. >> second. >> okay. it's been moved and seconded that we accept the nominations of james and seriina -- gustavo seriina for president and vice president. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye's have it so the motion is carried. thank you. [applause] any old business? any new business? hearing none now we have the community living fund six month report. >> and i believe you have the report in your packet. i am just going to highlight a few things in the report. if you look -- so just to set the stage the community living fund is a fund that was established seven years ago via initially a report that came from the control controller's office that discussed community livi

alex: mcdonald's has had slumping sales. musk, lifting the veil on a new generation of batteries. this will be tomorrow if the billionaire gets his rights. he will have significant second business of the technology originally designed for electric vehicles. basically he is going to unveil some sort of mechanism by which you can store solar energy for home use. this is what the batteries on the cars do. let's bring it over to the home then. lisa: and to utilities that have been under some sort of pressure to create some sort of storage mechanism. there really is not a panacea for storing a massive amount of energy for a shortage or some kind of emergency situation. if he can do this, it would be brilliant. alex: we are talking about batteries. i wonder if ge or an older u.s. company was revealing an energy efficient battery would it be the number nine story we are talking about today? i think tesla has entered into an apple category where whatever they do is going to get publicity, even a battery. betty: number eight, starwoo

olivia: it reminds me of when mcdonald said you could buy your punk and spice latte with amex points. alexrawing to this identity crisis of who are they going for? this berger did not work last time because it was too expensive. mcdonald's is now trying to figure out, do they compete with the chipotle's of the world or go for the folks who like the dollar menu. matt: i would rather have humanely raised organic beef. i will be turning the other way on 3rd avenue. mercedes-benz sales set a record for the best first-quarter in the company's history. carmaker sold nearly 15 -- 15% more cars. mercedes, audi and bmw are in a tight race for the number one spot. who is going to win? olivia: you are the expert. matt: i do not know. mercedes is building cars that appeal designwise to a lot more people than they had before. they have kind of gotten the lead as far as technological advances in things like lane assist automated cruse control. i am test driving a gl 63 right now. it is a beast with a twin turbo the eight. alex: the ceo came out and said we are looking to grow more than 20% in china yest

alex brink of joining me. let's kick it off with mcdonald's. big story today., some workers at the packaging may be getting a happier paycheck. they will raise pay at company-owned locations to at least a dollar more than the local minimum wage and begin offering vacation benefits as well. the move takes effect on july 1. it will only apply to 90,000 workers, which gives you an idea of how big mcdonald's is to . alexis: still not as big as mcdonald's workers would like. it only applies to franchises. yes, big move, some folks are calling it of yards that -- matt: 90,000 workers! 90,000 workers! that's a lot of people. brendan: is this optics or economics. with walmart and target making a move, it seems like because they can make one decision at all stores across the u.s., they are being forced to to retain workers. mcdonald's, it doesn't feel like that with a small amount of workers it will cover and the vacation benefits are as many hours as you work in with, per your vacation. and a lot of them are part-time workers. brendan: an attempt to forestall more demo