i want the baseline data. and if the answer is, well, we would get you the baseline data but can't get the demographic data, so we're not doing either. get one or both, preferably both. i will accept that amendment to the motion. >> may i just respond? i think there is great value in certainly understanding the demographics. i would say in terms of the informal study we did previously was really just eyeballing and eye checking and a customers leaving and a points of business. and not necessarily collecting any additional data. it is worthwhile to pursue that data and may change the scope of the survey. and in terms of requiring additional resources. i just wanted to explain that may impact our ability or timeline to deliver on that, but it is something i will discuss internally with my colleagues in terms of how we can accommodate that if we can and even if we can do an informal assessment of demographic or engage with a customer to confirm their identity as opposed to making an assumption on someone's

from that, we need a baseline. and the baseline, i still think, if it's not proportional representation, what is the baseline that you would have us use? controlling for geography and everything else. ms. riggs: well, the geography is baked into that bell curve. justice gorsuch: it's baked in, i accept that. we agree on that. you and i actually agree on that. so, after that, we've thrown out millions of maps, we are all electric mere few thousand, okay? what deviation? from what to what? ms. riggs: if what we're left with is no extreme statistical outlier or no grossly asymmetrical map, the legislature can choose from any of those plans. chief justice roberts: counsel, what is wrong with proportional representation? ms. riggs: there are certainly states where the natural geography of the state doesn't lend itself to proportional representation. we live in a system with single-member -- chief justice roberts: if you were cracking or packing to get to proportional representation, would that in your view be unconstitu

while the baseline outlook of themfavorable, many seeing participants say the investment picture and weaker business sentiment and the crosscurrents i mentioned earlier are supporting their judgment that the risk of less favorable outcomes has risen. to our 2%ing close objective for most of last year, inflation declined the first quarter. shows somethen pickup. participants broadly see inflation moving back up towards our 2% objective, but at a slower pace than had been expected. the central tendency for 2019 core inflation, which omits volatile food and energy components, is between 1.7 and 1.8%. short-termde fluctuations, committee participants expressed concerns about the pace of inflation's returned to 2%. wages are rising, as noted above, but not at a pace that would provide much upward impetus to inflation. moreover, weaker global growth may continue to hold inflation down around the world. we are firmly committed to our 2% inflation objective and we are well aware that inflation weakness that persists even in a healthy economy could precipitate a difficult downward inflationon

uncertainty surrounding our baseline outlook have clearly risen since our last meeting. it's important monetary policy not overreact to any data development. thus my colleagues and i will be looking to see whether these uncertainties will continue to weigh on the outlook, and we will use our tools as appropriate to sustain the expansion. thank you. i will be pleased to take your questions. >> nick of "the wall street journal." chair powell, did you consider a rate cut today? specifically was it one of the options, the policy options in the book? and is the committee considering moving given all the uncertainty you addressed, changing its policy before the next meeting? >> so the committee had our usual long discussion of global and domestic economic and financial conditions and then spent this morning talking about monetary policy and came to the view that i expressed to you. which is that we're going to be monitoring -- monitoring the cross currents and the other items we've mentioned but that we'd like to see more going forward. particularly, we'd like to see whether t

it gives us a baseline to test our ideas. some good news first, more jobs will be accessible to san francisco residents in 2050. in 2050, drivers will continue to have access to more jobs and absolute numbers than transit riders. with that said, there will be a greater percentage improvement in job accessibility by transit than by auto. despite the large population in job growth, it won't change much and average commute times in 20 other where people live. this is for all modes of transportation. the darker the shade of red in the map the longer the average commute time. commutes are also longer for residents in the western and southeastern parts of san francisco. in addition to city wide analysis, we want to look at results with an equity lens and we looked at how the transportation network is working for communities of concern in the future and communities of concern or c. o.c.s is used by the metropolitan transportation commission ex to find communities with high levels of low income households and minority populations. th

uncertainties surrounding the baseline out look have clearly risen since our last meeting. important however, that monetary policy not overreact to any individual data point or short-term swing in sentiment. doing so would risk adding even more uncertainty to the outlook. thus my colleagues and i will be looking to see whether these uncertainties will continue to weigh on the outlook and we will use our tools as appropriate to sustain the expansion. thank you. i will be pleased to take your questions. nick timber of "the wall street journal." did you consider a rate cut specifically today? was this one of the policy options in the teal book? is the committee moving given uncertainty you addressed moving change its policy before the next meeting? >> so the committee had, our usual long discussion of global and domestic economic and financial conditions and then spent this morning talking about monetary policy. and came to the view that i expressed to you, which is that we're going to be monitoring, monitoring the crosscurrents and the other items that we mentioned but that w

uncertainties surrounding the baseline outlook have risen since our last meeting. it is important monetary policy not overreact to any individual data point or short-term swing in sentiment. doing so would risk adding even more uncertainty to the outlook, thus my colleagues and i will look to see whether these uncertainties for continue to weigh on the outlook and we will use our tools as appropriate to sustain the expansion. thank you. i will be pleased to take your questions. reporter: "wall street journal." chair powell, did you consider a rate cut today? specifically, was it one of the policy options in the teal book? is the committee considering moving, given all the uncertainty you addressed, changing its policy before the next meeting? chair powell: so the committee had, you know, our usual long discussion of global and domestic economic and financial conditions and then spent this morning talking about monetary policy. we came to the view that i expressed to you, which is that we are going to be monitoring the crosscurrents and the other items that we menti

with four vacancies, and you are able to function with the vacancies, i think maybe that is the baseline , that if you have four vacancies, but you're still able to run your department need very efficient manner as you just mentioned, that perhaps the vacancies is where your baseline should be. however, i do have a question. i see your total expenditures increased by 70 9%, and they decrease by 44% in fiscal year 2021, and this is due to mandated deposit and election campaign funds. how does that work about the increases, and then decreases by 44%, and what happens with the additions of 35%? >> thank you for the question and comments. i am happy to take more time to detail the ways in which were not able to do all the work that we are mandated to with control vacancies. the question is about public financing. the campaign fund is establishing the charter. there is a formula in the charter that requires a certain amount, $2.75 per resident to be allocated every year, every budget year, up to a maximum of $7 million in the fund. it is drawn down in years where there was a my oral election

describe as nondiscretionary, that includes the over billion dollars worth of city voter mandated baselines and set-asides, as well as state and federal funding that is dedicated to very specific allocations, leaving about $3 billion for discretionary general fund uses. key themes of the budget and you will notice alignment with many of the priorities that the board identified through the board hearings as well, first and foremost, addressing a housing affordability is a major priority of both the mayor, the city, and the board as well, additionally, the mayor's budget makes significant investments in preventing and reducing homelessness, responding to critical health needs in our community, making streets cleaner and safer, improving public safety and accountability and responsiveness, supporting small businesses and workforce are vital to ensure service delivery continues in the city, we have made some key investments and strengthening our social safety net, and focused on creating equitable opportunities and government accountability towards residence so how did we balance the budget you

of 3% growth for the end of the year >> right and i'm just going to use that or keep that as our baseline that 3% number is not contingent on a china deal that might not be satisfactory for american economic interests i mean, anything that works has got to be good for our farmers and ranchers and blue collar workers and so forth but look, in our view, and you've heard me say this before, what has changed is lower tax rates, particularly, the business tax cuts, massive across the board deregulation, opening up the energy sector and various trade reforms. i mean, look, let me give you something that i think is more important than china vis-a-vis the economy. that's usmca we have passed a very good deal with our friends in canada and mexico and their governments have signed off on it our administration has signed off on it. we are hoping that the congress will sign off on it. now, the estimates on that could be as much as a half a percent of additional real gdp per year, okay, and on top of that, the possibility of 180,000 additional jobs per year mexico, canada and mexico are gigantic tradi

uncertainty surrounding the baseline outlook have clearly risen since our last meeting it's important, however, that monetary policy not overreact to any individual data point or short-term swing in sentiment. doing so would risk adding even more uncertainty to the outlook. thus, my colleagues and i will be looking to see whether these uncertainties will continue to weigh on the outlook and we will use our tools as appropriate to sustain the expansion. thank you, and i will be pleased to take your questions >> nick timeros, "wall street journal. chairman powell, did you consider a rate cut today? specifically, would was it one of the policy options in the teal book? and is the committee considering moving, given the uncertainty you addressed, changing its policy before the next meeting >> so the committee had our usual long discussion of global and domestic economic and financial conditions and then spent this morning talking about monetary policy. and came to the view that i expressed to you which is that we are going to be monitoring the cross currents and the other items that we ha

think the baseline expectation is straightforward. the u.s.ree not to go forward for a final ground -- final round three hunter billion tariffs. china will agree to resume talks, even if the u.s. doesn't rollback some of the measures that have been introduced over the last six weeks. presumably there will be some goodwill gestures, such as the purpose -- such as the purchase of soybeans announced today. what the u.s. ones, or we think we know with the u.s. wants. what does china want out of this? in the short run it was talks to resume without a loss of face. >> you think the u.s. is going to give that to them. >> that is why president xi more or less insisted that president trump come in ahead of the meeting -- commit ahead of the meeting he wasn't going to raise tariffs. he wasn't going to have the president go off and say tariffs are back on. china wanted a commitment from the u.s. that indicated there would at least be a short-term truce. china wants the u.s. to rollback the tariffs, it once the u.s. to lift the designation on huawei. and

i could be wrong, but correct me if i'm wrong, but 2.3 million baseline, that seems to be for new trees, and then, is it $2 million each year this year and next year, so it's $4 million for replacement of trees and new tree do trees, and prop k. i think there's a lot of misinformation, so i want to get the correct information in the record. >> so it is $2.3 million for new trees in fiscal year 19-20? and then $2 million approximately each year for the two years of the budget 19-20 and 20-21 for replacement? >> supervisor safai: i'm sorry. that's $2 million in 19-20, and an additional $2 million in 20-21. >> it's $3.9 million, but i'm rounding? >> supervisor safai: so that will cover about 4,000 trees. >> yep, $4 million for replacement in the next two years of the budget. >> supervisor safai: thank you, director kelly. through the chair, director nuru, is that correct, is it about 4,000 trees that we need to replace over the next four years or is it more that? >> well, before i answer the question, the focus now is to maintain the trees that haven't been maintained over the many years.

>> well, one way that establishes the baseline, which i think the budget analyst has done audited of us, controller's office has been audits of our monitoring process. we have an annual monitoring process so that's a baseline that happens all the time, once a year, and it measures the compliance with the contract deliverables, how they're doing. if they aren't doing up to the standard points for that, then, they have to do a corrective action plan. if it rises to a much larger level of concern, it's a very formal corrective action plan that goes up to the director, and we pull in other city departments with a vendor that's shares. the controller initiated a program -- well, i forget the name, but the original name was fiscal and compliance monitoring. so they also take teams out, and they're closely looking at the fiscal monitoring. the public health department, because it's services, goes out and looks at charts to see the quality of the charts and are the treatment plans meeting medical necessity and is the client getting better. also, there's requirements that we measure each year

which is a baseline question but we will let people vote on that first. so returning to china, the milestone that is out there on trade with china is the potential meeting between the president and the president of china. is it going to happen? >> yes. i would be surprised if it doesn't. we are planning as if it will happen. >> is it a deal closing meeting at this point? >> i don't -- i don't think so. others would be a better position to clarify that. we thought we were close to a deal. i lose track of time. two or three weeks ago. sometimes it feels like yesterday. we thought we had 100 points that we were trying to hammer out with the chinese. we thought we had agreements on 92 of them. bob will tell the story. he remembers walking into a meeting in china. they had a white board with a list of things they had previously agreed to. we were going to work on the final 8. 40 of them came off of the board. the chinese said we did not agree to those in the first place. that is a major setback. i don't know if they've made progress on that since the conversat

we have three different alternatives and our baseline design bid or low bid process. our baseline design bid build low bid is a currently used on almost all of our construction projects. it is a familiar process, relatively quick procurement and high degree of control for the port over the design. the port develops final construction plans and specifications and solicitors bids from qualified contractors. the lowest bid is selected for the project. this works best when the pool of the contractors to do the work is large. with design bid build there is no early contractor involvement. no contractor input for project design. therefore, design bid build is best used on projecteds that do not require unusual or creative construction methods or would not benefit from coordinated design and construction process which is typically the case in smaller construction projects. typically we competitively award construction projects up to $1.5 million using the low bid process. the best value design bid build project delivery method is similar to low bid method but adds extra step

going to start being nervous about granting that if everybody's going to come back and where it's baseline now and do whatever you want. i can go back and look at the budget and bla and say why do you have the six positions? at some point you have to explain it to us. >> supervisor: anyway, thank you very much. we are not taking action today. it's more of a high-level conversation to get to know each other. any other questions? seeing none, thank you very much. our best to our wonderful assessor. thank you. right now i'd like to call up the academy of sciences and mr. michael mcgee the interim director and chief financial officer. madame clerk can you please the timer for five minutes for mr. mcgee. >> ready, go. good afternoon, chair fure, distinguished members i'm the interim executive director, chief financial officer for the cal academy and joined by my director of finance matthew lao. on slide two the academy's proud to be a science and sustainability leader for san francisco and the rest of the world. we're in agreement with the budget and staffing allocations for the steinhart aquar

>> we start with an initial baseline production of foreign election. we don't -- we are not in the business of trying to say this is who will win, we just try to get a number of the total people who will vote at the election for baseline projection regarding our personnel materials and resources, and so from there, we look at the number of ballot cards projected to be on a ballot because there are trends from election to election, and amo ural election has a trend that is reflected through time as does a presidential primary, as does a presidential general election. you look at those factors, then you look at the process of what we have to do to meet the service levels, and then you start to put the pieces together what changed for the next fiscal year is a new voting system going in. and also with the presidential primary being back in the calendar from june to march, we are probably rni

>> there are freight trips that are at a high level and we're doing research so in the baseline it's a high level number for a total number of freight trips happening in san francisco and then we are going to do more research about that later. >> it has a big impact. i think the two big things that are the big unknowns could be a state rezoning and we don't know what it's going to look at and the other one is, i was reading the planning magazine that came to me and talked about the future of the way people get around in terms of autonomous vehicles and i have no idea where that is all going to go but if the book that was written that says autonomous vehicles will create such a good life and all this other stuff. it would be something as time goes on and we see what they actually can and can't do to try to consider this and consider some of this stuff in the future. >> we have a whole body of work as part of connect sf. what we're calling the drivers of change and technological advancements including autonomous vehicles is something we're monitoring or continuing to research. it wasn'

something to take into account when i think about not only the baseline view of where the economy is but where the risks are. >> heightened uncertainty about how this economy is going to evolve over the next year or so. i think that's what the markets are seeing and telling us as well >> i'm going to ask this last question and then open it up to the audience >> we began by talking about the bases. then we had a conversation about the risks out there and some of the singles being sent by the market i guess i have to ask this is it lower now than it otherwise would have been. >> this has been an interesting last 12 months i'm going to answer your question, back in september, i was seeing growth at probably 2 1/2% this year then we -- late in the year in december clearly very significant signs of slowing globally. some signs the u.s. economy was slowing a bit. then we got down to the low 2s, and we got some pretty good data that was suggesting growth would be closer to 2 1/2 this year i think the lesson we take from this, my own base case is in this area probably 2 1/4%. we're getting a

uncertainty surrounding the baseline outlook have clearly risen since our last meeting it is important that monetary policy not overreact to any individual data point or short-term swing in sentiment. doing so would risk adding even more uncertainty to the outlook. >> reporter: okay. so what's it going to take for the feds to actually cut, things you really care about? powell made clear the committee wants to see more clarity in just how weak the economy is and he wants to know how trade talks with china will work out if concerns about the economy are proven right in the data, it seems clear the fed will respond. it could happen as soon as july, melissa, pointing all weeks to this events, the g20 meeting with xi, the jobs report coming in early july from june, and then the gdp report and the other data during the month of july, that's what it is going to take to seal the deal. >> i think what you mention, steve, in terms of how many votes in favor of a cut this time versus the last meeting, that change is pretty remarkable in such a short amount of time we are having a great discussion

uncertainty around the baseline outlook has risen, a case for more accommodative policy has strengthened: joining me is suki cooper, analyst at standard chartered bank. great to see you. is this finally the break we will get for gold? will we get to 1400 on this? suki: it is a different market for gold. result almost a false break at the start of the year. but the macro factors were not quite right. now we have the culmination of systematic risk and trade concerns. on top of that, the fed easing potentially in july. this is creating a favorable cocktail for gold and it is more likely we will see that push beyond 1400. alix: what part of that has to do with the hunt for yield in that you have $12 trillion plus of negative yielding debt in the world and the numbers keep getting larger. if you compare that with gold, what is the ratio? how close do they move together? suki: gold has broken down its east track. much of last year was tracking the dollar closely. this year, yields have come back into focus and the correlation between five-year real yields and gold has become stronger. most of

she had one awkward fall from behind the baseline, but picked herself up.the grass, don't we? i think she will be absolutely fine. looking very sure on his feet was dan evans. another win for him. a player people fear when they see his name in the draw at wimbledon. i think he has already spotted that there is a potential bit to the final here. white not? svr dan evans of course you think about what you can do at wimbledon. this is a week of field for the men and evans is playing as well as anybody in the draw. so, why not? we can worry about wimbledon next week. exactly, for now we focus on eastbourne. coverage here on bbc to start at one o'clock. memorabilia valued at £200,000 belonging to former wimbledon champion boris becker is to be auctioned to pay off his debts. replica trophies are being sold off along with medals and clothing. the online auction takes place next month and will also feature watches, tennis rackets and set bands. time now to take a look at some of the day's other sports headlines. commonwealth games in birmingham will cost £778 mill

we're down on the baseline. the dubs on 7. a lot of excitement here. we've got a bunch of kevin durant news to get to. we'll get to that in a moment. not a must-win situation for the warriors. they're down two games to one. i would describe it as a highly advisable game to win if you want the confetti coming down and popping champagne next being sometime. klay thompson is available to play and there is no minutes restriction. we saw play frustrated in game three because he was held out due to the hamstring injury. the warriors missed him on both ends of the court. >> i thought in the beginning of game three. oracle needs to come alive. this can't be the last game at oracle. we have to have another game. no team has beaten the warriors three times in a season. 1994, 1995. now is not the time to start. they need energy tonight and they'll get it with klay. >> when you look at the last game, three guys in double figures. six guys for toronto in double figures. we're already leading with k.d. not being here. what he does defensively is so much more importa

surrounding this issue between crowder and mazar that i don't think de platforming should be the baseline for addressing these issues i think there needs to be a thoughtful and teared system for dealing with the level of agree just as obviously it's all relative you know someone might find one thing more egregious but what is the role of money here and is you tube capitalizing off of controversy i always tell my students follow the money right i mean that. what this is unfortunately all about when we think about you know demonetized saying crowder for his offensive language that actually showed an uptick in sales for some of his hateful paraphernalia that he sells on his site so money is at the heart of all of this for better or for worse for better because that how including sears make money using you tube for words and the fact that he the more people that we have going there the more likely they are to keep some of these more hateful things going on and to carlos's point about how about you 2 being an advocate for the l g d l g t l b g t q community as well they really are providing ki

family were at nats park and he tried to a catch foul ball heading into the stands behind third baselinech. on't remember >> mom remembers. >> he put his glove up to try to catch it and he had it probably just right here and it just missed his glove. instead of hisit glove went to his nose. >> reporter: pain and pouring blood. a rush to the hospital to treat a badly broken nose. ater, a specialty doctor called it one of the worst knows injuries he's seen in a long time. the nats joined the cubs and other teams today in adding netting. at nats park it will run nearly to the right and left field corners. the family is happy to hear it. >> i think that it's great because if it means that less people are going to get hurt. >> the speed of the balls and thng velocity they are flyit people, it's good that they are going to take steps to go ahead and protect their fans >> reporter: as for adler he missed the last two weeks of school recovering making it back just in time for his fifth grade graduation day wearing a t-shirt that said "straight out of nose surgery." >> i like that. >> wow. >>> a

of the 3rd kawhi remains hot nails the baseline jumper just the ball movement here raptors up 12 going into the fort leonard accounted for 17 in the quarter 4th quarter through some seen fred vanvleet nailed in the head by a shaun livingston elbow blood, how your pores down his face he also lost a tooth. no concussion though. we'll see his status going forward later in the 4th letter can't be stopped wide open court or 3 16 point raptors lead down the stretch toronto, never let up one oh 5.92 raptors, your final full of may take a 3 to one series lead to put the warriors break 36 for later, 27 for curry 21 2 of 9 from downtown. let's go to the podium. i know we're capable. >>the a lot of talent and we got a lot of pride and these guys have been to the finals 5 straight years for a reason. they're unbelievably competitive and and uh they're together and they're going to fight fight always so will go go try to get one win if we can do that come back here and and see what happens. so it's really been a you know. >>uses trying to whatever you can to change you know to get us you know get a

the risks to the favorable baseline outlook a period of growth. last week my colleagues and i held a regular meeting to assess the monetary policy and we did not change the setting farming policy tool. but we did make significant changes to our policy statement and since the beginning of the year we have been taking patient stance to assessing the need 20 policy change. we now states the committee will closely monitor the indications of incoming information for the economic outlook and will act as appropriate to sustaining expansion with a strong labor market inflation near symmetric to present objective. the question my colleagues and i are grappling with is whether these uncertainties will continue to wait on the outlooks and thus call for additional policy accommodations. many participants judge if the case for some more policy has strengthened. we are mindful that monetary policy should not overreact to any individual data point or short-term swing in the senate. doing so would risk adding more uncertainty to the outlook. we will closely monit

what we're waiting to see is the baseline for sentencing.hink they -- the prosecutor actually reduced the original recommendation because i think they want to is set a low baseline so that future charges, which will be more severe and have more money involved, will have a greater flexibility and range. they're not going to be locked into a recommendation if they eliminate pleas in the future. molly: and will it make a difference, for instance, the set of parents that pled guilty, a couple allegedly who paid $600,000 to ringleader of this scam in an effort to get their kids into usc and ucla. they put out an apology saying no words can expressly describe how profoundly sorry we are for what we have done. it appears they would be the first parents, could we see that being different from this first coach being sentenced, and will their open regret make a difference? >> it will make a difference even though i think it's an empty open regret. part of the guidelines for sentencing is it's a point system. and one of the evaluations that they need t