jenica, are there any other callers? >> president brandon, at this time there were no other callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you seeing no more callers on the line, public comment is closed. call the next item, please. >> clerk: madam president, if i could ask if we could do a roll call vote on the motion to not disclose what was discussed in close section, given the virtual environment. >> i make a motion that we not disclose anything that happened, right? >> president brandon: yes, you can do a roll call vote. >> clerk: okay. [roll call vote] thank you. and that would bring us to item 9a, the executive director's report. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adam, commissioners, port staff and the members of the public. i'm elaine forbes, executive director of the port. september is natural preparedness and essential workers' month. the region and the state are managing serious emergencies like covid-19, extreme heat and wildfires. more than ever we're very

let's see if our tech guys can get that sorted and we'll come back to you. jenica took off the same question to you. is this a particularly difficult time economically, where nor korea and could that be part of the timing of this? it's definitely a difficult time for the north koreans with the co long border closed shut down. because of course, there's just been a lot of a lot of problems that they're dealing with. whether or not it with the timing is tied to the restarting of this reactor or not. it is really unclear. there's been some of their technical things that, that have been going on at the reactor over the past 2 years. they have been working on the cooling system, which is also tied into the other reactor that they're trying to build the experimental light water reactor. and it may just be that those technical issues have now been worked out and they're ready to move forward. so i wouldn't connect all the dot so clearly. so there's a couple of comments and are you tube are ready that want to bring it to the conversation? michael says nobody has any interest in invading nor korea. r