Welcome to the meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority board. Im Rafael Mandelman i chair the board vice chair is supervisor peskin the clerk issi liegea saunders we have have mendoza with sfgovtv and mr. Clerk. Call the roll. Commissioner chan. Present dorsey. Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Commissioner mar. Present. Commissioner melgar. Present. Peskin. Present. Commissioner ronen. Present. Commissioner safai. Absent. Stefani present. Commissioner walton. Absent. We have clothes requested some to be absent for portions of this meeting commissioner safai will be arriving late. Commissioner mar is here remolt but need to leave probably before 11, commissioner walton will also be about between half an hour and hour late im going to excuse those folks for the portions of this meeting that they miss. And i believe you have announce ams . Yes. Members of the public interested in participating in the meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 or watch
Our first panel of witnesses today. They are chairs of the National Endowment for the humanities and arts. Both witnesses are appearing for the first time before our subcommittee. Congratulations to both of you and your confirmation and thank you. Todays hearing provide us with a chance to hear more about the great work both endowments have done over the last couple of years and supporting our communities across the country economically, culturally and educationally. The National Endowment for the arts and humanities are a perfect example of how the federal government can be a positive force in communities large and small in every single state. In your statement following your confirmation, dr. Jackson, you said in addition to serving as an economic engine, arts and creativity are core to what it takes to heal our nation, communities and ourselves. I wholeheartedly agree. The fy 2020 three budget request for the National Endowment for the humanities is 200. 6 8 million 200. 68 million.
Assisting individuals with federal and state benefit programs. Most navigators are nonprofit, nonpartisan Community Service providers and have effective privacy provisions in place. Those are the facts and the show good news. You talking your Opening Statement about the navigators were going from door to door and that is a concern. Thats why we have to have the real navigators in place so they can sign people up. Just yesterday hhs, doj and the ftc announced a massive antifraud effort. I would suggest we all Work Together to stop any kind of fraud in the system. With that i want to yield the balance of my time to the representative castor. I think the Ranking Member for yielding time. The enthusiasm i am hearing back home from so many of my neighbors, particularly when it comes to now the bar against discrimination for our neighbors that have preexisting conditions. Just over the past few weeks i met with Community Leaders and multiple sclerosis and diabetes, hiv aids, cancer that now
And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us there is no such dispute the between china and japan, and that has made it impossible for dialogues to happen. China and japan are perpetual neighbors. The two countries have very close business ties. Sit downill ready to and have dialogue with the japanese side, but first the japanese side needs to recognize there is such a dispute. Of the whole world knows there is a dispute here. I believe there will be a day when the japanese come back to this table and dialogue. So, how things will go next is
Economy they could have developed if they had followed the advice of your friends who fled for catoed a an easter eda time. Europe has become willing hostages to russia. The scenario weve all sort of talked about, what happens if the price of oil really falls . My guess is some place in the world a tanker will be sunk or a pipline will be blown up. The price of oil will spike but there will be no russian fingerprints on it. Lets just do a quick couple minutes. Lets focus on because i want to have time for q a here, where you think the next explosion will be at on the globe . Wref talked about ukraine and russia. Herman . Theres an area dealing with china that gives me great concern even though theres been little publicity about it. Its a doctrine of the Chinese Government that no u. S. Sush veilance are a military ship should come within 200 miles of the coast of china, and that, of course, is contrary to freedom of the seas. Weve already had a number of incidences of boat rammings, of