The governors of new mexico, kansas and guam as well as douglas holtzeakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. This virtual hearing is just over four hours. The committee will come to order. Authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Before we begin todays hearing, i want to remind you of a few matters including some regulation accompanying House Resolution 965. I would ask all members to keep themselves on me was. This will minimize disturbances not being recognized with background noise they made only again one at a time. If you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing t that she recommends vendors identify themselves and facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask members to be patient this hearing is entitled the need for Financial Aid to americas states and territories during the pandemic. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement of the 189,000 people have lost their lives to the virus las
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With San Francisco public works. And thomas rouitman and the project managers from San Francisco public works. And the Board Meeting guidelines are as follows. The board requests that you turn off or silence all phones and other Electronic Devices so they will not disturb proceedings. Appellant and permit holders and respondents are each given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes are rebuttal. And members of the public who are not with the party have three minutes to address the board and no rebuttal. Time may be limited to two minutes if the agenda is large or a large number of speakers. Our legal clerk will give you a verbal warning 30 seconds before your time is up. Four votes are to have an appeal or other city determination. If you have questions about a rehearing and please email board staff at boardo boardofappealing sfgovtv. Org. And every effort has been made to replicate the inperson hearing process. To enable Public Participation sfgovtv is broadcasting and
One moment. Miss boller, you can go ahead. You have three minutes, please. Okay. Caller hello . Clerk hello, miss boller, welcome. Caller thank you. Im calling because theres been an incident on octavia street of tree cutting that was has greatly upset the residents because they expected that an agreement made with the board of appeals was being followed. And it wasnt. They were supposed to come to an agreement as to the replacement of trees and what which trees would be which kinds of trees would be replaced. And that agreement was not reached. Everybody was taken by great surprise that suddenly on saturday that a crew came and took down four trees. And then i think on monday an additional tree im not sure where those were on octavia street. The other one might have been on hayes street. And now apparently its been decided to stop doing it. But i think that its very unfortunate and illegitimate for those trees to be taken down. And theres no putting them back. You just cant move them
Fellow for joining us this afternoon. We will introduce them in just a moment. As a reminder, attendees have their volume and video that we are eager to incorporate the questions to the extent of time allows. You can submit those using the qanda feature on zoom and we will record a session and distribute and post the video afterwards to the benefit of everyone. Stay tuned for upcoming discussions former under secretary of defense will join us next thursday may 28 and the Jackson Institute to introduce the special guest. Thanks and welcome everyone. As we grapple with the ramifications of the pandemic we are grateful to have a Wonderful Group of faculty and senior fellows. One such individual is the jackson senior fellow howard dean who is a former physician, six term governor of vermont, president ial candidate share of the National Governors association and the Democratic National committee. With maybe a little less wellknown governor dean is professor dean and teaches an incredibly p