Good morning everybody welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance question meeting for wednesday february, 10, 2016. I want to thank jennifer low and charles for covering this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Please silence all cell phones. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th board of supervisors agenda. Item number one resolution authorizing the recreation and Park Department accept grant in the amount of approximately 27 million from the state of California Department of housing and Community Development to fund housing related park projects. Thank you very much. Good morning committee members. My name is tony. Im the grant manager for the recreation park capital and improvement division. The item before you is legislation to authorize recreation and park to retroactively accept and extend a grand in the amount of approximately 2. 6 million from the California Department of housing and Community Development department. The legislat
What we do have and what ill be presenting this afternoon is a good deal, a very robust qualitative information that speaks to the phenomenology, the experience of having been mobbed. What the elements and aspects of that experience are like and what the health harming effects of that are so this talk, just dont worry is the only reason i say it is going to shift a little bit from the Empirical Data to looking more at theconceptual and phenomenological framework. These are the books that kate mentioned that my colleague doctor lindner and im wrote in 2012, 2014 about mobbing and in so doing we extended the work of heinz lannon in sweden, the psychologist who studied road and worked with targets in the 80s and also i think i would like to just credit the work of doctor ken west you in canada whose work on mobbing focused primarily on higher educational mobbing in higher ed and also i would like to include doctors ruth and gary namely, the founders and directors of the Workplace Bullying
National history and borrow its patent models. So sorry, wes, cant lend any. In our desperation, we turned to our friends in the u. S. Patent office, and he said, you should contact alan rothchild who owns the largest private collection of american patent models in the world. We did just that. I went up to casanova effort todays, and alan and anne couldnt be more gracious and hospitable. They had built this wing on their house to display the patent models, and alan said, borrow anything you like. I spent two days selecting. It was a hard choice narrowing it down, and as you know, the exhibition was a Great Success here for two years. Thats my personal contact with the rothchilds rothschilds. Alan received a degree in pharmacy and went into the Family Business. Threether established pharmacies in the syracuse, new york area, so allen was going to do that for a career, but while he was in college, he was interested in a pot the kerry shops. Displayed objects would go into an apothecary s
Americas northern triangltrian recognition of acute challenges these countries face. U. S. Assistance through the strategy complements the investments northern triangle governments are making through their own development plan, the alliance for prosperity. They plan to spend 2. 6 billion this year on their own plan. Continued u. S. Support will be vital to colombias success as it seeks to implement a peace accord. Our partnership with mexico remains an important priority for the United States, and includes a range of issues that benefit both countries, including trade and investment, energy and security. The merritt initiative continues to provide the framework for our bilateral Security Cooperation at both forward and state levels. Our request also includes a central democracy assistance for cuba and venezuela, where the United States will continue to provide assistance that advances universal human rights and supports vibrant civil societies. Promotions of democratic principals and h
Host last question quickly, alexis. About transition planning, can you describe what the Economic Team is doing collectively, how far you are in thinking about transition planning, coordination, information gathering . Mr. Furman i can tell you for the council of economic advisors that weve had a long standing tradition of we hire our staff mostly one year at a time and they work from summer to summer. So i am right now hiring the staff that will work for me for six months and work for the next president , whoever he or she is for the First Six Months of their term. Certainly in my experience in this administration, president bush as a whole had an extremely effective transition and one that we would like to emulate, and i know the council of economic advisors, its always worked well, and it wont be an exception this time. Is there one person for the Economic Team thats coordinated who is the designated mr. Furman i dont have anything for you on that process. You cant say . Mr. Furman