It is friday august 14th this is the appropriations and budget meeting im sandra fure. Fewer. Thank you for sf gov tv for broadcasting. Do have an announcement. In accordance with governor newsoms executive order no. N3320 declaring a state of emergency regarding the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their board and Committee Meetings to convene remotely Via Microsoft teams and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Visit the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meetings, or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via you can call 14156550001 again 14156550001 me
Were honored to have them here today. A special welcome to our commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, chairman farar, vice chairman bill hible and commissioner ann weidner. Today, as you know, under the auspices of the Advisory Commission weve called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa. And where it fits into state departments vision for Public Diplomacy Going Forward in the 21st century. And as vivian walker, executive director, it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the mic over to my colleague for opening comments, i just want to tell you a little bit about how things are going to go today. Mr. Farar will give us brief comments and well turn it over to our principal speakers. Theyll speak in a tagteam formation. At the end of their presentation well be happy to take your questions and comments. Please hold your questions and comments until they have finished their presentation. For the moderated q a session, the
The situation in florida and the gulf coast, and some years ago in connecticut and other parts of this country face a Natural Disaster almost as devastating as an attack would be by a foreign power. Analogous, different, but this category four Hurricane Maria caused consequences as devastating and destructive as any that man could do. It is a Natural Disaster. Not man made, but it is turning into a man made disaster. The response so far from our government has been underwhelming. In fact, it has been inadequate and anemic. It has been shamefully slow and undersized, and should be vastly upgraded and increased. Just moments ago, i learned that Lieutenant General buchanan has been appointed to head the military efforts in puerto rico. That appointment followed a call just an hour or so ago with all of the representatives, including fema, the department of defense, other federal agencies and the red cross where i urged that our United States military be mobilized, much as we would in resp
1979 when we had 14 inflation. So thats my tame on it. Amity, please. I would be a little more cautious than steve there and say maybe our problems are monetary, because the prices dont seem to accord with what the government is saying. So, if a certain price is way much higher, and we were told nonetheless we have no inflation, thats confusing. We need another data set. We need another philosophy. In the olden days, your family banks would not have spoken of inflation, they would have spoken of credit or credit tightening. Thats the lexicon of classical economics. Maybe that lexicon works a little better to explain the spongy, bubbly feel of the economy right now. Most of us believe that Federal Reserve policy has a lot to do with the stock market increase, that maybe the companies arent all doing that much better. That its just our next bubble, which means our next pop, our next trouble. And the way out of that is stability in money, even pegging money to something, and we shouldnt b
Is there any other any Public Comment . Seeing none. Were going to go into recess well return at the 2 15 p. M. Lu . And go through some of the highlights and answer any questions i might have. Oh, weighing weve got to give him a hard time. So if we could go to the slide show. As the reminder the mission for the infrastructure goal is to in order to continue to provide high quality responsibilities to our customers per we implement the facilities that are necessary by the enterprises for them to do their work. Our organizational chart is a Typical Organization weve a project bureau to handsome your overall bureau and a bureau it does the design and a bureau that helps us to the post construction admission. We have a Construction Management bureau it helps us through the physical construction and the workforce and Economic Services where we do outreach we want to make sure that the lgbt communities are incorporated into our puc and stay current with city build and make sure were being a