Good afternoon i direct the program on counterterrorism and intelligence yet the institute i am pleased to welcome you to the latest in a lecture series. Today we will discuss islamic terrorism in the west and we have a fantastic panel. Serving as a nationalsecurity counterterrorism in the netherlands for this possibility for Crisis Management to briefly served as the director general with the road map and information sharing. Fraserr so by my two friends and colleagues the new executive director for north americaintern the Counter Extremism Group spending several years in Government Service in the Counterterrorism Center and the department of land security finalizing his ph. D. At howard focusing and muslim communities in the west and congratulations on 70 your dissertation this morning. [applause] we go back quite a ways we go back to graduate School Together and can tell stories. Shd author and strategist during the obamast Administration New the firstever special representative to
Good afternoon i direct the program on counterterrorism and intelligence yet the institute i am pleased to welcome you to the latest in a lecture series. Today we will discuss islamic terrorism in the west and we have a fantastic panel. Serving as a nationalsecurity counterterrorism in the netherlands for this possibility for Crisis Management to briefly served as the director general with the road map and information sharing. Fraserr so by my two friends and colleagues the new executive director for north americaintern the Counter Extremism Group spending several years in Government Service in the Counterterrorism Center and the department of land security finalizing his ph. D. At howard focusing and muslim communities in the west and congratulations on 70 your dissertation this morning. [applause] we go back quite a ways we go back to graduate School Together and can tell stories. Shd author and strategist during the obamast Administration New the firstever special representative to
In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as
President scott. Here. Vice president lim. Here. Supervisor farrell. Here. Commissioner ferrigno. Here. Commissioner follansbee here. Commissioner sass here. We now have a quorum. We will now take item number one. Item number one is the approval of theminutes of the regular meeting of august 11, 2016. Are there any Public Comment . All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. The minutes are adopted [gavel] item 2. Item 2 is gen. Public comment on items that are not on todays agenda. Are there any Public Comments on items that are not on todays agenda . I only have a few minutes but i did want to mention that we will Start Talking to the board about the benefits that the members will receive and we have a quite a few members who did not have access to these benefits before or they used it and had not wanted it but its been run through hsf and it has been monitored and it has been vetted andwe thank you for that. Thank you and thank you for bringing your thanks. We need that. Yes sir . Go
Extension. If the president signed that . The im not sure that anybody knows what the outcome of the situation is going to be. We saw the speaker of the house going on television over the weekend to declare that he is certainly comfortable with not funding the department of Homeland Security. I am not sure what kind of an of general mlss leads to that conclusion. And im not sure that its in the best interest of the vote tabulation that i can see. But yet he said that its on the left. And i think that does raise some questions about whether or not this new governing public and majority in congress is committed to actually being responsible in acting at the best interest to get one of the things he said at the end of last year was one of his goals was to make sure that Republican Leadership didnt appear scary to the american people. He was setting the bar really low. It looks like right now they are prepared to wiggle underneath the bar. We are going to see what should emerge as a plan f