And it appears on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Mr. Clerk, call item number 1. Clerk a motion directing the clerk of the board to initiate a request for proposals process for special Investigation Services. Thank you. Supervisor haney, as a sponsor of this measure, the floor is yours. Thank you, chair marr, and good morning, everyone. I think that this is, you know, obviously a very challenging time for our city right now with multiple departments who have been implicated in a larger investigation. Clearly, you know, charges that have been levied by the u. S. Attorney against individuals in government and outside. And it is critical that we do everything that we can to investigate fully, prevent any future fraud or corruption, and to do everything that we can to restore the public trust. This is not a time for business as usual and i think that the public is looking to us as the board of supervisors to investigate fully to make some serious changes around accountab
Exciting and interesting. This one is no exception. I have seen so many friends who have come from far and wide, including my good friend all the way from texas. Thank you for coming. We are now in the portion of our program, we have had a wonderful introduction to the road to guadalcanal from richard frank. Someday we are going to do a rich frank symposium, eight straight hours. No one would object. I know that. Now, we are in the portion of our program, for the next three sessions, we will be looking at land, sea, and air fighting around and over guadalcanal. We will start with the land portion. Dr. Andy west is universal dr. Andrew wiest is a distinguished professor. He is the codirector of the dale center for society. That rivals the length of my own title, and i think andy needs his own placard. He is the author of numerous books, including war in the pacific, vietnams forgotten army, and the boys of 67. He is also a great undiscovered rock drummer. He is here to speak about the f
Press on with that as. An tensions flare once again in hong kong for democracy demonstrators and police clashing luxury shopping malls across the city our correspondent on the scene assesses the latest developments. On her home for a glad you could join me marathon un climate talks in madrid have ended in a disappointment to see weeks of talks negotiators from more than 200 countries had to settle for some watered down declarations calling for him back ambitious climate protection targets big producers resisted calls for tougher action on Global Warming and a critical decision on rules regulating Carbon Emissions was pushed back to next year activists say what has been achieved will have little impact. They were the longest talks to date leaving representatives exhausted with little progress made on how to limit Global Warming to under 2 degrees but there was agreement on one issue. Regretfully after all the hard work that you have all done we couldnt get to an agreement it is my since
Latest. And china in the United States step back from the brink of an all out trade war that could have hurt Global Economic growth they put their plans for tariffs on hold just ahead of deadlock. On nick spicer glad you could join us. Marathon un climate talks in madrid have ended with agreement on some key points but the most contentious issues remain unresolved after more than 2 weeks ago shaders failed to deliver a firm agreement on how to handle Carbon Markets where big emitter of car Greenhouse Gases forgive me and buy the right to pollute from countries that emit less than their quota or fair share so the delegates from almost 200 countries passed declarations calling for a bishes climate protection targets but the critical decision on rules for regulating Carbon Emissions was postponed to next year. They were the longest talks to date leaving representatives exhausted with little progress made on how to limit Global Warming to under 2 degrees but there was agreement on one issu
Is Public Comment. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Noapproval of minutes of october 15, 20 2019 and october, 2019. Do we have approval . I raise a motion. Second. Any Public Comment on minutes . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Missione role call . The minutes have been approved. And next agenda item is a report from our executive director wyland. Thank you, president. Good evening, commissioners. So this evening one hav, i havef update for you, but i wanted to circle back on our annual retreat and just do a little afteraction with all of you here. And also let you know well revisit the Mission Vision and values at our next hearing on november 19th, is the idea. And that would come as an action item, where it would, instead of being discussion only tonight, we cant vote on the Mission Vision and values in their draft form but we could do that at the next meeting and we should just to memorialize it. Via email today, i sent you a link to our google acco