Here. Vice president . Present. Commissioner hao is expected. Commissioner scott is present. Commissioner canning is here. We have a forum. Quorum. Number 4, please. Approval with the possible modifications of the minutes set forth blow, regular Meeting Minutes from november 14, 2019. Action item. President breslin okay. Has everyone read the minutes . I have no corrections. I would like this comment, according to the minutes i talk too much. [laughter] so im going to try to be better. I keep you all here. Its terrible. But i have no corrections. Since he has no corrections, ill second the motion. President breslin all right. Any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, all those in favor, aye . All those opposed. There are none opposed. Its unanimous. Item number 5. Item 5, general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. This is a discussion item. Please come forward. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is richard rothman, retired city worker. I thought after i
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There is a wellknown european wisdom, authored by the german minister of economics habik. Industry is not going bankrupt, it is it just stops working. And the fourteenth package of antirussian sanctions hangs over europe, which they are in a hurry to adopt before the hungarian presidency of the eu in the second half of this year. This package plans to introduce restrictions on the import of russian liquefied natural gas. And probably the most amazing news of the day is that. To analyze the consequences of such a step, belgium, germany and france turned not to independent experts, but to the European Commission itself. Mikhail antonov, anastasia barkovskaya, andrey putra, news berlin, germany. The British Parliament is officially dissolved and early elections will be held on july 4. The news, which became a cold shower for conservatives, was announced by Prime Minister sunok in the pouring rain. The kings sanction has been received, but what happens next is unclear. The british have pla
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