Supervisor mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Im supervisor mar, the chairman of this committee, and im joined by supervisor brown and supervisor peskin. Thank you to sfgov. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes. [agenda item read]. Supervisor mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item number 1. [agenda item read]. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar thank you. Id like to welcome helen mar and karen shoot. As you may know, Community Benefit districts, our Business Improvement districts, are officered by local law and state law. This resolution covers annual reports for fiscal year 20172018. Oewd ensured that all c. B. D. S are meeting their annual financial plan. It encompasses approximately 598 parcels. It has an initial budget of 400 million. Its set to expire on june 30, 2019 for this current term. For staff, their executive director is karen flood, and their president is benjamin horn. Our staff reviewed the following budget related benchmarks for u. S. Bid
[applause] thank distinguished members of the 131st legislature, members of my extraordinary. H, thank you for joining me tonight. Im pleased to be joined by the members of my cabinet as i ioned including Major General douglas who is retiring next month. Thank you for being here. [applause] in welcoming the Major General nearly 40 yea of service im also joined by members of my family including my daugh a chi, anthony, julia and my brothers peter and sadly missing my brother who passed away last friday and i honor him tonight in my to the state of the state is a little unorthodox. A■4 change to discuss highprofe issues, challenges and opportuns. Its purpose must be a reflection of the these past fes have been anything but normal. People value strength talk so i will put it to you straight. Weve had a rough couple of months. We have been tested time and time again. We have some pretty serious stuff to talk about. In late october a gunman took the civilian citizens from ages 14 to 76 an
Historical associations congressional briefing on historical perspectives of artificial. Im alexandra levy, Communications Manager at the American Store association, and i coordinate the briefings for the they thank you all for taking the time to be today. Im going to provide a little context for what were doing here this morning. The chase congressional briefings program, which dates back to 2005, provides congressional staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context. Current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that everything has a history and that anyone involved in policies and decisions of any kind, whether in the corporate government or nonprofit worlds, ought to understand how positive hints and policies have shaped the current landscape. Our second premise is it is possible to provide that Historical Context in a manner that is nonpartisan and unencumbered with a particular legislative a
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we remember two legends. i contributed a great deal to the game. basketball superstar and civil rights champion bill russell. captain, the enterprise is up there. and television trailblazer initial nichols of star supreme court. power. power. these protest remembers at the steps right in front of the senate. many of them slept overnight on the steps outside here to protest the failure of the burn pit legislation. they all have this mumbo-jumbo about a budgetary gimmick but nothing changed. this is the oldest trick in washington. republicans are not opposed to any of the substance of the bill. i think it s a disgusting move. it s really an ongoing crisis at a scale almost unimaginable. you can see some of the garbage that s still over here, and can you actually see how high the water has come. this is what we do not want to see, a floodwatch. more rape coming and we expect the water to rise up each higher. and i m pamela brown in washington. you re