But your expectation that the Transpacific Partnership will happen this year. Professor. Lets give him a call in a minute here. We only have have a few more minutes. Im going to take your questions quickly from the back. First of all is it your expectation this will be concluded this year . Secondly, on the b. I. T. Did i understand you correctly to say that you would hope and expect that the b. I. T. Will be completed and ratifyied before the end of the Obama Administration . And my question related to that is since next year, obviously its a very Political Year in the United States, if it cannot be are the faed by the end of the administration by the end of this administration do you think its very important to have it completed by the end of the administration. Yes. And then have a completed agreement come up in the next administration . Yes. Yes. Very good. Go ahead. Four tpp, because thats very frankly yesterday treasury briefed us, enena big debate in congress. And if they can be
All of you. Ladies and gentlemen, friends. Welcome to brookings. This is a much expected event and we had trouble accommodating everybody who wanted to listen to you. Im really grateful that you took the time out of the meetings to share your perspectives with you. You are well known, many books 15 books. I dont know all of them, but i note that to articulate the global medicine, two years ago and that modest proposal for resolving the euro crisis, two years ago. You were elected to the parliament in january 2015 picks i welcome you very deeply on the part of the brookings, the whole brookings community, that there is programs better hosting you today, all of us, the whole brookings family. I welcome mr. Ambassador not yet. And also personally. And i cant help saying that i also welcome Yanis Varoufakis as a neighbor of the turks. Ok, it is your floor and then we will have a discussion. Yanis varoufakis thank you, kemal. Its with the deepest gratitude that i wish to thank you for this
The details for the Draft Program for the next two 2 fiscal years. I will start. At this time the city is expecting a general Fund Shortfall of just over 100 million in fiscal year 1415 and over 118 million in fiscal year 1516. These projection are much lower and much lower during what was issued in the last budget project. The Economic Outlook has improved over the past year. Many uncertainties still do exist in these numbers such as the economic uncertainty, the results of this citys Union Labor Negotiations as well as continued cost in increases in employee fringe benefits. As for the budget instructions for our department is to reduce general fund support by 1. Percent in fiscal year 1415. To 40,000 and by 1 percent which equates to 67,000 for 1516. We dont receive much general support from the general fund. There is an additional one 1 percent contingency reduction in fiscal year 1516 and instructions by the mayor department is reveal of departmental fees and well be submitting a
Comment on items when they are addressed. I have no speaker cards. Is there any general Public Comment . Amazing. Public general comment is close. Regular calendar. Item 10. Item 10 10. K. Demartini; 4155 57591188 fy 20142016 proposed Department Work Program Informational presentation of the highlevel work Program Activities for the department in fy 20142015 and fy20152016 based on the current Staffing Levels in fy 20132014, Performance Measures and proposed dates where budget items will be discussed during the budget process. Preliminary recommendation none sf 1012341234 thank you, commission, john Ram Department hachld we are here to present information on the department 14, 15, 16 budget. It is that time already. This will be the 6th budget that i present to you and we continue to be in a very robust time in the department. Our revenues continue to rise given the proposed construction activity, proposed Development Activity that we are seeing both out there today and the projects co
Although it brightens up their will be showers around, regularly across eastern areas. Traders is another band of rain moving. As one could bring localised flooding with snow melts combined with every rain gcioss melts combined with every rain across southern scotland. The weather has been very wet over recent days. That could tip us over into having some flooding issues. The weather front weakens as it reaches eastern england. Last weekend we set a new transatlantic record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 taking five hours to cfoss flight 112 taking five hours to cross the atlantic. It was an incredible record, but it is under threat friday and saturday because we are going to get an incredibly strong jet stream moving across the atlantic. The peak winds in this piece, up to 275 mph. That will not only propel planes very quickly gcioss only propel planes very quickly across the atlantic, it will gouge ata across the atlantic, it w