Good afternoon everyone. And welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting. My name is sheri albers and this meeting is now in order. Today is friday, may 19, 2023. This is a inperson and virtual hybrid meeting. This meeting is broadcast to the public on sfgovtv, and it is open captioned and asl interpreted. The Mayors Disability Council holds 10 Public Meetings per year, and they are generally held on the third friday of the month. Please visit the mod website at www. Sf. Gov mod or call the mayor office of disability at 4155545678. For more information or email sorry. Mod sf. Gov, for any accommodations you may need. Our next regular meeting will be friday june 16, 2023. From 1 oclock to 4 oclock right here in this room, which is room 400 in San Francisco city hall. I dont know if i mentioned that is where we are at. It is also going to be hybrid meeting and broadcast on sfgovtv. We thank you for joining us and we are glad you are here. Okay, mary, could you please conduct the rol
We are going to move forward here. A panel led by two of our great governors, oklahoma governor kevin and roy cooper. Give a big welcome to them. Yes. Yes. Governor, i think you will open us up. Yeah. Thank you so much, bill. And welcome everybody, we are so excited for you to join us. Infrastructure is one of the most common topics we are asked about as governors. When will the new bridgeville . When will the potholes be text . When will my Community Get highspeed internet . Why is it taking so long to finish . Take your pick. The pipeline. The grid upgrade. Solar projects. You name it. Theres no sugar coating it. The United States is among the slowest nations in the developed world approving and completing Infrastructure Projects. Particularly when it comes to energy. You know, permitting reviews for Energy Products in the u. S. Take, listen to this, six years longer than in china, india, or other European Union nations. That is according to the analysis from ive had Energy Stakehold
The annual meeting in Atlantic City. It covered electric grid, the permitting process and broadband access. This is 45 minutes. Welcome. The governors action accelerate projects here to open the session is executive director of the governors association. Great. Thank you. Come on, everybody. [applause] thank you. Thank you all for being back. Hope you had a great lunch. We will move forward here. A panel led by two of our great governors. North carolina governor roy cooper. A big welcome to them. All right. I think you will open us up. Thank you. Welcome, everybody. Infrastructure is one of the most common topics that we were asked about as governors. When will the new bridge be built, when will the potholes be fixed, when will my Community Get high speed internet, why is this taking so long to finish. Just take your pick. The pipeline,e, grid upgrade, solar projects, you name it. The United States is among the slowest nations approving and completing infrastructure projects. Permittin
For today. Mr. Shawn william. We are not doing that. Some of yall is acting like you dont have hot burns on the back of your neck right now. Acting real upty, this is our celebration and you guys are acting real real real upty right now. Happy juneteenth. [applause] stop playing with me. This mic moves, i can go everywhere. I see you. We are going to be celebrating us, black music. Really just music because music is black music. We create when we have nothingwe create everything, not something, everything. So, we are going to be celebrating ourselves, our music, our culture, our heritage and there are two rules. Rules on a celebration . Yes. Rules on a celebration. Rule number one, there are a lot of influential people, inspirational people and young people who are inspirational in here. Look to your, front, back, right. We are family in here. Get all this golf clap out of your system now. We are not doing that today. Introduce yourselves. Get to know each other. Yes. Alright. I like t
It. Thank you administrator. Obviously broadband, thats the foundation of it but as we are looking at other options, very important so we are utilizing all technologies and advancing new technologies, too. Thanks for being here today, i yield back. Thank you. The gentleman yields. We are now going to take a short, very short recess. I ask that members remain seated so we can convene very shortly. Thank you very much. My [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ayokay folks. [inaudible conversations] thank you thank you mr. Davidson. The chairman recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. Kohler rakas 545 minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman, i appreciate it much. As you know, states are in the process of submitting their draft initial proposals to your agency for review and approval before beginning to run their state programs. One requirement ntia injected was a requirement for state players to address middleclass affordability. Hearing the secretary raimondos promise in a Senat