Fred good afternoon. im fred kempe, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council. Im delighted to welcome you all here at the Atlantic Council today on behalf of everyone at Atlantic Council, on behalf of people of pulled this together so its to you every thing were doing and initiative for the launch of this crucially important report, and you know, people standing at the podium say things crucially important. It really is. Hacking the election lessons from the defcon voting village. Here the Atlantic Council we operate under the Enduring Mission of working together to secure the future. This has meant seriously because the founders of Atlantic Council desecration, one of the people who helped found this was dean acheson wrote the book of the International Double order. We see that order is being under threat and we see one of the things exposed that most of the threat in the order we created is the advance and the protection and security of democracies. We believe a stable prosperous wo
With the general an think taking place . I know whether its emerge or care, i helped start a Youth Leadership symposium in houston where im from and its still very, very difficult for us to get people engaged to sign up for these programs. So you can talk about putting these programs in the mosque or starting a sunday school class about it or putting ads in your local paper, but theres still a very, very large divide in having people in the Community Involved in this. What are suggestions practically speaking on apathy . Okay, ill go first. And thank you for sort of thank you for the question. Something that id eventually speak about when i was up there. One of the ideas we have tried to quote unyoet get the Community Involved and engaged is to get them to run for Political Office at the lowest level. There are thousand chairs in the city of houston. And about 10 of them are from our community. Our population is less than 1 or 2 approximately. Many times, its not that difficult to get
Question whats that. Codify. Notoriety when you codify. To your previous question were not changing the legal rights of restriction either the community or developer those are essentially staying the same were restraining order trying to approach that on the front end if people are more cognizant of whether or not this is appropriate for the neighborhood frankly so be it thats the objective to make sure were having this communication so the venues and people are with your of it and that is hard to agree with commissioner melgar. So you have questions. Well done. Commissioners i was going to as interject this thing about putting more restrictions on the developers to you know deal with the sound like proofing in the past a lot of the venues were impacted because the onerous was put on them i dont know the exact history of the independents but going back to night clubs like slimdz they took over a warehouse that was brick there was a lot of clubs in those Industrial Areas and the onerous
Window or ventilation so this committee will review those specifically address any issues that are relevant to the project in terms of down the line when the notification process takes place thats a Public Document that the owner or the landowner has to sign an affidavit and at any time the venue or Entertainment Commission w can request one, if not an enforcement process for that. I was thinking down the road at this point everyone is on board and understands 10 years down the road enforcement becomes an issue. Which element of the enforcement. Making sure the the existing entertainment is still within the guidelines that the nogs notice of special restrictions are in place and understood by the community thats down the road who keeps working on and assuring harmony. Youll notice the lovely jocelyn cane has been working with us from day one ultimately your question is spot on and the onerous is on here its an opportunity this really helps them to exercise in their mandate to oversee i
Venues and people are with your of it and that is hard to agree with commissioner melgar. So you have questions. Well done. Commissioners i was going to as interject this thing about putting more restrictions on the developers to you know deal with the sound like proofing in the past a lot of the venues were impacted because the onerous was put on them i dont know the exact history of the independents but going back to night clubs like slimdz they took over a warehouse that was brick there was a lot of clubs in those Industrial Areas and the onerous was put on them so to me if im going to be bias it is fair to put it on a brand new developer hes putting up a new building it is easier to improve because the codes have that be improved to work and a brand new building then someone that occupies a warehouse for 20 years and try to you know sound proof his warehouses now so the complaints come in i know a lot of venues a lot of money on sound proofing their venues. To the commissioner, i w