Sector. This is just over one hour. Id like to welcome our online audience and cspan. Meridian is a center for International Diplomacy and leadership and we been working since 1962 try to look for ways to strengthen cooperation on Important International issues and the issues in the secretarys portfolio are some of the most important domestic and International Issues and you will hear more about that later. Our board chair who is a mutual friend of many of you including the secretary on forcefully couldnt be here but sends his regards. Now my pleasure to introduce one of our trustees, the honorable mweghan byer who is a dynamo. She is the head of a fantastic program that brings arts and culture through our ambassadors residence is and beyond to people around the world. She served as president obamas chair of the commission of arts and humanities. She has been active also in switzerland where she and her husband, now congressman don buyer served representing the United States. She launc
To the conference this morning. Held under the under the auspice of common good and columbias center on and society. Nearby is philip howard, founder of common good and a senior fellow of the center. So were linked together. Hes a principal organizer of this conference with its theme reempower human Agency Agency as economists come to recognize for work to be meaningful, it has to working people some degree of. Not the mechanical work of in neoclassical economics. Without that the workers suffer, as Richard Sennett argued in his book of some years ago, the culture of the new capitalism. Philip howard has been making another point, one yet not absorbed, i think, by economists. The absence of human agency into bureaucracies prevents them. The bureaucracies from generous getting the services needed by the public. Here it is in the case of sennett, it was the workers that were suffering here. Its the consumers and producers who are suffering because theyre not getting good service. As phil
To be responsible for Parking Enforcement . Why do we keep creating impediments instead of building on really one of the most popular successes of the last few years . When is the last time youve ever sat in this room and heard a near unanimous parade of merchants praising an mta program anywhere in the city . This this program has nearunanimous support from merchants on the 400 block of hayes that are directly affected. And its one of our citys most walkable and transit rich commercial areas. And for those who need to drive, theres a 600 space mta owned parking garage around the corner for everyone. Obviously, as youve heard, the shared space is not perfect, but instead of retreating, which will do nothing to address those concerns, we can work harder to make the shared space work better and live up to the values that we talk so much about. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Board members. Luke bornheimer here. I urge you to amend the item today to keep the three day clos
Heard that a lot of businesses did not feel comfortable publicly voicing their concerns. So weve kept their responses anonymous as. In conclusion, this is not about a one day or a three day closure. This is about reset ing and rebuilding that trust in the community and making a process so its possible that the block can work well and get to 24 over seven. And it wasnt working for some merchants. And thats not a reason to cancel it entirely. We really want an opportunity to grow and expand. On the success in hayes valley and see it thrive. So with that, that concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues, do you have questions before we go to Public Comment at dr. Ikuko . Just one. I have i have feelings about this, but my clarifying question to you is there have been some talk of asking us to do some kind of study on what it would take to make this permanent and whats your thoughts on on doing that kind of study . Yeah, its would be amazin
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