Share all of our condolences with people of the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank all of my colleagues on the board, many of whom gathered in the wee hours of this morning at zuckerberg general hospital. With that, our clerk is Alberto Quintanilla and mr. Clerk, if you could please call the roll, were going to have a very brief meeting and then we are going to adjourn to go have a press conference with our acting mayor london breed on the mayors balcony. Clerk item one, commissioner breed, breed absent. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, present. Commissioner fewer, fewer absent. Commissioner kim, kim present. Commissioner peskin. Present. Commissioner ronen, present. Commissioner safai present, commissioner sheehy, absent. Commissioner tang, present commissioner yee. Commissioner sheehy should be named present. Commissioner fewer, i spoke to a few hours ago, well take that without objection. Im going to forego the chair support, madam secretary director
House sparked a war of words spnspn with steve bannon. His forthcoming book went after members of the president s family and he fired back in a statement saying mr. Bannon not only lost his job he lost his mind, close quote. Theres more to this story playing out in the newspapers this morning. But we want you to comment to us about this latest spat between President Trump and steve bannon. The white house and steve bannon as well, 2027488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002 on twitter, you can tweet us cspanwj and not only post there but see statements made bizarrea sanders at the White House Press briefing, that as facebook. Com cspan. The book is called fire and fury, inside the Trump White House and excerpts of it appeared on the website for new York Magazine. Part of those excerpts commenting and quoting steve bannon, particularly on several members of the trump family, including donald trump jr. Here is one of the quotes. The three senior guys on the campaign thought it
The white house wants to unveil it before the state of the union. Plans beforeo has the consumer conference in las vegas. Also, the 200 billion that are going to be from direct federal spending, we know from the white house infrastructure advisor, they are going to ask for money from existing federal accounts, and when you reach the 200 billion mark, that would incentivize 800 billion in privatesector funds. Now, that is a different debate whether or not you can reach that mark over 10 years. Also 25 billion will be allocated for rural projects. 3t is very difficult to get a p polling facility to be profitable along rural highways. Then you will have a real push on the part of the white house and the administration to streamline environmental for construction projects, these big Infrastructure Projects. The aim is to take it from 10 years down to two years. Critics will point out that is extremely difficult. You know, this is something that is extremely necessary for these major projec
House herech the live on cspan and the senate live on cspan two. Light monday night on the communicators, where on location in bell labs. It is one of the premier Communication Research facilities in the world, providing work in lasers. The president discusses what is new in communications technology. We are presented with a ton of data but not necessarily knowledge. In the next era, we will collect everything in your environment infrastructure, buildings, cities and automate that. Your energy will be automatically managed for you. All of that requires a change in networks. The cloud has to move into the network to accommodate that. The network will become valued again and devices will be everywhere on you, in you, in your devices. Watch the communicators monday night at eight eastern on cspan two. Next, a look at infrastructure needs in the u. S. And how congress and the Trump Administration may approach federal funding for future projects. From washington journal, this is an hour and
Crash course. When did we have our last retreat . March. In march . Yeah. Okay. Let me get through the summit, and then we can go to a retreat. We can go to napa and do some wine tasting or something. I just want to acknowledge the staff for throwing an amazing holiday party. Yeah, thank you. And a belated happy birthday to steven rice. Happy birthday. All right. Thank you all for sticking with us for this meeting. No final comments . Meetings adjourned. Good morning. Today is wednesday, january 17, 2018. Regular meeting of the building Inspection Commission. I would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. First item is roll call. President mccarthy. [roll call taken] we have a quorum, and the next item is president s announcements. Good morning. And welcome, everybody, to the first meeting for 2018. And look forward to another busy year here at the city and county of San Francisco. A big thank you to chief and building inspector patrick oreardon, i believe hes here