Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 15th meeting. Im supervisor gordon mar. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, you have any announcements . Clerk i do mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and employees during the covid19 health emergency, board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Com
[inaudible] the committee will come to order. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Before we turn to the substance of todays hearing, let me address a House Keeping matter. First, let me remind members should during these proceedings , with the exception of when theyre speaking, take precautions in light of covid19 including by wearing a face cover such as a mask. Were also limiting staff attendance at the hearing. I would encourage and urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing your mask. Were also conducting this hearing in the Capital Visitors Center auditorium, which affords Additional Space for those present to remain physically distant from one another. Before i get into the other housekeeping matter, let me just express my best wishes to the president and first lady for a speedy recovery from covid19. I know were all quite shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness. And we hope for
Clerk thank you. We have four yeses. Motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Please call next item, please. Clerk next item, number 20, discussion item, executive directors report. I will keep mine very short, however, i do want to point out that weve been extremely lucky since the shelter in place order. Weve been able to hire two of our t members of our Leadership Team into permanent positions. Ba do is on the reporting side, and were more than happy that bill and his team have adopted him and have assured us that they will be always available to help him be successful in his job. A second key hire that we have brought on board last month and a project that ive been working on for 15 years, and that is to get a Quality Assurance Operational Risk office started in the department, and i have been working with mr. Derwin brown for nearly two years, i think over two years, frankly. Tried to convince him that he needed to leave the l. A. County plan and come up and join us in San Franc
Party victim of running a criminal gang. We begin with the growing differences between regional powers russia and turkey over the ongoing violence in the corner kind of are a call by moscow for the armed forces of armenia and azerbaijan to abide by a russian cease fire has been ignored smaller than 500. 00 people have been killed since fighting broke out last month the region is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but controlled and inhabited by Ethnic Armenians russias foreign minister criticized turkey over its unconditional backing of azerbaijan suggest doesnt it of course on the brutal we do not agree with the position voiced by turkey that was also expressed several times by president so it is not a secret that we cannot agree with a statement that a military solution to the conflict exists and is permissible. Turkeys leader has shot back with a defiant message in parliament richard typer do and says turkey will continue to support it says arry allies said that the re
On cspan. John we have both candidates on the ballot in our studio tonight, incumbent republican steve daines peered welcome, senator steve daines and democratic governor, Steve Bullock. Welcome to illinois. We appreciate having everyone here in person. We are safely distanced and ready for serious debate. Anna we have a slightly different format. Each candidate will have 90 seconds to answer the question. Afterwards there will be an open discussion period for that topic with a chance for rebuttals, comments and exchanges. We will finish the debate with a 92nd closing statement from each candidate. With thes get set Supreme Court justice confirmation. The justice past saturday, President Trump announcing his nominee, anna kony barrett. Promises to be another contentious process following the ugly scene with the kavaa naugh situation. Possibly term limits for the justices or changing the size of the court itself. Our first question, as montanas senator, would you vote for any changes in