Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss nigerias struggle against boko haram one of the most lethal terrorist groups in africa today and thank you mr. Chairman and of the committee for a long Time Leadership on african issues. Over month ago the world was outraged when boko haram kidnapped some 250 young women from a secondary school in chibok and United States with a joint effort to help nigeria safely recover the hostages. President obama pledged our full support and president dory accepted secretary kerrys assistance. Today a robust Multidisciplinary Team for the nicest government is working handinhand with nigerian counterparts and teams from half a dozen other countries such as the United Kingdom and france. Our military and civilian experts and intelligence military planning Strategic Communication civilian protection and victim victim support have been given unprecedented access and cooperation to assist nigerias effort to safely recover the kidnapped schoolgirls. This e
That and that will increase the amount of individuals reaching out onto the street as the team does of course and also all five of these team will have the skill level and Skilled Nursing and others that will be critically important from an administrative perspective to run the program. Correct. Great. I wanted to make sure of that. Colleagues, any questions . Comments . Supervisor wiener . Supervisor scott weiner thank you for being here today. My apologize for missing the beginning of your presentation. Im very supportive of expanding the hot team. I think its given the scope of the challenge that we have in San Francisco, i have always been a little dumbfounded as to how the limited resources that weve been putting in our outreach efforts given the scope of the problem. Im glad that we are moving in this direction. I know that i have seen plenty of instances over time where a hot teamworkers have been able to help deal with encampments and other challenges in my district. When i tal
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday march 19, 2014. We are at 1 15 right now and well continue this meeting until 230 30 to allow people to continue to an arrive. Can we take this welcome back t budget and finance committee. My name is supervisor mark farrell. I will be charg this committee. Im joining by supervisor avalos and breed and well be joined by scott wiener and i would like to thank sfgtv committee. Madam clerk, any items. Yes, please submit speaker cards to the clerk. The action will be submitted to the board of supervisors agenda. Supervisor mark farrell please call item no. 1. Item item this is item 140121. This will put more homeless members and provide additional housing for homeless. Our Homeless Outreach is critical to reducing our Homeless Population. Current funding levels facilitates 24 people on the streets. For people sleeping on the streets isnt enough. This will increase t
Federation. The federation has a very simple role that is sort of much more complicated in execution. Our goal is to create a vibrant and healthy Jewish Community wherever jews are in the world. So here in the bay area as well as in eastern europe, latin america, and then, of course, israel, as well. So how does a vibrant Community Get formed . I know thats a general question, but in the context of what a Faith Community has and to the rest of the community, what formulates a vibrant community. Really, there is three principles derived directly from the torrah and depending on ones background, can be interpreted more or less strictly or literally. Our Social Security a very looser flexible interpretation because oaf the diversity of the bay area. We think theyre swinging ingredients to a healthy vibrant Jewish Community. One is education and identity. Without building the next generation of juice who know where they came from and have the opportunity to figure out where they want to go
And its running low on a weapons to deliver to ukraine with stockpiles running on fumes that size u. S. Supplies may also be running low, though that is firmly rejected by the pentico with good to have you with us with this Alice Program live from moscow. This is alta international. We do starting out with the very latest developments from the ukraine conflict. A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency has arrived in zap would always be city located just adjacent to the Nuclear Power plant. The agency wants to create a Permanent Mission at the side and of course assess the state of the facility after repeated shelling attacks my mission. Typically, a mission that seeks to prevent a Nuclear Accident and to preserve at this important, just the biggest step i was in, you repeat the whole of europe not only in ukraine. So this is what we are concentrating the Agencies Mission and come as a bit numerous reported ukrainian attacks on the nearby city of antarctica daughter