For more information go to our website, studentcam. Org. This week on q and a, meijer inc chairman, hendrik meijer, talks about Arthur Vandenberg, the man in the middle in the of the american century. Brian hendrik meijer, author of of the man in the middle of the american century. When was the first time you ever thought about writing a book this about this man . In 1989 i thought of a biography. But i was casting about for another idea. Ill a failed fiction writer and poet looking for a character i wouldnt have to create but could explore and explain. Was talking to freand of mine historian in grand rapids, saying Arthur Vandenberg, i am intrigued by him. I love foreignpolicy. I kept running across his name. But some professor back in 1970 published the first of what was supposed to be a twovolume biography and i thought the world doesnt need two biographies. That year my friend was responsible for the local state Historical Societys annual meeting. He was putting together the progra
For staff, and that we do so with the thought that cca will be your priority until and probably immediately after launch. But as along as were looking at things with the priorityrating and timingrating, where were taking into consideration what the commissions priorities are . I think that is shing something that we should move forward with. I would certainly agree that Municipal Banking is something that we should look at. I would like to work with supervisor avalos and his office, and see just in terms of the working group and what the status is on that . Whether you think that its something that is viable to have on the lookout, or if we should be looking at it more in terms of putting it on the agenda for a future meeting to get something going on that . And then the last thing i would say is that i would be interested in whether or not a special study could include Something Like transportation . Something that was floated by me was looking at the impact on Public Transportation i
Us to go and sell the program to the whole city. We need jobs and a break on their energy bills and that kind of thing. You need to be able to adopt in the lower income communities such as much solar as highincome communities. So that buildout piece is important and i think we need a hearing about that either at lafco or the board. I want to chime in on public bank. That, if you look at what is happening in greece right now, it becomes really clear that the Global Private financing and Banking System is becoming so incredibly powerful that they can literally hijack a country and go against the will of over 60 of the voters in that country. Lets not forget back during when gerry ford was president and president ford basically said, sorry, so we need to be able to protect ourselves in the case that the global banks become even more powerful and even start trying to leverage San Francisco. We need to figure out a way to have a public bank available, so we can avoid the kind of thing that
Would like to comment, and seeing none come forward, well close Public Comment and also announce the arrival of commissioner lindo. Welcome. Thank you. And if we have a motion on the minutes. So moved. A motion from commissioner crews, seconded by commissioner mar, and well take that without objection. Okay. Item no. 3, please. Item 3 is Community Choice aggregation activities report, a, the status update on cleanpowersf program and timeline for program launch, b, status update on the proceedings at the California Public Utilities Commission and c, status update on state legislation and d, the civil grand jury report entitled cleanpowersf at long last. Thank you, we dont have barbara hale, but we have michael here to present on our cca activities are going in San Francisco and i know they are Going Forward in a way that well be very happy about. Look forward to the report. Thank you, good afternoon, commissioners. Happy friday. Michael heims, San Francisco. So i think what im going to
Good afternoon it the one p. M. This is the meeting on the San Francisco Community Investment Infrastructure Commission to the redevelopment agree for monday, august 4, 2015, welcome madam secretary call the first item the first order of business is item one roll call. Commissioners,. Please respond when your name is called commissioner mondejar commissioner singh is absent commissioner bustos madam chair rosales commissioner singh absent and all the other members are present the next order of business is item 2 announcements a the next regularly scheduled meeting of august 18th will be held at one p. M. At city hall in room 416 b announcements of the prohibitions of the sound providing phones, please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. C announcement of time allocate for please be advised a members of the public has up to 3 minut