The new cold war, russian president Vladimir Putin lark out at american policies, defending actions in crimea and ukraine in a state of the nation address, following an announcement that russia is scrapping a natural gas pipeline that was supposed to go through bulgaria and send gas to southern europe. Instead it will boost supplies to turkey using existing pipelines. Vladimir putin blamed the European Union refusal to give the go ahead for the multi billion project saying it left moscow with no other options. Russias relations with the west are at their lowest point in years because of the crisis in ukraine. The new cold war brewing had a dry run in another former soviet republic, georgia. And many issues that played out are the same as what we are seeing today. Go back to 2003. Thats when georgians elected suck us veilee president. A young reformer, he promised to rein in corrosion and bring separatist regions back into georgias fold. Two of those regionsal lied with russia. In 2006
Thank you, mr. Koppel, i appreciate your presence and your willingness to serve. We dont have any other applicants, so we can open this item up for public comment. Any member of the public who would like to come. [inaudible]. indiscernible . Listening, speech, action, you say pathway and thinking, so 7, body of talent. We f we have put on to exact objective, thinking pattern and seldom behavior of performance. I mean, my 7 day my body way of counting. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors of the rules committee, im steven know s el, i want to start by thanking you for the three appointments, wonderful appointments that you made for us last month, all three of those commissioners are already well established and part panting, doing good for the exhibitioner all three of them showed up for a reception last monday at the mayors Conference Room with the mayor there and project hope director bevin duffy hosting a program that had to do with finding apartments and homes for Hom
Qualification. I dont know if many of you know how hard it is to become a coral fellow, what you have to go through. There are graduate School Transcripts that are necessary, there are writing of essays and letters of recommendation. My point is that he has passed all these with flying colors, he didnt raise a lot of that when he spoke for himself, however, the qualifications are tremendous and the alumni of the coral fellowship goes back to senator fine stein and other people who have been through that program, so hes already working on that and another reason that bewant him on the commission is that hes already serving this commission, hes been on our agenda for the past two month and is hes already present today the commission as a guest on a couple of different subject and is we expect him to present again on a program that wraps up for the coral fellowship involving a recap of all of the programs that are available. Thank you very much. Thank you for serving as well. Any other me
Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say they want to get out of the contract before 12 years so they say all the residents are not paying rent so they can get out of the contract before 12 years and its not helping with the homeless crisis. I know a lot of people, ive even been in a shelt e my sons father chasers vase me, i was a property manager, he harassed me simply because he wanted his girlfriend wanted my position as manager or so
Mar not present. Supervisor tang . Present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Present. Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are no communications today, mr. President. All right. Could you read the Consent Agenda . Items 1 through 8 comprise the consent calendar. These items are considered routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items . Roll call vote on items 1 through 8. On items 1 through 8, supervisor campos . Campos aye. Supervisor chiu . Chiu aye. Supervisor cohen . Cohen aye. Supervisor farrell . Farrell aye. Supervisor kim . Ki