Commissioner president wolfram commissioner president honda commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and commissioner pearlman thank you, commissioners commissioners, that places you under your is general Public Comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. I do have one speaker card. Georgia swedish. Go ahead. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im georgia swedish here last time i just want to bring up the issue i think there are two issues occurring now with regards to the facadism the main we know but i think it is concerning when a building is basically defendants next in order and an ocher stark facade with
Initiative. Creating lab in crime, theres one in education, theres one in poverty, theres one in energy and the environment and theres one in health. They will do random miezed control trials studying these programs and work with cities to help scale them up. So its a way in which we leverage what we do. Those are just a couple of the ways, but theres a lot that i think anchors trying to do to be catalyst for change. Aamy michael there is a lot of interest from probably everyone in this room and around the country, what the administration is going to do in this moment so we will touch on that. Lets start first with my brothers keeper. Its a little over a year in implementation. You really received a lot of local commitments to action. Explain to people in the room who may not be familiar with it, whats the approach for my brothers keeper, whats the result now a year in . Michael good morning. My brothers keeper is really what the heart of the Obama Administration is, which is making su
Evolve my leadership style to ensure our success with meeting the mission, the needs of the workforce and the community. Once again, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be very happy to answer any questions the committee may have at this time. Thank you very much, chief. I appreciate that. I think ill just start off about the unattended firearms which was probably, if anything, one of the bigger concerns, since ive been here on the hill. You were just outlining what you would normally do in a case like that. I think you said five days suspension. Something like that. Im sure that depends on the personnel record of that particular individual, if there had been incidents in the past or not, et cetera. But its also my understanding that some of these incidents happened with members of the force that were on sort of special detail with leadership. And is there any do you give that consideration . Or what do you do in a case like that . Yes, maam. First of all,
Terrorist Organization Currently subject to negotiation that cuba is hosting for the u. S. Is playing a role company and thepe government, correct . Thats correct and we are notconflic accompanying that have the special envoy nowt and its also the longestrunning civil conflict in the hemisphere. My i dont want to get ahead of myself but if that negotiation works out positively and we are then, we have the ability of the two continents all wa americans without work, without civil war and without war between nations that would be pretty unusual in the history of these two continents wooden it . It would be an historic achievement. C and it would be pretty unusual wars were civil wars in asia wars are civil wars intw asia and sadly wars are civil wars in europe. Trde you talked in your opening testimony that thing greasing theeements trade in the americas the majority of the american trade agreements agreements are with the nations in the americas. Theres more trade between be the eight n
Yeah. Absolutely. Its far from it. And we all collectively laid out some details to support that. Do you see any way to defeat isil in syria without a substantial arab army involved . I dont know how you get there. I mean obviously, if we deployed tens of thousands of troops ourselves we could defeat isis in syria. I dont think anybody here would recommend such an event. I think the people who have vested interest there should be involved and i think they would get involved. I mean, you know that they said as much, but we have to do something to change the momentum of the assad regime. Dr. Kagan . Is it fair to say that no arab army is going into syria unless part of the one of the objectives is to take assad down . Absolutely senator, thats going to be a precondition for because theyre not going to just fight isil and leave assad in power therefore giving the place to syria, is that correct . On the contrary i mean to iran. On the contrary. What were seeing is increasing levels of sup