Ahsha safai chair of the committee. To my right is supervisor supervisor fewer and to my left will be norman yee but hes not here yet. Our clerk is derek evans. I would like to thank staff at sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk do you have any announcements today. Yes thank you mr. Chair. Please silence all electronic dwiegs. Eating and drinking is not a permitted. Any copies and documents should be submitted to the clerk and items will be on the april 18, 2017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you mr. Clerk. Please call item number 1. Item number 1 is a hearing considering 14 members to the park, recreation and open space Advisory Committee. There are 14 seats and 14 applicants. Thank you. Unless there are any initial comments from the committee lets hear from supervisor ronins aid and to serve elisa lairdmetke and reanna tong and both district 9 see thes. Thank you supervisor. I have someone here to speak on behalf of elisa and i will speak on behalf o
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Guest ill be giving his speech on the floor of the United States senate. Tomorrows earth date and president obama is in new york will see many countries sign the top 21 agreement for 196 countries, 90 of the global admissions of the world will sign a commitment towards working together to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. I was in france during the negotiations. Im a strong supporter of the u. S. Leadership globally and in this country to dramatically reduce our emissions. Caller did you hear senator in half on the floor and those 192 countries going two countries going to be disappointed. How do you work with someone like that. Guest ive known jim ever since ive come to congress we came in the same year, 1987. He is a good person. He is just wrong on climate. Totally wrong. The way i answer that is, look, lets let the scientist determine what we need to do in order to keep our globe healthy. What can we do in order to protect our environment and future generations. Scientists tell us w
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Some argue that nrcs regulations are impeding u. S. Competitiveness allowing other countries like china to get ahead of us. We think the opposite is true. The. The reputation of the nrc for being a Gold Standard as senator has pointed out is a good brand and so the undersea reputation for regular safety review only and enhances that brand. We do not think we should be engaged with china and other countries on a regulatory race to the bottom just to secure we believe the focus of the bill and nrc licensee is misplaced and will do little to facilitate the deployment of advance reactors in the us. Licensing process may be a convenient target but we think the nrc is being scapegoated for more formidable institutional barriers. These. These include a lack of support for governmentfunded energy, the enormously high cost for commercializing any. Reporter reactor, and the lack of interest in making those investments and the failure of the socalled Nuclear Power entrepreneurs to put any signifi