Do have to admit that it was actually oscar before him that worked with the mayor, and ed lee at the time who was the head of dpw, and they put together the first Public Sector Apprenticeship Program and it was the first of its kind, a public, private partnership and we were able to capture a lot of local residents and create these Job Opportunities for them. What i was able to do was simply, dot the eyes and cross the ts and so i am getting far too much credit but thank you, brother. It is important though, to this commission and to the mission of this department, because the gardeners are incredibly dedicated to the work that they do. And when we talk about the open space, and the green space and the playing fields and the trees and the golf courses and whatever it is. These are people who are giving their entire lives to the city and county of San Francisco and also times, we focus on some negative stories or negative information that comes up. And it was our rank and file, and Comm
Chair and advice of director. I second that motion. All of those in favor signal by saying aye. Aye. Thank you. And thank you, director. Next item is briefing on implementation of the hel ygt air and clean transportation ordinance for fiscal year 1213 and this was continued from the august 6, meeting and sponsors gravanis and josefowitz. It was actually proposed for continuance. This also for a continuance. If we can, i think that we should also continue this one because we are having a few more discussions before we are ready to bring it to the commission. Okay. Could i propose that sure. Commissioner josefowitz makes a motion to continue to the call of the chair after the consideration of the discussions could we get a second. Second. All of those in favor. Aye. Motion passes item is continued number nine, please . Rerue and approval of the draft resolution f, 201312 in support of the department of envier menments grant brown fields out Reach Services and you have a copy of the draft
The presiding officer does any senator wish to vote . Does any senator wish to change his or her vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 69, the nays are 31. The nomination is confirmed. The presiding officer under the previous order, the clerk will report the phal no nomination. The Clerk Department of state, Joseph William westphal, to the United States ambassador to the kingdom of saudi arabia. The presiding officer there are now two minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Inhofe i ask unanimous consent to be recognized for perhaps more than two minutes, for such time as ill consume. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Inhofe and he has been a capitol hill professional staff member for a long time. He actually was on the House Budget Committee for a long period of time. Then he was a special assistant to our senator thad cochran. This has been some time ago. Joe served as the Army Assistant secretary, then the acting secretary of the army. That was 200
InterNational Drug control, but the reason to control it is to keep it out of our country and to do those things which prevent opiate use, not to enable it, but one answer according to the experts may be the countrys addiction and use of prescription pain medications, a report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health services that people who use prescript n prescription thats an amazing thing to me. Furthermore, four out of every five heroin abusers in much the same way as heroin, the lesson here is that rather than thinking of two separate addictions, prescription pain medications, and heroin, we should realize that were facing a much larger opiate addiction epidemic that includes both, so the strategy to treat the number of overdoses, but the first and most important strategy is to prevent drug abuse before it starts and this means educating communities and youths about the dangers. Now some communities already do this through the federal Drug Free Communities Program prescr
Your written testimony says that the commission continues to reiterate its longstanding bipartisan call for enactment of a strong federal Data Security and breach notification law. Is that still the position of the commissioner . Absolutely. Mr. Mass mastria, do you want to comment . Very taken a look at the possible legislation, for instance, that senator mccain made reference to . I am generally familiar with it but as a selfregulatory body, we do not weigh in on the legislation. We leave that to our founding trade associations to do that. Are you done . Im going to try to finish, if not, ill be right back. Mr. Mastria, the association has requires its members to publish the names of parties that do Data Collection for on or for their website. Its a link to their privacy disclosures. Is that correct . You do you require that of your members . We do require notice and transparency. Do you require your members to publish the names of the parties that do Data Collection on their website