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[gavel] good morning. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, i would like to welcome you to the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am supervisor malia cohen, chairperson of this committee. To my right is the vice chair supervisor norman yee and to his right is supervisor tangand i would like to thank our friends up at sfgtv that are assisting us in broadcasting this meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would you like me to call item number one. Yes yescall item number one. [calling item 1] ms. Mcguire welcome the floor is yours. Good morning Catherine Mcguire with sf pd. I do not have a formal presentation but this is item to one your agenda and this is that we have received or been offered a donation of a large amount of furniture and we would like to receive it. We have an immense need to replace furniture that is over 25 years old in some cases and this would be an inexpensive opportunity to do t
This meeting. Mme. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I think we have Catherine Mcguire from sfpd. Mme. Chair would you like me to call item number one. Yes yescall item number one. [calling item 1] ms. Mcguire welcome the floor is yours. Good morning Catherine Mcguire with sf pd. I do not have a formal presentation but this is item to one your agenda and this is that we have received or been offered a donation of a large amount of furniture and we would like to receive it. We have an immense need to replace furniture that is over 25 years old in some cases and this would be an inexpensive opportunity to do that. Great, thank you. All right lets go ahead and are there any questions . S is a pretty straight forward matter theres no legislative analyst to speak up so we will go ahead and open Public Comment. So i open Public Comment, does anyone from the public have a comment on this item . I do not see any so i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk can you please call it
Columnist for the daily beast and coauthor of isis inside the army of terror. The book has been updated and reprinted. Im pleased to welcome him to the program. It seems like mosul is still in transition. Part of the ambition is to prevent isis from reconstituting itself or fortifying the city. Most of the guys are fleeing mosul because it is a spent force and they will lose the city in a matter of weeks. The goal is to squeeze both ends of the balloon at the same time. Racka i fear will be a more difficult fight rate only because it is the de facto capital of their caliphate. But the forces are ready to retake it. They will not be welcomed in as liberators. The organization, whether the umbrella group, the Syrian Democratic scientists the best forces, they are large list level largely kurdish. The sunni arabs that are part of the umbrella are kept down. They are not meant to exert lyrical will for a reason which is the kurds are building their own state in Northern Syria and doing so
Cases and this would be an inexpensive opportunity to do that. Great, thank you. All right lets go ahead and are there any questions . S is a pretty straight forward matter theres no legislative analyst to speak up so we will go ahead and open Public Comment. So i open Public Comment, does anyone from the public have a comment on this item . I do not see any so i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk can you please call item number two. [calling item number two] ms. Mcguire did you want to speak one item number two . No thank you. Colleagues and you have no questions i will in Public Comment at this time. There any members of the public to have a comment at this time . Seeing none i will close Public Comment [gavel] mme. City clerk please call item number three [item number 3] thank you we have mark corso from the San Francisco Fire Department to speak on this today. Good morning supervisors my name is mark corsa and this is a item that is up on the agenda this will allow a