I do want to tell you that during the q a portion eight are on and ill remind you the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you margaret. Congratulations on your book. I was saying when we were chatting, the last time i interviewed you we were on a vessel office tony when you are carrying out a bill to rebuild up to respond to russia. Exactly. It was an amphibious and it was part of what i thought was sadly necessary after quarter century, we did not have a warplane to russia for quarter century. Its interesting to reflect on. Enter the cold war when i started when i worked on conventional and nuclear, at the end of the soviet union did not do that anymore for about 25 years. Then it became apparent to me whatever six years ago or so that we needed for pain. Thats when we positioned forces in different ways in europe but the particular reason to go at the time, was because that was going to be the location for new Cybersecurity Centers for nato. And why until then, t
And he left everyone in the Police Department with his love of San Francisco, his love of the Police Department, a love that he had been a seven cisco police officer. It is a huge loss for the Police Department. We miss him dearly. I want to thank you, supervisors , for recognizing joe today. We have not been able to find him since he left, so we are glad he is still around. Joe, good luck to you and your family, you are sorely missed. I will be calling you for advice as the years go on. Thank you to the board. [applause] okay. Next up is supervisor fewer. Thank you. I would like to invite mr. David parr to the podium, please. Colleagues, today i would like to thank david parr for his 34 years of service to San Francisco Unified School District as an educator and recognizing his Lasting Impact on a generation of students. David parr was born and raised in his beloved braintree, massachusetts. He attended salem state as an undergraduate and attended boston state for his masters in educa
It is still the last vestige in San Francisco that really hasnt changed that much. You have irish people with the latin, with africanamerican, with asian, it is the most diverse district in the city by far. It is a gigantic district, and therefore hence the five different supervisory districts, but hit has a long history in the transition. Most of the people, and why i love it there most, they are family. The people who are there, i really got to enjoy. Florez, stefani, rosemary, roseann, sharon everhart, rex in the back, my good, good people, and like i have told people in the past, if he was a little bit older, and you could have raised hell with me when we were youngsters, like you want to say that all these people, and the last one, my leader, the voice in your ear whether you want to hear it or not, joelle. [cheers and applause] but its because of the people like that from my officers all the way to the people that work with me and those people within the community, they touch my
Growing misuse of the currencies via money launderers, terrorist financiers and other bad players. This week representatives of the project will go to capitol hill to discuss the proposal for a crypto currency. At the Treasury Department across the u. S. Government with the International Financial community, theres been a great deal of activity recently related to the regulation and treatment of Digital Assets in crypto currency. Id like to give some brief explanatory remarks about what we have been doin been giving bt since theres lots of interest and then i will open up questions. Last month the association, a consortium of 28 businesses including a facebook subsidiary announced it is developing a crypto currency. The Treasury Department has expressed very serious concerns that libra could be misused by money launderers or terrorist financiers. Crypto currency have been exploited to support billions of dollars of Illicit Activity like cybercrime, tax evasion, extortion, ran somewhere
Infrastructure for electric and alternative fuel vehicles. Thats a reality of consumer desire, as well as dealing with the realities of Climate Change. We give local discretion for funds to initiate Emission Reduction strategies. That include simple things like providing alternatives for our cars, people who want to walk or bike rather than getting into our cars. Its a major commitment that we are going to provide resources and partnerships with local governments to deal with our realities and the responsibility in the transportation sector to reduce carbon emissions. I can tell you, mr. President , as i told my colleagues on the environment and public works committee, every day i face it every day, every day i community from baltimore to work and have to deal with the realities of congestion. Its been estimated that the delays caused by congestion and the excessive fuels that are used by congestion costs our economy over 300 billion every year. So theres not only a quality of life iss