the meeting will come to order. this is the june 24, 2022 budget and appropriations committee meeting. i m supervisor hilary ronen, i m joined by gordon mar, connie chan, and vice chair will be here shortly. our clerk is brent. madam chair, one second. is there a way to change it. she s the community member. i apologize madam chair we must start over again. good morning, the meeting comes to order. thank you. this is the june 24, 2022 budget and appropriations committee meeting. i m supervisor hilary ronen, i m joined by members: hillary ronen, ahsha safai, gordon mar, connie chan, shamann walton . before you do that if you are in the chamber we can t hear, please stay quiet. thank you. thank you, madam chair. please silence all cell phones. please refrain from flash photography. hybrid meetings allow in person attendance and also public access by telephone. we will take public comment as follows. first public comment on today s agenda. people waiting on the telep
connie chan, and vice chair will be here shortly. our clerk is brent. madam chair, one second. is there a way to change it. she s the community member. i apologize madam chair we must start over again. good morning, the meeting comes to order. thank you. this is the june 24, 2022 budget and appropriations committee meeting. i m supervisor hilary ronen, i m joined by members: hillary ronen, ahsha safai, gordon mar, connie chan, shamann walton . before you do that if you are in the chamber we can t hear, please stay quiet. thank you. thank you, madam chair. please silence all cell phones. please refrain from flash photography. hybrid meetings allow in person attendance and also public access by telephone. we will take public comment as follows. first public comment on today s agenda. people waiting on the telephone line. i ask that you exit the chamber and have room 263 across the hall and also the court available on the first floor as over flow rooms. for those watch
this is the june 24, 2022 budget and appropriations committee meeting. i m supervisor hilary ronen, i m joined by members: hillary ronen, ahsha safai, gordon mar, connie chan, shamann walton . before you do that if you are in the chamber we can t hear, please stay quiet. thank you. thank you, madam chair. please silence all cell phones. please refrain from flash photography. hybrid meetings allow in person attendance and also public access by telephone. we will take public comment as follows. first public comment on today s agenda. people waiting on the telephone line. i ask that you exit the chamber and have room 263 across the hall and also the court available on the first floor as over flow rooms. for those watching either channels 26, 78, or 99. the number to call is 1 (415) 655-0001 / meeting id: 2498 479 5551 # # when connected you will hear that the meeting is connected. when public comment has called they should dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. turndown
I know how deeply personally affected he has been. And i guess i tell you why i am doing this as a means of telling you why senator blumenthal and i are doing this, and i tell it through a prism of a story that just awful, awful series of days following the shootings in sandy hook. Senator blumenthal and i went through the first of what were umpteen wakes and funerals, and we were standing in line at the first wake about to talk to the first set of parents who had lost in this case their young daughter, and i remember being so uncertain about what we were supposed to say to these parents, not just what you were supposed to say to provide some measure of condolence, but we were their elected representatives. We had some additional obligation to show them that we were ready to act, but was it too soon to make that offer . Was it not the right moment to suggest that there was a Public Policy response to the slaughter of their children . It was senator blumenthal that very gently and appro
For example, should everyone who ever gets questioned by the fbi be on some sort of watchlist . We dont want to go that far. But we have to ask those sorts of questions. For me, you have to Pay Attention to the authorities that Law Enforcement and thelligence folsks have, resources they have. Part of the reason they close investigations is because they have to use those resources for a higher priority. Back to my daily week, and is important to tarnish isiss by defeating them there. And combating their ideology. Thoset it is harder for people who may have grievances, or anger, to plug into this ideology and think they are accomplishing something great. All of that has to be on our radar screen. With regard to the fbi investigation, d do you feel mr. Thornberry obviously, the fbi will go back and see if it could of been improved. My point is, there are a number of people who traveled back and forth to iraq and syria. That, there are those were radicalizing on the internet. There are onl