Chairman engles joining us. Were here joined by the select committee on Climate Crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses for this hearing leading to the next generation on the global Climate Crisis. I know a few of our witnesses have a hard stop at 11 30 in order to get to their next event advocating on these issues. Ill just ask that all members keep their questioning to five minutes or less so we can fit in as many members as possible. Without objection all the members may have five days to submit statements, questions, exrainious materials for the record, subject to length limitation in the rules and id just like to call on the chairman of the full committee to who has a few words to offer. Chairman engel. Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to invite everyone to come to the Foreign Affairs committee, and by the looks of it youre all here. I want to welcome everybody. Climate change is certainly something that is so important, and the aggravating thing about it is that there are
Hello can i have everyones attention please. Hello, thank you, good afternoon. Let me begin basing to get you all for being here. For those of you who do not know me, i am a fellow Deputy Director [applause] emma fellow inject pretty doctor at the manhattan you. This is good to be a particularly nice treat for me today because in addition listening to an author discussed a new book i have the distinct honor of introducing them into a bring him up to the stage. Michael is one of th most brillt lawyers of our time. Radio from National Security to constitutional and criminal law, is developed his expertise of a long and distinguished career as a federal prosecutor and most audibly as chief judge of the is 81st attorney general of the United States, after leaving Public Office he returned to private practice and is not of cancel and like myron magnet he is a graduate of Columbia University unlike Justice Thomas he took his law degree from you. With that, i ask you to join me in welcoming.
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Items acted upon will appear on the july 9th, 2019 meeting. We have overflow seating downstairs for those folks who need to have a seat. Chairman just to repeat, there is overflow seating downstairs. We have to get to one item of business before we get to the hearing on gig workers and the gig economy. So if folks do want to spend some time down there, that would probably make things a little easier for our Deputy Sheriff and for our clerk. Okay. Mr. Clerk, please call our first item. I will. Agenda item number one is a hearing to consider the premise to premise type 21 offsale general beer and Liquor Licence to llc, doing businesses at Cloud Kitchens, will serve the public with the necessity of the city and county. Chairman great. We have our a. L. U. Im with the San Francisco police department. You have before you a p. C. M. Report for cloud kitchen. They have applied for a type 21 licence, if approved, it would allow them to sell beer and wine and distilled liquor. There are zero le
That we have is an aggressive pursuit of meaningful and strong remedies that will not overburden neighborhoods and communities but will get ads, especially, the proverbial bad actors that are doing things wrong. Next, systematically. We all look at trying to codify anything into 50 , 70 , or 25 of a facade, what constitutes demolition . We all have problems with it, in part, it encourages people to do their filing so they come in just under. Its all fine. That is really a pretty terrible way to do things. We get something submitted to planning and it meets all of their criteria. If they have, you know, 50 is their standard and it comes in at 49. Low and behold us and as we go and open walls and see what is going on, boy, isnt this surprising . Despite all the things we thought about how dangerous and prone to problems the blind walls are, and foundations, suddenly we are amazed to find that we have problems which are unanticipated. I think if i spoke to most of our experienced staff wh