Also, the president is going to join us. Shes the a commissioner of this committee. This is to address the infrastructure and transportation and that do not appear on the agenda. In addition to Public Comment, Public Comment will be held on each item on the agenda. There northeast Public Comment. Im no. 3, Consent Agenda. All matters listed here under a constituted Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the committee and will be acted on by a single vote of the committee. There will be no separate vote unless the member of the Committee Suggests and it will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. Item 3a, approving the minutes of the meeting. I move for the approval. I second the motion. Item no. 4, Environmental Program support. Thank you, chair richardson, director and president tsen. This item will go to the board as an action item. I wanted to have a conversation here before taking it there because we kind of have two different paths Going Forw
We have a contract with lang Engineering Environmental to provide Environmental Conservation services to tida to monitor the navys Environmental Program, and we brought them on in 2013. This is a Selection Process that actually had been contacted before i arrived to tida. They replaced amec engineering and infrastructure. The contract was original term of three years with two oneyear optional extensions. A contract is scheduled to expire at the end of this fiscal year. I wanted to bring it to the board to discuss whether to issue a new rfq for the remainder of the navys environmental work or to modify the existing contract through the projected remaining four years of the work. Bringing in now for discussion and board action because if were going to issue a new rfq, we need to do so propermptly. So they do attempt the navys base closure meetings. We attend the monthly meetings between the navy and the state regulators. Its also attended typically on the phone by sfpuc and other city ag
From the Hudson Institute this is an hour and 20 minutes. A special welcome to those of you who are watching online into the viewers on cspan. I am seth cropsey. The senior fellow here at hudson. Welcome to our conference on chinas recent actions that aim to establish their own order in the Taiwan Strait. As you will hear in greater detail from our panel this morning china unilaterally changed the status quo in the first week of this year. The changes were made despite agreements between taiwan. And then again in 2015. These provided for mutual consultation to any change in aviation rates. This violation is part of a larger broader pattern of chinese provocation. For example the chinese Aircraft Carrier goes through the Taiwan Strait. One day after the aviation route changed since the taiwan president was inaugurated. They had circled taiwan nearly once a month. This is consistent with chinas policy that seeks to enjoy the benefits of an International World order for the purpose of rep
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