San Francisco Department of Emergency Management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, authorizing the city and county of San Francisco to apply for this years home land security grant. And i am happy to answer any questions that you may have about this resolution. Okay. Thanks very much. Seeing no questions, we do not have a budget Analyst Report on this. So move on to budget comment. Anybody wish to comment on item one . Okay, seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Thanks for coming before us. And supervisor tang . All right, well i am happy to move this forward. I know that this is something that we consistently participate in and so, i would be happy to move this forward with a positive recommendation for the full board. We have a motion by supervisor tang and we can take that without objection. Could you call item two, please . I want to note that item 150945 was recommended to the full board with supervisor mar absent. Next,
Remind everyone to please turn off all electronic devices. The first item on the agenda is roll call. President mccarthy, here. Vice president mar, here. Commissioner clinch, here. Commissioner mccray, here. Commissioner melgar, here. Commissioner walker, here. Commissioner lee, here. We have a quorum and the next item is president s announcements. Good morning everybody and thank you for coming to the october 21, 2015 meeting. I have some president s announcements here and we will get into our business then. Congratulations to director hui who in advance of the 26th annual observations of the loam ma prieta anniversary attended an event in chinatown to increase Public Awareness of the need to prepare for the next one. inaudible supervisor district 5 and 10. There will be in addition to the alreadyawarded grants in chinatown with educational workshops are already on the way in helping San Francisco ans prepare for the next big one. Do read the october issue of the dbie news letter whic
Issues. Lets get right to it. Donna kelley. [inaudible question] it has been a firestorm over leon panettas book that came out a day ago. Everybodys talking about a democratic congressman who was a former cia director in the obama administration, a former secretary of defense, and he is laying this squarely at the feet of the administration for not getting in those negotiations with the iraqi Prime Minister so we had to leave. I will get to that question with you. How long could we stay if malik he was not willing to let us stay there . A good question. I was reluctant to enter iraq. My soninlaw as a navy seal. If you go to war you make sure you go to war to win. You get rules of engagement so our troops will win. In iraq, leaving, we left without a sofa agreement, a status of forces agreement. That should not be overlooked. That allows our soldiers, they get prosecuted if they are allegedly conducted something wrong under our judicial system. Without a status of forces agreement one o
And here on cspan, our life running except that newbies our life programming except that newbies did. Noon eastern. President obama travels to princeton, indiana today, talking about the economy. We will have that life for you here on cspan. On cspan2, a discussion on the use of military drones. Author Richard Whittle has written predator the secret origins of the drone revolution. We mentioned president obamas scheduled speech on the economy. It is likely he will talk about the latest unemployment figures released earlier today. 248,000 jobs added in the month of september. The jobless rate falling to 5. 9 . This weekend on the cspan networks tonight at 10 00 eastern on the stand, a conversation with retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul stevens. On saturday night, the founder and former chair of microsoft, bill gates, on the ebola Virus Outbreak in west africa. Dr. Ay on two and a, genetical. Tonight on cspan2, authors john yoo and bruce fein talk about war the constitution. Saturd
It is not true. Republicans want a good education for every single child in america. We should measure how much we care about education by how much we spend. But how much students learn. Wasted onwe see money the priorities of teachers unions, not children. Education is too important to let policies be dictated by special interests. Education is key to Opening Doors of opportunity and for fighting poverty. It brings us to principle number eight. The best Antipoverty Program is a Strong Family and a good job. Our focus should be on getting people out of poverty by lifting up all people and helping them find work. We need an effective the safety net. The federal government Antipoverty Programs have become mismanaged and ineffective. We should restructure and consolidate them, give them more power to the states and actually measure the results. Doing this same thing get the same result. 45 million of our fellow americans are living in poverty. As my friend and my congressman paul ryan has