President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of changes they would like to make. All right. Absent were cake cake and commissioner lee and im not sure if liam was here so i wanted to check with that and commissioner hyde moved to continue item c to april 19 i think its august 19. I move to approve with commissioner hydes changes. Second. [inaudible] because you werent here. Actually we cant vote on this. Theyre not enough of you. I move i amend my motion. I move
A few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by frank church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered a 14 volumes report in 1976 the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations dug into Background Materials on the american Intelligence Services. And this was really the first mass scale investigation of what had been going on in american intelligence practices in the past 30 years, but arguably back even further than that. The Church Committee held hearings investigating the fbi and the cia, in particular, but also the nsa military intelligence and some of the smalle
Second. [inaudible] because you werent here. Actually we cant vote on this. Theyre not enough of you. I move i amend my motion. I move to continue the minutes. We only have three commissioners here. We need four on vote on the minutes. So there is a motion to continue. Is there a second . Second. Commissioner lee seconds. Commissioner perez. Aye. Commissioner akers. Continuation. Its just a continuance. Aye. Commissioner joseph. 50eu6. Commissioner lee. Aye. Vice president hide. Aye. All right were ready for the report from the executive director. Take it away jocelyn kane. Thank you. Good evening commissioners. This is going to be short and swee. We have a guest that will pop up in the middle of this in fact right away of my directors report because we thought it would be easier to present this to you. Under the heading of policy and legislative update there was discussion but a request from i think commissioner hyde to have someone from london breeds office who is the author of the l
A roll call please. Commissioner perez. Here. Commissioner akers intl here. Commissioner joseph. Here. Commissioner lee. Heir. Commissioner frost. Here. Vice president hide. Present. President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of changes they would like to make. All right. Absent were cake cake and commissioner lee and im not sure if liam was here so i wanted to check with that and commissioner hyde moved to continue item c to april 19 i think its august 19. I
Sf gov tv for sending us out over the airwaves. Can we have a roll call please. Commissioner perez. Here. Commissioner akers intl here. Commissioner joseph. Here. Commissioner lee. Heir. Commissioner frost. Here. Vice president hide. Present. President tan bryant tan is out of town and excused for this evening so we have a quorum. All right. So the first thing were going to do today is open up Public Comment. This is where members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter and jurisdiction within the Entertainment Commission but not on our regularly scheduled program. Do we have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so next we are going to review and approve the Meeting Minutes from august 5, and so i have a couple of changes they would like to make. All right. Absent were cake cake and commissioner lee and im not sure if liam was here so i wanted to check with that and commissioner hyde mo