This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo
This has been my Foreign Policy during my presidency. By necessity, we work with all countries, and many of them are not democracies. Some of them are democracies in the sense they have elections, but not democracies in the sense of actually permitting participation and dissent. But our trajectory as a country has been to support the efforts of those who believe in selfgovernance, who believe in those ideas that began here so many years ago. And it is not simply a matter of us being true to our values. Its not just a matter of idealism. I believe it is practical for the United States to support democracies. [applause] pres. Obama because history shows us that countries with democratic governance tend to be more just, and more stable, and more successful. Open, democratic societies can deliver more prosperity because when people are free to think for themselves and share ideas and discover and create the young people who are here, what theyre able to do through the internet and technolo
Preet it could be. I worried are you about corruption within your company . Very concerned . Not at all . What is the importance in a company of general counsel . Do you look to someone to be a true to power presence . What is the importance in a preet it depends on the nature of the industry and the company. The general counsel is the conscience of the firm, but if the conscience of the firm doesnt have juice or power or people, itm the wont matter very much. In the indictment against scc capital, we allege that one of the things that went wrong was they were planning to hire a guy who was suspected of being someone who engaged in Insider Trading at the prior firm. Office,ral counsels the hedge fund, oppose the hiring of the person. Its not shocking the shortly thereafter that person began to engage it Insider Trading. I think people need to have good counsel, generally speaking. I think the person im sure this is true when you think about the cfo you have been other people in positio
Around the nonrestricted accessory parking brought up by walk sf that included this as with the tdm an exemption for projects that are not seriousy parking. It is important to separate this into two separate issues just for the jargon when we say accessory parking under the code to be dedicated to a specific lowell high scho; right . This is a parking space the tdm program doesnt apply to the stand alone parking garages this is the sole purpose of the use you know if someone was proposing to build a parking garages who will they give the subsidies to why put a realtime display. Did you have a conversation with walk sf. We had the conversation with stakeholders over time this is one situation that in happen often the other issue weve acknowledged when you have a project being built like a highrise and have a certain amount of parking and request additional parking not accessory and technical it is supposed to function as a parking garage but when in the real world are they using it as a
All right. The meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting did Land Use Committee im supervisor cowen the chair and to my right is it scott wiener the arock and to my left is aaron peskin our clerk alicia and take moment to thank our forensics leo and Nona Melkonian for evaluating us in the broadcast thank you very much madam clerk, any announcements . Yes. All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the. Okay great you both are ready to present on this item and Shelly Campbell take that away. Good afternoon. Im shelly the public works personnel were here for the jurisdiction challenge from the point of privilege the item before you is virtually for the public works Sewer System Improvement Program the Sewer System Improvement Program is a 20 Million Investment required to renovate, upgrade our aging infrastructure to insure reliable and seismically sewer system for gener