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
The years. And every once in a while this system almost breaks down and we have an oldfashioned, tough contested primary. Let me read you the beginning of the book as an illustration of that. Senator Hillary Clinton walked into the small Conference Room on capitol hill wearing one of her signature pants suits. This one still with white piping. It was may twentysecond 2008 and she was in the homestretch of the race for the democratic nomination. Along the way, her once surefire quest had run into a phenomenon, a first term senator from illinois, half white, half africanamerican named barack obama. Her husband, former president bill clinton famously called the first black president by author toni morrison, the black community reject is called to support his wife and rallied to obama. Hillary and bill seemed old friends like new mexico governor Bill Richardson endorsed obama. Despite many setbacks clintons delicate countless close to obamas. She has had a strong finish and a good argument
Warnings on class syllabi. Professors who offered content who may trigger on set of symptoms of post Traumatic Stress disorder would be required not only to provide advanced alerts but also permit students to skip class. If you dont like what someone says you can avoid the subject rather than facing it. In this world, sensitivity and civility are deemed equal to or in fact superior to Academic Freedom. A point recently made by the chancellor of uc berkeley to allow disapproval. But in the words of scholar steve woodward, if we make the fostering of friendship, solidarity, harmony, civility or mutual respect, primary and dominant value, then we risk sacrificing the universitys central purpose, teaching and scholarship. Central purpose. When i was first approached to give this talk, we explored a number of titles, including Political Correctness and its impact on american competitiveness. In an important way, i think this title understands that what happens on College Campuses does not s
Not new and not the most sophisticated of attacks. The scale and speed at which this happened was unprecedented and made the attacks very difficult to defend a dense against. A sophisticated virus also wiped out more than 30,000 computers at a Saudi Arabian state oil company. There has been a lot of talk over the years about hypothetical dangers and it has become a bit of a cliche in Cyber Security circles. I would argue that the threat of a catastrophic and damaging cyber attack in the united dates in the United States is becoming less hypothetical every day. Is a clear attack example that our adversaries have the intent and capability to launch damaging attacks. Moreover, there are growing reports, attempts to breach the networks and Industrial Control Systems of our electric power operators. Foreign cyber actors are probing networks and have gained access to those systems. Trojan horse malware that has been a charity to russia has detected on Industrial Control Software for a wider