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Good afternoon and welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 5, 2017. Madame clerk please call the roll. The clerk thank you madame president , supervisor breed, present. Supervisor farrell present. Supervisor kim. Fot present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor sheehy, present. Supervisor tang, tang present. Supervisor yee, present. Madame clerk mad madame president you have a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you madame clerk. Are there any communication. The clerk none to report, madame president. Is there a motion to approve the Meeting Minutes of october 31, 2017. Moved by supervisor sheehy, seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection theyll be approved after public comment. Madame clerk lets go to the consent agenda. The clerk items one through three are considered to be routine. A member may object by severing an item and having it considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk
Good afternoon and welcome to the board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, december 5, 2017. Madame clerk please call the roll. The clerk thank you madame president , supervisor breed, present. Supervisor farrell present. Supervisor kim. Fot present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor sheehy, present. Supervisor tang, tang present. Supervisor yee, present. Madame clerk mad madame president you have a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you madame clerk. Are there any communication. The clerk none to report, madame president. Is there a motion to approve the Meeting Minutes of october 31, 2017. Moved by supervisor sheehy, seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection theyll be approved after public comment. Madame clerk lets go to the consent agenda. The clerk items one through three are considered to be routine. A member may object by severing an item and having it considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk
For the contract or were they the only one . They were the only one. A they have pretty much an unequalled record when it comes to dealing with veterans, so it doesnt surprise me that they were the only ones to submit a request for proposal. How many years have they been working with veterans, do you know . Over 40. They are a really well established organization. They do fantastic work. That is absolutely accurate. They began as veterans from the vietnam war were coming back into society and having a great deal of difficulty readjusting. And that is what started them, and they have continued now through, sadly, too many wars. Commissioner, i have the highest regard for swords to plowshares, and my organization actually worked very closely with them to do some outreach in the Faith Community on how to welcome returning vets from iraq and afghanistan and their families administering to them. I am just wondering, would it be possible and if appropriate, if any commissioner wanted to make
I am ambassador at the Elliott School. It is a super treat to be here this evening to have a chance to introduce a true hero from our National Security community. And you have seen his biography in the title for this evening, a discussion on an intelligence career. Its hard to imagine anyone more suited to the topic of a career in intelligence the mr. James clapper. And it is a great, great treat to have him here this evening. You can see from his background, he has had over five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, in the military side, civilian side, inside and outside government, and overseas as well. Maybe it is not listed in his bios, but someone could ask him a question about his 2014 visit to north korea to rescue a couple of americans who got caught up there. I first met mr. Clapper in the 1990s when i was a bureaucrat in the pentagon. Hims a little bit scared of when i first encountered him, but my boss carter and the rest of the panic on held him but my boss Ash