Former producer for the bbc talks about americas use of drones in yemen, pakistan and somalia and reaction its caused. He says the targeted groups in the countries are figuring out ways to protect themselves from attacks and working on making their own drones. We changed our name and gave people many. Its wonderful that youve come here for this great events. Event. We are excited to have chris come and present his new book sudden justice, which i think is going to be probably the book for people who are interested in this important subject and of course, the book tour coincides with the very interesting moment in the tragic death and other recent revelations about the program that have come out in the last couple of weeks. Chris is a former senior producer at the bbc also ran the Drone Program in the Investigative Journalism which did anything work on the subject and hes going to talk about some of the themes and stories in his book and then we will open up to discussion. Thank you ver
Thank you. Thank you for your talk. It was very informative. Im curious ive always been interested in a lost cause art. Things like the famous last parting of the end of jackson. But once upon a time in the paintings and also Stonewall Jackson got many homes now what we say that i grew up in petersburg and in petersburg it was like they were still on the other side of the river waiting to attack. As if so that was different, but many people in nice homes had a sort of somber reminder of their confederate heritage. But, you know i never saw any confederate flags in the homes so im curious where you would put them in the whole panoply of lost cause art. There are a lot of lost closeparen in that battle flag. Its a good time now to make sure that i do not leave the impression that other confederate flags were forgotten but certainly the battle flag became the primary flag even in a lost cause art. Usually the first, second and third down together. What i alluded to earlier in the this use
Shes looking at extending the initial compliance deadline for the checklist on that just to make sure that theres ample time for this program to get upcoming we think this program is going to run out by the next 8 to 10 years we want to get those initial Foundation Infrastructure pieces into place and on the maneuvered soft story implementation we mentioned that tooerp two were down to have 35 noncompliant buildings out of 5 hundred and 50 so were at 93 or 94 compliance rate those buildings out of compliance are elected to be scheduled for code compliant directors in early march were hopefully between now and march that number of 35 will drop significantly lower we obviously want as few buildings out of compliance as possible and that does highlight the reality that for tier 3 that has 35 buildings and the deadline this coming september 5th this year we still have been 19 hundred buildings that are out of compliance so well be initially a free press Outreach Program in the next months
Participating, more people taking an interest in the community, and i think participatory planning is important thing and we need to respect that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. My name is [inaudible] and i am representing the Compton Coalition for the comptons cultural district for transgender people and as a team were excited to see the formation of 180 jones and a team and implemented negotiation as innovative and tailor made to this region of the tenderloin and were in full support. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Jamie mayer manager director of the theater and the nonprofit space for the market development. The ordinance enabled project in farther costs more than the other option. In addition the developer is providing more than 5 million of Community Benefit package to ensure existing neighborhood residents participate in the benefits of the project. Its essential that the committee pass this ordinance to make much n
And note that neil sims is present. I would like to approval of the agenda with changes and Meeting Minutes and under reports no report from the nominating committee. Can i have a motion . So moved. Second. Its approved that we approve the agenda with the following changes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and the motion carries. The next item is approval of the january 4 Meeting Minutes. Could i have a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. It has been moved and second that we approve the january 4 commission Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes. Aye it is have it and the motion carries. Item 4 approval of the february 1 Meeting Minutes. So moved. Can i have a second . Second. Okay. Its been moved and second that we approve the february 1 Meeting Minutes. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposes . Ayes have it and so the motion is carried. [gavel] five item 5 directors report. Executive director. Good afternoon commissioners. Im going to keep my report very brief to