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Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 15th meeting. Im supervisor gordon mar. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and matt haney. Mr. Clerk, you have any announcements . Clerk i do mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, Board Members and employees during the covid19 health emergency, board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room is cltsed. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and are participating in this meeting as if they are present in the chamber. Youll have opportunity to speak and provide comments by phone by dialing 4156550001. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Best practices is to call from quiet location, speak clearly and turn down your radio or streaming device. Alternatively, you may submit Public Com
Clerk thank you. We have four yeses. Motion passes. Thank you, madam secretary. Please call next item, please. Clerk next item, number 20, discussion item, executive directors report. I will keep mine very short, however, i do want to point out that weve been extremely lucky since the shelter in place order. Weve been able to hire two of our t members of our Leadership Team into permanent positions. Ba do is on the reporting side, and were more than happy that bill and his team have adopted him and have assured us that they will be always available to help him be successful in his job. A second key hire that we have brought on board last month and a project that ive been working on for 15 years, and that is to get a Quality Assurance Operational Risk office started in the department, and i have been working with mr. Derwin brown for nearly two years, i think over two years, frankly. Tried to convince him that he needed to leave the l. A. County plan and come up and join us in San Franc
Starting at 1 00 oclock eastern time. We will have that live here on cspan2. We now return to the discussion on national security. When you look at our deterrent the rest of the world looks at deterrence is integration of offense and defense. That is the way the rest of the world looks at deterrence. When i looked it up they look at our offense and defense and think about that is more deterrence. We need to thing about offense and defense as our integrated deterrence as well. We need to start digging about what the next generation of our defense will be and what we will walk into and then if you want to know how you know that we dont look at it together the last time we had an opportunity to do it together was the beginning of the and ministries and we decided to do Nuclear Posture review and a Missile Defense review separate. And a strategy dissolve cingular strategy. Oh, by the way, as a nation we understand that missile defens defenses article to our future and critical to our defen
Getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said, im doing a lot and Hillary Clinton decided she was just the right person to create a brandnew job for her and the job was special representative to muslim communities around the world. That little job. [laughter] National Security son all, First Time Ever filled position in the state department, but most important for me is shes a very good friend. When she was at the state department i was at the state department and we worked together but i was always amazed at how incredible by smart she is. Strategic inner thinking and she has a way of saying things that you will understand and these are complex problems and when we talk about violent extremism, you once said to me, if you knew what i knew you wouldnt sleep at night, which, of course, made me not sleep at night. [laughter] i knew that i couldnt think