Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the Jewish Museum. My name is nelly benedek and on the senior director of education. Its my pleasure to welcome you to two nights author talk with francine clarksburg under new book lioness golda meir and the nation of israel, a program where pro presented with the jewish week there were honored to host this talk because vaccine has been a long time Jewish Museum board member. For 30 years in fact, right . We appreciate her ongoing dedication to our institution and its programming. Please visit our website to signup for our news to learn about other lectures, concerts and workshops taking place this fall season. After the talk we invite you to stay for a reception where francine will be signing books in the corner. Now please join me in welcoming gary rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the jewish week who will introduce our speaker. [applause] will. Thank you very much. Good evening everyone. Before i forget i want to ask all of you to turn off your
Parking problem. To expend their funds to address the parking problem. It puts the burden on the developer to pay for the siqa process and to define what the plan is for the site, drawings and carrying out a public process as well. Commissioners, any more questions or comments . So i know that the conversation has been going for a couple of years and im sensitive to the concerns, but im not reluctant to move it forward. At the end of the day, weve been working on housing for the middle class and lower income and anybody in San Francisco for years and years and years and i dont think that this conversation belongs at Public Utilities commission, but were in a housing crisis. Its a crisis. I enjoyed the opportunity to work with the Teachers Union and the other unions when we did the San Francisco giants development, which was a similar breakdown, which had inclusionary housing component for the middle class and lowincome. When i reach out to a planning commissioner, what conversations di
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Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as a provide an opening statement. Mr. Casing, ms. Fleagle, astroturfing, mr. Brown, ms. Caruso and mr. Russell if just want to join us there. We are here today to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges ongoing efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, the transparency and the predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgrade and modernize our infrastruct
Look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. Most of us celebrate christmas or hanukkah and is part of the celebrations, we go to church or synagogue and then gather around the family dinner table after giving thanks for our blessings, we share a traditional holiday meal of goose, turkey, roast beef and exchange gifts. On new years eve we gather again. Like you, we raise our glasses and a toast to the year to come. Hopes for ourselves, for families and for our nation and the world. This year, the future of the nation and the world is particularly honor minds. We are thinking of our nation because of the year ahead. We americans will choose a next president. Every adult citizen has a role to play in the making of this decision. We will listen to what the candidates say, we will debate their views and our own and in november we will vote. I will still be president next january, but soon after that, the man or woman leading our country will be the one the American Peop