Madame chair director, you have a quorum. Please be advised that director torres will be absent from todays meeting. Please be advised that the ringing and use of cell phone, pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. So, please turn your phones off and not to vibrate because when it is on vibrate mode, it causes microphone interference. Thank you very much. Item fours approval of the minutes. Do i have any Public Comment on the minutes . Madame chair, we have not received a a speaker card and it doesnt look like anybody is addressing you. Seeing none, do i have a motion to approve the minutes of november 21 . To move. Second . Second. All if favor . Aye . None opposed. Approved. Item five, communications. Madame chair, directors, an item on your consent calendar, item 10. 2 with regard to establishing a towaway, no stopping anytime except for San Francisco Police Dep
Im sorry were a few minutes late in the beginning. We did have a vote in the floor and in the middle of it a colloquy concerning our schedule. This time i recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Good afternoon and a warm welcome to each of our witnesses who are going to join us today. We are here on what has turned gorgeous day in washington d. C. But were here to talk about an ugly, sorted subject, and that is online sex trafficking. Or its the name of as the organization describeds it more bluntly, slavery. As the stings continue to proliferate, those that thought slavery was something that could never happen in 2017 america have had to confront the terrifying reality that not only is it happening, its on the rise and in large part because the internet, the technological master piece of our time has made it much easier to do. And both the house and the senate this year are facing up to the challenge with a long over due conversation driving towards effective actio
Pagers and other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. So, please turn your phones off and not to vibrate because when it is on vibrate mode, it causes microphone interference. Thank you very much. Item fours approval of the minutes. Do i have any Public Comment on the minutes . Madame chair, we have not received a a speaker card and it doesnt look like anybody is addressing you. Seeing none, do i have a motion to approve the minutes of november 21 . To move. Second . Second. All if favor . Aye . None opposed. Approved. Item five, communications. Madame chair, directors, an item on your consent calendar, item 10. 2 with regard to establishing a towaway, no stopping anytime except for San Francisco Police Department vehicles has been asked to be amended by staff. The original proposal is to remove parking on fillmore street right on the east side and the west side. Further discuss
Same way they have in the past decade. And will talk more about why this is. Make sure we discuss what our response is going to be to this evolving problem. Weekrchers just last published a major scientific report. The report made it clear if we are ever going to get ahead of the problem the Forest Service needs to respond to wildfires in a fundamentally different way. A self reinforcing cycle of counter effective actions. The same keep using tired approaches we have for the last 100 years. We need to make sure we are focused on getting different results. Common sense tells us our response these to be modified now that the problem is different. The Service Report does a great job tell great job summing up what the report needs to do. Altering the current trajectory will require a total system transformation. States thebluntly status quo increases losses we suffer from wildfires and significantly affects the ability to meet the core mission. We need new solutions. My chairg to work with
Overall number in the law, the budget control act, requesting basically a little bit over 1 trillion. 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for. Within that number, he really departed from the budget control act numbers, and he requested a lot more for defense programs. About 54 billion for security related programs. And covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. So thats a violation of the budget control act there. But more than that, its very politically unpopular. Yes members really like the , defense spending increase, but they dont like taking it out of nondefense programs agriculture cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs cut 15 . Labor, health, Education Programs cut similarly. State Department Programs cut tremendously. And congress is rejecting that. They dont really have their own plan nailed down. While they are inclined to give a lot more to defense, they are not as interested in those nondefense spending cuts. It matters of