Lets kick it off with blake. On the eve of the impending vote in the house of representatives likely tomorrow night President Trump has just sent this fivepage scathing letter to the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. The president saying he is doing so to put the words on paper, quote, for the purpose of history. The president writing at one point, saying, of democrats, quote, you are the ones interfering in americas elections. You are the ones subverting americas democracy. You are the ones obstructing justice. He also writes of pelosi saying quote, even worse than offending the Founding Fathers you are offending americans of faith by continually saying i pray for the president when you know this statement is not true unless it is meant in a negative sense. Its a terrible thing you are doing but you will have to live with it, not i. That the president to the speak of the house. Speaking of the president , earlier today, here in the oval office he hosted his counterpart from guatemal
For continuance. Do any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . Thank you. Regarding 2 henry adams, we needed to kick it out a week to put last materials together. Youll see the cases from 2013. If theres any opportunity to get on the december 19 schedule, we would appreciate it. I just wanted to put a shutout for that. So thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . With that, Public Comment is closed. Motion to continue items 1a, 2 and 18a to the dates second. Thank you. On that motion to continue items as proposed. Commission fung is there any response to the request for the 19th versus for 2 henry adams . Jonas . Well, the only reason we chose january 9 is because december 19 is closed. We have a full calendar. Okay. Sorry. On that motion to continue items as proposed. [roll call vote] that motions passes in a minute unanimously. Your consent calendar. All matters are considered to be retune and may be
Withdrawn. The numbers over the years have gone down a built by it in terms of volume and jurisdiction requests. Looking on page 23, geographic distribution, not much changed there over the years. You can see in red, those are all the address points of the permits that were issued to properties at those addresses. So its the northeast quadrant. I just want to touch quickly on 24 on the appeals Management System. Its been really great. Its a significant improvement. Its unbelievable. I feel like we are in the 21st century compared to what we had before. And i think its really incredible in terms of reporting capabilities. Our old system, we had to export everything from our system through access and then cobble the numbers in compel. There was a lot of room for error so this is going to be more accurate data. We saw a number of very large sunshine requests, like even for this recent case, they wanted to know all the d. B. I. Revocations so ms. Sullivan did an excellent job going through
Policy that vancouver and new york have done. That will enhance our local seekosis tom, improve human health, mitigate climate age and i hope it will be part of your Climate Action strategy in 2020. And thank you to Anthony Valdez for all your good work. Thank you. Next item is item 11, announcements, this item is for discussion. No announcements or Public Comment. The next item is 12, new business future agenda items. Anthony valdez, this is discussion and possible action. So, commissioners, in charles absence i will do the new business today. At the january commissioner meeting, well be having the regular items which is the voting on the budget and the recommendation that comes from the operations committee. As well as voting on the annual report and the recommendation that comes from the policy committee. Theres an election of officers as well as a couple of presentations from the climate team about hazard and resiliency plans that the cities is working on. So thats what we have so
Thanks for coming to our session , a Civil Society approach to preventing terrorism and targeted violence. I am a senior policy analyst with new Americas National security program. We are a think and action tanks civic life form that connects technology labs, solutions networks, media hub, and public forum. From homegrown american terrorism to United States drone wars abroad, and a corporation drones around the world to the profound changes in warfare brought by new technology and societal changes. Theuld like to introduce presentation on our new initiative before we jump into the panel portion. He was once a jihadist propagandist who ran revolutionary muslim, a new york citybased organization active in the 2000s connected to a number of terrorism cases. He connected al qaedas ideology and transformed it for america creating englishlanguage propaganda. 2011e radicalized in following his arrest in casablanca and incarceration in the u. S. After his presentation, i will invite the rest o