Committee to my right is supervisor tang and the clerk is lisa miller id like to thank sfgovtv mr. Jim smith were going to get started we have a legislated i didnt meeting today madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of the documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Okay. Today, were here to hear 3 items from the can i feel grand jury report we want to call the first and second items today, well hold the hearing and have a presentation first on the port madam clerk call items 15e. Is a hearing and resolution responding to the proceeding just of the superior court on the published civil grand jury report entitled the 76 caught been dollars. Before we get to the specification ill give el lane smith a couple of minutes to speak to the committee thank you for your work on this i know youve spent a lot of hours putting those reports together so, please provide us with an overview. Thank
Any members of the public. Lets take roll call on thit em. Director lee. Lee, aye. Nuru. Aye. Reiskin. Aye. Harper. Aye. And kim. Aye. And as well tha, is five ayes and item eleven is approved. Great. Eare there any other items or announcements . That concludes the agenda for today. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Sa im the chair of the committee to my right is supervisor tang and the clerk is lisa miller id like to thank sfgovtv mr. Jim smith were going to get started we have a legislated i didnt meeting today madam clerk, any announcements . Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of the documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Okay. Today, were here to hear 3 items from the can i feel grand jury report we want to call the first and second items today, well hold the hearing and have a presentation first on the port madam clerk call items 15e. Is a hearing and resolution responding to the proceeding just of
The port madam clerk call items 15e. Is a hearing and resolution responding to the proceeding just of the superior court on the published civil grand jury report entitled the 76 caught been dollars. Before we get to the specification ill give el lane smith a couple of minutes to speak to the committee thank you for your work on this i know youve spent a lot of hours putting those reports together so, please provide us with an overview. Thank you very much madam chair supervisor tang and supervisor chiu thank you for your time to the a year worth of work for the 20132014 civil grand jury i want to give a quick context how we operate and what the reports is trying to do the civil grand jury is made up of 9 citizens we volunteered to be the citizens watchful dog as spelled out many the california decision we began the years as individual and during the year meshed as a jury our commitment to look at the aspects of local government to see as citizens representatives thought greater fetishn
In the elections twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g. W. Back the world has changed whether its getting more extreme. To day be a struggling minute talking with people on the moon in the millions and it talking up of people in the billions. Drought floods hurricanes that asked areas are being devastated by environmental catastrophe how many people will be forced to leave their homes by the mid century not due to conflict and war but due to Climate Change we appear to be on the path to a troubling future. From mr hill region to Southeast Asia from the pacific to the caribbean some people are fleeing rising waters others drought. The worlds population began to soar about two hundred years ago soon it will top ten billion Greenhouse Gases are rising apace the resulting warming of the earths atmosphere is wreaking havoc on the climate humankind which is responsible for this warming is becoming its victim more and more people are forced to leave their homes. Inequality is being exacerbate
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