Of that money. Let me catch up to my notes here. For Foreign Trades notes provide the foreign supply trade a weekly entry a benefit that only is vertebral to Foreign Trade zone users an import erica take any number of shipments from the airports or seaports on a weekly basis and instead of having to file a customs entities they can wait and aggregate them into one weekly shipment it saves them costs of customs entries but perhaps a greater benefit it allows them to review their processing fees a federal fee that an importer has to pay based on the value of imports a minimum of 25 per customs sgri or a maximum of 485 by a congratulating having one thing entry rather than one over the course of a week and foreign trait yourself can also tampering of the direct delivery from goods from the ports that saves goods typically have to wait for customs clearance but acceptance for direct delivery they can save a day or two on the delivery of their goods for the reduce of the supply chance and p
Good morning and welcome to the to the monthly meeting the of Transportation Authority im supervisor wiener the chair of the tort i want to thank sfgov for broadcasting Jennifer Lowe and bill dillon mr. Clerk, please call the roll supervisor avalos commissioner breed commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell commissioner kim commissioner kim . Here commissioner mar chens chang commissioner tang commissioner wiener commissioner yee commissioner yee . Sorry commissioner yee present we have quorum. Thank you very much item 2. Item 2 chairs report this is an information item. Thank you and colleagues over the past year the Transportation Authority has clocked collaborated with our agency and Community Partners to achieve a number of milestones for the transportation including including the wins and federal, state, and local let me thank you vice chair malia cohen and thank caging for the Program Committee and commissioner avalos for chairing the finance committee about al
Why do you think a lot of those recommendations were ignored . I think the service itself has noted it has not always done what it needed to do in terms of following through on recommendations. The hope is coming out of this report, that there will be a real opportunity to focus on these specific recommendations and follow through with tracking to make sure actually get implement it. If there is a real process, and i am sure this committee will have a role in it and others will have a role in it to ask of the service, and where is that going, and i also assume that this at future president s will hold them accountable as well. The last question, how do you define that success if you have implemented recommendations properly . From our perspective the kind of cultural change in leadership change weve talked about, that really defines the commission paired we talked a little bit in the report say it has been five years that the service submitted to congress looks about the same with litt
Did you look at that and what sort of assessment did you give that . We did, and our views on that are that theres certainly some benefits to be gained from the investigative mission, to some extent. Now, theres a continuum in those investigative activities. To the extent for example, that cyber investigations involve the safety of the first family, of the president , thats probably going to be part of the core mission of the secret service. To the extent that cyber involves looking at whether a movie studio has been act or a Health Insurance company or a multinational retail type into the, that might be further afield in other parts of the federal government that are involved in cyber activities might be better positioned to handle the lead on them. Again, all through the core prism of what the main mission of the secret service is. We had a couple months to look at this. We dont purport to have the final answers but we think the guidepost on this will be whats the core mission of the
With the black Emergency Managers association. I think she summed it up in terms of disaster management, in terms of the Emergency Management network. Guinea liberia sierra leone for the west african nations that needs to be established. I think your ims system was outstanding, setting that up, the coordination with stakeholders involved and thats going to be a key to rebuilding your Health Care Structures especially from the Community Level level. I want to commend you for all the work youve done. One other thing with dr. Lacy that he mentioned with the response to that and usually response worldwide is how are volunteers getting reimbursed and paid . I think youre leading towards that. I met with him at georgetown and we discussed that. I didnt talk to you yesterday at the world bank but you mentioned that those plans you have in place, youre at that stage to build the Liberian National Emergency Management system or agency. Thats all i want to say. Thank you. Why dont we come back t