[gavel]. Chair ronen good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 7, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Seated to my left is supervisor gordon mar, and we its just the two of us today. Mr. Clerk, do we need a motion to excuse supervisor walton . Clerk yes, we do. Supervisor mar yeah. I make a motion to excuse supervisor walton. Chair ronen and without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. Chair ronen first, let me thank jessie and maya from sfgovtv for staffing this meeting, and our clerk today is victor young. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please make sure to silence any phones and electronic deviced, a devices, and be sure to submit any speaker cards to the clerk. Items today will appear on the october 27 board of supervisors agenda. Chair ronen thank you. Will you read item number one. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you. And i will open this up for Public Comme
The other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you . You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet, im one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you . [cheers and applause] greta for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that youre doing enough when the politics and Solutions Needed are still nowhere in sight . You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil. And that, i refuse to believe. [applause] greta the popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a
Ways to overcome those obstacles. This is about one hour and half. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. I note that a quorum shall be present without objection the committee is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee, not on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today pursuant to the testimony on examining racial and gender wealth gaps in america. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is around a Critical Mission avoid the subcommittee exist. The racial and gender wealth gap is real. Unacceptable and actually much larger than people think. True wealth can be defined by adding of total assets including cash retirement account or your home and then subtracting liability which is credit card debt, student loans, mortgage to reach you reach your net worth. The median net worth of white household with
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. I note that a quorum shall be present without objection the committee is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee, not on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today pursuant to the testimony on examining racial and gender wealth gaps in america. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is around a Critical Mission avoid the subcommittee exist. The racial and gender wealth gap is real. Unacceptable and actually much larger than people think. True wealth can be defined by adding of total assets including cash retirement account or your home and then subtracting liability which is credit card debt, student loans, mortgage to reach you reach your net worth. The median net worth of white household with 130,800, the white median net worth of latina and households was 17
The context of this visit is that theres been an increase of u. S. Sanctions against iran as an increase of tensions in the region and theres a military buildup but also side uribe has accused iran of being behind the attack on the Oil Facilities for president rouhani said this morning that the United States has cheerier motives. Are massively. Regarding the issues in the region they are exaggerating what has happened to iran cause what is the reason for that the reason is that americans want to keep control of the whole region now they say they want to bring Patriot Defense systems into the region its clear they want to keep control of saudi arabias oil that comes from the eastern part this conflict is not about us it is about the american competition with chinese and others they are taking advantage of this opportunity president rouhani is also expected to present an alternative peace plan thats in the face of the u. S. Naval coalition that theyve put together what the u. S. Says is