Transition team focusing on telecommunication and the federal communications condition. Dr. Jamison, welcome to the communicators. Guest thank you. Host i noted you were head of the National Association of regulatory Utility Commission. What does a regulatory Utility Commission do . Guest well, just a small correction. I was the chair of a commit awithin the National Association of regulatory commissioners within it was a subcommittee actually. Not even a full committee. But what a public Utility Commissioner does in the United States for example and this transfers around the world is they regulate utility. It is the things like setting what the Service Quality standards will be, what the prices will be. Those are the biggest jobs of some countries. It is folks on the infrastructure rollout and development. In some instances it is determined how markets will work. That is basically the job of the utility regulator. That is its formal job. What i also found and i train a lot of people a
You have done, essentially, is dedicated your life to looking at poor, disadvantaged communities and people and saying, i see amazing potential. Correct. I believe that most people are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. Its all in the way you treat people that drives behavior, so on the basis of the insight which is largely autobiographical i built a center in pittsburgh beginning in the 1960s to work with kids in the streets during the riots and unemployed adults during the early 1970s. And i redefined the strategy to work with Public School kids who are at risk by using the arts as way of redeeming their souls and creating opportunity for life, and recovering unemployed individuals largely on public assistance by putting them in worldclass Technology Facilities that can actually teach them the skill sets that they can use. Hinojosa okay, so, so, so, so. Lets just take it one step at a time. Sure. Hinojosa so one of your fundamental philosophies that you have written abou
Best day in more than a year, the stock surging to levels not seen since february of 2015, helping the dow to close at a record high, after the retail giant announced a 20 billion buyback. Online sales, according to analysts, will explode in the next year. With walmart trading about 20 times earnings, amazon trades at 250. The question here is, should investors start valuing it like a growing tech company in other words, what is walmart really worth guy . I cant speak to what the valuation should be. Thats what the street is struggling with. They did say online sales will increase by 40 next year. You think about that, i mean, thats for like a startup type company. Thats not for a Mature Company like walmart thats a significant number. You mentioned 20 billion stock buyback. I think thats roughly 7. 5 of their market cap not insignificant. I think thats what people are struggling with. What is the right valuation . I dont know the answer. What i do know and our good friend carter worth
You have done, essentially, is dedicated your life to looking at poor, disadvantaged communities and people and saying, i see amazing potential. Correct. I believe that most people are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. Its all in the way you treat people that drives behavior, so on the basis of the insight which is largely autobiographical i built a center in pittsburgh beginning in the 1960s to work with kids in the streets during the riots and unemployed adults during the early 1970s. And i redefined the strategy to work with Public School kids who are at risk by using the arts as way of redeeming their souls and creating opportunity for life, and recovering unemployed individuals largely on public assistance by putting them in worldclass Technology Facilities that can actually teach them the skill sets that they can use. Hinojosa okay, so, so, so, so. Lets just take it one step at a time. Sure. Hinojosa so one of your fundamental philosophies that you have written abou
Announcements . Clerk yes, please shut off any cell phones or any devices. Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items will be appearing on april 4, 2017. Would you like to take a vote on excusing supervisor tang for todays meeting. Yes. Do we have an approval to excuse supervisor tang. That is approved. Madam clerk, please read item 8 and 10. 170214 [purchase and Sale Agreement lendlease development, inc. 30 van ness avenue 70,000,000] sponsors mayor; kim reading code . Supervisor malia cohen all right. Thank you very much, supervisor kim has joined us today who is the sponsor for these two items. I will give her the floor now. Supervisor jane kim im only the sponsor to no. 8. Thank you, chair cohen and members of the budget and finance committee. We know this issue very well. This has been before the board of supervisors for some time. This is regarding the sale and acquisition of 30 van ness owned by the city county of san franciscans. In september when 2016 when we first