Access in Rural Communities, the future of mobile broadband and combatting skarms held by a house customers sub ke. This is two hours, the subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome you all to the subcommittees hearing titled a recite and reauthorization of the federal Communications Commission. I appreciate the commissioners appearing to offer their testimony today, and we appreciate that we have been able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. The fcc has not been reauthorized since 1990, and its current appropriation is over 430 million. It is charged with the administration of the Communications Act, and under statutes vital to the functionings of our Communications Policy we must reexamine the Core Functions of the commission and restore a culture of humility that was lacking under the regulatory cloud left by the chairman. The fcc points a vital role in o
I want to welcome you to the subcommittee. I appreciate the commissioners appearing to offer their testimony today. And we appreciate that we have been able to hear from you in advance of this hearing. Beencc has not reauthorized since 1990 and its current appropriation is 430 million. It is charged with the administration of Communications Act. Reexamine the Core Functions and restore a culture of humility that was lacking under the regulatory class left by chairman wheeler. The fcc plays a vital role in our increasingly Technology Dependent society. The subcommittee has released a draft for consideration. I would be remiss by not discussing Net Neutrality. The commissions decision to classify the internet as a public utility was a power grab laced with the irony of suffocating the most innovative part of our economy with in 1930s era law. This gave new meaning to the term progressive. Reply comments to the commissions are due august 18. We hope you are keeping that wed whacker handy.
Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report. Tim fry, department staff. The directors report was included in your packets. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the report. Seeing no questions, we will move on. Item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission, staff report and announcements. Commissioners, again tim fry, department staff. Nothing to report from previous Planning Commission hearings, just wanted to
Commission hasz, here. Commission johnck, here. Commissioner john, here. And commissioner matsuda. Here. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items. With respect to agenda items your opportunity to speak will be afforded when the agenda is reached. I have no speaker cards. Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report.
Respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting but lets say i was expecting a presentation. And the other question i have, at some point i think it would be im