Or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. Thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember were counting on you good morning and welcome to the march 15 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. My name is jane kim and im joined by our vicechairman supervisor aaron peskin and present london reed. I want to of knowledge and think our community clerk erica meijer and also think the folks at sfgov tv Jessica Larson and jim smith for the courting our meetings and making them available to the members of the public. Mdm. Clerk any announcements . Yes these make sure to sounds all the phones and electronic vices. Complete speaker cards and any documents as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items acted upon today will appear on march 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Im clerk please also the matters of the committee are here.
Reed. I want to of knowledge and think our community clerk erica meijer and also think the folks at sfgov tv Jessica Larson and jim smith for the courting our meetings and making them available to the members of the public. Mdm. Clerk any announcements . Yes these make sure to sounds all the phones and electronic vices. Complete speaker cards and any documents as part of the file should be submitted to the court. Items acted upon today will appear on march 21 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Im clerk please also the matters of the committee are here. If you would call item number one and two yes item number one resolution receiving an acuity and or board for the Noe Valley Community Benefit District for fiscal year 201516s amended as required by the property Business Improvement district lot of 1994. Item number two a resolution of receiving and approving the annual report of the ocean avenue Community Benefit district for fiscal year 201516. Thank you tha
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on the militarys readiness and the upcoming fiscal budget. It was on the income overseas offensive and defensive abilities. Many of them related to the 2011 budget control act. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. The subcommittee on defense appropriations on the United States senate will come to order. Today we are receiving an update on military readiness and Defense Budget matters. Were pleased to welcome to the committee the honorable james m. Mattis, secretary of defense. General Joseph Dunford jr. , chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The fiscal year 2017 department of defense appropriations agreement has been approved by the other body in the house of representatives. And i look forward to our completing work on that bill in the coming weeks. Were well into the fiscal year and members of the subcommittee understand the poepimportance o enacting appropriations. As we complete our work on the 2017 defense agreement, we also recogn
The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. Yet when the ic and dod do not integrate effectively, we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. Were here today because the dod and ic have failed to adequately respond to the concer
Tonight, activists and scholars discuss the obama legacy on civil rights. 2016a dubois looked at the election and racial conflicts in the u. S. Heres more. I think we have been handed a next ray. We can see all of the an. Ray we can see all the cancers in the body right now. That is a shocking, destabilizing part. Levele not achieved the of hope and change, the shift in public discourse, the sense of unity as a country that president obama articulated so beautifully in 2008. But i think that we may be missing something really important about that. I obviously personally believe that others have done an amazing job in pointing this out the primary obstacles to hope and change, as we now see, our white fragility and white supremacy. That is on the table and it is out for everyone to see. We can see the trump supporters. We can see the Tea Party Movement in 2010. Race, see the issues with violence, and policing. We cant do surgery without that xray. Took thet probably country too long, ma