Let me have your attention. I asked the mayors that are in the room to please be seated at the table, and others please feel free to sit along the wall. We are going to go ahead and get started, so that we may make an attempt to get ahead of schedule. I wish you good morning to this special climate section special climate session. Todays leadership confronting tomorrows challenges. I will talk more about that soon. I am jim brainard. Carmel, mayor of indiana, and cochair of the Energy Independence in Climate Protection Task force. Colleague,oduce my san jose mayor sam mcardle. Let me ask all of the mayors present here to introduce yourselves, so that speakers and others will know who is participating. Start with greg stanton. Good morning. Im the mayor of phoenix, and chairman of the Energy Committee. Good morning. I am hobbie r gonzales, mayor of the city of santa fe. Javier gonzalez, mayor of the city of santa fe. Good morning. I am david miller. I am former mayor of the city of toro
[no audio] good afternoon and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of the mayors. I am the mayor of the great city of new orleans. [applause] start, we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver is here. She wants us to note that today st birthday of vancouver. Birthday madam mayor. [applause] honor to introduce Steve Benjamin of south carolina. Second Vice President of rochester hill. Director tom cochrane. We also have with us in the audience, our past president. Elizabeth of burnsville. Several formal mayors who have served in the leadership in the audience today. There are many newly elected mayors who are with us for the first time. New mayors, can you stand up . [applause] thank you. We look forward to it. For those mayors who are joining us in washington dc, welcome to our meeting and thank you all for being here. I am going to introduce our speakers as we move through the agenda. This is all available at u. S. Mayors. Org. For those of you on facebook, twitter, or in
Weeks and months at a time in vienna and geneva, lausanne, other places negotiating a deal on the front lines. People like jon and i had the harder task of negotiating a deal back here in washington. Just want to make that clear note. Obviously, secretary kerry and secretary moniz and Wendy Sherman and others and people like russ deserve all the credit for what i think is a very strong agreement. Asking whether this is his final, whether thi this is the period at the end of the sentence as it relates to this issue, the final longterm answer to all the controversies with iran, its not. Is the agreement itself put in place a series of very important longstanding amendments for iran that we believe to get the International Community confident they will not develop a Nuclear Weapon. It puts constraints on their enrichment capacity, puts from the constraints on the arak heavywater nuclear, puts obligations under vanessa was to interested inspection sentiments on certain types of inspections
Was delayed. Also is tom cochrane, the gentleman next to my colleague. Executive director. The conference of mayors is a Nonpartisan Organization of cities of 30,000 are more. There are 1408 i am told. All the guest speakers are making their first visit. Mayor landrieus father spoke to our breakfast one to 1975 when he was mayor of new orleans, and once in 1979 as secretary of housing and urban development. So much for monitor breakfast trivia. Good for you, good for you. I was not, obviously. I was 12. The mayor is a graduate of catholic university. Previously served in the louisiana house of representatives and served as louisianas governor. Mayor benjamin has been in office since 2010. His law degrees are from the university of South Carolina. His Previous Government Service includes appointment at the age of 29 to the governors cabinet as director of the department of probation and parole and pardon services. Mayor giles, like his counterparts here is a republican. He was the 40th
Was delayed. Also is tom cochrane, the gentleman next to my colleague. Executive director. The conference of mayors is a Nonpartisan Organization of cities of 30,000 are more. There are 1408 i am told. All the guest speakers are making their first visit. Mayor landrieus father spoke to our breakfast one to 1975 when he was mayor of new orleans, and once in 1979 as secretary of housing and urban development. So much for monitor breakfast trivia. Good for you, good for you. I was not, obviously. I was 12. The mayor is a graduate of catholic university. Previously served in the louisiana house of representatives and served as louisianas governor. Mayor benjamin has been in office since 2010. His law degrees are from the university of South Carolina. His Previous Government Service includes appointment at the age of 29 to the governors cabinet as director of the department of probation and parole and pardon services. Mayor giles, like his counterparts here is a republican. He was the 40th