And that we have come to know him to call his humanity and complexity and there is one lesson from the book that really stayed with me and as david but it and his optimism all the madness we see in the world and with the cando spirit it is indeed possible. This gives me the opportunity to say thank you. And with joseph pletter kennedy. Now turning to the 1 million displaced persons the last million is an epic story with millions and millions of people of general chaos and most known where those also migrant laborers and collaborators and when the war ended. And as the title suggest millions did not. And as a singular story to be told . And with the common sense view of historical events and not necessarily truthful only partially. Much clearer than before. With the peace treaties. And the suffering was displaced by war continues unabated between three and five years in the germany in the camps between three or five years. Talk about the millions who remain in the 1 million into germany
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with
How to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with the closed session. Before we do, id like to rerecu recuse myself for the closed session. Id like to ask that director hirsch, as i did so last time, take
Seated next to her is devin pendis w srks pendas. He focuses on war crime trials. And next to him is our fault director of the la paige center, paul steege. Paul is focused on history, of every day life. Foe k focusing on germany, and were going to begin by learning about our scholars and where they come from on this question and topic and then we will dive into the conversation. So for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. Tell me about your research and area of study. Im the executive director for the rowan center for Holocaust Research and human rights. We have multiple foci. One of the questions that were asked very often is so what. Were learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. So we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. My own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of education. I was an education professor, before that element
Most people have access to a telephone. So all of our public meetings, including this one, theres a dialin number for people who cant get online and cant see our faces can still hear the text and can call in on their telephone. In fact were getting a significant number of people picking up their phone and calling in. All of those phone calls are transcribed for us and vick has been reading some of them. We want to make sure people have a real opportunity to participate and we have been reliant for some of our communitybased organizations, like so many can and the social equity organizations have been participating by phone as well and we have still early in the crisis did some inperson meetings with social distance. I have a question from youtube. Can you raise the tickets for safety violations and for r. P. P. S . Yes. So this is another complicated question. Again, if you go to sfmta. Com budget, you will see all of the details proposals for how were making adjustments to our citatio