In a few minutes. Thank you president chiu supervisor cohen thank you, very much. Im delighted to hear that supervisor wiener is going to be calling a hearing 0 on trees id like to add my name to that request its a significant problem an ill conceived idea to transfer those sick trees to resident id like to close todays meeting in memory of a great man under johnson he was the only africanamerican elected to the sacramento board of supervisors and later appoint to the u. S. Health and Human Services and also served as a cabinet secretary he was widely praised with a keen political insticks out a a passion to help people he was a strong voice in the 71 and a champion of the social justice work to protect the interests of the working class and uses emphasis position to better those lives and the lives that are around him that were around him tested survived by his wife ms. Lee turning and daughter patricia and katherine and others hell be solely missed i want to recognize its legacy live
Secretary he was widely praised with a keen political insticks out a a passion to help people he was a strong voice in the 71 and a champion of the social justice work to protect the interests of the working class and uses emphasis position to better those lives and the lives that are around him that were around him tested survived by his wife ms. Lee turning and daughter patricia and katherine and others hell be solely missed i want to recognize its legacy lives on not only inspires me but there are organizers here in San Francisco that have known mr. Johnson for a long time the rest i submit mr. Clerk. Thank you supervisor cohen supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim thank you first of all, i want to wish any colleague supervisor campos a very happy birthday it happenings happened two days ago i want to introduce a modification for the transbay plan that allows the city to receive more money for Affordable Housing by allowing a developer to pay a significant fee i know this issue with in
Initiative. Creating lab in crime, theres one in education, theres one in poverty, theres one in energy and the environment and theres one in health. They will do random miezed control trials studying these programs and work with cities to help scale them up. So its a way in which we leverage what we do. Those are just a couple of the ways, but theres a lot that i think anchors trying to do to be catalyst for change. Aamy michael there is a lot of interest from probably everyone in this room and around the country, what the administration is going to do in this moment so we will touch on that. Lets start first with my brothers keeper. Its a little over a year in implementation. You really received a lot of local commitments to action. Explain to people in the room who may not be familiar with it, whats the approach for my brothers keeper, whats the result now a year in . Michael good morning. My brothers keeper is really what the heart of the Obama Administration is, which is making su
Evolve my leadership style to ensure our success with meeting the mission, the needs of the workforce and the community. Once again, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be very happy to answer any questions the committee may have at this time. Thank you very much, chief. I appreciate that. I think ill just start off about the unattended firearms which was probably, if anything, one of the bigger concerns, since ive been here on the hill. You were just outlining what you would normally do in a case like that. I think you said five days suspension. Something like that. Im sure that depends on the personnel record of that particular individual, if there had been incidents in the past or not, et cetera. But its also my understanding that some of these incidents happened with members of the force that were on sort of special detail with leadership. And is there any do you give that consideration . Or what do you do in a case like that . Yes, maam. First of all,
Terrorist Organization Currently subject to negotiation that cuba is hosting for the u. S. Is playing a role company and thepe government, correct . Thats correct and we are notconflic accompanying that have the special envoy nowt and its also the longestrunning civil conflict in the hemisphere. My i dont want to get ahead of myself but if that negotiation works out positively and we are then, we have the ability of the two continents all wa americans without work, without civil war and without war between nations that would be pretty unusual in the history of these two continents wooden it . It would be an historic achievement. C and it would be pretty unusual wars were civil wars in asia wars are civil wars intw asia and sadly wars are civil wars in europe. Trde you talked in your opening testimony that thing greasing theeements trade in the americas the majority of the american trade agreements agreements are with the nations in the americas. Theres more trade between be the eight n