And play richardson. Welcome to the show. The United States says its reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be reduced to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country. Bringing american troops home was a key pledge of the trump presidency, but that situation has also triggered a backlash. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule. But suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now, outgoing President Donald Trump will further reduce the number of soldiers here and in iraq. In light of these tremendous sacrifices and with great humility and gratitude to those who came before us, i am formally announcing that we will implement president trumps orders to continue our repositioning of forces from those 2 countries by january 15th, 2021. Our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops,
Stream here, but thank you. I had the exact same one issue that i dont want to postpone with the same issue you just brought up about the conservatorships, and im looking for chief tong. There you go. Theres chief tong. Knowing a little bit about the conservatorship proceedings from the probate division, i this is seeming a little bit backwards to me. It is in fact true, its a civil proceeding, and they have been pushed way into 2021. But just as, lets say, Domestic Violence restraining orders or those kinds of things have been moving ahead the whole time and have been dealt with timely, you know, we have in this city such stringent requirements, its shocking to me that anybody qualified but so much must be expended upon a single individual before the Public Guardian or Family Member or whomever is allowed to file. But it just seems contrary to my logic that with backed that, with backed up cases, there are more cases coming into the system. Im not asking you to address that now, but i
For members of the public to wish to make Public Comment, the number so use it 408 4189388. The access code is 146 308 6161. Then press pound and press pound again. When your item of interest is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Unmute, director tsen. Yes. Present. Clerk director dunlop. Present. Clerk director richardson. Present. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shiffrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you. Im sorry were still meeting remotely. But anyways welcome to the public at large and thank you for being here on a beautiful, very hot San Francisco day. But at least its clear. It means we all have found out how important clear air is to all of us. But welcome. Well go to the first item, please, kate. Clerk item n
You may address the board once per agenda item for up to two minutes. Item number 1, call to order. Director tsen. Unmute, director tsen. Yes. Present. Clerk director dunlop. Present. Clerk director richardson. Present. Clerk director kwon. Here. Clerk director shiffrin. Here. Clerk supervisor haney. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you. Im sorry were still meeting remotely. But anyways welcome to the public at large and thank you for being here on a beautiful, very hot San Francisco day. But at least its clear. It means we all have found out how important clear air is to all of us. But welcome. Well go to the first item, please, kate. Clerk item number 2, general Public Comment. This item so to allow the members of the public to address the board within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Authority Board and do not appear on todays agenda. In addition to general Public Comment, Public Comment will be held during each item on the agenda. Members of the the public may address the boa
I just hope the clerk next caller. I am a black woman that works for the department. I would like to thank the supervisors for bringing this issue and bringing awareness to the concerns and these issues. I am also in support of the black employee alliance. We need the tangibles and the demands listed specifically in the letter. We need a supervisor to focus on racist bias and racism [indiscernible] this person should focus on the departments where there are racially bad actor acto actors [indiscernible] terminations and medical releases. The Inspector General should or could also lead efforts on the following examples. One important one would be to abolish the d. H. R. , e. E. O. System [indiscernible]. Clerk could we have the next caller. My name is marco reed, an employee at the San Francisco m. C. A. I want to bring us back to some of the points around apprenticeships, pathways, and pipelines. M. C. A. Has embarked on an Aggressive Program to bring to light some of the things that w