A good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday President Trumps nominee for president of the Us Export Import Bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the Senate Banking committee here to discuss that is former u. S. Trading commissioner bart bart as background for our viewers what is the Export Import Bank and why is that important. Its super important to our to our economy its been around since one thousand nine hundred thirty four and the idea is that it will help exports of u. S. Goods made in the u. S. Goods and you know it did so back in thirtys and after the Second World War it was a big part of the Marshall Plan trying to get exports to france and germany and then you know fast forward to eighty nine when the berlin wall came down trying to get u. S. Goods into the former soviet union chuckles poland and then the big push by presi
Communication across vast distances this is an interesting t. V. And Technology Facts the innovations are changing our lives and they are part and parcel to an enormously important portions of our Global Economy so with Technology Companies who are the largest but you can guess number one. Yep apple tops the list they have more than two hundred billion dollars in annual sales and made a profit of forty five billion dollars last year according to forbes fifteen of the top twenty five Tech Companies are from the United States with eight in the top ten including apple course microsoft alphabet i. B. M. Intel Cisco Systems oracle and facebook as we head into the new year is a good time to reflect on the power of our own imagination and how a vision of a Brighter Future back in the star trek days has changed the real world in which we live. On tuesday President Trumps nominee for president of the Us Export Import Bank was rejected by democrats and several republicans on the Senate Banking c
Utilities commission for today, tuesday, december 12. Madame secretary, roll, please . [roll call] and we have a quorum. So, before we get started, today is actually a very sad day for the city and county of San Francisco and in honor of our late mayor, ed lee, id like to ask everyone to stand if we can observe a moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. Before we enter Public Comment, i wanted to send my condolences to many of you, especially harlan, i know you were close with mayor lee. If there is any day to wish for fake news, this was it. I think were all very stunned. So, i want to announce closed session items 25 to 31 will not be heard today. As were going to approve the minutes of november 14. Can i have a motion to approve those minutes . So vote. Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comment related to the minutes of november 14 . All in favor, do approve . Aye. Opposed . Ok. Approved. Id like to call forward Public Comment and i have two gentlemen here. First is peter jakemi
Good afternoon, everyone. A call to order of the meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission for today, tuesday, december 12. Madame secretary, roll, please . [roll call] and we have a quorum. So, before we get started, today is actually a very sad day for the city and county of San Francisco and in honor of our late mayor, ed lee, id like to ask everyone to stand if we can observe a moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. Before we enter Public Comment, i wanted to send my condolences to many of you, especially harlan, i know you were close with mayor lee. If there is any day to wish for fake news, this was it. I think were all very stunned. So, i want to announce closed session items 25 to 31 will not be heard today. As were going to approve the minutes of november 14. Can i have a motion to approve those minutes . So vote. Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comment related to the minutes of november 14 . All in favor, do approve . Aye. Opposed . Ok. Approved. Id lik
This last year the prop q with the tent ban would have been a good opportunity. The police are like they are to be offering housing. There is no housing. Right now people are asking officers, well, prop q went through, you are to give me a notice and an offer of services. That is not happening. There arent any services to offer. Yes, we need to look at the Bigger Picture and look for solutions. I have 30 seconds. We were looking with the library a while back, a couple years back, and we were advocating for social workers. Within the first year incidents decreased 50 percent. That speaks a lot. When you are going with the right solutions. The citations bottom line they dont work, it doesnt work. Thank you. President turman thank you. Any other Public Comment . Public comments is now closed. Item 7 Public Comment on all matters pertaining item 9 below including whether to hold item 9 in closed session. We are about to go into closed session and consider personnel and other litigation rel