Here in San Francisco. Its truly an honor for me to have the opportunity to speak today, and i have the greatest respect for your work. Today, over 400,000 british tourists visit california each year, and hundreds of thousands of jobs are the as a result of billions of dollars of trade and investment here between us. It is my great pleasure to work with the people here in San Francisco to continue to develop and strengthen that relationship. I am here to offer my strong support of the Presidio Terrace case brought before you. Who owns the streets and how it is managed has a direct bearing on this. The British Government therefore considers itself to be a party of interest in the sale of Presidio Terrace, however, despite 15 years of ownership up to 2015, we were not informed of the process nor involved of the final sale, if we would have been, we would have worked with the parties to quickly resolve the matter. If the sale were allowed to stand, we have significant concerns about the p
Even members of the San Francisco community. I very much hope that you will consider the fairness of it all and do the right thing in rescinding the sale of our Common Property to an outside property. Thank you. Thank you very much for your consideration. President breed thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Supervisors, my name is susan dossider. My husband and our family of seven have lived at number 2 Presidio Terrace for 23 years. We have raised our five children on this street. We adopted our youngest child at age three from khazkstan after she had been abandoned at two and a nav. Clara was born here. She learned to play on the street and ride her bike on our sidewalks. Benjamin is in his third year of medical school. He is doing a dual degree in medicine and Public Health as he plans to go into global medicine, practicing pediatrics and in particular, pediatric infectious disease, hoping to make an impact on Childrens Health in third world countries. He has called Pr
Good afternoon will them to the Heritage Foundation you can join us on the web site and to those in the future joining us on cspan booktv. Please turn it your mobile devices on silent you are welcome to send questions and comments at any time. We will post the program on our web site for future reference. To encourage you to purchase copies of Digital World war is on amazon and the author would be glad to have that coming into christmas. Welcoming our special gas is margaret bob bin before arriving at the Henry Jackson society was a fellow our think tank in london testifying numerous times before congress as well as providing oral evidence and with britains intelligence agency. A master of science degree of u. S. War policy and earning a bachelor of arts degree in International History please join me to welcome robins. [applause] this is a great pleasure to be able to invite haroon ullah. Serving as a chief Strategy Officer at the Global Media Agency and a scholar and the diplomats and
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