Good, or good afternoon, rather and welcome to this event on u. S. Sanctions and deterrence. Im elizabeth, and i direct the Economics Program here at the center for new american security. It is a pleasure to have you all here with us, todays session is an opportunity to speak about the deterrents and signaling effects of financial sanctions. And as many of you know well, u. S. Sanctions are an economic tool, which in general terms shut off access to the u. S. Financial system, to those named people or entities that pose a threat to u. S. National security. And the use of sanctions has been central to the exercise of u. S. Foreign policy and National Security over the last decade. And in fact, i would say as a favorite policy tool in this administration in particular. The topic of this is a report by jordan to my left which i cowrote and were releasing today, those of us who are seeing nus person will see that as you came in. And take a copy. The report includes findings that came out o
Meeting meeting of San Francisco board of appeals presiding officer commissioner president honda and commissioner wilson commissioner fung will be absent this evening to my left is brad the deputy City Attorney and will provide advise gary and my name is Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were joined by Scott Sanchez at the table had in the front the Zoning Administrator and representing the Planning Department and Planning Commission should be joined by senior building inspector joe duffy who will be representing of the inspection please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other Electronic Devices are prohibited. Out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. Have up to 3 minutes no rebuttal. To assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or Business Card to the clerk. Have up to 3 minutes no rebutt
Of lafco minutes from 2016. Okay colleagues, any comments or changes to our minutes okay we can go to Public Comment, Public Comment is open on the lafco minutes seeing no rush to the podium well close Public Comment and a motion to approval of the minutes a motion if commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner avalos without objection and go on to our next item. Item number 3 the communities choice aggregation Choice Committee report. See if this works. Good afternoon, commissioners michael the director of chief of Police Program for the Public Utilities Commission Im here on behalf of the general manager hale. And ms. Hale wanted me to say shes sad to miss that meeting we working closely with you over the years ms. Hale in particular to develop and launch the chief of Police Program and on behalf of ms. Hale thank you for your leadership in getting the program launched with respect to the update on the program the cleanpowersf Program Continues to successfully serve customers w
Looking forward to doing and so i encourage everyone out there in tv land and the public to really support our commission but also the work in continuing the underground community of artist and musicians here in the bay area and San Francisco with that, well start roll call and go ahead with our meeting. Want to do a couple of announcements. Oh, yeah, he forgot before a roll call a few announcements please turn off cell phones and keep them on silent not to disturb the preceding and secondly, if youre a member of the public and want to make Public Comment do so when i call you and Public Comment speaker cards to fill out beforehand and to the staff and finally thank you to sfgovtv and media serves for airing this meeting live to the public every time we meet now go ahead with the roll call. Commissioner perez commissioner thomas commissioner caminong commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan. Everyone is here. Would you a full house. I want to acknowledge th
There is a number of interesting things here and think there are quite interesting for dbi, particularly at page 592. Dbi requirements. Dbi would require that the detail geotechnical reportthis is not 301 mission, this is transbay. Report address the potential settlement of impact of excavation dewater. The report include determination bl a Lateral Movement and settlement survey of adjacent streets during construction. If a Monitoring Survey were recommended department of public works require a special inspector be retained. It goes onif you can wait one second mr. Brigs. Mr. Hui, relative to dbi requirements in the eir for transbay, do you know who in your department is in charge of that . I wasnt involved at all. I think it [inaudible] presumably this requirement is ongoing right now. I think [inaudible] hired their own consultant. I only doing the plan check in charge of the plan check for them. So, the watering is not in my area of expertise. I appreciate your candor, mr. Tomthis i