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I am delighted to now introduce the board of trustees, Jacob Weisberg, who has been involved in the internet before we knew what it was since 1996. Eer in then a pionw field and what we talked about how to take on the topic whouding experts and people signed Net Neutrality and their eyes glazed over and we got the perfect person would be Jacob Weisberg so over to you. Thank you. Want to think of the fordham system for sponsoring this event. We are going to do way better than have your eyes glaze...

Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome you to the brookingss decision Brookings Institution. I am even more delighted to welcome sylvia burwell, burwell, tolvia this event at brookings. I have known sylvia a long time. Over 20 years. Sylviafirst encountered in the clinton administration, i thought of her as that friendly, competent young woman who worked for bob rubin at the National Economic council. I learned that sylvia was the go to person and a cando person. That was a useful person to h...

Of canadian journalists and they will not like that, but i want to thank you for challenging us to reinvigorate ourselves and our purpose in this country. Glen greenwald, thank you very much. Thank you. Really appreciate it. [applause. ] thanks so much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, good night everybody. A a discussion on internet regulations between content providers and service providers. And then a form on internet privacy. After that, president obama announces his nominee for attorney gen...

Response and at this time, i would like to entertain a motion to table the hearing. So moved. Okay. Without objection, this hearing is tabled. [ gavel ] and i would like to entertain a motion to amend the current resolution to insert the proposed recommendations into the record. So moved without objection, this item moves forward excuse me, these recommendations are inserted into the record and amended in the current resolution that has been provided. [ gavel ] and so is there a motion to move t...

So what a glorious day. [applause] Rene Dunn Martin who is responsible for todays event promised me she is never know had rain on a day like today of support so whatever is between her and the guy upstairs lets give her a round of applause. Good afternoon and welcome to the city and School District select committee for september 25, our first regularly scheduled meeting post legislative recess. I want to thank the staff at sfgtv and Jennifer Lowe for making the transcript available on line and r...

The disability action. What came out of this hearing was a commitment to the citys budget propose by supervisor kim and supported by our mayor to set aside 250,000 for Revolving Loan fund and this fund will be available to sro Property Owners that can take out a loan, fix their elevator and payoff the loan and tap that fund. This is a very important first step to address the needs on the private side on privately owned buildings and this is in conjunction with the mayors upgrade for the housing ...

Receives temporary payments that leads to eventual permanent disability status and financial closure. Thereby opening up positions for newhires. And the recommended response i have is that we agree. But to note in the response text that the board of supervisors notes that the Sheriffs Department deputies disputes the figure of 50 deputies noting that some of the employees included in the figures are actually out on smla, military or medical leave and the civil grand jury is right to recognize th...

Which languages are required for support by authorizing our office to determine whether 10,000 residents share a language and there are three now, chinese, including cantonese and mandarin and tagalog and korean and these are the languages used by the department of elections in their materials, but the voters guide does not determine which languages should be mandated. It is the Language Access ordinance that was implemented and passed by the board of supervisors and initiated by the board of su...

Percent of these inquiries from the public and 19 percent from the city department. There were also four curb ramp request and 3 request for accommodations. The request for accommodations involved blue zone parking request outside of homes and we also received 7 complaints which is in addition to two complaints we received from the previous month in may. We believe the increase is due to the large number of Construction Projects that are happening simultaneously in the city. The majority of thes...

Treatment for their workers and early return to work. So what we can look at the ways in which we can bring employees back to work on modified duty, so at least those positions arent open while were paying full salary and we have worked with the Sheriffs Department to help lower its ttd costs by bringing employees back to work on modified duty for longer period as they recover from their injuries. Finally, we would like to chime in and say in recommendation 1b it says the board of supervisors sh...