[inaudible conversations] im looking for someone to give me a thumbs up here. So im just going to assume that we have achieved conditions for launch. So were going to go and try to follow an excellent set of keynote addresses from duelling Foreign Ministers, secretary of states, and outlined the session well. I know i speak for the entire panel and really want to make a strong contribution to this really important event here today in washington. To try to keep up with, again, the secretary and foreign minister, we do have an allstar panel to kick this off and i am going to go through their bios very, very briefly, the truncated version. Theyre famous already, and look online for their storied past and were going into the future. And left to right, i wasnt told that i would be in the middle. Ambassador Kathy Stevens to start. Everybody knows kathy, currently the president and ceo of kei, chair of the Korea Society, a fantastic gala last week up in new york. Former ambassador to the Unit
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
Good morning, and welcome to the i cant even talk to the wednesday december 6th meeting of the audits and Oversight Committee and im joined by supervisor aaron peskin and the president of our board, london breed and i acknowledge our clerk, john carole, and thank the staff at sfgov tv, who ensure that the meetings and the transcripts are available online. And mr. Clerk, are there announcements . Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones and devices and any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. The items appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We i just want to call item number 7 out of order. Please call item number 7. On the grand jury report, accelerating San Francisco government performance taking accountability and transparency to the next level. We will continue this meeting to allow more time for the controllers and the Mayors Office to review the implementation of the recommendations
We are back on the record in open session. You still have a quorum. Please call the next item. Item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. I move not to disclose. President turman second. On the question arent we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. We have to make this motion. President turman moved and seconded all in favor. Any opposed . All right. Next item. Item 11 adjournment. President turman members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. We are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. It has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. But we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. Lets work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. I look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. And i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and