That morning, i knew what it was like to belong to an Intelligence Agency that had been ringing the bell for many months about the plans to attack. Thatf us were devastated al qaeda operatives were able to carry out such horrific attacks in simultaneous fashion. While i remit or walking the halls of cia that day to ensure as many agencies as possible had left the building. They work through that day and that night in the following days in the following nights to piece together the clues as to what plans are underway to carry out more attacks. Their cia brothers and sisters who were dispersed around the globe many in dangerous environments to the same thing only 15 days after 9 11 under it was cia who put the First American boots on the ground in afghanistan. Less than two months after arriving the United States suffered its First Casualty what a 32yearold cia officer was killed in action november 25. Ciae his death, 20 other officers have lost their lives around the world the events of
Todays proceedings. Sfr visor avalos. Present. President breed, present. Coms present. Christensen presentism supervisor cohen, present. Supervisor farrell, present. Supervisor kim. Kim not present. Supervisor mar, present. Supervisor tang, present. Supervisor wiener, present. Supervisor yee. Not present. Madam president you have a quaurm. Can you join me in the pledge ofa liege ance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Okay colleagues are any communication snz i have no communications madam president call oogs are there changes to the march 31 Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none is there a motion to aprove the minutes after Public Comment . Motioned by supervisor mar and second by supervisor kim. Those meeting can be aproveed without objection after Public Comment. Madam clerk can you read the consent ajebd
And so i would very much support that to the Controllers Office office any objections before we put it on your plate. For the Controllers Office office we dont object well put that on reserve. Ill make a motion to put the 91,000 plus on the controllers reserve and pass it on to the full board i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Do have i have second. Seconded by supervisor mar okay. Mr. Chair would you like to do you want the motion to amend the ordinance as amend it to reduce it by the 91,000 plus and we have a motion by commissioner tang and well take that without objection. Madam clerk call item 3. For the record the ordinance is amended it is recommended as amended to the full board. Item number 3 hearing open the proposed budget for the Information Commission for the fiscal year 20142015 and requesting the commission to report. To you now jason fried lafco. I have a power point presentation that im going to go through i might go a little bit quicker
President obama, fema, the rest of the administrations team working hand in glove with their state team. In this case there was really a team. As i like to say there is no i in the word team. I should have the army corps of engineers has been particular in responding to Hurricane Sandy. Over the years, funded by a series of storm protection projects in maryland are polite, robust and strong, healthy systems. These types of projects criticized at the time by some on my opinion because they performed exceptionally well during sandy black hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars in damage. Ashur protection withstand storm surge in better then baked circe wells while also enhancing the environment. Although the project on our coast of their job, they were weakened or in the storm not require repairs so were not for mobility future storms. Unfortunately the northeast midatlantic received more frequent and larger storms like standing in the future. The 70 to find costeffective ways to
A day else a portion of the sheriff shared lending to small and microbusinesses. Because of that 4 billiondollar investment in 332 institutions across the Country Community banks or cdfi loan funds, we have seen positive returns for taxpayers so this is no cost to the taxpayer and we are also seeing that lending has increased by more than 10 billion so we take that 4 billion investment. As a result the institutions have loaned more than 10 million above and beyond the lending that they were doing beforehand. What that actually turns into is around 41,000 new loans to Small Businesses. It also means that of those loans, i think we are somewhere around 65 or 70 of those loans were below 100,000, so these are actually loans that are going to the smallest of Small Businesses, not midsize businesses that getting the businesses that are going to be the job creators and are the job creators. We also invested through another program called the state smallbusiness Credit Initiative 1. 5 billion