I thi this is the regular meetif the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure for tuesday, april 7, 2020. Chair will be joining us later. Go on head and mute your computer. Thank you. Chair bustos will join us later. I would like to welcome the members of the public watching us live on sfgovtv and to the staff participating in todays meeting. The San Francisco department of Public Health, mayor breed and Governor Newsom declared the coronavirus is a Public Health machining and asked that people shelterinplace. Due to the health emergency, this meeting is held virtually with all members of the commission and staff participating today via teleconference. There will ensure the safety of everyone. The Mayors Office determined the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take matters to ensure Public Health and safety and authorized the commission to meet on these matters. Welcome to everyone. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Thank
Computer. Thank you. Chair bustos will join us later. I would like to welcome the members of the public watching us live on sfgovtv and to the staff participating in todays meeting. The San Francisco department of Public Health, mayor breed and Governor Newsom declared the coronavirus is a Public Health machining and asked that people shelterinplace. Due to the health emergency, this meeting is held virtually with all members of the commission and staff participating today via teleconference. There will ensure the safety of everyone. The Mayors Office determined the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure has an urgent need to take matters to ensure Public Health and safety and authorized the commission to meet on these matters. Welcome to everyone. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Thank you. The first order of business is item one roll call. Commission members please respond when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Here. Commissioner scott. Here. Vice ch
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
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Here, so i feel like i am talking to these he rows here. These rows here. Three i will try to maintain eye contact with everybody. Thanks for the invitation. Thank you for facilitating my presence. Im very glad to be back at the atlantic council, and especially to discuss a topic of great interest to me. I must admit i spent quite a bit of time thinking and writing down my thoughts. Thoughts over the last couple of weeks. Now, will reach down to me in middle of the summer to ask me to do this. Ive been thinking about it a lot and i actually was struggling quite mightily with this topic. I think i actually got it all figured out, what i wanted to say, on sunday afternoon while watching the vikings dominate the giants. I got it all down in writing. Im sorry to tell you i have rewritten my remarks twice in the last 24 hours. We will see how it goes. It is also good to see a number of colleagues with whom i served while i was in uniform. Mr. Votel im happy to report to retirement is going