C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se
C before we say or do anything else today i want to pause to extend our thoughts and our prayers for the wellbeing of with scalise and our colleagues. Police and staff who were attacked by gunman this morning in virginia. Several members of this committee were there. This is a sad day for our country. We still dont have all the details but we do know that there are those who want to use acts of violence to create chaos , to disrupt our democracy. The American People will not let them when. So after deliberation with the Ranking Member, we have decided to proceed. The secretary has a very challenging schedule. Given the circumstances of the delayed start of our hearing, i want to appeal to members who intend to use less than their full five minutes so that more of our colleagues have a chance to speak and i will be abbreviating my Opening Statement. Today secretary tillerson will testify on the administrations budget and reorganization plans for the department of state. First off mr. Se
Koreas Nuclear Weapons program. The tommic of north key topic of north korea was discussed by President Trump and the chinese president in florida during their summit this week. President trump recently said quote if china is not going to north korea we will. Ahead of the summit north korea fired a Medium Range Missile into the sea of japan. The dictatorship also denounced the us air strike on syria on thursday calling them quite an intolerable aggression and a move that justified a million times over the norths push toward a Nuclear Weapon capable of hitting the us mainland. Now here is what that strike group is. The flag ship is the uss carl, and theres three ships joined by a squadron of six destroyers. In total just shy of 8,000 sailors are on the ships headed to the korean peninsula. President trump spoke to south koreas acting president on friday. In the news room, andrea borba, kpix 5. Bombs are raining down in syria despite the air strike on a syrian airfield by the us two days
Yes. And commissioner pearlman. Yes. So moved commissioners. That motion moves unanimously. Commissioners that places us on general Public Comment. At this time members of the public may address the commission on the items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction Commission Exceptions and with respect to agenda items your opportunity so address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. Each member of the public may address the commission up to three minutes. Okay. Seeing no one from the public to speak on items not on the agenda we will close Public Comment. Commissioners that places Us Department matters. Number one rec reak report. Good afternoon tim frye, Department Staff. The report is in your packets as you have seen. There is a short matter about our attendance about the preervation awards in anaheim last month and i am happy to answer questions if you have them. Item 2 review of the past event at hat Planning Commis
Cultural strategy resolution passed narm nam and the Planning Department has been directed to work with the Mayors Office for a working group to outline a cultural strategy citywide for the Lgbtq Community which you will see after we have actually prepared something but that should be the deadline of having a Progress Report or Implementation Plan is six months from yesterday so you will be seeing that shortly. I also wanted to make you aware that the lgbtq Historic Context statement is the civic center of a governors preservation award and that will occur next month so congratulations to the consultants and the Department Staff that worked on that effort. Also 140 lane and the gift shop and the proas Presbyterian Church pending this was scheduled at the Land Use Committee on monday. There was hold up in the language of the ordinance and sponsorship and theyre ironed out so staff is representing you monday at Land Use Committee. We dont anticipate there to be any changes to the designa