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I think that the words and the deeds we are hearing out of china, jim, are encouraging. This administration seems to be much more committed. Lets keep going. The reforms they are making in terms of letting the market determine the distribution of resources. These are revolutionary. We will hope that this leads to a kind of openness that ends up being a model for the world, if they continue with what they have told us. His activities are all related to corruption internally. They are not related ...

Planning. It is months and months to close down a base. If you just look at the physics of this, in an antiseptic world, and afghanistan is not antiseptic, it takes months to get all this done, just to get out. And to get to the end place of our 2014 ending our combat mission there. Then we are asking our commanders and budget hers and our allies our budgeters and our allies to start with commitments for the coming year when they have no idea what that means. No leader can commit their country, ...

Second, we need to empower citizens with information and tools to make the governments more effective and accountable. Third, we need to build a Global Movement to prevail over corruption. The World Bank Group will be creating a single pool of technical experts in rule of law, public sector, financial him and state management and public sector, financial, state management, public improvement. We know that we and our partners have had an impact. For instance, when corruption threatened to derail ...

Some of the most exciting things we are seeing are related to the other major shift. Here is one experiment. In afghanistan, we have given afghani women cell phones. They can take pictures of projects in action. They can transmit them to our office. It has a feature that if they are stopped on the road side, there is one button they push and gets rid of the pictures. It does not put them in danger. We give them access to Cell Phone Services and give them a concrete way of monitoring corruption. ...

We spent probably 2 million on our side alone of the race and voters turnout was what i mentioned earlier. It would be hard to be a resident in jersey city during the election and not know there was a may recall election going on from a house to house standpoint. I think people vote on things that areless of substance and the more we try to educate them, people try to gravitate towards things that arent meaningful and move the dialogue forward, sometimes gender or race or geographic location or ...

So its never perfect but we work on it every day. I think we have a great team that strives to do the best thing. Weve encouraged a lot of new people to get involved in politics and government whether on the board of education or our city council which the majority of those people its the first elected office theyve ever held and i think you will see neem have a different view about Public Service as opposed to selfservice. Congratulations on election of mayor in jersey city. I taught at Jersey ...

Going eastbound. So transitonly lane for the 8x. Crosssection for brannon. This is an opportunity to introduce bike facilities as requested by the public. They want to see more opportunities for that and we added cycle tracks and lined the sidewalks and of course to do that in the finite rightofway it requires taking some parking. And so we have done that, and were hoping it will be in place hopefully with minimal impacts. For 3rd and 4th streets, this is 3th street going northbound, but they ar...

And approve that without opposition. Okay. Could you please call item four madam clerk. Item four is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Arts Commission to accept a grant in the amount of 200,000 from Kaiser Permanente for the bayview opera house plaza renovation and rest raigdz for the period listed. Okay. We have ms. Axle to speak on this morning. Good morning. You have the resolution for the Arts Commission accepting this grant and this is the tail end of fundraising for the Capital Im...

Thank you, supervisor. Id like to acknowledge our next colleague to offer a commendation, our district 2 supervisor, supervisor farrell. Thank you. Colleagues, today i have a really fun one. We are going to be honoring our viking soccer club here in San Francisco and theyre under 9 girls team. So, girls, why dont you come on up. applause so, colleagues, why were honoring them today, this is the vikings under 9 years girls team called courage, and were honoring them because they not only won the ...

Informational presentation. Good afternoon commissioners, San Francisco Planning Department staff. Im here to talk to you about the inter agency plan report. Im here every year to give you an update about where we are in our area plan. While the presentation loads up, i will let you know what we are going to do today. We are going to start by talking about what it does and how the Department Works on area plan implementation and i will talk about fee revenue positions we have for the next 5 year...