Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc knew commissioner roy commissioner sims and please note to the executive director sherren is present. Thank you i have a motion to approve the august thirds 2
I think there is something to that. The way i would summarize it would be to say the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but the margins of our lead are contracting. And what that means in terms of policy is that big problems in the world cannot be solved without the United States, but the United States can no longer be solving them alone or be dictating to others exactly how they get solved. So the premium in these coming years for the United States, i think, as the leading power in the world, is going to be on Coalition Building and alliance management. When we think about terrorism, think about cyber terrorism and big ideas of the chinese around the world i think the nature of our leadership is changing. It has to change. Ive written a lot about u. S. Power. At the end of the day when you add it all up, all the factors of power in the world, compare china, russia, United States, the United States still comes out ahead in almost everything, innovation, demo
Knew commissioner roy commissioner sims and please note to the executive director sherren is present. Thank you i have a motion to approve the august thirds 2016 agenda. So moved. Second there is a motion and a second that we approve the august 3, all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So the that item passes next well have the approval of the june 22, 2016, Commission Meeting minutes if no corrections. Move to approve. It has been there is a motion that has been seconded that we approve the june 22, 2016, Commission Minutes i. Opposed . The is have it. So the that item passes we changed this around so we have the report from the director directors report director sherren. Thank you commissioner president james i want to note i actually asked bridget to change this because staff come from the employee of the month award id like them to hear the directors report as well thats the only change i wanted to say that we spent a fruitful 4 or 5 days in san Diego San Francisco took
Keane. Let the record reflect all the commissioners are here. Item number two, Public Comment on matters appearing were not appearing on the agenda. I would urge if you have comments that relate to the matters on the agenda, to hold them until we get to them because i think this may be a long meeting tonight and id like to minimize the repeat statement. But, anyway, lets go. We have missed you for a few months. Ive missed you. Im patrick. Im not appear to thank commissioner hur over all four years of service on the Ethics Commission as his term is set to expire in early february. Many of herhave been problematic but i would be remiss by not thinking him for his seminal boat when [inaudible] when he cast the Ethics Commission sold vote when behavior had not [inaudible]. As i wrote the time in our analysis which eventually turned out to be offered, i think i think the private practice attorney Stephen Burke [inaudible] before the respective hearings clearly demonstrated the mayors trumpe
Arrange for on overflow room and again, if youre occupying a seat for that item youll be sitting here for sometime okay. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner moore and commissioner wu we expect commissioner johnson to be absence today commissioners, the first item on your agenda is our items proposed for continuance item o1 Market Street preliminaries negative declaration is proposed until march 16 and item 2 post street also known as as peace plaza suit 3 hundred conditional use authorization is proposed until march 2016 and item 3 at van ness conditional use authorization is proposed for continuance until march 17 and item 4 somerset street conditional use authorization has been withdrawn and finally item 5 Fourth Street avenue conditional use authorization it, too has been withdrawn i have no other items proposed for continuance and 3rd strei h speaker cards. Any Pub