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Now, a discussion with democratic congressman adam smith on the issue of foreign aid and National Security. Representative smith is the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee and the guest speaker at this hourlong event hosted by the u. S. Institute of peace in washington, dc. Good morning, im jim marshall their president of the United States institute of peace, and i want to welcome our guests. Let me briefly tell you what the United States institute of peace does. Essentially we st...

Twoway. Another thing that we are trying to push is actually getting some business incubators in the neighborhood, because there are a lot of people who want to open businesses that cater to the families who live there. We do not have a fullservice gross restore in the tenderloin, but we do have a number of Grocery Store in the tenderloin, but we do have a number of Small Businesses. What is happening with crime in your district and hal is the Police Department doing . Supervisor kim it is a dif...

The impact fee money in the next year or two. To approve with conditions. Commissioner antonini, aye. Borden, aye. Moore. Aye. Sugaya. Aye. Wu. Aye. Fong. Aye. That motion passes 70, voting administrator. On the close of the public hearing, we grant the asked variances for the standard conditions. Commissioners, it will place you on your final calendared item, Public Comment i have this speaker cards. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, i would like to i cant believe that the commissioner...

Kim thank you for having me. Tell us where he grew up. Supervisor kim i grew up on the new york city. My parents immigrated to the u. S. I actually started becoming active in the community in high school. Ed i went to stanford. I went to stanford. When i graduated, i move to San Francisco. My first job, i started working developing economic policies for lowincome communities statewide in california. I worked with young people, parents, families are around issues that concern our neighborhoods, w...

Document also includes a mitigation monitoring program. Finally, in the document are staff initiated changes. So just a little bit about notification for the final environmental document. We did mail cds to all commenters on the document who provided physical addresses. Public agencies received responses and cd and hard copies. The document is available on the website on july 5 and we have multiple [inaudible] and a mailing to 17,000 plus addresses so everyone who lives on van ness avenue over t...

Increasing them for the future. Now, in regards to the western side of the hospital the western side of the city, there are very few theres no hospitals on the western side of the city except for the veterans hospital. Theyre not capable of doing Emergency Services and i think there has to be a plan in the future for some type of Emergency Services in the event of an earthquake. We know that its going to happen some time, and we dont have a plan for that type thing. When there is an earthquake, ...

30, and when i went to the ballot to vote, it looked like i was taking the better of two evils. I did not have a strong interest. Working as an organizer, you get to know issues surrounding budget for schools or housing, and i began to see people were really accessible and some had started working with the community and we got more and more engaged. Where do you place yourself on the political spectrum . Supervisor kim i think i definitely fall on the left. Was there anything surprising about th...

Situation where everybodys trying to get off at one time and theres not enough room for people to stand and wait for the signal to change. Okay, great. I know that commissioner mar had [inaudible] so commissioner mar. Thank you chair avalos. I wanted to thank Michael Schwartz and the mta staff. Im very anxious to make sure our Rapid Network and the brt systems are moving forward as quickly as possible. Chair avalos mentioned our visit to mexico city brts and they were surprised how long our appr...

Manufacture. We appreciate that investment. It says here we have 409 in this type of Research Going on. Does that 400 billion annually, does that calculate with individual inventors put into the mix, or they just not part of the calculation . Are probably not going to be significant percentage as measured by dollars but about 60 would come from private companies than 40 of the federal funded. Were talking about private inventors and their impact on new discoveries. How is she placed them in term...

Herself, how she can help her husband, take care for family, maker contribution to our nation utahs republican governor gary herbert says his Health Insurance exchange will not and force the mandate as the new Health Care Law but focus on Small Business. He told an audience at the Enterprise Institute that after meeting with Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius he felt optimistic that his states plans will improve. His comments on how states can deal with the Affordable Care act are an hour. Good ...