Present. Ronen, present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. And supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for whic
Made inroads towards peace between syria being. Welcome back to the arab league and saudi arabia as they taught with iran. Are we witnessing the birth of a new mid east sans the americans will discuss it. All right, lets get into the m o. The after more than a decade removed from the block, syria has made its return to the arrow bleed. After nearly 10 years of civil war and conflicts against terror groups brochure l. A sod made his 1st trip to join the link summit this year held in jetta. Saudi arabia, sometimes called the league of arab states, the league boast 22 nations in whats considered the era world countries whose main language is arabic and combined. Thats roughly 13000000 square kilometers with around half a 1000000000 people. The 2023 catastrophic earthquake along the turkey syria border seem to how much of the lead put their differences aside to bring a to a heavily sanctioned syria. Now to be clear, the majority of sanctions on syria are imposed by the us and collective we
Director. Kahina here kahina present chair. Ekin here. Ekin present. For the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. Director hinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three the ringing use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. The chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Device places you on. Item number four approval of minutes for the november 21st regular meeting. Thank you directors. Are there any changes to the november 20th one minutes . Yes seeing none, well open Public Comment for anyone in the room on the november 20th one minutes. Seeing none, please open a remote at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the publ
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki
Good morning, everyone and welcome on the second day of the 2023 national convention. After last night, i hope youre all feeling half as engaged and inspired as i do. Im sure youre telling me the truth. You loved this program. Its marchous and we thank the speakers. As i and many other speakers last night talked about this, this country is facing a tremendous challenge in which a small group whose hands remain firmly on levers of institutional, economic and political power, and if you like the rules and the laws to maintain that policy, despite, really, a lack of real popular support, this manipulation of and sometimes outright disregard for the rule of law will have serious consequences unless we respond. You have to call it out for what it is. And we seek to shore up and reform and in some cases, transform our political, legal, and economic institutions. And if any of you have already heard, which were going to have a great presentation to kick us off on this this morning, but unfort