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 stop fights. We do that globally. All of you are familiar with stopping fights. Youve probably done it yourselves. The techniques we have to use globally are very different than trying to keep friends from getting into a fight in a fraternity or Sorority House and what we do is terribly important to the country and to the United States success in temperature fer furthering its strategic globally. Our batting average is. 500 but when we get a hit, its big deal. Having mentioned batting average is h
Off the ground and its not connected clearly to even california energy. So, you know, hey, well get there eventually. Any other thoughts before Public Comment . [speaker not understood]. I have some questions id like to ask because i think one of the things id like to understand is have you done any studies of how much local power could be generated in San Francisco . Because my feeling is that an enormous amount could be generated. And, so, how i was wondering if you could speak about how we go from zero to, you know, maxing out our potential. I havent seen those studies. Actually zero of course. Theres no zero yet. Youre quite right. [speaker not understood]. Local power did some of that survey. Brighton beach has just given us a draft of another report that was focused on Solar Projects not behind the meter, but Solar Projects where we could actually purchase or manage energy. We have data to identify different resources in the city for Small Projects and theres more we can do. We h
Thank sarah short and also gail gilman from Community Housing partnership who wasnt here today who were very, very deeply involved in the negotiations and were really good negotiating partners in trying to work out this compromise. I also want to again thank president chiu who was also very supportive and helpful in helping all of us move to this process. I just had a couple final points. First of all, you know, i think we all a lot of people have it in our heads we would love for everyone to live in a singlefamily home or some really big spacious flat. And unfortunately thats not the reality of 2012 San Francisco. Very few people who are not fortunate enough to have bought or rented a large place a long time ago can afford to do that. Its just not an economic reality in San Francisco and we need to be housing everyone, not just the people who are lucky enough to be able to afford or to have spent a long time living in a reasonably priced large unit. We also, as much as we all support
I have signed the student perhaps i didnt understand the point you just made. Personally i support car sharing in general. I would be concerned if they were adding spaces to residential buildings that would not be there if it were not for car sharing. Car sharing can be put into commercial buildings and hotels in our district and i mentioned thishill neighbors are opposing, and the developer is offering amenities that would support his conditional use, eliminating a Senior Housing that we are supporting, an extra car share units. I am bringing that up because maybe what you said it cannot be used in a conditional use but at any rate theyre trying to do that. I hope that he could not possiblyback, and offer, which he is trying to do to get his conditional approval. any other comments . Douglas i would like to speak in opposition to this. Jurisdiction so to speak. The city has plenty of problems especially after yesterdays ballgame. What use. There was a comment made orrectly and advocat
Thank you, supervisors. And again, thank you to our consul general. Godspeed. We have a second commendation today. Supervisor breed. Hello, hello . I have to bend over a little bit. Thank you all. Today i rise to honor a bay area icon, a bay area legend, a bay area institution, jesus gomez. applause i grew up listening to the radio, and oftentimes it wasnt very interesting to listen to. And this is the person that made it interesting to listen to. The stories, the conversations, the excitement about the music, the excitement about the community, the excitement about the work was clearly articulated through tueys voice. And, so, when many people around the bay area heard that tuey was no longer going to be working at the radio station, you know, people were really sad. People were upset. I know supervisor kim, but tueys an institution. We all love him. Thats just not a phrase thats constantly used. We love him. We love him for making San Francisco and the bay area more interesting, more