In the policy shift in syria. Spoke at the Atlantic Council for about an hour. [applause] i feel like im talking to these he rose here. I will try to maintain eye contact with everybody. Thanks for the invitation. Facilitating my presence. Im very glad to be back at the Atlantic Council to discuss the topic of great interest to me. I must admit i spent quite a bit of time thinking and writing down my thoughts. Will reach down to me in middle of the summer to ask me to do this. Ive been thinking about it a lot and i actually was struggling with this topic. I think i got it figured out, what i wanted to say, on sunday afternoon while watching the vikings dominate the giants. I got it down in writing. We will see how it goes. Numberlso good to see a of colleagues with whom i served while i was in uniform. Im happy to report to retirement is going well. The other day i overheard my wife telling one of her friends for 39 years he never expressed a view around the house, now he has an opinio
Here, so i feel like i am talking to these he rows here. These rows here. Three i will try to maintain eye contact with everybody. Thanks for the invitation. Thank you for facilitating my presence. Im very glad to be back at the atlantic council, and especially to discuss a topic of great interest to me. I must admit i spent quite a bit of time thinking and writing down my thoughts. Thoughts over the last couple of weeks. Now, will reach down to me in middle of the summer to ask me to do this. Ive been thinking about it a lot and i actually was struggling quite mightily with this topic. I think i actually got it all figured out, what i wanted to say, on sunday afternoon while watching the vikings dominate the giants. I got it all down in writing. Im sorry to tell you i have rewritten my remarks twice in the last 24 hours. We will see how it goes. It is also good to see a number of colleagues with whom i served while i was in uniform. Mr. Votel im happy to report to retirement is going
Ask if there are additional Public Comment and anyone may come up at that time. With that in mind, youre going to hear two bells. The first one is going to tell you, you have 30 seconds left. The second one means youre at time. So with that, this is the june 20th meeting of the recreation and park commission. I ask that you turn off any sound or devices that may go off during the meeting and you take any secondary conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today as i said earlier, we request, but do not require that you complete a blue card and commissioner how many minute . How many people want to testify . That helps me make this next decision. Lets do 2 minutes. Okay. Each person will have 2 minutes on each item of Public Comment today. If there is an item of interest to you not on the agenda is under the jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under item 4 and continued again on item 10. When you address your comments to the commission, please address they w
Im not saying it was wrong to stop and look at this. Thats okay. And its also okay to see if it particularly talk about getting it into a broader realm then it was. Now by taking this on, you are looking like youre going to be the leaders. I mean, thats theres 11 of you. And none of you have executive office, but thats the way its being presented. I dont think thats going to happen, partly because this is much bigger than the city and county of San Francisco. Always has been. And one of the speakers talked about connectivity. Connectivity to bart, connectivity to caltrain, connectivity to 40 bus lines in the east bay. Connectivity to five muni lines. These are not just putting it downtown, its much bigger than that. So in these leaderships, somebody already said that, it really needs some kind of political push. Theres been a lot of us here who have been pushing this i hate to tell you how long since ive been pushing this idea, a long time. Peskin will remember norm rolf died in 2005 a
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