7 commercial vacancy rate. 7 store front vacancy rate in San Francisco. That 7 skyrocketed to over 50 . Walnut closed. So this is where all the bands sit. Which rents touring vans to bands has seen his business fall off a cliff. Ive been able to make up little bit of what we lost by catering to a different market. But most of our business has collapsed. Our key demographic was the music industry. You know, were running about 30 of where we were last year. At the protests, Business Owners were asking for openings not to be based on state guidelines but on a case by case basis. Everything associated with the pandemic, things have not gotten easier to do business in San Francisco. Folks dont feel like they have the support they need from elected officials from the federal, state, or local level. Were getting really close here. The margins are very thin for some of these businesses, andrea. Where does San Francisco need to be for these businesses to reopen . Is it the mayor . Is it the gov
The 40th chief of the army general james mccarthonville. The secretary and chief and i will have a chat about the defense strategy, the armys modernization priorities, the president s budget request that just came out, as well as the emerging joint war fighting concept and well save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief to give a couple opening remarks. Thank you, susan. Its the closest i will get to davos, switzerland. Great opportunity to be here. Thank you. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to try to talk about how were trying to transform the army. Were in year three of a very aggressive effort of transforming the army in not only how we train the force, how we modernize and ultimately help our people reach their maximum potential. As i emphasized the third year of a massive restructuring like weve not seen in over 40 years in the army with creating
Discussing Current Operations and modern efforts. This is close to an hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. New at my virtual fireside, and improved, we are graced with the presence of Ryan Mccarthy and 40th chief of staff. Thank you both so much for being with us today. First i want to throw it over to the secretary and the chief for opening remarks. This is the closest i will get to switzerland. A great opportunity to be here. As we discussed in the green room, these are wonderful opportunities for us to talk about how we will transform the army. Effort, notssive only in how we train and modernize, helping our people reach their maximum potential. The third year of a massive , creating an organization to modernize the. Orce readiness, modernization and reform as a tool to help us evolve. Look over three years ago, two brigades. Very proud of that, but one of the things that we recognize with all the changes that we face in the world, is something that you will see
Opportunity to present to you the overview of the armys 2018 budget request. More importantly, i will tell you i am even more more so pleao be able to continue to serve our great country in uniform, as an army soldier. So, thats always something that inspires me. Ill take a few minutes here in the process of providing an overview of what the army is doing today. Ill sketch out the current operating environment, what our fiscal posture has looked like over the last five to six years and how this request supports the administrations and the Army Leaderships priorities. And then of course ill spend some time to provide a biapproach ration review of some of the details of the armys request. We are increasingly more and more active in worldwide operations across the globe. I would offer to you that the current pictorial on the slide before you not only represents some of the Current Operations where army forces are heavily engaged, but it should remind us all of the velocity of instability
Good morning, this hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets to continue informing our members and the public about the ongoing readiness crisis that all of our military services find themselves in. Readiness includes many things such as and strength, chair training and modernization. Today we will focus on he house sequestration in the years of continuing resolutions in our budgetary process have impacted the marine corpss ability to modernize the current force to ready and capable against current and emerging threats. We will have a similar hearing planned for the army this week. Id like to welcome our witness, gary l thomas, the deputy commandant for resources at the marine corps. General thomas, we thank you for your service and look forward to receiving your important testimony today. Todays hearing will allow for a much deeper review of the modernization and Readiness Challenges identified by the assistant commandant to the marine corps during last months hearing on the sta