With recent reports of shrinking government control of territory, continued high attrition of Afghan Forces and deadly attacks in kabul by haqqani and isis khorasan, it is clear that foundation is a long way off, but we are encouraged by the troop strength authorized in the new strategy at 12,300 military personnel, with an additional 1,000 on request, which is approaching the level our force commander requested in 2014. Our nato and nonnato allies have also reenforced their troop commitments and support to Afghan Forces through 2020. U. S. Commander general nicholson says he now has what he needs to assist afghans in achieving a sustainable outcome for afghanistan and the region. The new conditionsbased approach provides afghans, our allies as well as the taliban a clear signal of american commitment as the National Unity government pursues critical reform and selfreliance efforts. This administration is also rightly drawn a clear line with pakistan, suspending Security Assistance of
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We thank all Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We thanks all of those in attendance. In rolling out the new south asia strategy last august the administration underscored the United States hard fought security gangs in afghanistan and reiterated helping establish a political resolution. With recent reports of shrinking government control of territory, continued high attrition of Afghan Forces, and deadly attacks in kabul by isis, it is clear that the foundation is a long way off. But we are encouraged by the troop strength authorized in the new strategy at 12,300 military personnel with an additional thousand on request which is approaching the level our force commander requested in 2014. Our nato and nonnato allies have also reinforced troop commitments and support to Afghan Forces through 2020. U. S. Commander general nicholson says he now has what he needs to assist afghans in achieving a sustainable out
Okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. My name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. Do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and devices completed cards and documented to be included as part of the file should subm submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that
Submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that came out last week and it would be a good idea to get the up date as a board and a city hall and thank you for being here and i know that you have a presentation to go through. Great. Thank you chair farle and so im melissa the director and i am joined by the controller, and we will be going through this presentation for about the next 20 minutes. Feel free to stop me if you have any questions. Talk about three things today, the first thing is the post election rebalancing plan, the citys
Okay, good morning, everybody welcome to the final 2016, meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee meeting. My name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by supervisor norman yee and joined momentarily with tang and i want to thank, lindy wong and sfgtv for covering the meeting. Do you have any announcements . Silence all cell phones and devices completed cards and documented to be included as part of the file should subm submitted to td clerk. Call item one. Hearing on the recent updates regarding the citys financial position, including the mayors budget instructions to departments for the physical year, 17, 18, and 18, to 19. And requesting the mayors budget director and the controller to report. Thank you very much, supervisor tang has joined us, and this is an item that we called and i want to thank the budget dreker for being here and i thought that it was the end of the year here and the mayors instructions that