Good morning today is september 8, 20 freen. Welcome to San Francisco transporeitation authority. Our clerk today is steve stamos and todays meeting is brought to us by leo[inaudible] and charles crim nack. Like to mention my other Committee Members who are here. Commissioner kim and malia cohen and well be joined by compose and mar. Any announcements there are no announcement. Ite item 1, ovlose present. Compose absent. Xhigdser cohen, present. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent we have a quorum great, lets go to our consent calendar. Consent calendar item 23 are considered routine, staff isnt planning to present on these items. If a member objects any consent iletm may be removed and crrbed separately. We have minutes and report. Any comments or questions or changes to the minutes . Okay, see none well go to Public Comment on item 2 and 3. [inaudible] isnt on the item today. We need to stick to the items thatd are with us. We vuproval oaf the minutes and item 3 can w
Transporeitation authority. Our clerk today is steve stamos and todays meeting is brought to us by leo[inaudible] and charles crim nack. Like to mention my other Committee Members who are here. Commissioner kim and malia cohen and well be joined by compose and mar. Any announcements there are no announcement. Ite item 1, ovlose present. Compose absent. Xhigdser cohen, present. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent we have a quorum great, lets go to our consent calendar. Consent calendar item 23 are considered routine, staff isnt planning to present on these items. If a member objects any consent iletm may be removed and crrbed separately. We have minutes and report. Any comments or questions or changes to the minutes . Okay, see none well go to Public Comment on item 2 and 3. [inaudible] isnt on the item today. We need to stick to the items thatd are with us. We vuproval oaf the minutes and item 3 can we have a motion tew prove the minutes . That is seconded by supervisor
Announcements there are no announcement. Ite item 1, ovlose present. Compose absent. Xhigdser cohen, present. Commissioner kim, present. Commissioner mar, absent we have a quorum great, lets go to our consent calendar. Consent calendar item 23 are considered routine, staff isnt planning to present on these items. If a member objects any consent iletm may be removed and crrbed separately. We have minutes and report. Any comments or questions or changes to the minutes . Okay, see none well go to Public Comment on item 2 and 3. [inaudible] isnt on the item today. We need to stick to the items thatd are with us. We vuproval oaf the minutes and item 3 can we have a motion tew prove the minutes . That is seconded by supervisor cohen and take that without objection. On the consent calendar, commissioner avalos, aye. Campos, absent. Commissioner cohen, aye. Kim, aye. Mar, absent. The consent calendar passes var good lets go to item number 4. Item 4, state and federal legislative updatement thi
Dozens of sites across the country because they can use these real dollars to help scale them up. So those are the types of things we think are important, scaling takes on a couple different forms. Some people think about scale were going to take this model and mcdonalds it and were going to be in a million places, but sometimes scale is taking a model and sharing it, saying heres what works you take it and you run with it, the last thing i would say, though and this is interesting in the case of bam. Everybody loves bam the president loves bam, i love bam, we funded them. But theyre really before smart growth. After the president visited with those young people. Theyre getting dozens of calls a day from all over the world, bring bam here. And bam smartly said we need to sure up our model first make sure chicago is secure the funding is coming in, sometimes when you get famous people think youre set and stop writing checks. They had to focus on their first market. Now several years in,
Discussing the challenges we face in the region is necessary pare f to prepare for future potential disasters. And working toward minimizing the loss of life as well as ncere depleting limited resources associated with relief efforts. I give my sincere thanks to our colleagues and our witnesses forer joining us in this conversation today. And i yield to the ranking m member, mr. Connolly. D st thank you, mr. Chairman. And welcome to our panel. The United States has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to assistance in disaster readiness in nepal. For over 60 years weve had a presence in nepal in the form of our bilateral aid program. And weve been focused on strengthening the countrys Disaster Response capabilities for the last two decades. Include the establishment of a disaster risk office to make the country more resilient. Implementation for the program the enhancement of emergencyme response to train nepally First Responders and medical personnel and publication of a disaster Ri