Welcome to San Francisco board of supervisors meeting foritudes day april 4, 2017. Madam clerk pluz call the roll. Thank you. Breed rkts here. Cohen, present. Farrell, present. Fewer, yes. Kim, here. Peskin, present. Ronen, present. Safai, present. Sheehy, present. Tang, aye. Present. Yee, present. All members are present cht thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Madam clerk any communication snz i have none to report. Colleagues any changes to the february 14, 2017 Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is there a motion tew prove those minutes . Moved by peskin and second by farrell. Take without objection. Without objection the minutes will be passed after Public Comment. Lets go tothe next item item 1 is anend admip strative code to revise the residential yurnts u
Americas Television Cable companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Next on book tvs afterwards program, former interrogator eric fair assesses his time at abu gharaib. Hes interviewed by raha wala, director of National Security advocacy for human rights about his book, consequence a memoir. So eric, were sitting downto talk about your book. Your book is a war story, a story about you as an interrogator engaged in pretty difficult circumstances in iraq. Its a story about torture but about much more than that as well. Can you maybe just start off by telling me a little bit about what the story really is about and why you decided to write this book . Guest the question about why is an interesting one and i think theres a part of me that still wishes i hadnt, written the book that i wish i could put away and its a story i wish i didnt have to tell that there was an obligation. I started writing about my experience in 1997 with the Washington Post o
Geopolitical events, and i wanted to hear a bit more about the impact of politics here in the United States. This is an election year. What effect, what impact that will have on the economy . Because there was quite a lot of economics in the presentation. I understood most of it but, i mean, part of it not most of it. Im not an economist. But i wanted to understand the impact of the politics on the economy. So im now in my fifth year. Im one day, frankly, into my fifth day at the fed. So this will be my third election cycle and i can say that politics plays absolutely no role whatsoever in our deliberations or in our decision. So we you know, the focus inside the fed is very much not partisan politics or elections. Its very much economic fundamentals, so it can be very jarring to emerge from the fed and talk to people who think of politics think of economics in political terms, which i referred to earlier. Honestly, it has no effect. You know, we announced a quantitative use program in
In fact, he was waiting right outside of the Roanoke County Public Safety building at the same time as the news conference. Spencer was hoping to find out more about his brothers death. While the brothers didnt live together, spencer says. They talked about 4 times a week. The last time he spoke with his brother was just hours before the shooting. Carl spencer, subjects brother thats what makes it so crazy. And, thats another reason why i came here, because this is not sitting right with me. Ill never be able to get over him until i find out what happened. Spencer says his brother lived in an independent Living Program and prior to that was housed in a local department of social services. We are still learning more information about this Roanoke County officer involved shooting. An internal investigation is underway to make sure protocol was followed. We also reached out to the school and Living Program that spencer attended. Well have more information tonight at 6. Reporting live in R
To put forward, so, i commend the u. S. Senate proappropriatio committee providing some assistance in that regard. I want to just invite david to ask, to address whether the, whether we can wait another 30 or 40 or 50 years to take action and expect not to have consequences. Thank you for the question. Not acting increases the cost of action. The longer we delay in action will increase the cost of action. Because we will have infrastructure lock in and other dynamics that will make it increasingly difficult to in fact shift to low carbon xwhis. We have the opportunity and i think we in fact are on the trajectory as lisa and others have said, we are on the trajectory of moving very rapidly toward that low carbon economy. The price of solar panels for example has fallen 75 in the last five years. And we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in doing so . And we are in fact creating, there are 100,000 jobs in texas alone. Thank you. I want to welcome sam adams, who works with the World