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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent...

Okay. Oneminute warning. That invigorated people. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. Ill have to remember that. Well, its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cog in the brookings Service Year Alliance machine that has produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Bell sawhill for con...

Introduce and moderate second panel. Let me begin by introducing myself briefly. My name is bill galston. Am a senior fellow here at brookings and delighted to be a small cog in the institution. People,o introduce two bell, for working tirelessly to bring about, and also, our president , john allen, for letting his vast experience and moral authority to our enterprise this morning, and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Introduce the qu...

Civilian National Service programs. This was hosted by the Brookings Institution. It is one hour and 10 minutes. John good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volun...

Writes about his military career and offers his thoughts on leadership in the memoir, called sign chaos. [inaudible conversations] i run the International Security program here and it is an honor and a privilege to introduce jim scuitto, who of course many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and also cnn anchor and the author of this new book inside russia and china secret operations to defeat d america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and f also the ...

Comment and you are responding to them on behalf of the council, or behalf of the staff, is there some way we can be in the loop of how that communication went . Nicole yes. So youll learn at your First Executive planning meeting on tuesday that we have a process by which we delegate how the council is going to respond and what the response is. Great, thank you. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you very much. Im going to proceed to adjourn. I thank everyone for their time and patience for the meeting goi...

Caucus along with representative doug collins, senator leahy and senator soon. The internet caucus was created 20 years ago to help inform the debate and discussion about key internet policy questions. Net neutrality is towards the top of that list even though all of us may not agree on how to approach Net Neutrality, this case is important for all of us. Im glad we get a chance to hear from different views on how we should be thinking about this. Net neutrality has been a top issue for many yea...

Fewer. Welcome to the thursday, september 19th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Im joined by supervisor valerie brown. Supervisor peskin was unable to join us. Thank you to supervisor sandra fewer for joining us. And thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and i would also like to thank maya and hernenda at s. F. Gov. Agenda items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. Plea...

Fewer. Welcome to the thursday, september 19th meeting of the government audits and oversight. Im joined by supervisor valerie brown. Supervisor peskin was unable to join us. Thank you to supervisor sandra fewer for joining us. And thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and i would also like to thank maya and hernenda at s. F. Gov. Agenda items acted upon today will appear on the october 1st, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chairman thank you, mr. Clerk. Plea...

People on the streets, that there are a lot of people that are willing and able to accept services, but the services dont exist. And especially looking at the connection with homelessness, but if somebody is trying to get help for a Mental Health condition or for substance use, but they are not given housing, it is nearly impossible to maintain that. I hope you all will join that effort to continue to push for that. Lastly, on the conversation about longterm care, i wanted to make sure you all k...