Joining us by zoom. Sxlt up front we have javier, and we also have Nicholas Craw board acting superintendent urban forestry. The Board Meeting guidelines are as follows. The board request that you turn off or silence any phones. No eating or drinking in the hearing room. Members of the public who are not affiliated have three minutes. Time will be three minutes if the agenda is long or if there are multiple speakers. We will give you a verbal 20 seconds when your time is almost up. Please email board staff at board of appeals. Now Public Access and participation are of paramount importance. Sfgovtv is recording this live. Also providing close captioning for this meeting. So watch the meeting, go to channel 78, please note that it will be rebroadcast on friz on channel 226. Sf gov. Org. Now Public Comment can be provided in three ways. One inperson, two via zoom, go to our website and click on the hearings then the zoom link. Or three by telephone. Enter webinar id 1202840. And again sf
My familys starts in mexico in a small town. My parents are from a very, very small town. So small, that my dads brother is married to one of my moms sisters. Its that small. A lot of folks from that town are here in the city. Like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. My dad came out here first. I think i was almost twoyearsold when he sent for us. My mom and myself came out here. We moved to San Francisco early on. In the Mission District and moved out to daily city and bounced back to San Francisco. We lived across the street from the ups building. For me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. When i was sevenyearsold and im in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. I have to make sure that we do our homework. Its a lot of responsibility for a kid. The weekends were always for family. We used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new
The federal acquisition regulations provide for different models. 15 is one set, another set is referred to as 12 and there are others that do exactly that and provide guidance when it is appropriate to use the less elaborate systems. So there is some flexibility within that. Is far15 the biggest and scariest monster out there. Yes. But there are bigger monsters. But you just mentioned that to scare us. Ghost stories. It happens in the world we live in at ula. The question that was mentioned, monopoly. But nobody likes monopoly but in the best case we would have adieu only or adieu og only, we need other millionaire to back miss van gleek or where is branson with others with eggees and when you say the Business Case isnt exciting about this, the diminishing number of pay loads, the substantial risk it takes an investors ego to propel the sort of speculative investment, the glory of space faring. But so i think as we fear monopoly we should fair in mind the best case is were going to ha
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res
Questions so in order to , at 5 30te that gladly we will recess and 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became the chairman and im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and an