New industrial strategy later today with the aim of kicks darting the economy in the run up to brexit. Kickstarting. It will focus on major sectors the government thinks the country is good at, but needs more investment. It will look at boosting Life Sciences like pharmaceuticals. The government says its already secured investment of up to 1 billion pounds by the Drugs Company msd, known as merck in the us. Advance manufacturing, like 3 d printing, will also come in for special attention, as will britains Creative Industries such as movie and tv production. Nuclear power will also be part of the strategy. And the government wants to make sure the country leads the field in the production of low emission vehicles. With me isjonathan portes, professor of economics at Kings College london. Good to see you again. What do you make of the industrial strategy . think the basic philosophy, the idea we should pick, not individualfirms but broad factors that we are good at and concentrate on sho
All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I want to welcome you back to the regularly scheduled budget and finance committee. My name is malia cohen, the chairman and to my priet is supervisor sandy fewer and to my right is Catherine Stefani and we have a special guest with us today. Supervisor norman yee. Thank you to our friends at s. F. Gov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Jim smith as well as michael balthazaar and ms. Linda wong is our clerk helping us with todays meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately 500,000 to per
All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I want to welcome you back to the regularly scheduled budget and finance committee. My name is malia cohen, the chairman and to my priet is supervisor sandy fewer and to my right is Catherine Stefani and we have a special guest with us today. Supervisor norman yee. Thank you to our friends at s. F. Gov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Jim smith as well as michael balthazaar and ms. Linda wong is our clerk helping us with todays meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately 500,000 to per
Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately 500,000 to perform energy efz Si Programme Implementation from the term january 1, 2018 to december 31, 2018. Great. Supervisor yee is a sponsor. Ill let him have a chance to speak. Well hear from peter galota from the department of the environment afterwards. Supervisor yee . All right. Thank you, chair cohen. Ahem. So as an executive board member, im happy to sponsor this accept and expend resolution that will help our department of the environment and bay area regional and Energy Network with bayron. To
S. F. Gov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Jim smith as well as michael balthazaar and ms. Linda wong is our clerk helping us with todays meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately 500,000 to perform energy efz Si Programme Implementation from the term january 1, 2018 to december 31, 2018. Great. Supervisor yee is a sponsor. Ill let him have a chance to speak. Well hear from peter galota from the department of the environment afterwards. Supervisor yee . All right. Thank you, chair cohen. Ahem. So as an executive board member, im