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My name is andrew hunter. Im a senior fellow here at the center for strategic and International Studies and the International Security program and director of our Defense Industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call defense trade or the cooperation of defense acquisition that we do with our allies and partners. Im going to introduce our panel, and maybe kick off the question and answer session with this group when were ready for that. Our panel is divided into two folks who are presenting and two discussants who will speak to the presentation...

Those meetings, that we are not represented, so i think when we talk about development in the excelsior, we really want Genuine Development for the people already living there, and that its not enough to open the door, i think, and maybe we can talk about it later on, but i really feel we have to step outside the door and reach for the community. Again, i saw a slide that said not many of our Community Members shop in the mission area. I dont think youve been in our on our block around 3 00 p. M. It is crowded, right . Ca casa lucas, yung chi market. Its crowded. I hope we dont create developm...

13 schools in our neighborhood, right . So next thing i want to point out is that ive come to a few of the meetings and what i also see that a lot of these people that i grew up with are not at those meetings, that we are not represented, so i think when we talk about development in the excelsior, we really want Genuine Development for the people already living there, and that its not enough to open the door, i think, and maybe we can talk about it later on, but i really feel we have to step outside the door and reach for the community. Again, i saw a slide that said not many of our Community ...

Development unit. The question raised to have an expert on staff who is able to look demolitions more from an architect side, structural engineer, is there any way to augment that position by 1. 5 positions to do both . I think that the short answer, we think we have enough to financially support one person to just to be devoted to adu, but when those issues come up, other planners get involved. So Historic Preservation planner would look at if there is a preservation issue. At this point, the mayors budget request to all departments was not to add any positions so were pushing the envelope a ...

Are in the same business, and its if you really think about it, portland took 60, 70 of our work. So what did we do and i dont believe in living in the past. I believe sometime you cut your losses, you look to the future, and we find out what may have to go there. It may be ship repair, it may be something else, but i think we can get some revenue. I think this is a good plan, laying it out there. I think we got some work to do, but i truly believe that a port runs so different than a corporation, and as i say, the shareholders of the port is the public, and none of these commissioners up here...