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And make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for determining Hazard Mitigation. I can show you example where we have had predisaster mitigation. States have taken that like in oklahoma to do grants...

It is not the trophy or the triumph. It is the respect that is jacks rivals or member of the most. That is what gives the 1986 masters his size. To win, he had to overcome that day norman, and according to some, father time. That day we were a part of something special. Something bigger. Just as we now are today. Is not whether you win or lose, it is how you play the game. And no one has played it better or longer than jack. Today be congressional Gold Medal Ceremony for professional golfer jack nicholas, on cspan. The Brookings Institution recently hosted a forum on the impact of technology o...

That it becomes more and more clear to me and erik that the future is coming at us more than the experts are predicting. That means the economic consequences are coming more quickly than a lot of us are expecting and makes the discussions for today all the more important. Thanks very much. [ applause ] thank you all for joining us this morning. My name is melissa carney. I have the privilege of moderating our First Panel Discussion this morning. This panel is going to take the premise that andy and erik laid out for us, that there has been rapid technological advance particularly in the inform...

Know, the tenants, housing clinic and the housing organizizers, you guys are part of cot and you are part of dbi in a way, you are a contractor with dbi to do some tenant work. And so, while i applaud, the staff for going on the website, if this question, you should not have to go on the website, you should be run ng here or making phone calls to the department and saying, what is this permit . What is this permit for . For, you know, changing it back into office space or whatever, and so that is the other thing and the other thing is, i am not against, going after that backlog of novs i think...

Right, item 7 b, update on proposed legislation. Good morning, again, bill strorm, legislative and Public Affairs there has not been a great deal of activity since the last report on this as was mentioned in the president s announcements. And we did have a very strong interest in our first workshop on the mandatory soft story retrofitting we probably had almost 300 people in a space, that only really handles about a third of that. And so, we have scheduled a d second workshop and we will be in the main library on october 28 and this i think that will present a Good Opportunity for at least ano...