a special welcome to our commissioners of the advisory commission for public diplomacy, vice chairman bill hippel and commissioner weidner. today we know under the offices of the advisory commission we called a public meeting to look at the question of the gpa, and state department, and the executive director, it is my honor to open this event. and for opening comments, i want to tell you how things will go today. and to principal speakers, they speak to the tagteam formation and at the end of their formation we will take your questions and comments. please hold your questions and comments until they finish their presentation. for the moderated q and day session there will be a microphone. please speak into the microphone, and your questions and answers are part of the transcript that will be part of public record. it is important to capture your question so we can reflect them accurately. it is my great pleasure to turn it over to the chairman. >> thank you for the audience being here. the president of public diplomacy council and adam power, the director of usc, communication leader

the advisory commission recommended a hearing to approve a k-5 charter school for 2016 through 2020, and that is what they did. it is true that the petition itself never changed the wording to say that they did not want k-12, but they were approved as k-5. >> then i am going to move on. i am interested in the memo new school submitted to us a number of memos after the findings came out on friday, and one of them around special education says that it was the district and not new school that declined the opportunity to work together as part of the sfusd. can you talk about that at all? >> i just read that memo. what i can say is that their original petition, and i don't have it in front of me, but i believe if they said that it contemplated becoming part of sfusd that is true. the board denied the petition. it was appealed to the state. according to what they say in the memo, they received a letter from gina plate. >> who i is not a district employee. >> yes. they are saying that sfusd is not willing to cooperator with having the charter. i can only say that if it was contemplated in t

special welcome to our commissioners the advisory commission for public diplomacy and vice chairman and commissioner. today as you know under the auspices of the advisory commission we have called a public meeting to look at the question of the newly formed gpa and where it sits in state department vision for public democracy going forward for the 21st century. as the executive director it is my honor to open this event. before i turn the microphone over to my colleagues are opening comments i want to tell you about how things will go today. mr. farah will give us brief comments and then turn it over to our passable speakers and they will speak in the tech team formation and at the end of their presentation we will be happy to take your questions and comments but please hold your questions and comments until they have finished their presentation. for the moderated q&a session there will be a microphone and please speak into the microphone as you ask your questions because this whole event to include not only the remarks but your questions and our answers are part of a transcript that wi

i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the t

assertions of pervasive voter fraud and subsequent creation of the now defunct presidential advisory commission on election 70 we felt there was an urgent need to counter his dangerous and erroneous narrative and provide a truthful account of the urgent need for protection of our democracy from the insidious threat in the modern era of voter suppression. i created the map of shame in april 2011 which was the first national to expose and educate the american public about the rise of contemporary voter suppression measures which i released a map saying it is formidable and substantial regiment of disenfranchising barriers to the ballot box, ability to have votes counted for millions of eligible but vulnerable voters. this is launched in january 2018, the commission tells a series of hearings for 14 states looking at voting rights and has engaged in many voter education and other efforts. one thing we heard in june 2018 from professor donald jones of the university of miami was the only proper way to look at the era we are in is understanding when it comes to voting rights, america is facing its s

president donald trump had a pervasive voter fraud and subsequent creation from the presidential advisory commission on election integrity. we felt that there was an urgent need to counteract this dangerous and erroneous negative but instead provides an account of the urgent need for the protection of our democracy from the insidious threat of the modern era of voter protection. i created the map of shame in april of 2011 which was the first national to expose and educate the american public about the rise of the contemporary voter suppression measures. there's been directed a substantial regiment of disenfranchising barriers and the ability to have the votes counted for the millions of eligible. in january, 2018, the commission upheld a series of hearings compiled over state reports looking at voting rights and have engaged in many voter education and other efforts. one thing that we heard in june of 2018 from donald jones at the university of miami was that the only real proper way to look at what we are in his understanding thais understandingthat when itg rights in america is [inaudible] that is

if you read the acpd report the advisory commission on public diplomacy, the report in 2017 on can can public diplomacy survive the internet? take a look at the trends to almost now three years ago that they're highlighting. chat bots. artificial intelligence. the scale and speed of technology and the tools now to pump information into this ecosystem we're all living in has dramatically changed and presents a lot of risks. you can use it as tools forfection and we're seeing malign actors use it to spew disinformation into the world so there's a lot of risks and new opportunity that technology is bring iing to the way in which do public diplomacy. in parallel, you see more people having empowered voices. social media allows people to have their voices heard, speak up. their voices now are r more empowered through technology and these platforms. and communicate with people more important than ever to public diplomacy. with china, with russia, with the islamic republic of iran and there is more demand and you know, importance to the way in which we communicate american values across the w

the advisory commission and the who serve as nonadvisory panels came to us, they didn't have the data to study drug rebaits. this bill ensures that they have access to make informed decisions. this increase is extremely allowing them to analyze how competition in our drug market is working and part d plans are managing the prices. they will turn that new knowledge into new recommendations of how we as congress can bring down the cost of drugs for patients. this is good governance. i think this bill as well as the bill we just spoke about h.r. 115 are shining example ps are lowering the cost of drugs. we have worked for all year to advance a number of good, bipartisan drug policies that could make a difference. there are dozens more bipartisan reforms that can get robust support here in the house. the issue is too important to be sacrificed in the name of electoral politics. today is proof that we can pass drug bipartisan reforms. i call on my colleagues, let's build on today and continue to advance it bipartisan policies that we know can become law and make a difference of patients. a

the committee advisory commission on special education is happy to be here tonight. we will be presenting our priorities for the 2019-2020 school year. i am here tonight as your new sfusd special education advice percent and special new liaison to the committee advisory committee. that said, we have put together this presentation. the second page of our presentation has a link to all of our handouts. there was no you had -- handout packets. everything was embedded. i learned of some new tricks. without further ado 2019-2020 board to go ahead and introduce themselves. >> good evening i am a community member on the community advisory committee for special education. [inaudible] >> good evening. my name is christina, i am co- secretary this year, and i have two kids in sfusd, one is pretty complicated. >> i'm danielle. i have one sun on the district i am the second chair for the advisory committee. [inaudible] the local plan is a legal document that explains how we provide services to students with exceptional needs. c.a.c. is currently looking for members, and we encou

the advisory commission on public diplomacy report in 2017, can public diplomacy survive the internet, take a look at the trends two, almost now three years ago they are highlighting. chatbots. artificial intelligence. computational propaganda. right? there is scale and speed in the technology and the tools now to pump information into the ecosystem we are living in, it has dramatically changed. again, it presents a lot of risks. you can use that as tools for truth. you can also use it as tools for fiction, and we are seeing some maligned actors using these as a way to confuse and spew misinformation, disinformation so there is a lot of risk and opportunities technology is bringing to the way in which we do public diplomacy. in parallel, you see more people around the world having empowered voices through technology. social media is allowing people to pay attention, to speak up, to have their voice be heard, to -- so they are pressuring institutions, effect change because their voices are more empowered through technology and these new platforms. so you have got technology, interestin

. >> medicare payment advisory commission is a commission that advises congress and the administration on how much medicare should pay for. a wonderful quote in a report they should last year that we have known for some time, we have been aware for some time that there is a problem between how much primary care physicians and special surveys and how much medicare pays them, primary care physicians are paid too low-end specialists are paid too much relative to primary care physicians. my favorite part of that is we have known for some time. they have known this problem is there and some people are getting overpaid and primary care physicians are overpaid as well in terms of quantity. this problem has existed for decades. no one does anything about it. congress is not done anything about it because lobbying power of the special interests provider groups. another quote in the same report where they say we are becoming aware, a good way to pay for primary care in the first place. government doesn't learn very quickly. he keeps mistakes whether they are pricing errors or errors in how they

. >> so the medicare payment advisory commission is a commission that advises congress on how -- and the administration -- on how and how much medicare should pay for things. there's this wonderful quote in a report they issued last year, they said we have known for some time, we've been aware for some time that there is a problem, a discrepancy between how much primary care physicians and specialists are paid. how much medicare pays them. that is that primary care physicians are paid too low relative to specialists. specialists are paid too much relative to primary care physicians. my favorite part of that quote is we have known for some time. they've known about this. they've known that this problem is there. some people are getting overpaid. the primary care physicians may be getting overpaid. they probably are, if not in terms of "p," in terms of "q," quantity. this problem has existed for decades. and -- and no one does anything about it. congress has not done anything about it. why? probably because of the lobbying power of the specialty provider groups. there's another quote i

commission? >> dianne, county vacancies do you have on the advisory at this point? >> i think we have one from the commission and three from the supervisors. i would have to double check. and we have reached out to all the supervisors, i think maybe four from the supervisors. we will be working to get back to the supervisors. with commission appointments, and supervisorial appointments, we should really have every district coverage. we have two districts with no coverage, so the person working on membership, i was thinking about that this morning, we have one pending. supervisor yi has someone pending. sometimes with a supervisorial appointments, it takes the rules committee to get on the board of supervisors of's addenda -- agenda, but we'll be reaching out. and if need be, we will go to their offices and sit down and talk with them. >> any other comments or questions? the next item on the agenda is the joint legislative committee and here is dianne again. >> so we have had a pretty robust year. i will give you summary numbers one of the reasons the joint legislatio

trying from commission research and investigations in memoranda from 13 of the commission's state advisory committee to analyze voting in alabama alaska, arizona, california, illinois, indiana, kansas, louisiana, maine, new hampshire, ohio, rhode island and texas. the support documents current conditions evidencing ongoing dissemination in voting. on every measure the commission of value-added information we received underscores the dissemination in voting. our report found that the time we issued the report 23 states have enacted newly restricted statewide voter loss since the shelby county decision in 2013. these statewide voter loss range from strict voter identification laws to voter education barriers requiring documentary proof of citizenship allowing challenges of voters on the role to unfairly purge voters from the rolls. two cuts to early voting to moving or eliminating polling places. the conclusions of the report draws our bleak leading to unanimous commission findings that for example during the time study race dissemination in voting endorsed today. likewise voter access issue

been asked to do and one is to look at the range and separately and perhaps more in an advisory capacity to the commission, look at the designers. design issues. your comments on the design issues could be incorporated as the project moves forward, but i think more specifically, with respect to the eir so to develop this to move forward with the eir. so i think both things are legitimate. i'm not suggesting you shouldn't do the advisory role. >> it's more of a challenge on this project because we're talking about a very difficult design problem. when we have a larger project site where there's some historic resources and we have a lot of dusdustdifferent options, we cae them for direction. if you move this tower over here, it might work better. so we can give more direction. what i would propose, my recommendation is that the partial preservation be further developed, closer to the proposed project and articulate some more design elements that the tie poling responds to the historic building. we would have one they would like us to build and one that responds to the context. >> that answers one question l

analysis that the city -- the most recent analysis on the demographics of our different commissions and advisory bodies, the urban forestry council is one of our important advisory bodies that has a very low percentage of women and people of color currently, and that's not -- no fault to the great leaders that are on the council and the folks that are working on these issues, but i think that's an important issue to kind of look at. so i'm really happy, i think, with these appointments that we're making to the urban forestry council, we're going to be able to take a step towards experiencing diversity on the council, and that will help make these issues a higher priority for everyone. so i'm in agreement with chair ronen's proposal on some of the more difficult decisions we had to make on the contested seats. do you want me to make it -- why don't you make it? >> chair ronen: sure. i'll make an official motion, then. i make a motion to appoint morgan -- i'm going to butcher your last name. i'm so sorry. how do you pronounce your name? >> morgan vaisset-fauvel. >> chair ronen: morgan vaisset-fauv

we intend to take advantage of our existing advisory group direct park commission, and to go back into the community for extensive outreach, which in turn helps us develop the bond program and will be coming back to the rec park program in 2020 to show our findings. the last slide is an overview of the schedule before -- as we prepare for the 2020 bond. as i indicated earlier we have convened a bond working group that will be working to prioritize our projects based on the criteria that i outlined earlier, so next we anticipate 20 to 30 meetings in the next couple of months. then the findings will be in early 2020 and turns over to the capital planning and the board of supervisors so they can get on the ballot in june 2020 for election on november 6, 2020. so that sort of ends my portion the rec park portion of the presentation. >> i can take it. >> antonio, capital fitness minister for the recreation and parks department. i understand they're very short staffed at the moment so i can go over what they're currently doing in the 2008 and 2012 bond. so in construction using those funding

if i read this, it's an advisory from the human rights commission but does that make it any less crazyesn't make it any less constitutional. >> and beware of things that are started in europe and work their way over here. if i hear jesse say anything disparaging, i can go to the police and police can go and talk to them about it and arrest him because he said something in the privacy of his own home that's now on the band word li list. those ideas on tech companies, and i think -- if you might know in a business, if i'm telling jesse a joke and you don't like it, you can report us. >> cracking down on words, not deeds but words. if that is and that's meant to scare you into obedience. so imagine if the phrase was used as a joke or trash talk for a punch line, the title of the song by phil collins. and saying that is part of a script. and, he went to a traffic accident and discovered that one of the people involved was an illegal immigrant. the police officials said, that's contrary to our department policy. what do you think? >> yes and he's back on the job. the horror of police office