. >> good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16, 17 we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as you're aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for treasure island we're increasing the budget by seven hundred $783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from transportation authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than we're not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 they'll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll system design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the parking management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, we're recommending to amend the adopted 2016/17 to increase by $783,526. >> i'm available to answer any question

. >> good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16, 17 we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as you're aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for treasure island we're increasing the budget by seven hundred $783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from transportation authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than we're not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 they'll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll system design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the parking management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, we're recommending to amend the adopted 2016/17 to increase by $783,526. >> i'm available to answer any question

. >> good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16, 17 we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as you're aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for treasure island we're increasing the budget by seven hundred $783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from transportation authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than we're not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 they'll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll system design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the parking management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, we're recommending to amend the adopted 2016/17 to increase by $783,526. >> i'm available to answer any question

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gail who is a senior fellow at project had been former administrator of the health care financing administration. gail is also serving as one of four cochairs along with former senate majority leaders tom daschle and bill fritsche. and also andy on a new bipartisan group of health policy experts to identify a path forward on health care reform. gil, thank you for your leadership and i will let you take away from here. >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here today. this is a topic near and dear to my heart. it is something i started working on about a dozen years ago or more. now there's other people who worked on it longer but it is one that increases in importance as the technology pipeline keeps putting out new frequently new and expensive technologies. very interesting mix of people today. i will briefly introduce them. and then i ask people to make just a couple minutes of comments if you can try to keep it to three or four at the most. then will ask questions. although you may want to make questions on what jody could've mentioned in her comments. the first panelists will be jen high. she

. >> good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16, 17 we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as you're aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for treasure island we're increasing the budget by seven hundred $783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from transportation authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than we're not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 they'll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll system design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the parking management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, we're recommending to amend the adopted 2016/17 to increase by $783,526. >> i'm available to answer any question

. >> good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16,we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as you're aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for treasure island we're increasing the budget by seven hundred $783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from transportation authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the previous fiscal year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than we're not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 they'll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll system design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the parking management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, we're recommending to amend the adopted 2016/17 to increase by $783,526. >> i'm available to answer any questions. >

. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration. and what you have before you is a presentation of the fiscal year 16, 17, budget. and amendment, and i first would like to recap just what the ta budget includes, it includes sales tax revenue, sales state and regional grants and the vehicle registration fees for the prop aa and the fund for clean air, and revenues. and the treasure island, mobility agency, and expenditure and revenue and our capitol projects and our capitol expenditures operating and admin and service costs. >> in terms of the ta budget we have budgeted adopt a budget of $125 million. 87 percent of that represents sales tax revenue, while the remaining 14 percent represents federal, state and regional grant and prop aa vehicle registration fees. and internal interest income and other revenues. they have adopted a budget, and this represents 96 percent for the prop k, aa our tfca and our projects. and the remaining four percent represents personnel expenditure and non-personnel costs that reports the office rent and l

i will be responsible for him finance and administration, engineering maintenance and planning. under the centerstructure the business units are integrated and reporting tot chief operating officer. the benefits here are enormous. we can innovate asset development and management and streamline business processes. leveraging talents in each division for unified end for our property. the planning division serves a very critical and important function for our department. the planning division will support our business unit in addition to development to real estate and maritime goals. will focus on emerging issue like sea level raise, water transportation and will continue to deploy the high etcetera standards of stakeholderrer engagement. there is much work ahead for the planning group. in proving the port public realm in protecting its historic resources engaging the public for the update to the waterfront land use plan and working through policy frameworks and regulatory agencies and state lands, etcetera. this is a trial period. i'm appropriating -- i'm proposing this reorganiza

. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration. and what you have before you is a presentation of the fiscal year 16, 17, budget. and amendment, and i first would like to recap just what the ta budget includes, it includes sales tax revenue, sales state and regional grants and the vehicle registration fees for the prop aa and the fund for clean air, and revenues. and the treasure island, mobility agency, and expenditure and revenue and our capitol projects and our capitol expenditures operating and admin and service costs. >> in terms of the ta budget we have budgeted adopt a budget of $125 million. 87 percent of that represents sales tax revenue, while the remaining 14 percent represents federal, state and regional grant and prop aa vehicle registration fees. and internal interest income and other revenues. they have adopted a budget, and this represents 96 percent for the prop k, aa our tfca and our projects. and the remaining four percent represents personnel expenditure and non-personnel costs that reports the office rent and l

then mexico secretary of finance and public credit on relations with the trump administration.er, a preview of this weekend's march for science to mark earth day. coming up in an hour on "washington journal," robert litwak of the woodrow wilson center discusses north korean nsions and compares the cuba -- cuban missile crisis and frank buckley on why he thinks president trump should embrace single-payer health care system. and jessica brand will talk about the recent decline in the use of the death penalty. live on "washington journal." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] host: good morning, everyone on this friday, april 2321. -- 21. and wisconsin earlier this week, the president signed an executive order requiring that the federal government agencies buy american products and also restrict to the guesswork of visas in order to hire more americans. we want to know from all of you this morning do you make a point to buy am

. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration. and what you have before you is a presentation of the fiscal year 16, 17, budget. and amendment, and i first would like to recap just what the ta budget includes, it includes sales tax revenue, sales state and regional grants and the vehicle registration fees for the prop aa and the fund for clean air, and revenues. and the treasure island, mobility agency, and expenditure and revenue and our capitol projects and our capitol expenditures operating and admin and service costs. >> in terms of the ta budget we have budgeted adopt a budget of $125 million. 87 percent of that represents sales tax revenue, while the remaining 14 percent represents federal, state and regional grant and prop aa vehicle registration fees. and internal interest income and other revenues. they have adopted a budget, and this represents 96 percent for the prop k, aa our tfca and our projects. and the remaining four percent represents personnel expenditure and non-personnel costs that reports the office rent and l

. >> good morning, deputy director for finance and administration.hat you have before you is a presentation of the fiscal year 16, 17, budget. and amendment, and i first would like to recap just what the ta budget includes, it includes sales tax revenue, sales state and regional grants and the vehicle registration fees for the prop aa and the fund for clean air, and revenues. and the treasure island, mobility agency, and expenditure and revenue and our capitol projects and our capitol expenditures operating and admin and service costs. >> in terms of the ta budget we have budgeted adopt a budget of $125 million. 87 percent of that represents sales tax revenue, while the remaining 14 percent represents federal, state and regional grant and prop aa vehicle registration fees. and internal interest income and other revenues. they have adopted a budget, and this represents 96 percent for the prop k, aa our tfca and our projects. and the remaining four percent represents personnel expenditure and non-personnel costs that reports the office rent and lawyer

safety or immigration reform or lgbtq rights or voting rights or can't -- campaign finance or other issues, the administration -- the universally understand that unless we win control of legislative bodies in the country nobody gets what they , want. so there is a much greater willingness to kind of accept differences on certain issues with the greater goal in mind. just the other night, bernie sanders was in louisville with tom perez. their come together to fight back tour, and the response was amazing. i was kind of the theme of it. we need a big tent party, and if we do and allow this energy to permeate the party, we will have a good chance of taking back the congress next year and state legislatures around the country. that is what we are focused on. erik: on activism, do you see the democratic aggressive factor -- activism helping you address this the budget cuts trump is proposing, 30% to state? do see yourself being successful in opposing those? rep. yarmuth: absolutely. virtually everyone who observed that or looked at the budget said it was dead on arrival when it was issued. there are few members. n

suspension pending the outcome of this case, he will remain in office in an administrative capacity only. >>> campaign finance records show williams's attorney contributed more than $1500 to williams. 2010 run for damage. he would not comment about the donations >> some are wondering if philadelphia is the most corrupt city in the country. seth william is the latest in a long line of public officials to face corruption charge, alexandria hoff is in center city tonight with more and how the city is making national headlines for the wrong reasons. alex? >> reporter: ukee, this week, vice news asked a question that's gotten a whole lot of attention, is philadelphia the most corrupt city in the country? if it is, we wanted a to know why and what can be done. >> just a few examples. this month it was district attorney seth williams. in december, congressman shack fattah convicted of misusing grant money. 2013, seven of nine city traffic court judges charged with, yes, corruption. >> to some extent, one party rule is a factor in it. >> over 50 year, one political party has controlled the city of philadelphia. >> we

>> good afternoon, commissioners, my name is brema hoarder, iem the deputy director of finance and administration, today we are here for the first of three meetings that we'll hold on the budget b, today's workshop focuses on the project areas as well as asset management. the next workshop, workshop number 2 focuses on our budget process and how our budget is built, so that you can get a better understanding of the assumptions that are made when we build our budget, and i will also be discussing our operations and administrative budget as well as our debt service budget, but again, as i said today is mostly highlighting our project areas. as i just said, today we'll be tau youbacker talking about the hunters point shipyard, phases 1 and 2, candlestick point, mission bay and transbay, affordable housing and real estate development services, each of the project managers will walk you through our accomplishments from this year which are many and we're happy to share them as well as the goals for next year. affordable housing is threaded throughout our project areas but we also high lying our work in

for stopping financial important industries such as subsidies, research support and finance planning. the administration became more aggressive in conducting formal investigations into japanese trade practices using section 301 of the 1974 trade actively heard referenced in the brazil paper. for example placing new duties on japanese semi conductors. they are a big team from 1984 to 1988. spike the reagan administration administration's increasingly aggressive approach, japan's local economic trial seems to continue unabated. observers, a specially people in congress and outside the reagan administration, japan seems to forecast a permanent weakening of american capabilities and resolve. the matter what american policymakers did, the trade deficit only continues to rise throughout the decade. observers, this raises a far more troubling prospect. but the very structures and values that americans had lionized essential to their political, economic, and ideological system, free enterprise, low government regulation, american individualism were in fact the source of america's weakness. observers reflected p

suspension pending the outcome of this case, he will remain in office in an administrative capacity only. >>> campaign finance records show williams's attorney contributed more than $1500 to williams. 2010 run for damage. he would not comment about the donations >> some are wondering if philadelphia is the most corrupt city in the country. seth william is the latest in a long line of public officials to face corruption charge, alexandria hoff is in center city tonight with more and how the city is making national headlines for the wrong reasons. alex? >> reporter: ukee, this week, vice news asked a question that's gotten a whole lot of attention, is philadelphia the most corrupt city in the country? if it is, we wanted a to know why and what can be done. >> just a few examples. this month it was district attorney seth williams. in december, congressman shack fattah convicted of misusing grant money. 2013, seven of nine city traffic court judges charged with, yes, corruption. >> to some extent, one party rule is a factor in it. >> over 50 year, one political party has controlled the city of philadelphia. >> we

i will be responsible for him finance and administration, engineering maintenance and planning.nder the centerstructure the business units are integrated and reporting tot chief operating officer. the benefits here are enormous. we can innovate asset development and management and streamline business processes. leveraging talents in each division for unified end for our property. the planning division serves a very critical and important function for our department. the planning division will support our business unit in addition to development to real estate and maritime goals. will focus on emerging issue like sea level raise, water transportation and will continue to deploy the high etcetera standards of stakeholderrer engagement. there is much work ahead for the planning group. in proving the port public realm in protecting its historic resources engaging the public for the update to the waterfront land use plan and working through policy frameworks and regulatory agencies and state lands, etcetera. this is a trial period. i'm appropriating -- i'm proposing this reorganizati

we heard from a high—ranking south korean finance ministry official who declined to be named, telling reuters the trump administrationing. we will do a u—turn. he's done that and everything else. cu, sharanjit. follow me on twitter. i will be back with james did look —— to look at some of the newspapers from around the world. the general election will be a tipping point the education, with head teachers warning the stability of the whole system is at risk. a survey by the national association of head teachers found that nearly three—quarters of heads say their budget will be untenable within two years. it comes as economists predict it would cost £2 billion to freeze school funding in real terms over the next five years. 0ur education correspondent marc ashdown reports. but the corbet school in shropshire top of figures. but they are struggling, some of them. many have had to make savings to balance the books and schools funding will be a keyissue books and schools funding will be a key issue during election campaigning. we'll have to look carefully at how staffing levels. if you do that in a small school like the co

. >>> trump administration preparing to get tough other trade, clashing with global finance leaders. good morning. tough talk from the trump administration while you have the imf, international monetary fund and world bank meeting in washington. head of economic council warning other countries if they are to impose tariffs on u.s. exports they should expect reciprocal tariffs when they try to ship products back to the u.s. you couple that with this new directive about steel, that eats asked wilbur ross to look into and about buy american, hire american. you get the sense the administration is hoping to circumvent trade organization rules. president trump went after a surprising target when he kad to trade criticism yesterday, canada, whose dairy farmers he said acted disgracefully. dealing with presidential directives. one will impact the dodd/frank act. cnbc reporting this will be about restricting regulators' rights to wind down and seize failing banks and also looking at tax regulatory burdens. finally, looking to limit the power of the financial stability organization, which is p

should congress put in a restriction that continues the obama administration's prohibition on the cash flow financing? should we put that in the legislation? yes? all three yes, okay. senator dans raised the question about limiting the military assistance to the four pillars that the obama administration had laid out. the counterterrorism, border security, sinai security, maritime security, mr. abrams, you pointed out there is a lot of flexibility in those categories. based on your testimony, it sounds to me like you all might support actually a tightening of those categories and making it even more focused on counterterrorism, sinai, maybe some strict border security type actions. is that the case? >> yes. >> all right. >> yes. and i would add access to the sinai for our people. i would add for journalists ngo's would be an important of this. if we're going to be serious about counterinsurgency there's got to be accountability that goes with that. one of the outrageous demands we made was if we're going to be giving you all this help in the sinai, maybe you should allow our people to go there and se

i will be responsible for him finance and administration, engineering maintenance and planning.he centerstructure the business units are integrated and reporting tot chief operating officer. the benefits here are enormous. we can innovate asset development and management and streamline business processes. leveraging talents in each division for unified end for our property. the planning division serves a very critical and important function for our department. the planning division will support our business unit in addition to development to real estate and maritime goals. will focus on emerging issue like sea level raise, water transportation and will continue to deploy the high etcetera standards of stakeholderrer engagement. there is much work ahead for the planning group. in proving the port public realm in protecting its historic resources engaging the public for the update to the waterfront land use plan and working through policy frameworks and regulatory agencies and state lands, etcetera. this is a trial period. i'm appropriating -- i'm proposing this reorganization tod

the fed, the treasury had bailed out the investment bank bear stearns, they financed itself to jpmorgan. the bush administration decided to let the lehman brothers failed to make an example cannot get into a too big to fail moral hazard situation and it brought down the entire global financial system. and without intervention of the federal government, that meltdown would have been complete. they, fall 2008, to sort of solve the panic or the crisis, the bush administration acted on two fronts. the fed injected enormous amount of liquidity, dollars and credit, into the financial system. definitely pushing the limit on the legal mandate. so the fed, the lender of last resort, dropped interest rates to 0% and began to accept a broad range of assets for collateral, essentially interest-free loans. and the fed's own balance sheet, the stuff it up as collateral, just absolutely exploded. furthermore, i add that the fed did this not only for u.s. institutions, but for the rest of the world. the contagion spread and the fed ended up giving a lot of free dollars to the central banks across the world. so the fed, it was

the blame on the previous administration on the obama administration and how spicer responded to this saying these trips in question, the finances in question, they are saying your report didn't happen after the obama administration had signed off. tell me more about that. >> brooke, one of the things that sean spicer said, which was very interesting, he said he was taken aback at the accusations by congressman elijah cummings of a coverup by the white house. he said it was a very big deal and pointing squarely at the white house about the fact that he says they haven't given any disclosures to the committee about what they knew about michael flynn's financial dealings with foreign governments. so secretary -- press secretary sean spicer coming out a few minutes ago saying that he was taken aback and then pivoted and in the spring of 2016 indicating perhaps that the trump administration didn't exactly do the proper vetting or enough of the vetting when they brought michael flynn in as national security adviser and then press secretary sean spicer went on to say that he's reiterated this several times whenever questions about mic

he has had a big job as finance minister with a lot of challenges. in the early part of this administration, that was increased, so therefore, credit rating agencies downgraded mexico's credit position. he has done a wonderful job in rebuilding that. i hope he will tell you about that. he has the task of making sure the historical reforms in energy and fiscal apology came up smoothly. i hope he will talk to you about that. that has been quite successful also. he has had other challenges that pertains to pemex, cfe, the electric company, and pertain to their social security institution. all three of which had terrible fiscal problems. he has been working on that. each of these tasks he has undertaken with great knowledge, great respect, and great diligence. it is a pleasure to welcome you here to washington and to csis. we look forward to your comments. i will say, there will be questions afterwards. while his presentation will be economic, he has had such a diverse set of experiences, i think anything you want to ask about mexico he can answer. thank you very much. dr. meade. [applause] dr.

administration will reveal a tax reform plan very soon. weeklyve been meeting with chairman brady and members of the senate finance committee. we have been doing a lot of work. the three groups have the same objective. simplifytives are personal taxes. create middle income tax cuts. make our business taxes competitive. right now, we have some of the highest business tax rates in the world. we tax on worldwide income. system ofis crazy deferral. it is not surprising these things lead to u.s. companies leaving trillions of dollars offshore. on the business side, it is about making business taxes backtitive and bringing what we believe will be trillions of dollars to invest. >> what i am reading and is lower corporate rates. dealing with repatriation issues. when you do that, it does cost money. you are going to reduce taxes, even if you're going to get growth over time. there is a question of whether it has to be revenue neutral or not. what is the current thinking about that in the administration? >> the good news is you know a lot about this stuff. you are an educated consumer. the deal will pay for itself. having said that,

have something to do with the second-guessing about how quickly the trump administration will get things done. personal financeere decreasing and the buying climate declining for a fourth straight week, that is a measure of how willing americans are to open their wallets, not quite as willing as they were one month ago. interesting, let's get the first word news with courtney collins. first up, the area around the shops delis a -- around france as been cordoned off after person shot a police officer and shot himself. counterterrorism investigators are at the scene but the attacker seem to have been alone. the area has been cleared and metro stations shot. the trump administration is aiming to complete the biggest overall of the tax code since the reagan era by the end of the year. steven mnuchin says the reforms will go ahead even as a second attempt to replace the affordable care act fails. they want up simplified personal taxes, less than the middle class taxes and make it more competitive. -- producers have reached three month of limited production have seen opec and independent allies failed to cut stockpi

but i am concerned that the administration seems to be more enamored with pushing private capital and financing, which would end up making projects more expensive than traditional funding mechanisms and regulatory reforms than making investments. and investor-centered approach will do little to improve infrastructure across the nation. you simply can't build your infrastructure and expect that toll roads will somehow pay for it. there must be a revenue stream, and for the modern era in had -- american life, it is always with this committee and subcommittee. nor can we streamline our way out of inadequate funding. secretary child said recently, "the problem is not money" -- imagine saying that about roads and transit. the problem is always money. she didn't say that, that was editorializing. it was the delays to permitting processes that hold up projects for years making them risky investments -- are nationwide, undergo any rigorous environmental review. most are what we see everyday, 90% are exempt from the categorization process and are exempt from rigorous levels of review. also refutes the n

loan,he help of a rrif the railroad improvement financing loan, through the federal railroad administration. federal support has helped us complete the conversion to compress natural gas, in addition we're using federal funds from the low emission bus program to purchase seven electric buses that will be in operation next year. we've been aggressive and intentional in seeking creative ways to fund and deliver our projects. people in communities everywhere are working on solutions that meet their unique needs. they have the vision and the desire they need help with the funding. we believe there's a role for local communities to partner with the federal government to work together to support these visions with sustainable, substantial, and predictable funding that the f.a.s.t. act provides. i cannot impress upon the committee strongly enough how important it is to keep the fast f.a.s.t. act intact and that commitment intact as we move forward. thank you very much, mr. chairman. members of the committee, i look forward to answering your questions. chairman graves: thank you, mr. thomas. mayor

he will remain in office in an administrative capacity only. >>now, state campaign finance record show williams attorney contributed more than $1,500 to williams 2010 run for d.a., but wow not comment about those donations. >>> with the williams indictment and convictions of other public officials, vice news is asking the question is philadelphia the most corrupt city in america? "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff looked for answers and what could be done about it. >> reporter: just a few examples this month it was district attorney seth williams? in december it was then congressman chaka fattah convicted of misusing grant money n2013, seven of the nine city traffic court judges were charged with yes, corruption. >>> to some extent one party rule is a factor in it. >> reporter: for over 50 years one political party has controlled the city of philadelphia. >>> we tip the balance to the point where it makes it very hard for the political competition to take place. >> reporter: registered democrats out number city republicans, seven to one, ratio is identical to the nu

he will remain in office in an administrative capacity only. >>and now, state finance campaign record, show w camtribn $1,500 to williams 2010 run for d.a., he would not comment about those donations. >>> with the will yams indictment and convictions of other public officials, vice news is asking the question is fill at most corrupt city in america? "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff looked for answers and what could be done about it. >> reporter: just a few examples, this month it was district attorney seth williams, in december it was then congressman chaka fattah convicted of misusing grant money and in 2013, seven of the nine city traffic court judges were charged with yes, corruption. >>> to some extent one party rule is a factor in it. >> reporter: for over 50 years one political party has controlled the city of philadelphia. >>> we tip the balance to the point where it makes it very hard for the political competition to take place. >> reporter: registered democrats out number city republicans seven to one, the ratio is identical to the number of democrat

mexico'sow afternoon, secretary of finance and public credit will talk about the relationship with the u.s. and mexico and how the trump administrations affecting economy. live from the center for strategic and international studies. sciencermer white house adviser will talk about u.s. science and technology policy at ahead of the march for science rallies which will be held in washington dc and cities around the world saturday to mark earth day. the professor will speak at the association for the advancement of science. with congress in its final days of a two-week easter recess, members are meeting with constituents. cartwrightrats met a town cartwright held hall meeting.

i'm adam finance and planning director for the city administrator's office thank you supervisor tang the city administrator office oversee the contract administration both supports the implementation of this proposed change we first welcome friendly policies the two major challenges we would see related would be budget so there are significant budgetary considerations associated with that assuming we had the budget to implement happy to do so the other major considerations for lease parking spaces approximately 50 percent of the parking spots are leased we don't have direct authority to electrify or install chargers but perhaps addressed at the lavish the departments have additional concerns about the 10 percent they told her threshold and zoning district through the mayor's office there the budget the 10 percent vehicles may not be sufficient from the departments perspective to meet the daily operational needs and respond during disaster dbi for instance, has one hundred vehicles that need parking spots with a significant responsibility during the earthquake we need should the grid

> this afternoon, mexico secretary of finance a public credit will talk about the economic relationship between the u.s. and mexico and how the trump administration is affecting the economy of mexico. center forthe strategic and international studies at 2:00 eastern. and we'll talk about u.s. science and technology policy i of the market for science rally which will be held in washington, d.c. and cities around the world on saturday, to mark earth day. the professor will speak at the american association for the advancement of science, by that i 30 p.m. eastern. >> with congress in its final days of a two-week easter recess, members are at home meeting with constituents. at severalight spoke town hall meetings and took about veterans affairs, energy policy and redistricting. from northampton community college in bethlehem, pennsylvania, this is just under one hour. [applause] >> thank you for that. let's start things more formal

administration and its allies felt the terrorist groups who andbeen armed, trained, financed by thesecountries began to lose ground because of the heavy blows dealt to them by the syrian army. they launched their premeditated and flagrant attack against an airbase on the pretext of the use of chemical weapons in khan sheikhoun, a village under the control of al-nusra front. it did not stop there. this attack was preceded by political expediency when the u.s. decided to exploit the international mechanism of the council to table provocative draft resolutions. -- that was the case on march 19, 2013. august 20 1, 2013, and on april 2014, on march 16, 2015, marched 2016. i will not go into the detail of addressed19 letters to this counsel since the beginning of the crisis. these letters detail the possession by armed terrorist groups of chemical elements to be used against civilians and to put the blame on the syrian government. to demonize this government in the eyes of the council members and the eyes of public opinion, and then to justify any internal interference in syria. some of the