. >> good afternoon, council members, mike solomon. ocd. when i came to the housing project on the housing portal, i take the lead. brian explained a lot of the ideas we have. i'm going to explain two parts. some of the details that we put in as minimum requirements and i want to hear from you like what might we miss. for example, you know, whenever i put out a solicitation for development or if we do it in-house, at minimally one of the requirements is you know this must go by sf gov guidelines and of course san francisco web master team has great guidelines as well. so at least meet all of that. as a designer i happen to know certain things about certain colors you don't use for color blindness and certain things you have to implement into websites so readers can actually use them. but i know there is really a lot more to it and i want to make sure, you know, the google team that brian mentioned, you don't get better than that as far as user interface design. they are going to be our main consultants in that regard and they already know t

solomon who was a university of michigan professor. when kissinger tapped him to join the staff in september 1971. he had a phd from mike ullman motter, m.i.t.. he accompanied henry kissinger on numerous china trips. he was a senior scholar at the prestigious rant corporation and spoke fluent mandarin and he accompanied kissinger and general hag on numerous china trips and he was in nixon's 1972 trip to china. he held senior positions and -- in the state department, service and asked her to the philippines, written numerous books, and remains one of america's leaving experts. he is now the senior fellow of the rand corporation. ok. next is ambassador nicholas platt. unlike our other analysts, he was not on the national security council staff. nick was a career foreign service officer. and one of these state department seniors finally just -- scientologists -- sinologists. he was also on the nixon trip. he was the staff assistant to then secretary of state william rogers. he went on to hold senior positions at the department of defense and after leaving government he dealt extensively with the chinese through the last 40