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Okay, folks, we're going to get started. You can continue eating. Just make sure you eat with your mouth shut.

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Okay, so welcome to a meeting of the regional council of Skag. Happy to see everybody here. This is my first meeting as your president and I absolutely did not expect you to behave. I know that you're going to do it.

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Because I've been in your place before. And the good thing is that while you're eating, I can't have any heckling.

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Okay, we're going to call the meeting to order.

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We're going to have the pledge of allegiance led by Steve Hothar.

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Thank you very much.

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Okay, just a quick announcement.

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You've noticed the stanchions around the openings.

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It's not to like keep people out of areas.

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It's just to let you know that there's a step there.

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We've had a lot of people tripping.

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So these are temporary.

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There's going to be permanent railings.

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They're going to be installed apparently by the time of our next meeting.

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So that's what those are all about.

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The second thing before we get into the meeting itself is we were having a bit of a discussion internally

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as you all know our next meeting is scheduled for July 5th obviously the day after independent state.

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So the question is this we need to figure out whether or not we're going to have a quorum to have a meeting of the regional council.

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So if you don't mind, please, if you, let's say, if you are not going to be able to make the fifth because

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of whatever you have going on, please, it's just an informal kind of thing, give us an idea.

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And lean toward not being here if you're not sure, because that way we kind of know who's

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definitely going to be here, raise your hand if you're not going to be able to make a meeting

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on the fifth.

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Is anyone counting?

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Test is counting?

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Got it?

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Okay.

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So right now there's probably 14 confirmed not coming we need what for a

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quorum,

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come on you do we need for a quorum, we need 20, we need 20, we need a total of 28,

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so okay so it doesn't appear that we're going to have a quorum for regional council in July and

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obviously that's probably something we should have had about before June but we didn't.

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So I guess we're going to, let me ask you this as I understand there's anything time

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sensitive that we're going to have to take care of and if there is a something that the executive committee.

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Yes, the executive committee can act in your behalf for any action and then the regional council will ratify it in September.

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So, there's something urgent would get the executive committee.

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Okay, so this is a situation.

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We're going to cancel the meeting of July 5th and that's all the meetings scheduled for July 5th.

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So there won't be any policy committee.

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EAC, I'll have to let you know. We'll look at that one. But definitely no policy committee

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and no regional council on the fifth. We're dark and August. So we're not going to be back together

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until this is what you do. Let me present it and I'm never going to have a meeting the year that I'm

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here. But that's fine. I see a question, Linda. Is it possible to move it to July 12th the following week?

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I don't know, is anyone willing to do that?

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Let me just refresh your memory a little bit.

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We came to you with a schedule.

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And we did mark that this is July 5th,

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the day after 4th of July.

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I am like normal.

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You told us, no, keep it on.

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We wanted to be dark in July,

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instead of all go this,

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no, we take vacation in August.

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And we tried to change the date.

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And then, many of you get into,

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I have the league, I have this, I have that.

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So it would be very difficult to move it and have a column.

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I would rather, if you want to have it, I would rather have it on the first and gamble with

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the column.

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And maybe you want to consider having it on the first foreign formation, I can, if people

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don't want to be away for that long, until September.

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I think you should go with the schedule, actually you adopted that schedule, you approved it,

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and you haven't met in the fifth, but it's your goal, Mr. President.

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Well, but again, it falls back to on to staff.

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I don't mind having a meeting on the fifth.

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It's the understanding we're not going to take any action items.

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If for some chance we do have a corn, then we can do it.

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So the question is, are there going to be enough information items?

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I don't want to have everyone come in from all over the world

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and not do anything.

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So let me go with the consensus of the group.

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Yes, Margaret.

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Well, I vote. I raised my hand because you said,

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but then I check my calendar. I can be here.

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So...

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You can be here. The consensus of the group are you guys okay with canceling the meetings on the fifth. We may have an EAC meeting and obviously everyone's always invited to EAC meetings if that's what you choose to do. We'll make a determine whether or not EAC needs to meet. Other than that, we'll all be back together in September.

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If anything comes up, it's going to require regional council vote or anything that we'll let you know.

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But at this point, I'll make the decision, meetings or council for the fifth, we're dark in August.

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You have something time-sensitive, Comi?

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Sorry, yes we do, we have the final amendment to the RTP that needs to come to you in July so that we can get it done by September,

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because we're a dark and august, and then we also have the F-tip that's also on the same

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time on the both together and we need to have that done in July.

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Okay, are those the types of things that EAC can take action on, it's a simple majority

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thing, right?

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I am not familiar with the rules.

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Julian, is Julian here?

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Julian, are we okay with that?

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Yes, we could have a special meeting at the EAC.

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and act on who would act on behalf of the regional council on those two matters.

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Okay. Got it. So knowing that we're going to be discussing and voting on an RTP of

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amendment and we don't have that amendment prepared yet. So I can't even tell what we're

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adding to the RTP we're taking out. But again, I think we have to make it a decision

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one way or the other. I'm sorry, we have to go. Cheryl, do you have a comment?

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My comment would be if we did just EAC could we please see if we could do it?

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that video conference slash teleconference so that we're not making the trip to LA for just

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the one hour.

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It's one thing if we're here all day, but it's another thing if we're just here for you.

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We'll see where we are as we get closer whether or not there's going to be more in one item or not.

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And if we can accommodate a teleconference, certainly we'll do that.

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So everybody understands we're not going to see the regional council or the policy committees until September.

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Now, if you're with us, because that means that the agenda will be heavier in September.

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So please don't make arrangements to skip out of here early, because we are going to have more work to do in September.

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All right? Questions about that? Very good. Okay, so that decision has been made.

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Okay, so now we're going to go into public comment, and we do have a couple ceremonies that we're going to do prior to our actual public comment.

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The first one is really important.

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Those of you that have been around this area for any amount of time,

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know how active and vibrant the business community is,

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not just here in the city of L.A., but throughout the region.

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And a lot has been due to the President's CEO of the chamber.

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He's an everyday name, everyone's heard a Gary Tobin, right?

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Everybody knows Gary.

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We're really happy.

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I'm not happy to see him leave,

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But we're really happy that finally he's going to go under retirement.

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So we're here to congratulate, wish good luck to Gary Tobin on his retirement.

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He has done so much for the region.

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He's doing so much champion of causes for all of us.

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Worked very well as liaison between governmental agencies and the private sector that we're

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going to miss you, Gary.

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But again, I don't want to dampen your retirement.

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I'm sure you hear excited about that.

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So ladies and gentlemen, this is Gary Tobin.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much. It's incredible that this organization representing

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19 million people in a 1951 cities. Does the great work that it does was such camaraderie

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because that doesn't happen in the halls of government very often. So I want to thank

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Thank you for the planning that you do on behalf of our region.

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It is really important.

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And thank you for guys like Hassan and Darren, and the team that come to access Sacramento

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and access Washington, D.C., where we can speak as a region and advocate for issues that

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are important to business and all the residents of our region.

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So thank you very much.

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Well, Gary, I've already said how much we really appreciate you and, and, you know, obviously when I see that it's not just a behalf of the Skag, it's on behalf of all the sub-regions, all the city.

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It's a community that we represent. So we're going to miss you, and we do have a very small token of our appreciation

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to proclamation from Skag to you commemorating all the great work that you've done for the region. Thank you very much.

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Thank you. And a small gift of our appreciation as well.

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Okay. You know, we're going to take some pictures.

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We can do that, but we set this down.

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We're okay. Well, we're starting over there at that time.

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He's with your point.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay, next Mayor Deborah Robertson from Rialto has a very special guest that she'd like to introduce, had the opportunity to cut with this young lady a little bit in the hallway.

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a great story and really a story of inspiration that I think we all need to hear

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Deborah, where are you? Oh, there you are,

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push button.

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Okay, thank you, thank you

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President. I just would like to take the opportunity as a number of you see me

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throughout the year. I always have interns and students with me who are coming to

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want to get for me with local government. And so today I have brought another

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student with me this summer I have about four that are home from college

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various colleges and I brought her I wanted to introduce her especially

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because she is going into her senior year at Northern Arizona University

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major in philosophy policy and law and so I would like to take a moment to

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introduce Ms. Makaya Harris and answer if she would step forward.

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county area that she has a graduate I believe a pair of high school she lives in Paris

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California and she came she's going to be with me but she informed me that she's

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going to need to leave me on Monday so I'll let her explain why. Hi everyone my name is

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Makai Harris I'm in turn to Mayor Robertson and I said yeah Northern Arizona University

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as you guys heard I intern with her right now and but I'm going to be leaving her on

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day because I have a job in Sacramento. I'm going to be teaching fellow, so I'm going to be

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teaching my own class middle school, and I'm going to be also the Department of Literature,

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the Head Department, so it's pretty exciting, I'm sad to leave, but this will not be the last time

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you guys see me, trust me. Thank you, so I just wanted to thank you. They come in and they go out

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so quick. And her family is especially proud of her as they should be. She's the first

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her family did 10 college. So that's a huge feat. Congratulations to you. And certainly, and the

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one thing I did discuss with her, she's pretty much wants to become an attorney, is in my

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day, and I'm sure you can identify with this, when you're going to go to law school, your

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major is always political science, right? Worst thing you could ever do, very impractical. Philosophy

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is a great major. All these things that she's doing, so I'm really excited for her. Deborah,

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thank you for bringing her to our attention. That's our next generation. That's what we have

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forward to. All right, I have another very exciting announcement to make. This is all good news

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stuff, though. We have a member of our regional council that's a true hero in the community.

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Steve Hockbauer served with distinction for the City of Los Angeles Fire Department for over 30 years.

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On May 31, he was awarded the Medal of Valley of Valor Awards at Craig Steve,

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which is the highest award that you really can get.

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It was a certificate of all reward.

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He was honored and distinguished for his bravery,

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exceptional heroism and service going far beyond the

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Call of Duty.

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So we want to recognize one of our colleagues getting this.

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So obviously very appreciative.

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Of your commitment to service for our community, and then this very special award, it's tremendous. I know

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how hard it is to get it.

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Have we had Steve?

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I think, also, thank you very much. I didn't expect that. I would have wore a tie.

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But I think we have another member here, ran into him at the ceremony. I know you. His son is also

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I think we need to thank the parents of heroes as well, Ray, down there, his son got the

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Medal of Valor as well.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Ray.

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I'm assuming it's Ray Marquez, City of Chinole Hills, right?

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There he is.

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Congratulations on that, really appreciate that.

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public comment, I have not received any request to comment, there are any members

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of the public that would like to address the regional council.

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Okay, seeing none, we're going to go into a presentation that we have, Mayor Garcetti requested

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that we spend a few minutes listening about the issue of foreign direct investment in

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the region, something that's important to all of us, obviously.

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And I don't know if these speakers want to get into how the recent events in Washington

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in DC might have a impact on say negative or positive impact on what we're looking at.

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But I know we have Felipe here and Stephen, go ahead and and explain what the initiative

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Thank you.

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Mr. President, we have to know everyone.

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It's a pleasure to be here with you, all of you, honorable mayors, supervisors and council members.

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My name is Felipe Coosner, I'm Director of International Trade and Investment for the Los Angeles

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Mayor Eric Arsetti.

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This is Steven Chung, president of Rotorate Center, L.A. recently, a re-launched initiative here for the region.

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I'm very excited to be here this afternoon today, especially for your first meeting, Mr. President,

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because we work together for a couple of regional efforts, including the transfer of the Ontario Airport to the OIA,

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and by the way congratulations on all the recent success of the airport, really excited to see that.

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We're here today as you can see in your screens to discuss foreign directing

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investment as a regional effort for promotion and attraction.

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We're going to go a little bit into detail what foreign direct investment is and how it affects

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the economy and we're going to explain a little bit about what the partnership is between

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the CDO of LA and World Trade Center is today.

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In general terms we can see the regional power or the world economy that is Southern California.

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I want to acknowledge here that my map, their shows, all the counties, but I really do acknowledge

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that Skag is not with San Diego County, but because we're doing a regional effort, and

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this is a regional approach, I really want to highlight, we're here representing 22 million

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people. We have a $1.5 trillion GDP if we were a country would be the 11th largest economy

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in the globe and just for to highlight a couple of the assets that we have here in the region

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and you all have a lot of great assets in your cities and counties but about a million jobs

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are sustained or supported by the Port of LA and Long Beach, direct jobs, indirect jobs and

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induced jobs. One item that I also want to highlight is foreign enterprises and I want to make sure

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that I also emphasized, we might say foreign directing

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investment at short FDI, and also foreign enterprises

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as FOE's.

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But foreign enterprises here in the region,

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they hire 427,000 people, and they pay almost

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about $27 billion in wages.

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So there is a clear benefit of that presence here in LA

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and the region.

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When we talk about wages, it studies

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show that Furnown Enterprise is actually pay $15,000 more in annual wages.

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They only represent about 5% of the employment in the United States, but they represent the

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expenditures on research and development is about 16%.

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So this shows how they are also helping us advance our economies here locally.

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Not only that, Furnown Enterprise is represent 23% of the U.S. exports.

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today about $352 billion, so again, foreign-owned enterprises are helping us develop our local

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economies and help us get access to foreign markets through our exports.

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All that is great, and the United States is the most attractive country for foreign directing

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investment, but LA, unfortunately, we were trailing in terms of global performance.

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From the foreign directing investment inflow, from the past 10 years, 2007 to actually 2016.

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We have evidence that Singapore collected or attracted about a hundred and twenty billion dollars of investment. Other cities throughout the globe are competing for that money.

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Here, on the other coast, we have New York with about thirty billion dollars of foreign direct investment in the past ten years. Chicago, twenty-one billion dollars, and LA, we only attracted about seventeen billion dollars of foreign direct investment.

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What we want to show also with this presentation today, and again, this is just a very open initial conversation to say how we want to emphasize the importance of working together as a region.

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Some of the regions that we mentioned, some of the cities that we mentioned, have a well-established representation to compete for foreign direct investment.

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If we start talking about London, they have a revenue or budget of about $4.5 million a year, they have 42 people in staff.

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If we talk about a college in Chicago, they have a $13 million budget, that's just to compete for foreign direct investment.

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Here in LA, I will defer to my college statement here to talk about our budget, but it's not even in the millions.

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We are just partnering now to try to strengthen that effort, but as you can see, even we have the LA County Economic Development Corporation,

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the budget is not about is not even $10 million.

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When we have New York City economic development corporation with their fiscal year 1718

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budget of $837 million.

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So what I wanted to show here is just that as L.A.

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And we're going to open for discussion soon, but as L.A. is strengthen our efforts

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to be a little more present internationally.

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I'd love to partner with each of your cities to make sure that I can present

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your investment opportunities to our colleagues.

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And I'm going to turn it over to Steven here to explain a little bit more about how we're doing this and how maybe we can all collectively collectively achieve this.

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Thank you so much, Felix.

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And President Wapner, I can actually address your question.

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So in the last year, in the last 12 months, I've been to Germany, France, Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Taiwan.

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And then all those different regions, this region, Southern California, has a very, very popular.

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Partly, because of the administration's current stance on international trade, it's not

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resounding very well when it comes to our partners internationally.

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However, because Los Angeles and this entire Southern California region has been so important

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to the international trade community, they're very much looking forward to continuing this partnership

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with us.

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At the same time, because some of the information that's been spread out about the United

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States is also resonating very well.

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It's creating doubt about whether Southern California should be the location for the investments.

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Now, a lot of our competitors are competing with us, and as we have seen recently, for example,

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Arizona is now opening a new office here in Los Angeles region to attract companies to go to Arizona,

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same thing with Texas, and let alone all the international regions that are actually looking at this region,

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to bring the businesses out of here. So I think it's relevant, and it's also very important for us to spend a lot more

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resources of the efforts to make sure that we attract and retain the foreign companies that

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Felipe talked about earlier.

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So the workers in Los Angeles were a nonprofit here, where part of the Los Angeles County

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economic development corporation, and our mission is quite simple as to attract, educate,

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and connect these companies.

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We go internationally to attract the right types of companies coming into this region to help

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with our economic development to create jobs.

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Once they get here, we have to educate them.

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What's the difference between LA County, Orange County, Ventura County, where is the point

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white money may act, where's Ontario airport?

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Should you fly into Ontario airport if you're coming from Taiwan as we've seen

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with the new direct flight or should you go to some of the other regional airports as well?

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So, these are the information that's necessary in order for them to be successful here.

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A lot of questions I get from our international companies to the student, what's the difference

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between Hollywood, North Hollywood, West Hollywood, is there a South Hollywood and East Hollywood?

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Why isn't there one?

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We all know the answer to this, but the thing that's for a company coming from Brazil are

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from China, how would they know how to get the right

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permanent process?

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That's why an organization like us is here

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to help them with that effort.

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Now, what we've done also, as immediately taking this position

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about three years ago, we've transformed

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how we do business here in Los Angeles,

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at the World Trade Center.

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We've actually collected information

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about all 88 cities in LA County,

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alongside with LA County information

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to present it to the public,

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so they can get access to information as easily as possible.

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But as we've said before, scag and all the cities around here

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are so important to this region.

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We can't just focus on the LA County or Ventura County.

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We need to really focus on the entire region as a whole.

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So we can tell that number,

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tell that message that Philippe mentioned earlier.

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This region $1.5 trillion is a GDP.

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Again, if we're country, we're the 11th largest country

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in the world, this is something we need to celebrate.

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And we need to go sell to the rest of the world

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so they can invest here locally.

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What we've also done is we've collected information

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of up the number 4 on the salvage.

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Here in Southern California. I went to a conference recently where Indiana showcased on the map, the

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204 foreign-owned firms they have in their states. We have 10,000. Can you imagine if we put that

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map up there, Southern California has 10,000 of these firms? That's how attractive we are

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to the world, but we can't just rest in a laurel and wait for these companies to come. We need

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to go attract them. So with our map or FDI map, that's on our website right now. You can actually

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look at where the Japanese firms are located, where the Guatemalan firms are located, and

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basically what industries are in, so it makes sense for them to locate in the regions that they need to be in.

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And also we've done a recent calculation report.

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We've actually never done this as a region before.

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So in the last three years we've been collecting information about the number of different firms here in Southern California.

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So you can see that we have now, and as Felipi said, over 10,000 firms in Southern California creating over 427,000 direct jobs.

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and every year they pay over $27 billion in direct wages to our economy.

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Now, one question for you, do you know who our top investor is when it comes to the country?

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What country has the most companies that are located here, do you know which country?

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China, China, China, China, what if I told you, what if I told you the number one foreign investor

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is Japan?

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Number two is UK, number three is Canada, number four is France, number five is Germany,

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China's number eight.

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So China is rising very quickly from number 13 to number 8, but these are the information that we need in order to tell the right story to the world that these companies are investing here, but we have to look at the historic trend as well

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Japan's been investing here since the 70s and the 60s, so they've been here they haven't gone away, but because the media attention has been so focused on China, that's why everybody is staying China

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China is a great country, but we need to expand our horizon to make sure we continue to attract these companies

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And so just recently, we partnered with LA Business Journal, so in the last issue, our Foreign

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Direct Investment Report is actually available, and we've broken down the information

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into the six counties of Southern California, so people can see where these companies are

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located and where the investments are actually going.

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So what we've done also is we do road shows and trade missions, we have to go internationally

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to compete, but because we are Southern California, we have the ability to attract the attention

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on the global stage, where it would bring our products and our information to present internationally.

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For example, this is in hand over MESSA about two years ago.

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We presented one of the technology that was coming out of JPL NASA.

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And we took it and presented it to Angela Merkel, to Chancellor of Germany, that present Obama introduced us to.

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So this allowed this to tell the story to the world why investment should be coming here to Southern California.

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And just really quickly, we have a couple of case studies.

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Tridium, Winston, and G-Smet.

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Tridium is an Australian company here providing fast charging stations and they're located

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in torrents.

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Winston is an Australian company as well, and they're doing manufacturing of these custom

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screen doors that will be coming directly into this region.

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And G-Smet is a Korean company that's located right here in downtown Los Angeles providing

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digital display for buildings.

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They've all chosen to put the North American headquarters here, it's because they know this

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is the right region to be at.

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since their inception, most of these are small, medium-sized firms that's grown from six people to 12 people to 24 people.

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So we want to continue to make sure that they're in this region so that we can spread the wealth to this entire region and showcase not Los Angeles's indeed the number one location for investments.

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Now you can also see in terms of the partnership, specifically with City of Los Angeles, we made an agreement.

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What we want to do is cater to the specific cities and the regional needs of different regions.

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So, for the City of Los Angeles, what we're going to do is we're going to do a foreign direct

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report specifically, focus on the City of Los Angeles to retain these international companies

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that are already here.

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We're going to create a city toolkit, what's so special about the City of Los Angeles, and

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we can do the same for other regions as well, and the representation of broad.

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So, as you can see, it's time consuming and it's very expensive to do trade delegations.

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So, what we do is we partner what the mayor's office of Los Angeles to provide them with

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the resources in order to get access to the various countries around the world.

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And lastly, this is one very important aspect,

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delegation facilitation.

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I'm sure most of you regions in your cities

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and getting requests from around the world

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for delegation visits.

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And you spend a lot of time and resources meeting them.

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And how many of them actually convert into business deals?

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Previously, I was working at the City of Los Angeles,

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and I think in about six, seven years of doing these

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have worked, about maybe two,

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three percent of those transaction actually

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comes to the business deals.

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So what we're doing right now is screen these delegation members

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that they're coming in to make sure that we're not wasting

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the time of our government resources. So as these people are coming in, they're providing us with

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the detailed information about their investment strategy before we even take these meetings.

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That saves time and it actually concentrates effort to make sure that the ROI to return investment

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is there. So with that said, it's just a quick summary of what we've done, and what we're

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hoping to do. Again, we can't do this alone. The world's just in Los Angeles were eager and we're

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They're right now this year.

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Huge demand for the Los Angeles region in Southern California to be represented internationally. I'm getting invitation around the world right now to really showcase what Los Angeles is about and I'm hoping to work with each and every one of you individually to come up with these plans and ideas to how to attract these companies to Los Angeles to create more jobs for this region. Thank you.

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This is our contact information. We're happy to take this conversation offline. Again, the purpose of this presentation is to explain why we care so much about foreign direct investment and the partnership that we established with World Trade Center.

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And I think we have different ways that we can partner with each city or county or region that you're representing.

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We look forward to having this conversation in many different instances. We're happy to take any questions. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Before we get into the question, did I just first of allfully please thank your boss.

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Mayor Garcetti does so much not just for the city of LA for the entire Southern California region,

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and he's the first to recognize how important we are one region.

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For my colleagues to start thinking, like, what does this have to do with us?

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We're transportation, we're this and that.

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Everybody here recognizes that without economic development,

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we don't have those necessary revenues to accomplish what our tasks are.

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One question I do have for you, because I appreciate the fact that you want to bring us

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out to the regions and one of the things that we have here at Skag is that we shouldn't

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be in a competitive mood, we should be in a cooperative mood, whereas we all work to bring

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investment to Southern California instead of pushing it to other states.

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So I guess the question is, how are you planning to roll this out to the other regions

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or how can we make outreach to you through our individual economic development department

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to our county economics or regional? What's the best mechanism to work with you?

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So initially, we want to create a little more awareness to understand that this actually exists.

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That Stephen is out. It's going throughout the world that presenting the opportunity that we have.

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If we can't connect with your partners, we work, we have very limited resources, as you all know.

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We're all doing our best, but we've limited resources.

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So we count on our partners.

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I partner a lot with our friends from the US Department of Commerce,

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but also with economic development corporations.

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So if you have a specific economic development office

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in your office or a director or a partner day,

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you would like to connect with us to see

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how we can evolve this conversation.

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That's kind of the initial point.

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I think speaking of the competition, we are absolutely,

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we understand, and thank you for that note, Mary Arsetti.

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We understand that we are stronger as a region.

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We are competing with other regions that are also partnering amongst themselves.

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I get a lot of requests because we are the city of L.A., and people come to us.

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00:42:51,140 --> 00:42:58,800
But I have requests from, I had a meeting about two weeks ago from a Singaporean investor that is looking to open a theme park.

435
00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:02,580
And he wanted the X amount of minus square feet of land.

436
00:43:03,180 --> 00:43:05,740
And I don't have that. Maybe one of your cities.

437
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:12,940
And that's exactly, that's one brief example that I knew it could raise a little more awareness.

438
00:43:13,420 --> 00:43:17,140
I don't take it, but your employees might be an early resident.

439
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:23,680
There's a clear spillover effect of the benefits of those new companies hiring and

440
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:24,840
strengthening in the local economy.

441
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,820
And again, locally we'll do, or as a region, we'll do better.

442
00:43:28,980 --> 00:43:30,080
See if you want to talk about it.

443
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:34,380
I think the idea is also, a lot of folks, especially coming from certain countries,

444
00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:37,640
when they come to this region, they automatically call the mayor's office of Los Angeles.

445
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,160
And the idea is to basically get that information to the Workforce and Los Angeles so

446
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,680
we can actually partner with the entire regional government system.

447
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:49,120
We've already reached out to Ventura County, San Bernardino, Orange County, Riverside,

448
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:49,600
and such.

449
00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:53,780
So we're creating that partnership, but what we need is more information about how do you

450
00:43:53,780 --> 00:43:55,080
do business in your region?

451
00:43:55,220 --> 00:43:59,920
So we can actually promote your region on behalf of this sub-account for an region.

452
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:01,660
So that's kind of the idea.

453
00:44:01,660 --> 00:44:09,260
I would be delighted to go out to your office and meet with your economic development officers to find out specifically how we can partner.

454
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:16,760
One request I do have is if you have projects that you want investments and you are looking for specific types of company coming in.

455
00:44:16,980 --> 00:44:24,020
This is very important information as I'm going to South Korea as I'm going to Hong Kong wherever it is that we're trying to basically track investments.

456
00:44:24,020 --> 00:44:28,080
I need those jewels to attract these companies to come over here.

457
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,980
So the more information I have, the better I may be able to sell this region as a destination for their investments.

458
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,020
Well, you know, I'm going to suggest and I'll meet with Hassan.

459
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:43,900
But maybe, um, Skatkit can actually serve the function of hosting some kind of a meeting with all the economic development folks.

460
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:50,560
Not for anything detailed, but for you just to kind of explain what role you can do and how all the agencies can help you.

461
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,180
and then they can start working with you on an individual basis.

462
00:44:53,420 --> 00:44:56,240
But again, I think that might be one role that we here at Skag

463
00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:59,180
can help fulfill since we represent so many of the sub-regions here.

464
00:44:59,520 --> 00:44:59,620
Thank you.

465
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,500
Okay, we have a couple questions, Megan.

466
00:45:03,940 --> 00:45:10,960
Just quickly, I'm in Culver City and we've got a lot of great partners like Sony Pictures Entertainment.

467
00:45:11,060 --> 00:45:23,700
I'm just wondering from the cities that have these great business partners, do you work to help support them for existing businesses and how can we connect over that?

468
00:45:24,220 --> 00:45:28,120
So, as an example, we're currently working with a city of Long Beach to come up with another

469
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:28,500
plan.

470
00:45:28,620 --> 00:45:31,980
Part of it's retention for existing foreign companies that are already here.

471
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,740
Sometimes the companies get adjusted to the region and they no longer reach out for additional

472
00:45:36,740 --> 00:45:37,220
support.

473
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,620
What we do is we actually have that database from the report that we've done.

474
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,540
We can work with the individual city to kind of identify the companies that might be in

475
00:45:46,540 --> 00:45:47,880
need of additional support.

476
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,380
For example, if we're seeing that they're laying off individuals or decreasing them revenue,

477
00:45:51,380 --> 00:45:56,320
that's when we reach out in combination and in conjunction with our partners in the city,

478
00:45:56,660 --> 00:46:00,680
so that we can do outreach approach to see what efforts we can provide, whether it's tax

479
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,620
incentives, whether it's additional just workforce training, sometimes they just don't,

480
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:09,300
even understand the resources that are there. So those are simple tools that we can offer,

481
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,300
and we would be delighted to work with the diversity.

482
00:46:13,410 --> 00:46:15,250
All right. Thank you. Any other questions?

483
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,020
Thank you, Mr. President.

484
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:29,320
I just, you had showed on the screen a graph that showed the Singapore investment.

485
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:35,340
And it was, I mean, if you take a look, I mean, it was far beyond anybody.

486
00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:37,500
I'm not even close, right?

487
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:41,600
The second, I think London was second and it was, I mean, not even close to the types of

488
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,680
investment that they're getting.

489
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,220
What's different about Singapore that makes them the beacon of the world

490
00:46:47,220 --> 00:46:49,080
that seems for that foreign investment.

491
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,380
And what can we do to become more attractive?

492
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,040
Because we have a lot of great amenities here,

493
00:46:57,380 --> 00:46:59,180
but they're obviously doing something

494
00:46:59,180 --> 00:47:00,060
that we're not.

495
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:02,560
Yeah, well, first and foremost,

496
00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:07,140
they're considering 2007-2016.

497
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,540
So initially, they had a lot of incentives

498
00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:12,120
for companies to relocate there.

499
00:47:12,380 --> 00:47:13,260
We don't provide incentives.

500
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:14,780
I don't think your city is the,

501
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,800
my NLA, we don't.

502
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,100
But we have a very robust infrastructure here.

503
00:47:20,140 --> 00:47:21,580
We have a very strong consumer base.

504
00:47:21,740 --> 00:47:24,000
We have a very qualified laborable.

505
00:47:24,060 --> 00:47:24,780
That's how we're competing.

506
00:47:24,980 --> 00:47:26,600
How Singapore came to be?

507
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:29,800
The number one is just they promoted themselves a lot,

508
00:47:30,060 --> 00:47:32,120
and they attracted with fiscal and financial incentives.

509
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,460
They did the nathand testing and excellent job around the world,

510
00:47:36,660 --> 00:47:38,760
calling themselves the Center for Transshipment.

511
00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:42,060
So all the regions around there bring their cargo to Singapore

512
00:47:42,060 --> 00:47:45,460
and basically go internationally coming to Los Angeles as well.

513
00:47:45,460 --> 00:47:48,500
So if you notice, LA is also the same for that.

514
00:47:48,740 --> 00:47:51,920
We have the port of Los Angeles port of Long Beach port of Wyoming, and number one container

515
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,620
port number two container port in North America.

516
00:47:54,020 --> 00:47:57,240
We have LAX, we have Ontario, some of the top performing airports.

517
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,040
We have that, but people don't know.

518
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,860
When they come to Los Angeles, what they ask is, hey, what about Hollywood?

519
00:48:03,420 --> 00:48:03,820
Hollywood?

520
00:48:03,820 --> 00:48:04,200
Hollywood?

521
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:04,920
Hollywood traffic.

522
00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:10,480
But the thing is, what we need to do is tell them the story that Singapore is able

523
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:10,960
to tell.

524
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,840
LA, this region, Southern California region, is actually the number one manufacturing center

525
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,920
United States with over 350,000 manufacturing jobs.

526
00:48:18,220 --> 00:48:23,840
We have over 580,000 logistic and trade jobs in this region alone, supporting the goods

527
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,280
movement throughout the entire United States, not just LA.

528
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,420
Once we have that message out there, I think we can compete effectively.

529
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:33,780
I think Singapore just basically over the last 20 years have performed many of the other

530
00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:34,900
cities because of their investments.

531
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:40,000
In fact, over at the US Bank Tower, it's now owned by a Singaporean company called OUE.

532
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,820
Singapore IE, their investment attraction agency is located right there, selling Singaporean

533
00:48:44,820 --> 00:48:47,000
to Los Angeles. We need to do more of that.

534
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:54,040
So let me ask one follow-up question if I may, you had listed who has the most robust promotion

535
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:59,820
departments and seeing a poor was not listed on there. So where do they rank compared to us?

536
00:49:01,860 --> 00:49:06,380
It's difficult to get sometimes get the numbers from Singapore because the Singaporean government

537
00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:11,500
is behind the whole initiative and their structure government structure is quite different.

538
00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,740
So it's not just for economic development,

539
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:15,020
it's basically for a business in general.

540
00:49:15,140 --> 00:49:16,900
So sometimes it's hard to pull that number aside.

541
00:49:17,100 --> 00:49:19,440
But it's going to be quite high.

542
00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:21,320
And there's something California region,

543
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,940
we haven't done as much in terms of investing in just

544
00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:25,600
the infrastructure.

545
00:49:25,860 --> 00:49:28,000
And I think that's why we're hoping to develop more

546
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,320
from the awareness for this topic,

547
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,860
so that we can in the future be competitive internationally.

548
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,300
OK, I want to thank both of you very much.

549
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,040
You're coming out here.

550
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:36,480
We look forward to working with you.

551
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:37,560
Let's hear it for the meeting.

552
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:41,180
Thank you.

553
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:41,820
Thank you.

554
00:49:41,820 --> 00:49:48,160
move into our action items, the first action item, or the proposed changes to his son's employment

555
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:56,220
agreement. In your agenda, you should have what those proposed changes are. If you have

556
00:49:56,220 --> 00:50:00,000
already briefly review them, and Joe, you're having...

557
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:08,660
Just a couple of quick comments. I did ask a son to leave the meeting while we discuss this contract, so we can note in the minutes that he was not present.

558
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:25,940
I just advise you that this morning, the EAC and closed session did the annual evaluation of a son and subsequent to that, they also approved his work plan for next year, which is incorrectly noted in the minutes of his 2017, 2018, rather than the report.

559
00:50:25,940 --> 00:50:30,180
And it's 2018, 2019, my error.

560
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:34,960
And so we're asking you to basically take three actions.

561
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,340
We want you to ratify the annual work plan of the executive director.

562
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,100
We want you to approve six changes to his contract, which are identified in the report.

563
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:51,180
And we want you to authorize the President to execute a contract that includes those six

564
00:50:51,180 --> 00:50:51,620
changes.

565
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:57,120
Any questions on the action that we're about to take?

566
00:50:57,540 --> 00:50:59,180
Seeing none, do we have a motion to approve?

567
00:51:00,060 --> 00:51:00,360
I'm sorry.

568
00:51:02,830 --> 00:51:03,810
You're moving it, Michelle?

569
00:51:04,450 --> 00:51:05,230
Where are they, you are?

570
00:51:05,710 --> 00:51:06,610
And, Frank, at the second.

571
00:51:07,070 --> 00:51:11,830
We have a motion at the second to approve the recommended changes to the contract.

572
00:51:12,350 --> 00:51:13,350
Any other discussions?

573
00:51:13,810 --> 00:51:14,290
Questions?

574
00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:17,110
Seeing none, we're going to go to a vote.

575
00:51:46,860 --> 00:51:47,960
James and Ray.

576
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:54,640
I don't know how people are getting added to this.

577
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:55,780
Okay, we still have three left.

578
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,520
Oh, raise gone, and James has gone, so we're going to end the boat.

579
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,740
And the motion passes 45 to zero.

580
00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:04,880
Where's the sun?

581
00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:07,980
The sun, you can come back in.

582
00:52:19,190 --> 00:52:21,750
The sun, hey, it's on.

583
00:52:21,830 --> 00:52:22,590
Come in.

584
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,740
Okay, next slide, and we need a report for a mom,

585
00:52:31,860 --> 00:52:34,540
sure, walker on the sketch scholarship program.

586
00:52:34,540 --> 00:52:43,920
So, first and foremost, I want to thank Skagstaff for the incredible job of getting the word out with regard to the scholarship program we're entering into our 10th year here.

587
00:52:44,180 --> 00:52:51,880
I also like to acknowledge in particular the work of Darren Schizzi and Houston is Houston in the room.

588
00:52:53,800 --> 00:53:01,040
Right, if not, please let him know that if that did an awesome job, the scholarship committee is noted in your agenda on page five.

589
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:25,040
I really appreciate the diversity of the folks that were able to participate as part of the scholarship committee as well as the external folks that were added Dr. Kim from Cal Poly Pomona and Dr. Moore from USC, a very robust discussion about the applicants we move forward with a recommendation that is found on page six of your agenda.

590
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,140
One from each of the counties, two from Los Angeles County.

591
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,980
We also had two discretionary awards.

592
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:37,120
One will be proposed for Los Angeles County and the other for Orange County.

593
00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:43,120
We spent the remaining few minutes of the time allocated for evaluation of the applications

594
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:50,440
to discuss process improvements for next year, including a desire by the committee to get

595
00:53:50,440 --> 00:54:03,300
more and better applicants, these applications were going to work on a more robust application

596
00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:10,600
pool for next year as well as starting the process earlier so that we can actually participate

597
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:16,940
as members of the regional council in awarding the scholarships at the senior award ceremony.

598
00:54:16,940 --> 00:54:21,320
So with that, I'll entertain any questions or ask for approval of the item.

599
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,100
So is that a motion, then, Cheryl?

600
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,560
Okay, is there a second?

601
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:25,140
Second.

602
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:25,780
Second.

603
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,220
I just want to thank Cheryl and your committee.

604
00:54:29,380 --> 00:54:32,380
It took a lot of time to go through all those applications.

605
00:54:32,580 --> 00:54:35,480
I'm sure you all saw the applications, the essays and everything else.

606
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,100
So thank you very much for what you've done.

607
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:42,400
The only thing is come up in the past that would be nice if we can have some of these students

608
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,560
revisit after they complete college while they're in college.

609
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,120
So we can't get an update as to what they're doing, I think that would be good.

610
00:54:49,780 --> 00:54:51,580
Okay, so you have a motion in a second.

611
00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:52,680
Any other discussion?

612
00:54:53,020 --> 00:54:54,300
If not, we'll go to a vote.

613
00:55:13,770 --> 00:55:28,990
Okay, we'll close the vote. And that motion passes. We're going to go to consent calendar. Consent calendar is items number three to 15. We have a motion to approve by yon, second, by finley.

614
00:55:29,790 --> 00:55:39,790
That anybody want any item removed, any discussion, any questions? Seeing none, we're going to go to vote on the consent calendar. That's item three to 15.

615
00:56:19,650 --> 00:56:23,770
Okay, we're just waiting for Glen Barber and Judy, you know, they all still here.

616
00:56:24,350 --> 00:56:27,190
Judy looks like, are there's Judy?

617
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:29,940
Did you push?

618
00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:30,820
Nothing happened.

619
00:56:32,140 --> 00:56:32,360
Barber?

620
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:34,780
Yeah, I know.

621
00:56:35,540 --> 00:56:38,280
Okay, so what's your position, Judy and Barber?

622
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:40,400
Support it.

623
00:56:40,580 --> 00:56:41,740
Barber, you're okay with it.

624
00:56:44,030 --> 00:56:45,150
Yeah, I know, but it's not showing.

625
00:56:45,270 --> 00:56:46,410
We'll put you down to support.

626
00:56:46,850 --> 00:56:48,690
So we'll close the voting and it passes.

627
00:56:48,690 --> 00:56:53,470
is we'll call it 46 to one abstention.

628
00:56:54,450 --> 00:56:54,850
OK,

629
00:56:57,970 --> 00:56:59,110
is Randall still here?

630
00:57:00,030 --> 00:57:01,550
Randall, a business report, please.

631
00:57:06,270 --> 00:57:09,190
Thank you, Allen, for the chance to serve and be here.

632
00:57:09,230 --> 00:57:10,890
And thanks, Stahl, of you, for sticking around.

633
00:57:11,750 --> 00:57:14,330
My goal this year is to try to keep them interesting and more

634
00:57:14,330 --> 00:57:15,850
relevant to all of you.

635
00:57:16,030 --> 00:57:18,070
First, a couple of reactions to the morning speakers,

636
00:57:18,270 --> 00:57:20,390
all of them, which were really good, including staff.

637
00:57:20,390 --> 00:57:22,790
I thought Jim's presentation was very good.

638
00:57:23,090 --> 00:57:25,910
It's point about the delivery of packages goods

639
00:57:25,910 --> 00:57:28,350
to your home, to your business, your schools, your offices,

640
00:57:28,970 --> 00:57:30,790
which turning a nation worth facing a lot.

641
00:57:30,970 --> 00:57:32,470
It's something that looks like you're city,

642
00:57:32,630 --> 00:57:36,130
so it's only a worse, how to deal with all those delivery trucks.

643
00:57:36,430 --> 00:57:38,010
Pavlov, I thought, made some very good points,

644
00:57:38,130 --> 00:57:39,350
but there are a couple opportunities

645
00:57:39,350 --> 00:57:41,290
from proof when I think on his presentation.

646
00:57:42,030 --> 00:57:44,410
I think I would not ignore household formation,

647
00:57:44,890 --> 00:57:46,250
just because something is difficult

648
00:57:46,250 --> 00:57:48,950
to predict, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to predict it.

649
00:57:48,950 --> 00:57:53,550
I would urge staff to try to keep looking at how to predict household formation accurately.

650
00:57:54,350 --> 00:57:59,630
And now that is going on up, zoning was very good, but it's actually sort of a farbie talked about.

651
00:57:59,810 --> 00:58:02,990
There's a lot of gaps between single family and multifamily.

652
00:58:03,350 --> 00:58:09,210
And there's a lot of innovative solutions that will get density higher without necessarily destroying your neighborhood.

653
00:58:09,270 --> 00:58:11,450
So I would look at some of those innovative solutions.

654
00:58:11,950 --> 00:58:16,470
In terms of the market and things I deal with every day, the housing market is gone from

655
00:58:16,470 --> 00:58:20,570
a good housing market to a hot housing market, a sizzling hot thing market.

656
00:58:21,190 --> 00:58:24,370
I did some work trying to find out what were the reasons for that.

657
00:58:24,550 --> 00:58:28,630
One is that interest rates are going up now, a lot of people who are on the fence are getting

658
00:58:28,630 --> 00:58:29,630
off the fence.

659
00:58:30,090 --> 00:58:32,810
One reason is there's something called fear of missing out.

660
00:58:33,050 --> 00:58:36,490
We've heard a lot of people say if I don't buy this year or next, I'm not going to be able

661
00:58:36,490 --> 00:58:40,970
to buy a house, a lot of millennials who have been camping out with their parents or either

662
00:58:40,970 --> 00:58:43,410
getting kicked out or it's using to move out.

663
00:58:43,730 --> 00:58:45,550
And so that's driving a lot of the investment.

664
00:58:46,530 --> 00:58:49,230
The full employment, I mean, we've never had employment

665
00:58:49,230 --> 00:58:52,130
like this for decades, and just when people have jobs,

666
00:58:52,330 --> 00:58:53,670
they get more comfortable about spending.

667
00:58:54,230 --> 00:58:56,290
And then there's tremendous foreign investment.

668
00:58:56,670 --> 00:58:58,750
Foreign investment from people aren't never going to live

669
00:58:58,750 --> 00:59:02,830
in the house, foreign investment, with children or grandchildren,

670
00:59:03,030 --> 00:59:05,130
but that foreign investment is huge in driving

671
00:59:05,130 --> 00:59:06,530
the hot housing market.

672
00:59:07,010 --> 00:59:08,490
As so many in the housing market,

673
00:59:08,490 --> 00:59:12,810
the pace we're going at is bad for our citizens, it's bad for our communities.

674
00:59:13,430 --> 00:59:19,930
I think all of us need to do how to do something with that, especially how to break down the barriers to just being able to build houses.

675
00:59:20,610 --> 00:59:25,990
The apartment market is equally strong, it's really the strongest and the very close in areas,

676
00:59:26,630 --> 00:59:31,890
but that's bad also, it's really causing people to consider leaving the state those who are still here.

677
00:59:32,230 --> 00:59:36,550
There's a lot of threat of rent control, almost every study says rent controls bad.

678
00:59:36,550 --> 00:59:40,090
I think we as an industry have to come up with some solutions.

679
00:59:40,350 --> 00:59:42,890
Because the Department of Issue of the Rental Issue is a crisis.

680
00:59:43,390 --> 00:59:47,330
We have to respond and collectively we have to find solutions for that.

681
00:59:47,510 --> 00:59:49,930
The retail world I just came back from ICCS,

682
00:59:49,930 --> 00:59:53,470
the shopping center convention, a lot of you have the luxury of going there.

683
00:59:53,690 --> 00:59:57,710
It was interesting, it was good news, bad news that the bad news still continues.

684
00:59:57,970 --> 00:59:59,950
People are talking about serious closing 70s.

685
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,980
So, I think there'll be a continued march of stores closing. The good news is the people that were at the convention were all there to try to do business. There was a lot of interest from pads, people with gas stations, bank, drug stores or restaurants saying, we don't want to sell any goods, but we'd like to sell something on the corner. So, very strong paddy interest. Very strong interest. Again, in a flight to quality, where there's centers, the tenants are going to say, words, the best center, retails very dangerous. They want to invest in the very best centers.

686
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:35,860
And there are interesting trend a lot of this online retailers are now going to physical

687
01:00:35,860 --> 01:00:36,560
stores.

688
01:00:36,780 --> 01:00:39,160
And there was using it just to build their brands.

689
01:00:39,700 --> 01:00:43,280
And I heard a mall developer talk about that he's going to be investing in some of the

690
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:48,300
internet startup companies, knowing half of a make-up broke, but just he said if I can get

691
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:52,520
cool stores even if they last a year, I'm going to try to get him into my shopping centers.

692
01:00:53,020 --> 01:00:57,300
I think a message for all of you was just you need a retail strategy for your community

693
01:00:57,300 --> 01:01:02,160
community is different, but you need to think how do you market your community the best way.

694
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,620
In terms of the job picture, we are finding it very hard on our construction jobs, but even

695
01:01:07,620 --> 01:01:12,360
at our company to fill the jobs. We have so many positions we can't fill. I'm sure that's

696
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:16,740
happening with your city, your counties, and everyone else. I think we all need to think

697
01:01:16,740 --> 01:01:22,680
how can we best market or cities as places or organizations as places to work and how can

698
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:26,820
keep investing in the schools because that's the future for all of us.

699
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,380
Lastly, I went to Urban Land Institute, that's why I missed one day of the general assembly.

700
01:01:31,980 --> 01:01:36,360
And there's a lot of focus on the city of Detroit and how they turn themselves around, and

701
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,520
it started with public private partnerships.

702
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:43,940
And what happened in Detroit is relevant to almost every city here because every city has

703
01:01:43,940 --> 01:01:47,620
some challenged areas, but it started with public private partnerships.

704
01:01:47,620 --> 01:01:50,980
It's the art ed next with how do you attract investment?

705
01:01:51,020 --> 01:01:54,160
How do you make your community one that other people want to invest?

706
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:59,940
Either money or how to get young people to put my career in this city.

707
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:04,160
And then lastly, there was a lot of talk about branding how to brand your community as

708
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,200
somewhere to attract these jobs or the investment.

709
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,220
So I thought that was very good.

710
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,600
And then finally, over the last nine or ten years that I've been here, I have learned to

711
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,900
appreciate how hard you all work that sacrifices you make.

712
01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:24,200
But watching the last election really doubled my appreciation for all of you, it was such a horrible thing that I got in the mail constantly

713
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:31,340
And I just salute all of you for what you do. You make such a difference, and you do it while you're getting beat up by people or stupid

714
01:02:31,340 --> 01:02:34,080
So thank you for all you do. Thank you

715
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:37,080
Thanks, Brian Gold.

716
01:02:39,860 --> 01:02:44,000
Okay, first thing I want to say is that Hassan's taking his money and running.

717
01:02:44,220 --> 01:02:45,240
He's going on vacation.

718
01:02:45,540 --> 01:02:52,280
Well, earned, living on June 23, till July 18th.

719
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,400
And next, I think there's this information back to there.

720
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:59,280
We're having a demographic, not democratic, demographic workshop.

721
01:03:01,510 --> 01:03:03,030
No, that wasn't a slip, okay.

722
01:03:03,030 --> 01:03:05,830
a demographic workshop this coming Monday

723
01:03:05,830 --> 01:03:07,670
and partnership with the University.

724
01:03:07,870 --> 01:03:09,350
I'll just leave it at that.

725
01:03:10,270 --> 01:03:11,970
EOC, I forgot to mention at this morning,

726
01:03:12,030 --> 01:03:15,290
you don't forget we're having a retreat in 20 years

727
01:03:15,290 --> 01:03:16,750
to the 21st, I believe.

728
01:03:19,310 --> 01:03:24,730
We had a meeting with the current county cog on May 24th.

729
01:03:24,730 --> 01:03:25,850
We're trying to reach out.

730
01:03:25,970 --> 01:03:28,310
When you're the largest MPO in the country,

731
01:03:28,870 --> 01:03:31,490
people look to you for leadership, for best practices.

732
01:03:31,490 --> 01:03:37,950
And so we tried to keep in line with our surrounding region so we did meet with Kern County. It was very productive meeting

733
01:03:37,950 --> 01:03:43,530
I certainly learned a lot more about Kern County, especially there's more cities in Kern County than Bakersfield

734
01:03:43,530 --> 01:03:48,630
I didn't realize that. So and there were one of those unique situations kind of like sandbag where there an

735
01:03:48,630 --> 01:03:53,250
MPO of cog a transportation authority that they take it all on. So that's kind of interesting

736
01:03:53,770 --> 01:03:55,710
There was a mobility 21

737
01:03:56,610 --> 01:03:59,510
SB1 workshop on May 18th at Union Station

738
01:03:59,510 --> 01:04:07,350
It was good to hear, we had a labor there talking about the importance of keeping SB1 and opposing the repeal.

739
01:04:07,670 --> 01:04:10,550
Certainly our local elected mayor of our city was there.

740
01:04:11,150 --> 01:04:16,790
I think all of the CEOs of all the transportation, commissions in Southern California.

741
01:04:17,190 --> 01:04:23,530
It was a nice opportunity to hear some things and more importantly to get the word out to the public through a press conference.

742
01:04:23,530 --> 01:04:26,810
and of course, Hassan Acrata was there.

743
01:04:26,870 --> 01:04:28,390
You probably saw his picture on all the newspapers.

744
01:04:29,730 --> 01:04:30,770
Appointments to committees.

745
01:04:31,550 --> 01:04:34,850
Instead of reading all of them, I have memos on the back table.

746
01:04:35,010 --> 01:04:36,990
And I just want to talk just a minute about the appointment

747
01:04:36,990 --> 01:04:38,470
that I made.

748
01:04:39,250 --> 01:04:42,090
Most of them, if not all of them, were based on attendance.

749
01:04:42,290 --> 01:04:44,130
I looked at everybody's attendance records.

750
01:04:44,310 --> 01:04:45,890
And I really believe if you're going to lead,

751
01:04:46,070 --> 01:04:47,070
you have to be here.

752
01:04:47,890 --> 01:04:49,790
And there were some surprising things that I found.

753
01:04:50,030 --> 01:04:51,910
Anyway, you've got appointed to a committee

754
01:04:51,910 --> 01:04:56,630
congratulations and I look forward to your service. If for some reason you're not on the committee

755
01:04:56,630 --> 01:04:59,310
I thank you for your past service and anything else.

756
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:04,080
When I read through some of these, we actually have some members, and they're not here, obviously, that

757
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:09,460
emissed every single regional council meeting, where every single policy committee meeting. So,

758
01:05:09,460 --> 01:05:15,220
you know, we don't have any authority within SGAG to do anything, but I'm going to make it my personal

759
01:05:15,780 --> 01:05:23,200
endeavor to notify these districts that their folks are not representing them. So, if you're curious as to how I made the selections,

760
01:05:24,460 --> 01:05:29,980
based on attendance, almost always, that's what we looked at. And you know, a lot of you folks had never missed any meeting.

761
01:05:29,980 --> 01:05:34,800
any regional council, any policy committee meeting, and I think it should be rewarded for that.

762
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,600
That is all I have, we're going to give it to Hassan.

763
01:05:42,140 --> 01:05:47,880
I just want to thank you for extending my contract, the honor, the humble to work for you,

764
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:50,380
and I will see you after the summer.

765
01:05:53,060 --> 01:05:53,660
Yes.

766
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:54,820
Sure.

767
01:05:56,060 --> 01:06:01,380
So we talked a little bit this morning about the importance of recognizing employees

768
01:06:01,380 --> 01:06:07,920
and for job well done. And so I just wanted to recognize Mike Jones, senior regional planner who came

769
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:13,960
down and participated in the Imperial Valley General Assembly and Economic Summit. He was a part

770
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:18,960
of a panel on goods movement and opportunity within the United States and I want to thank

771
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:25,760
Brandon Lane for making the trip down to the valley for the General Assembly. But Mike Jones was just

772
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:37,500
incredibly, incredibly talented, and the his ability to talk about the region, it was like

773
01:06:37,500 --> 01:06:43,000
he was born and raised there, just his knowledge about the issues and goods movement, the

774
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:48,140
dynamics between having an international border and a county of 180,000 people, and then

775
01:06:48,140 --> 01:06:52,600
a city of a million people right on the other side of the border. I mean, he just did an outstanding

776
01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:58,800
job represented scag very very well and I just wanted to let everyone know that.

777
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:04,180
Thank you, Cheryl. Committee reports, we have no committee reports because there was no

778
01:07:04,180 --> 01:07:08,520
action taken today, committee. You all were here for the meetings. Well, know what's going on.

779
01:07:09,580 --> 01:07:16,360
Are there any other comments by board members? Okay, thank you. Oh, you have something to say,

780
01:07:16,500 --> 01:07:20,080
Randy. Yes, I have something to say. I don't typically get into my personal life up here

781
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:25,900
the dyes, but on July 5th, I will probably not be here as we talked about earlier. My 14-year-old

782
01:07:25,900 --> 01:07:30,620
son, Randall Lane Jr. is scheduled on June 27th to have this 15th surgery in a short

783
01:07:30,620 --> 01:07:35,360
little life. And so I would ask if everybody would just keep my family and my 14-year-old

784
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:39,140
son and your thoughts and prayers toward the end of June. Thank you very much.

785
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:44,960
Thank you, I won't be sure to do that. Okay. If there are no other comments, I'm going to

786
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,440
really try to get you guys out by 130 from now on so you can make your train because we

787
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:53,100
encourage people to use transit. So that's it. This meeting's adjourned. Thank you.