[10:04] Okay, folks, we're going to get started. You can continue eating. Just make sure you eat with your mouth shut.

[10:13] 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.

[10:26] Because I've been in your place before. And the good thing is that while you're eating, I can't have any heckling.

[10:32] Okay, we're going to call the meeting to order.

[10:34] We're going to have the pledge of allegiance led by Steve Hothar.

[10:59] Thank you very much.

[11:01] Okay, just a quick announcement.

[11:03] You've noticed the stanchions around the openings.

[11:08] It's not to like keep people out of areas.

[11:10] It's just to let you know that there's a step there.

[11:12] We've had a lot of people tripping.

[11:14] So these are temporary.

[11:15] There's going to be permanent railings.

[11:16] They're going to be installed apparently by the time of our next meeting.

[11:20] So that's what those are all about.

[11:22] The second thing before we get into the meeting itself is we were having a bit of a discussion internally

[11:28] as you all know our next meeting is scheduled for July 5th obviously the day after independent state.

[11:36] 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.

[11:43] 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

[11:51] of whatever you have going on, please, it's just an informal kind of thing, give us an idea.

[11:58] And lean toward not being here if you're not sure, because that way we kind of know who's

[12:03] definitely going to be here, raise your hand if you're not going to be able to make a meeting

[12:06] on the fifth.

[12:11] Is anyone counting?

[12:11] Test is counting?

[12:16] Got it?

[12:17] Okay.

[12:18] So right now there's probably 14 confirmed not coming we need what for a

[12:23] quorum,

[12:26] come on you do we need for a quorum, we need 20, we need 20, we need a total of 28,

[12:34] so okay so it doesn't appear that we're going to have a quorum for regional council in July and

[12:40] obviously that's probably something we should have had about before June but we didn't.

[12:44] So I guess we're going to, let me ask you this as I understand there's anything time

[12:49] sensitive that we're going to have to take care of and if there is a something that the executive committee.

[12:55] Yes, the executive committee can act in your behalf for any action and then the regional council will ratify it in September.

[13:03] So, there's something urgent would get the executive committee.

[13:06] Okay, so this is a situation.

[13:07] We're going to cancel the meeting of July 5th and that's all the meetings scheduled for July 5th.

[13:13] So there won't be any policy committee.

[13:14] EAC, I'll have to let you know. We'll look at that one. But definitely no policy committee

[13:19] and no regional council on the fifth. We're dark and August. So we're not going to be back together

[13:27] until this is what you do. Let me present it and I'm never going to have a meeting the year that I'm

[13:31] here. But that's fine. I see a question, Linda. Is it possible to move it to July 12th the following week?

[13:40] I don't know, is anyone willing to do that?

[13:41] Let me just refresh your memory a little bit.

[13:46] We came to you with a schedule.

[13:49] And we did mark that this is July 5th,

[13:52] the day after 4th of July.

[13:53] I am like normal.

[13:54] You told us, no, keep it on.

[13:56] We wanted to be dark in July,

[13:58] instead of all go this,

[13:59] no, we take vacation in August.

[14:02] And we tried to change the date.

[14:03] And then, many of you get into,

[14:05] I have the league, I have this, I have that.

[14:07] So it would be very difficult to move it and have a column.

[14:11] I would rather, if you want to have it, I would rather have it on the first and gamble with

[14:16] the column.

[14:18] And maybe you want to consider having it on the first foreign formation, I can, if people

[14:23] don't want to be away for that long, until September.

[14:27] I think you should go with the schedule, actually you adopted that schedule, you approved it,

[14:31] and you haven't met in the fifth, but it's your goal, Mr. President.

[14:34] Well, but again, it falls back to on to staff.

[14:38] I don't mind having a meeting on the fifth.

[14:39] It's the understanding we're not going to take any action items.

[14:42] If for some chance we do have a corn, then we can do it.

[14:45] So the question is, are there going to be enough information items?

[14:48] I don't want to have everyone come in from all over the world

[14:50] and not do anything.

[14:53] So let me go with the consensus of the group.

[14:55] Yes, Margaret.

[14:55] Well, I vote. I raised my hand because you said,

[14:58] but then I check my calendar. I can be here.

[14:59] So...

[15:00] 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.

[15:21] If anything comes up, it's going to require regional council vote or anything that we'll let you know.

[15:28] But at this point, I'll make the decision, meetings or council for the fifth, we're dark in August.

[15:36] You have something time-sensitive, Comi?

[15:40] 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,

[15:49] because we're a dark and august, and then we also have the F-tip that's also on the same

[15:56] time on the both together and we need to have that done in July.

[16:02] Okay, are those the types of things that EAC can take action on, it's a simple majority

[16:06] thing, right?

[16:08] I am not familiar with the rules.

[16:12] Julian, is Julian here?

[16:14] Julian, are we okay with that?

[16:21] Yes, we could have a special meeting at the EAC.

[16:24] and act on who would act on behalf of the regional council on those two matters.

[16:29] Okay. Got it. So knowing that we're going to be discussing and voting on an RTP of

[16:35] amendment and we don't have that amendment prepared yet. So I can't even tell what we're

[16:40] adding to the RTP we're taking out. But again, I think we have to make it a decision

[16:46] one way or the other. I'm sorry, we have to go. Cheryl, do you have a comment?

[16:49] My comment would be if we did just EAC could we please see if we could do it?

[16:54] that video conference slash teleconference so that we're not making the trip to LA for just

[16:59] the one hour.

[17:01] It's one thing if we're here all day, but it's another thing if we're just here for you.

[17:04] We'll see where we are as we get closer whether or not there's going to be more in one item or not.

[17:09] And if we can accommodate a teleconference, certainly we'll do that.

[17:14] So everybody understands we're not going to see the regional council or the policy committees until September.

[17:21] Now, if you're with us, because that means that the agenda will be heavier in September.

[17:26] So please don't make arrangements to skip out of here early, because we are going to have more work to do in September.

[17:31] All right? Questions about that? Very good. Okay, so that decision has been made.

[17:37] 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.

[17:46] The first one is really important.

[17:49] Those of you that have been around this area for any amount of time,

[17:53] know how active and vibrant the business community is,

[17:56] not just here in the city of L.A., but throughout the region.

[18:01] And a lot has been due to the President's CEO of the chamber.

[18:06] He's an everyday name, everyone's heard a Gary Tobin, right?

[18:09] Everybody knows Gary.

[18:12] We're really happy.

[18:13] I'm not happy to see him leave,

[18:14] But we're really happy that finally he's going to go under retirement.

[18:17] So we're here to congratulate, wish good luck to Gary Tobin on his retirement.

[18:23] He has done so much for the region.

[18:25] He's doing so much champion of causes for all of us.

[18:28] Worked very well as liaison between governmental agencies and the private sector that we're

[18:35] going to miss you, Gary.

[18:36] But again, I don't want to dampen your retirement.

[18:38] I'm sure you hear excited about that.

[18:40] So ladies and gentlemen, this is Gary Tobin.

[18:45] Thank you.

[18:51] Thank you very much. It's incredible that this organization representing

[18:57] 19 million people in a 1951 cities. Does the great work that it does was such camaraderie

[19:07] because that doesn't happen in the halls of government very often. So I want to thank

[19:15] Thank you for the planning that you do on behalf of our region.

[19:21] It is really important.

[19:23] And thank you for guys like Hassan and Darren, and the team that come to access Sacramento

[19:31] and access Washington, D.C., where we can speak as a region and advocate for issues that

[19:39] are important to business and all the residents of our region.

[19:42] So thank you very much.

[19:50] 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.

[20:00] 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

[20:05] to proclamation from Skag to you commemorating all the great work that you've done for the region. Thank you very much.

[20:16] Thank you. And a small gift of our appreciation as well.

[20:20] Okay. You know, we're going to take some pictures.

[20:21] We can do that, but we set this down.

[20:32] We're okay. Well, we're starting over there at that time.

[20:47] He's with your point.

[20:48] Thank you.

[20:49] Thank you.

[21:27] 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.

[21:38] a great story and really a story of inspiration that I think we all need to hear

[21:44] Deborah, where are you? Oh, there you are,

[21:51] push button.

[21:55] Okay, thank you, thank you

[21:57] President. I just would like to take the opportunity as a number of you see me

[22:02] throughout the year. I always have interns and students with me who are coming to

[22:08] want to get for me with local government. And so today I have brought another

[22:12] student with me this summer I have about four that are home from college

[22:16] various colleges and I brought her I wanted to introduce her especially

[22:21] because she is going into her senior year at Northern Arizona University

[22:28] major in philosophy policy and law and so I would like to take a moment to

[22:33] introduce Ms. Makaya Harris and answer if she would step forward.

[22:42] She's

[22:42] county area that she has a graduate I believe a pair of high school she lives in Paris

[22:47] California and she came she's going to be with me but she informed me that she's

[22:52] going to need to leave me on Monday so I'll let her explain why. Hi everyone my name is

[22:58] Makai Harris I'm in turn to Mayor Robertson and I said yeah Northern Arizona University

[23:04] as you guys heard I intern with her right now and but I'm going to be leaving her on

[23:10] day because I have a job in Sacramento. I'm going to be teaching fellow, so I'm going to be

[23:15] teaching my own class middle school, and I'm going to be also the Department of Literature,

[23:20] the Head Department, so it's pretty exciting, I'm sad to leave, but this will not be the last time

[23:25] you guys see me, trust me. Thank you, so I just wanted to thank you. They come in and they go out

[23:32] so quick. And her family is especially proud of her as they should be. She's the first

[23:36] her family did 10 college. So that's a huge feat. Congratulations to you. And certainly, and the

[23:42] one thing I did discuss with her, she's pretty much wants to become an attorney, is in my

[23:47] day, and I'm sure you can identify with this, when you're going to go to law school, your

[23:50] major is always political science, right? Worst thing you could ever do, very impractical. Philosophy

[23:56] is a great major. All these things that she's doing, so I'm really excited for her. Deborah,

[24:01] thank you for bringing her to our attention. That's our next generation. That's what we have

[24:05] forward to. All right, I have another very exciting announcement to make. This is all good news

[24:10] stuff, though. We have a member of our regional council that's a true hero in the community.

[24:18] Steve Hockbauer served with distinction for the City of Los Angeles Fire Department for over 30 years.

[24:25] On May 31, he was awarded the Medal of Valley of Valor Awards at Craig Steve,

[24:33] which is the highest award that you really can get.

[24:37] It was a certificate of all reward.

[24:39] He was honored and distinguished for his bravery,

[24:41] exceptional heroism and service going far beyond the

[24:46] Call of Duty.

[24:46] So we want to recognize one of our colleagues getting this.

[24:58] So obviously very appreciative.

[25:00] Of your commitment to service for our community, and then this very special award, it's tremendous. I know

[25:05] how hard it is to get it.

[25:07] Have we had Steve?

[25:09] I think, also, thank you very much. I didn't expect that. I would have wore a tie.

[25:15] But I think we have another member here, ran into him at the ceremony. I know you. His son is also

[25:27] I think we need to thank the parents of heroes as well, Ray, down there, his son got the

[25:34] Medal of Valor as well.

[25:37] Thank you.

[25:39] Thank you, Ray.

[25:40] I'm assuming it's Ray Marquez, City of Chinole Hills, right?

[25:44] There he is.

[25:45] Congratulations on that, really appreciate that.

[25:48] Okay,

[25:50] public comment, I have not received any request to comment, there are any members

[25:54] of the public that would like to address the regional council.

[25:58] Okay, seeing none, we're going to go into a presentation that we have, Mayor Garcetti requested

[26:08] that we spend a few minutes listening about the issue of foreign direct investment in

[26:14] the region, something that's important to all of us, obviously.

[26:17] And I don't know if these speakers want to get into how the recent events in Washington

[26:24] in DC might have a impact on say negative or positive impact on what we're looking at.

[26:31] But I know we have Felipe here and Stephen, go ahead and and explain what the initiative

[26:35] is.

[26:37] Thank you.

[26:38] Mr. President, we have to know everyone.

[26:41] It's a pleasure to be here with you, all of you, honorable mayors, supervisors and council members.

[26:46] My name is Felipe Coosner, I'm Director of International Trade and Investment for the Los Angeles

[26:51] Mayor Eric Arsetti.

[26:52] This is Steven Chung, president of Rotorate Center, L.A. recently, a re-launched initiative here for the region.

[27:01] I'm very excited to be here this afternoon today, especially for your first meeting, Mr. President,

[27:05] because we work together for a couple of regional efforts, including the transfer of the Ontario Airport to the OIA,

[27:11] and by the way congratulations on all the recent success of the airport, really excited to see that.

[27:17] We're here today as you can see in your screens to discuss foreign directing

[27:21] investment as a regional effort for promotion and attraction.

[27:25] We're going to go a little bit into detail what foreign direct investment is and how it affects

[27:29] the economy and we're going to explain a little bit about what the partnership is between

[27:35] the CDO of LA and World Trade Center is today.

[27:38] In general terms we can see the regional power or the world economy that is Southern California.

[27:45] I want to acknowledge here that my map, their shows, all the counties, but I really do acknowledge

[27:53] that Skag is not with San Diego County, but because we're doing a regional effort, and

[27:59] this is a regional approach, I really want to highlight, we're here representing 22 million

[28:03] people. We have a $1.5 trillion GDP if we were a country would be the 11th largest economy

[28:12] in the globe and just for to highlight a couple of the assets that we have here in the region

[28:18] and you all have a lot of great assets in your cities and counties but about a million jobs

[28:24] are sustained or supported by the Port of LA and Long Beach, direct jobs, indirect jobs and

[28:30] induced jobs. One item that I also want to highlight is foreign enterprises and I want to make sure

[28:35] that I also emphasized, we might say foreign directing

[28:39] investment at short FDI, and also foreign enterprises

[28:43] as FOE's.

[28:44] But foreign enterprises here in the region,

[28:47] they hire 427,000 people, and they pay almost

[28:51] about $27 billion in wages.

[28:55] So there is a clear benefit of that presence here in LA

[28:59] and the region.

[29:01] When we talk about wages, it studies

[29:03] show that Furnown Enterprise is actually pay $15,000 more in annual wages.

[29:11] They only represent about 5% of the employment in the United States, but they represent the

[29:17] expenditures on research and development is about 16%.

[29:21] So this shows how they are also helping us advance our economies here locally.

[29:26] Not only that, Furnown Enterprise is represent 23% of the U.S. exports.

[29:31] today about $352 billion, so again, foreign-owned enterprises are helping us develop our local

[29:38] economies and help us get access to foreign markets through our exports.

[29:42] All that is great, and the United States is the most attractive country for foreign directing

[29:48] investment, but LA, unfortunately, we were trailing in terms of global performance.

[29:54] From the foreign directing investment inflow, from the past 10 years, 2007 to actually 2016.

[30:00] 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.

[30:12] 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.

[30:26] 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.

[30:37] 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.

[30:45] 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.

[30:52] If we talk about a college in Chicago, they have a $13 million budget, that's just to compete for foreign direct investment.

[31:00] Here in LA, I will defer to my college statement here to talk about our budget, but it's not even in the millions.

[31:08] 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,

[31:16] the budget is not about is not even $10 million.

[31:19] When we have New York City economic development corporation with their fiscal year 1718

[31:23] budget of $837 million.

[31:27] So what I wanted to show here is just that as L.A.

[31:31] And we're going to open for discussion soon, but as L.A. is strengthen our efforts

[31:35] to be a little more present internationally.

[31:38] I'd love to partner with each of your cities to make sure that I can present

[31:42] your investment opportunities to our colleagues.

[31:44] 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.

[31:53] Thank you so much, Felix.

[31:55] And President Wapner, I can actually address your question.

[31:58] 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.

[32:06] And then all those different regions, this region, Southern California, has a very, very popular.

[32:10] Partly, because of the administration's current stance on international trade, it's not

[32:16] resounding very well when it comes to our partners internationally.

[32:19] However, because Los Angeles and this entire Southern California region has been so important

[32:23] to the international trade community, they're very much looking forward to continuing this partnership

[32:28] with us.

[32:28] At the same time, because some of the information that's been spread out about the United

[32:33] States is also resonating very well.

[32:35] It's creating doubt about whether Southern California should be the location for the investments.

[32:41] Now, a lot of our competitors are competing with us, and as we have seen recently, for example,

[32:47] Arizona is now opening a new office here in Los Angeles region to attract companies to go to Arizona,

[32:53] same thing with Texas, and let alone all the international regions that are actually looking at this region,

[32:58] 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

[33:03] resources of the efforts to make sure that we attract and retain the foreign companies that

[33:09] Felipe talked about earlier.

[33:11] So the workers in Los Angeles were a nonprofit here, where part of the Los Angeles County

[33:14] economic development corporation, and our mission is quite simple as to attract, educate,

[33:18] and connect these companies.

[33:20] We go internationally to attract the right types of companies coming into this region to help

[33:24] with our economic development to create jobs.

[33:26] Once they get here, we have to educate them.

[33:28] What's the difference between LA County, Orange County, Ventura County, where is the point

[33:32] white money may act, where's Ontario airport?

[33:34] Should you fly into Ontario airport if you're coming from Taiwan as we've seen

[33:37] with the new direct flight or should you go to some of the other regional airports as well?

[33:42] So, these are the information that's necessary in order for them to be successful here.

[33:46] A lot of questions I get from our international companies to the student, what's the difference

[33:50] between Hollywood, North Hollywood, West Hollywood, is there a South Hollywood and East Hollywood?

[33:55] Why isn't there one?

[33:57] We all know the answer to this, but the thing that's for a company coming from Brazil are

[34:00] from China, how would they know how to get the right

[34:03] permanent process?

[34:04] That's why an organization like us is here

[34:06] to help them with that effort.

[34:08] Now, what we've done also, as immediately taking this position

[34:11] about three years ago, we've transformed

[34:13] how we do business here in Los Angeles,

[34:14] at the World Trade Center.

[34:15] We've actually collected information

[34:16] about all 88 cities in LA County,

[34:19] alongside with LA County information

[34:21] to present it to the public,

[34:22] so they can get access to information as easily as possible.

[34:26] But as we've said before, scag and all the cities around here

[34:29] are so important to this region.

[34:31] We can't just focus on the LA County or Ventura County.

[34:34] We need to really focus on the entire region as a whole.

[34:38] So we can tell that number,

[34:39] tell that message that Philippe mentioned earlier.

[34:41] This region $1.5 trillion is a GDP.

[34:45] Again, if we're country, we're the 11th largest country

[34:48] in the world, this is something we need to celebrate.

[34:51] And we need to go sell to the rest of the world

[34:53] so they can invest here locally.

[34:56] What we've also done is we've collected information

[34:58] of up the number 4 on the salvage.

[35:00] Here in Southern California. I went to a conference recently where Indiana showcased on the map, the

[35:06] 204 foreign-owned firms they have in their states. We have 10,000. Can you imagine if we put that

[35:12] map up there, Southern California has 10,000 of these firms? That's how attractive we are

[35:16] to the world, but we can't just rest in a laurel and wait for these companies to come. We need

[35:20] to go attract them. So with our map or FDI map, that's on our website right now. You can actually

[35:24] look at where the Japanese firms are located, where the Guatemalan firms are located, and

[35:29] basically what industries are in, so it makes sense for them to locate in the regions that they need to be in.

[35:35] And also we've done a recent calculation report.

[35:39] We've actually never done this as a region before.

[35:41] So in the last three years we've been collecting information about the number of different firms here in Southern California.

[35:47] 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.

[35:55] and every year they pay over $27 billion in direct wages to our economy.

[36:00] Now, one question for you, do you know who our top investor is when it comes to the country?

[36:04] What country has the most companies that are located here, do you know which country?

[36:09] China, China, China, China, what if I told you, what if I told you the number one foreign investor

[36:14] is Japan?

[36:15] Number two is UK, number three is Canada, number four is France, number five is Germany,

[36:21] China's number eight.

[36:22] 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

[36:33] 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

[36:42] China is a great country, but we need to expand our horizon to make sure we continue to attract these companies

[36:47] And so just recently, we partnered with LA Business Journal, so in the last issue, our Foreign

[36:53] Direct Investment Report is actually available, and we've broken down the information

[36:57] into the six counties of Southern California, so people can see where these companies are

[37:02] located and where the investments are actually going.

[37:06] So what we've done also is we do road shows and trade missions, we have to go internationally

[37:10] to compete, but because we are Southern California, we have the ability to attract the attention

[37:15] on the global stage, where it would bring our products and our information to present internationally.

[37:20] For example, this is in hand over MESSA about two years ago.

[37:23] We presented one of the technology that was coming out of JPL NASA.

[37:27] And we took it and presented it to Angela Merkel, to Chancellor of Germany, that present Obama introduced us to.

[37:32] So this allowed this to tell the story to the world why investment should be coming here to Southern California.

[37:39] And just really quickly, we have a couple of case studies.

[37:43] Tridium, Winston, and G-Smet.

[37:45] Tridium is an Australian company here providing fast charging stations and they're located

[37:49] in torrents.

[37:50] Winston is an Australian company as well, and they're doing manufacturing of these custom

[37:55] screen doors that will be coming directly into this region.

[37:58] And G-Smet is a Korean company that's located right here in downtown Los Angeles providing

[38:02] digital display for buildings.

[38:04] They've all chosen to put the North American headquarters here, it's because they know this

[38:08] is the right region to be at.

[38:09] since their inception, most of these are small, medium-sized firms that's grown from six people to 12 people to 24 people.

[38:15] 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.

[38:25] Now you can also see in terms of the partnership, specifically with City of Los Angeles, we made an agreement.

[38:31] What we want to do is cater to the specific cities and the regional needs of different regions.

[38:36] So, for the City of Los Angeles, what we're going to do is we're going to do a foreign direct

[38:40] report specifically, focus on the City of Los Angeles to retain these international companies

[38:44] that are already here.

[38:45] We're going to create a city toolkit, what's so special about the City of Los Angeles, and

[38:49] we can do the same for other regions as well, and the representation of broad.

[38:53] So, as you can see, it's time consuming and it's very expensive to do trade delegations.

[38:58] So, what we do is we partner what the mayor's office of Los Angeles to provide them with

[39:02] the resources in order to get access to the various countries around the world.

[39:05] And lastly, this is one very important aspect,

[39:08] delegation facilitation.

[39:09] I'm sure most of you regions in your cities

[39:11] and getting requests from around the world

[39:13] for delegation visits.

[39:14] And you spend a lot of time and resources meeting them.

[39:17] And how many of them actually convert into business deals?

[39:20] Previously, I was working at the City of Los Angeles,

[39:22] and I think in about six, seven years of doing these

[39:25] have worked, about maybe two,

[39:26] three percent of those transaction actually

[39:28] comes to the business deals.

[39:29] So what we're doing right now is screen these delegation members

[39:32] that they're coming in to make sure that we're not wasting

[39:34] the time of our government resources. So as these people are coming in, they're providing us with

[39:39] the detailed information about their investment strategy before we even take these meetings.

[39:43] That saves time and it actually concentrates effort to make sure that the ROI to return investment

[39:47] is there. So with that said, it's just a quick summary of what we've done, and what we're

[39:52] hoping to do. Again, we can't do this alone. The world's just in Los Angeles were eager and we're

[39:58] They're right now this year.

[40:00] 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.

[40:20] 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.

[40:33] And I think we have different ways that we can partner with each city or county or region that you're representing.

[40:39] We look forward to having this conversation in many different instances. We're happy to take any questions. Thank you.

[40:45] Thank you.

[40:50] Before we get into the question, did I just first of allfully please thank your boss.

[40:53] Mayor Garcetti does so much not just for the city of LA for the entire Southern California region,

[40:59] and he's the first to recognize how important we are one region.

[41:03] For my colleagues to start thinking, like, what does this have to do with us?

[41:07] We're transportation, we're this and that.

[41:09] Everybody here recognizes that without economic development,

[41:13] we don't have those necessary revenues to accomplish what our tasks are.

[41:17] One question I do have for you, because I appreciate the fact that you want to bring us

[41:22] out to the regions and one of the things that we have here at Skag is that we shouldn't

[41:27] be in a competitive mood, we should be in a cooperative mood, whereas we all work to bring

[41:33] investment to Southern California instead of pushing it to other states.

[41:38] So I guess the question is, how are you planning to roll this out to the other regions

[41:43] or how can we make outreach to you through our individual economic development department

[41:48] to our county economics or regional? What's the best mechanism to work with you?

[41:55] So initially, we want to create a little more awareness to understand that this actually exists.

[41:59] That Stephen is out. It's going throughout the world that presenting the opportunity that we have.

[42:03] If we can't connect with your partners, we work, we have very limited resources, as you all know.

[42:08] We're all doing our best, but we've limited resources.

[42:12] So we count on our partners.

[42:13] I partner a lot with our friends from the US Department of Commerce,

[42:17] but also with economic development corporations.

[42:18] So if you have a specific economic development office

[42:22] in your office or a director or a partner day,

[42:26] you would like to connect with us to see

[42:28] how we can evolve this conversation.

[42:29] That's kind of the initial point.

[42:32] I think speaking of the competition, we are absolutely,

[42:36] we understand, and thank you for that note, Mary Arsetti.

[42:39] We understand that we are stronger as a region.

[42:41] We are competing with other regions that are also partnering amongst themselves.

[42:46] I get a lot of requests because we are the city of L.A., and people come to us.

[42:51] 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.

[42:59] And he wanted the X amount of minus square feet of land.

[43:03] And I don't have that. Maybe one of your cities.

[43:05] And that's exactly, that's one brief example that I knew it could raise a little more awareness.

[43:13] I don't take it, but your employees might be an early resident.

[43:17] There's a clear spillover effect of the benefits of those new companies hiring and

[43:23] strengthening in the local economy.

[43:25] And again, locally we'll do, or as a region, we'll do better.

[43:28] See if you want to talk about it.

[43:30] I think the idea is also, a lot of folks, especially coming from certain countries,

[43:34] when they come to this region, they automatically call the mayor's office of Los Angeles.

[43:38] And the idea is to basically get that information to the Workforce and Los Angeles so

[43:41] we can actually partner with the entire regional government system.

[43:44] We've already reached out to Ventura County, San Bernardino, Orange County, Riverside,

[43:49] and such.

[43:49] So we're creating that partnership, but what we need is more information about how do you

[43:53] do business in your region?

[43:55] So we can actually promote your region on behalf of this sub-account for an region.

[44:00] So that's kind of the idea.

[44:01] 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.

[44:09] 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.

[44:16] 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.

[44:24] I need those jewels to attract these companies to come over here.

[44:28] So the more information I have, the better I may be able to sell this region as a destination for their investments.

[44:33] Well, you know, I'm going to suggest and I'll meet with Hassan.

[44:36] But maybe, um, Skatkit can actually serve the function of hosting some kind of a meeting with all the economic development folks.

[44:44] 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.

[44:50] and then they can start working with you on an individual basis.

[44:53] But again, I think that might be one role that we here at Skag

[44:56] can help fulfill since we represent so many of the sub-regions here.

[44:59] Thank you.

[45:00] Okay, we have a couple questions, Megan.

[45:03] Just quickly, I'm in Culver City and we've got a lot of great partners like Sony Pictures Entertainment.

[45:11] 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?

[45:24] So, as an example, we're currently working with a city of Long Beach to come up with another

[45:28] plan.

[45:28] Part of it's retention for existing foreign companies that are already here.

[45:32] Sometimes the companies get adjusted to the region and they no longer reach out for additional

[45:36] support.

[45:37] What we do is we actually have that database from the report that we've done.

[45:41] We can work with the individual city to kind of identify the companies that might be in

[45:46] need of additional support.

[45:48] For example, if we're seeing that they're laying off individuals or decreasing them revenue,

[45:51] that's when we reach out in combination and in conjunction with our partners in the city,

[45:56] so that we can do outreach approach to see what efforts we can provide, whether it's tax

[46:00] incentives, whether it's additional just workforce training, sometimes they just don't,

[46:04] even understand the resources that are there. So those are simple tools that we can offer,

[46:09] and we would be delighted to work with the diversity.

[46:13] All right. Thank you. Any other questions?

[46:21] Thank you, Mr. President.

[46:24] I just, you had showed on the screen a graph that showed the Singapore investment.

[46:30] And it was, I mean, if you take a look, I mean, it was far beyond anybody.

[46:35] I'm not even close, right?

[46:37] The second, I think London was second and it was, I mean, not even close to the types of

[46:41] investment that they're getting.

[46:44] What's different about Singapore that makes them the beacon of the world

[46:47] that seems for that foreign investment.

[46:49] And what can we do to become more attractive?

[46:54] Because we have a lot of great amenities here,

[46:57] but they're obviously doing something

[46:59] that we're not.

[47:00] Yeah, well, first and foremost,

[47:03] they're considering 2007-2016.

[47:08] So initially, they had a lot of incentives

[47:10] for companies to relocate there.

[47:12] We don't provide incentives.

[47:13] I don't think your city is the,

[47:15] my NLA, we don't.

[47:16] But we have a very robust infrastructure here.

[47:20] We have a very strong consumer base.

[47:21] We have a very qualified laborable.

[47:24] That's how we're competing.

[47:24] How Singapore came to be?

[47:26] The number one is just they promoted themselves a lot,

[47:30] and they attracted with fiscal and financial incentives.

[47:33] They did the nathand testing and excellent job around the world,

[47:36] calling themselves the Center for Transshipment.

[47:39] So all the regions around there bring their cargo to Singapore

[47:42] and basically go internationally coming to Los Angeles as well.

[47:45] So if you notice, LA is also the same for that.

[47:48] We have the port of Los Angeles port of Long Beach port of Wyoming, and number one container

[47:51] port number two container port in North America.

[47:54] We have LAX, we have Ontario, some of the top performing airports.

[47:57] We have that, but people don't know.

[47:59] When they come to Los Angeles, what they ask is, hey, what about Hollywood?

[48:03] Hollywood?

[48:04] Hollywood traffic.

[48:06] But the thing is, what we need to do is tell them the story that Singapore is able

[48:10] to tell.

[48:11] LA, this region, Southern California region, is actually the number one manufacturing center

[48:14] United States with over 350,000 manufacturing jobs.

[48:18] We have over 580,000 logistic and trade jobs in this region alone, supporting the goods

[48:23] movement throughout the entire United States, not just LA.

[48:26] Once we have that message out there, I think we can compete effectively.

[48:29] I think Singapore just basically over the last 20 years have performed many of the other

[48:33] cities because of their investments.

[48:35] In fact, over at the US Bank Tower, it's now owned by a Singaporean company called OUE.

[48:40] Singapore IE, their investment attraction agency is located right there, selling Singaporean

[48:44] to Los Angeles. We need to do more of that.

[48:47] So let me ask one follow-up question if I may, you had listed who has the most robust promotion

[48:54] departments and seeing a poor was not listed on there. So where do they rank compared to us?

[49:01] It's difficult to get sometimes get the numbers from Singapore because the Singaporean government

[49:06] is behind the whole initiative and their structure government structure is quite different.

[49:11] So it's not just for economic development,

[49:13] it's basically for a business in general.

[49:15] So sometimes it's hard to pull that number aside.

[49:17] But it's going to be quite high.

[49:20] And there's something California region,

[49:21] we haven't done as much in terms of investing in just

[49:24] the infrastructure.

[49:25] And I think that's why we're hoping to develop more

[49:28] from the awareness for this topic,

[49:29] so that we can in the future be competitive internationally.

[49:32] OK, I want to thank both of you very much.

[49:34] You're coming out here.

[49:35] We look forward to working with you.

[49:36] Let's hear it for the meeting.

[49:40] Thank you.

[49:41] Thank you.

[49:41] move into our action items, the first action item, or the proposed changes to his son's employment

[49:48] agreement. In your agenda, you should have what those proposed changes are. If you have

[49:56] already briefly review them, and Joe, you're having...

[50:00] 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.

[50:10] 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.

[50:25] And it's 2018, 2019, my error.

[50:30] And so we're asking you to basically take three actions.

[50:35] We want you to ratify the annual work plan of the executive director.

[50:40] We want you to approve six changes to his contract, which are identified in the report.

[50:45] And we want you to authorize the President to execute a contract that includes those six

[50:51] changes.

[50:53] Any questions on the action that we're about to take?

[50:57] Seeing none, do we have a motion to approve?

[51:00] I'm sorry.

[51:02] You're moving it, Michelle?

[51:04] Where are they, you are?

[51:05] And, Frank, at the second.

[51:07] We have a motion at the second to approve the recommended changes to the contract.

[51:12] Any other discussions?

[51:13] Questions?

[51:14] Seeing none, we're going to go to a vote.

[51:46] James and Ray.

[51:53] I don't know how people are getting added to this.

[51:54] Okay, we still have three left.

[51:56] Oh, raise gone, and James has gone, so we're going to end the boat.

[52:01] And the motion passes 45 to zero.

[52:04] Where's the sun?

[52:06] The sun, you can come back in.

[52:19] The sun, hey, it's on.

[52:21] Come in.

[52:28] Okay, next slide, and we need a report for a mom,

[52:31] sure, walker on the sketch scholarship program.

[52:34] 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.

[52:44] I also like to acknowledge in particular the work of Darren Schizzi and Houston is Houston in the room.

[52:53] 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.

[53:01] 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.

[53:25] One from each of the counties, two from Los Angeles County.

[53:29] We also had two discretionary awards.

[53:32] One will be proposed for Los Angeles County and the other for Orange County.

[53:37] We spent the remaining few minutes of the time allocated for evaluation of the applications

[53:43] to discuss process improvements for next year, including a desire by the committee to get

[53:50] more and better applicants, these applications were going to work on a more robust application

[54:03] pool for next year as well as starting the process earlier so that we can actually participate

[54:10] as members of the regional council in awarding the scholarships at the senior award ceremony.

[54:16] So with that, I'll entertain any questions or ask for approval of the item.

[54:21] So is that a motion, then, Cheryl?

[54:23] Okay, is there a second?

[54:24] Second.

[54:25] Second.

[54:26] I just want to thank Cheryl and your committee.

[54:29] It took a lot of time to go through all those applications.

[54:32] I'm sure you all saw the applications, the essays and everything else.

[54:35] So thank you very much for what you've done.

[54:38] The only thing is come up in the past that would be nice if we can have some of these students

[54:42] revisit after they complete college while they're in college.

[54:45] So we can't get an update as to what they're doing, I think that would be good.

[54:49] Okay, so you have a motion in a second.

[54:51] Any other discussion?

[54:53] If not, we'll go to a vote.

[55:13] 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.

[55:29] 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.

[56:19] Okay, we're just waiting for Glen Barber and Judy, you know, they all still here.

[56:24] Judy looks like, are there's Judy?

[56:29] Did you push?

[56:30] Nothing happened.

[56:32] Barber?

[56:34] Yeah, I know.

[56:35] Okay, so what's your position, Judy and Barber?

[56:39] Support it.

[56:40] Barber, you're okay with it.

[56:44] Yeah, I know, but it's not showing.

[56:45] We'll put you down to support.

[56:46] So we'll close the voting and it passes.

[56:48] is we'll call it 46 to one abstention.

[56:54] OK,

[56:57] is Randall still here?

[57:00] Randall, a business report, please.

[57:06] Thank you, Allen, for the chance to serve and be here.

[57:09] And thanks, Stahl, of you, for sticking around.

[57:11] My goal this year is to try to keep them interesting and more

[57:14] relevant to all of you.

[57:16] First, a couple of reactions to the morning speakers,

[57:18] all of them, which were really good, including staff.

[57:20] I thought Jim's presentation was very good.

[57:23] It's point about the delivery of packages goods

[57:25] to your home, to your business, your schools, your offices,

[57:28] which turning a nation worth facing a lot.

[57:30] It's something that looks like you're city,

[57:32] so it's only a worse, how to deal with all those delivery trucks.

[57:36] Pavlov, I thought, made some very good points,

[57:38] but there are a couple opportunities

[57:39] from proof when I think on his presentation.

[57:42] I think I would not ignore household formation,

[57:44] just because something is difficult

[57:46] to predict, doesn't mean you shouldn't try to predict it.

[57:48] I would urge staff to try to keep looking at how to predict household formation accurately.

[57:54] And now that is going on up, zoning was very good, but it's actually sort of a farbie talked about.

[57:59] There's a lot of gaps between single family and multifamily.

[58:03] And there's a lot of innovative solutions that will get density higher without necessarily destroying your neighborhood.

[58:09] So I would look at some of those innovative solutions.

[58:11] In terms of the market and things I deal with every day, the housing market is gone from

[58:16] a good housing market to a hot housing market, a sizzling hot thing market.

[58:21] I did some work trying to find out what were the reasons for that.

[58:24] One is that interest rates are going up now, a lot of people who are on the fence are getting

[58:28] off the fence.

[58:30] One reason is there's something called fear of missing out.

[58:33] We've heard a lot of people say if I don't buy this year or next, I'm not going to be able

[58:36] to buy a house, a lot of millennials who have been camping out with their parents or either

[58:40] getting kicked out or it's using to move out.

[58:43] And so that's driving a lot of the investment.

[58:46] The full employment, I mean, we've never had employment

[58:49] like this for decades, and just when people have jobs,

[58:52] they get more comfortable about spending.

[58:54] And then there's tremendous foreign investment.

[58:56] Foreign investment from people aren't never going to live

[58:58] in the house, foreign investment, with children or grandchildren,

[59:03] but that foreign investment is huge in driving

[59:05] the hot housing market.

[59:07] As so many in the housing market,

[59:08] the pace we're going at is bad for our citizens, it's bad for our communities.

[59:13] 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.

[59:20] The apartment market is equally strong, it's really the strongest and the very close in areas,

[59:26] but that's bad also, it's really causing people to consider leaving the state those who are still here.

[59:32] There's a lot of threat of rent control, almost every study says rent controls bad.

[59:36] I think we as an industry have to come up with some solutions.

[59:40] Because the Department of Issue of the Rental Issue is a crisis.

[59:43] We have to respond and collectively we have to find solutions for that.

[59:47] The retail world I just came back from ICCS,

[59:49] the shopping center convention, a lot of you have the luxury of going there.

[59:53] It was interesting, it was good news, bad news that the bad news still continues.

[59:57] People are talking about serious closing 70s.

[1:00:00] 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.

[1:00:30] And there are interesting trend a lot of this online retailers are now going to physical

[1:00:35] stores.

[1:00:36] And there was using it just to build their brands.

[1:00:39] And I heard a mall developer talk about that he's going to be investing in some of the

[1:00:43] internet startup companies, knowing half of a make-up broke, but just he said if I can get

[1:00:48] cool stores even if they last a year, I'm going to try to get him into my shopping centers.

[1:00:53] I think a message for all of you was just you need a retail strategy for your community

[1:00:57] community is different, but you need to think how do you market your community the best way.

[1:01:02] In terms of the job picture, we are finding it very hard on our construction jobs, but even

[1:01:07] at our company to fill the jobs. We have so many positions we can't fill. I'm sure that's

[1:01:12] happening with your city, your counties, and everyone else. I think we all need to think

[1:01:16] how can we best market or cities as places or organizations as places to work and how can

[1:01:22] keep investing in the schools because that's the future for all of us.

[1:01:27] Lastly, I went to Urban Land Institute, that's why I missed one day of the general assembly.

[1:01:31] And there's a lot of focus on the city of Detroit and how they turn themselves around, and

[1:01:36] it started with public private partnerships.

[1:01:39] And what happened in Detroit is relevant to almost every city here because every city has

[1:01:43] some challenged areas, but it started with public private partnerships.

[1:01:47] It's the art ed next with how do you attract investment?

[1:01:51] How do you make your community one that other people want to invest?

[1:01:54] Either money or how to get young people to put my career in this city.

[1:02:00] And then lastly, there was a lot of talk about branding how to brand your community as

[1:02:04] somewhere to attract these jobs or the investment.

[1:02:06] So I thought that was very good.

[1:02:08] And then finally, over the last nine or ten years that I've been here, I have learned to

[1:02:12] appreciate how hard you all work that sacrifices you make.

[1:02:15] 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

[1:02:24] 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

[1:02:31] So thank you for all you do. Thank you

[1:02:35] Thanks, Brian Gold.

[1:02:39] Okay, first thing I want to say is that Hassan's taking his money and running.

[1:02:44] He's going on vacation.

[1:02:45] Well, earned, living on June 23, till July 18th.

[1:02:52] And next, I think there's this information back to there.

[1:02:55] We're having a demographic, not democratic, demographic workshop.

[1:03:01] No, that wasn't a slip, okay.

[1:03:03] a demographic workshop this coming Monday

[1:03:05] and partnership with the University.

[1:03:07] I'll just leave it at that.

[1:03:10] EOC, I forgot to mention at this morning,

[1:03:12] you don't forget we're having a retreat in 20 years

[1:03:15] to the 21st, I believe.

[1:03:19] We had a meeting with the current county cog on May 24th.

[1:03:24] We're trying to reach out.

[1:03:25] When you're the largest MPO in the country,

[1:03:28] people look to you for leadership, for best practices.

[1:03:31] And so we tried to keep in line with our surrounding region so we did meet with Kern County. It was very productive meeting

[1:03:37] I certainly learned a lot more about Kern County, especially there's more cities in Kern County than Bakersfield

[1:03:43] I didn't realize that. So and there were one of those unique situations kind of like sandbag where there an

[1:03:48] MPO of cog a transportation authority that they take it all on. So that's kind of interesting

[1:03:53] There was a mobility 21

[1:03:56] SB1 workshop on May 18th at Union Station

[1:03:59] It was good to hear, we had a labor there talking about the importance of keeping SB1 and opposing the repeal.

[1:04:07] Certainly our local elected mayor of our city was there.

[1:04:11] I think all of the CEOs of all the transportation, commissions in Southern California.

[1:04:17] It was a nice opportunity to hear some things and more importantly to get the word out to the public through a press conference.

[1:04:23] and of course, Hassan Acrata was there.

[1:04:26] You probably saw his picture on all the newspapers.

[1:04:29] Appointments to committees.

[1:04:31] Instead of reading all of them, I have memos on the back table.

[1:04:35] And I just want to talk just a minute about the appointment

[1:04:36] that I made.

[1:04:39] Most of them, if not all of them, were based on attendance.

[1:04:42] I looked at everybody's attendance records.

[1:04:44] And I really believe if you're going to lead,

[1:04:46] you have to be here.

[1:04:47] And there were some surprising things that I found.

[1:04:50] Anyway, you've got appointed to a committee

[1:04:51] congratulations and I look forward to your service. If for some reason you're not on the committee

[1:04:56] I thank you for your past service and anything else.

[1:05:00] When I read through some of these, we actually have some members, and they're not here, obviously, that

[1:05:04] emissed every single regional council meeting, where every single policy committee meeting. So,

[1:05:09] you know, we don't have any authority within SGAG to do anything, but I'm going to make it my personal

[1:05:15] endeavor to notify these districts that their folks are not representing them. So, if you're curious as to how I made the selections,

[1:05:24] based on attendance, almost always, that's what we looked at. And you know, a lot of you folks had never missed any meeting.

[1:05:29] any regional council, any policy committee meeting, and I think it should be rewarded for that.

[1:05:36] That is all I have, we're going to give it to Hassan.

[1:05:42] I just want to thank you for extending my contract, the honor, the humble to work for you,

[1:05:47] and I will see you after the summer.

[1:05:53] Yes.

[1:05:54] Sure.

[1:05:56] So we talked a little bit this morning about the importance of recognizing employees

[1:06:01] and for job well done. And so I just wanted to recognize Mike Jones, senior regional planner who came

[1:06:07] down and participated in the Imperial Valley General Assembly and Economic Summit. He was a part

[1:06:13] of a panel on goods movement and opportunity within the United States and I want to thank

[1:06:18] Brandon Lane for making the trip down to the valley for the General Assembly. But Mike Jones was just

[1:06:25] incredibly, incredibly talented, and the his ability to talk about the region, it was like

[1:06:37] he was born and raised there, just his knowledge about the issues and goods movement, the

[1:06:43] dynamics between having an international border and a county of 180,000 people, and then

[1:06:48] a city of a million people right on the other side of the border. I mean, he just did an outstanding

[1:06:52] job represented scag very very well and I just wanted to let everyone know that.

[1:06:58] Thank you, Cheryl. Committee reports, we have no committee reports because there was no

[1:07:04] action taken today, committee. You all were here for the meetings. Well, know what's going on.

[1:07:09] Are there any other comments by board members? Okay, thank you. Oh, you have something to say,

[1:07:16] Randy. Yes, I have something to say. I don't typically get into my personal life up here

[1:07:20] the dyes, but on July 5th, I will probably not be here as we talked about earlier. My 14-year-old

[1:07:25] son, Randall Lane Jr. is scheduled on June 27th to have this 15th surgery in a short

[1:07:30] little life. And so I would ask if everybody would just keep my family and my 14-year-old

[1:07:35] son and your thoughts and prayers toward the end of June. Thank you very much.

[1:07:40] Thank you, I won't be sure to do that. Okay. If there are no other comments, I'm going to

[1:07:44] really try to get you guys out by 130 from now on so you can make your train because we

[1:07:48] encourage people to use transit. So that's it. This meeting's adjourned. Thank you.

Regional Council - Jun 7th, 2018

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