1 BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 2 450 N STREET 3 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 4 5 6 7 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT 8 SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 9 10 ADJOURNMENT IN MEMORY OF 11 JAKE CHRISTOPHER STEVENS 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Reported by: Juli Price Jackson 21 No. CSR 5214 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 1 P R E S E N T 2 3 For the Board Jerome E. Horton of Equalization: Chairman 4 5 Michelle Steel Vice-Chairwoman 6 7 Betty T. Yee Member 8 9 George Runner Member 10 11 Marcy Jo Mandel Appearing for John 12 Chiang, State Controller (per 13 Government Code Section 7.9) 14 15 Joann Richmond Chief, Board 16 Proceedings Division 17 18 19 ---oOo--- 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 1 450 N STREET 2 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 3 SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 4 ---oOo--- 5 MS. YEE: I also wanted to just acknowledge the 6 the passing of someone who was close to us, Jake 7 Christopher Stevens, who was one of the victims of the 8 violence in Libya, who is from Northern California, a 9 fellow alumnus of mine at Cal Berkeley that -- also the 10 son of a very distinguished, now retired, Senior Deputy 11 Attorney General, Jan Stevens, and just someone who 12 really served this country well and passed way doing 13 what he loved doing. 14 Thank you. 15 MR. HORTON: We will note that as an 16 adjournment in memory of. And thank you very much, 17 Ms. Yee. 18 ---o0o--- 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3 1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE. 2 3 State of California ) 4 ) ss 5 County of Sacramento ) 6 7 I, JULI PRICE JACKSON, Hearing Reporter for the 8 California State Board of Equalization certify that on 9 SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 I recorded verbatim, in shorthand, to 10 the best of my ability, the proceedings in the 11 above-entitled hearing; that I transcribed the shorthand 12 writing into typewriting; and that the preceding pages 1 13 through 3 constitute a complete and accurate 14 transcription of the shorthand writing. 15 16 Dated: October 15, 2012 17 18 19 ____________________________ 20 JULI PRICE JACKSON 21 Hearing Reporter 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4