Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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expansion down to include the post. And there may
be a phase three and so on until we work through it.
But it's a way of moving our data around, producing
some products that we know have been drawn from a
common database.
Travel, I've made 197 visits. I travel
with my chief of staff and myself. Incidentally,
this is Jonathan Blyth. Bob Castro made a speech,
sort of a valedictorian speech last time when he was
here. And he's now joined his lovely wife in
Monterey. So, Jonathan, who had been my
Congressional Affairs Special Assistant, is now with
us. So that's our traveling party, he and I. We've
had some renovations that have been ongoing in an
out building which we do not own. It's a lease
property that is managed by our bureau that manages
domestic properties. We've had renovation ongoing
from the bottom floor all the way up since the mid­
90s, about seven or eight years before I arrived.
We finally finished on the thirteenth floor. But
that's the renovation story. It's run and monitored
and controlled by GSA, not OBO.
Chillers, we've had some growing pain with
our water-cooled chillers, to the extent that we've
written a white paper. We've interacted with our
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