Portrait gallery and a member of the National Press Club Speakers Committee. Able lopez associate producing director of the hispanic theater. Jerry, the rock Washington Bureau chief of the Washington News past president of the National Press club and chairman of the press Club Speakers Committee. Skipping over the speaker for a moment, nick of the u. S. Capitol Visitor Center and the National Press Club Speakers Committee who organize todays event. Thank you, nick. Vapian of the Dance Institute of washington, freelance reporter and blogger who covers the arts. [applause] i also want to welcome the cspan and public radio audiences and remind you that you can follow the action on glitter. Use the hash tag npclive. Thats npclive. Jane chu was born the daughter of chinese immigrants in shawnee oklahoma and was raised in arkansas. She studied music growing up. She received a bachelors degree in piano performance and Music Education from the baptist university. She received her masters degre
do the calculations or the numbers. so whether or not we can get to 650 is a guesstimate for people who do this work? 650 was a possibility of what could happen. this internal e-mail from one of his staff members states, if we don t act, costs will reach $650 million. the mayors office says that was an oversight. meanwhile, the city come tends that number was never used for official business or while negotiating with unions. take a look at these e-mails sent to unions by the city manager about retirement reform negotiations. they all reference a memo dated may 13th as the city s only actual proposal for a ballot measure. the number 650 million used multiple times. i had no idea that that number was simply made up out of thin air, and if that s the case, we need to know that. if it s not, we need to know that as well. councilmembers are expected to discuss the memo with the sitpy manager next week. hoping to see the math that solves the $650 million question at city hall