Captioning by vie dak underwritten by firemans fund. Good evening. Welcome to this week in northern california. Joining me for insight and analysis of news from the week are jill tucker, San Francisco chronicle education reporter. David baker, Energy Reporter also with the chronicle. Josh richman, Bay Area News Group politics reporter, and karen said, San Francisco chronicle business reporter. Richmond may become the first city to use Eminent Domain to combat foreclosure programs offering to buy underwater mortgages and help refinancing with homes. If they refuse, the city is threatening to seize the workaging anyway. Filing a lawsuit to block the move while investors on wall street are watching closely. Carolyn, how would this plan work and why is there such strong opposition to it . You just said, richmond is threatening to become the first in the country to exercise its power of Eminent Domain in a radical plan. Richmond and the private partner, a forprost Investment Firm that its p
Captioning by vie dak underwritten by firemans fund. Good evening. Welcome to this week in northern california. Joining me for insight and analysis of news from the week are jill tucker, San Francisco chronicle education reporter. David baker, Energy Reporter also with the chronicle. Josh richman, Bay Area News Group politics reporter, and karen said, San Francisco chronicle business reporter. Richmond may become the first city to use Eminent Domain to combat foreclosure programs offering to buy underwater mortgages and help refinancing with homes. If they refuse, the city is threatening to seize the workaging anyway. Filing a lawsuit to block the move while investors on wall street are watching closely. Carolyn, how would this plan work and why is there such strong opposition to it . You just said, richmond is threatening to become the first in the country to exercise its power of Eminent Domain in a radical plan. Richmond and the private partner, a forprost Investment Firm that its p
Captioning by vie dak underwritten by firemans fund. Good evening. Welcome to this week in northern california. Joining me for insight and analysis of news from the week are jill tucker, San Francisco chronicle education reporter. David baker, Energy Reporter also with the chronicle. Josh richman, Bay Area News Group politics reporter, and karen said, San Francisco chronicle business reporter. Richmond may become the first city to use Eminent Domain to combat foreclosure programs offering to buy underwater mortgages and help refinancing with homes. If they refuse, the city is threatening to seize the workaging anyway. Filing a lawsuit to block the move while investors on wall street are watching closely. Carolyn, how would this plan work and why is there such strong opposition to it . You just said, richmond is threatening to become the first in the country to exercise its power of Eminent Domain in a radical plan. Richmond and the private partner, a forprost Investment Firm that its p
Having gotten a waiver, so, i wanted to ask what our next steps are. And i particularly wanted to ask at the time we had that meeting. And i think at the time we applied, too, i asked the question about what are we doing to hold back on contracts or what is our plan to redirect the money that we had been required to set aside for transportation in sef . So, can we get a report on that . Sure. Commissioner wynns, obviously theres been multiple iterations since even that june meeting. So, staff is in the process now of actually pulling together a report that well bring to the board. And then theres a number of conversations not the least of which is with our administrator union, our Teacher Union about what the effects are going to be in terms of the evaluation process, which we all know its negotiated. We dont anticipate significant changes, but were going to enter into those conversations as well. So, well bring a comprehensive report about what the next steps are as we compile those.
Yes, commissioner murase. I just want to report tomorrow evening well be hosting the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment where well be looking at c tip 1 middle school feeders Daniel Webster [speaker not understood]. The enrollment process tomorrow at 6 oclock here. And the next meeting of the curriculum and Program Committee will be held on monday, september 9th. The primary agenda item then will be related to the achievement gaps. Yes, commissioner wynns. I just wanted to announce that we, which we would have had last week, were now holding a Budget Committee meeting this month because we really are interested mostly in new developments that relate to the lcff and soon, very soon, the state board of ed. And others are going to be looking at the related socalled accountability systems. We dont know what they look like ~ and how they might affect the budget. So, we decided that since nothing had been referred by the board that we would not hold a meeting prior to the beginning of sc