I will call these items in the order that they appear on the list. Is that okay . Yes. All right. Thank you vicepresident caen. Shes telling me to move these along. I will go ahead and call for a motion on item no. 9. City clerk would you like to call for Public Comment . I will do that. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will call for a motion. So moved. Its been moved. I will second as long as we have discussion after my second. And seconded with the caveat that we have a discussion. Lets commence that discussion. Vicepresident caen . I should have pulled it back down to 2 years where the motion fits. I appreciate you getting the line items to me to the departments. In so doing it really focused me on whats the difference bureau s and enterprises are planning to do because its in their request for new projects. I was at first taken by something that we are all very aware of. When you see it in
Debt services are increasing. The proposed changes in front of you as the general manager said we did over 100 reassignments and over 100 substitutions before we had come to this point in asking for what would be a 1 percent change in the authorizing of positions so a lot of movement and changing was done. We came and asked for six new operating positions. So, i think its been a remarkable process. Its been incredible as you have seen in the detailed back up and that being said when you look at the urban water shed positions we have very large numbers in the capital plan for more earlier Implementation Development projects, that 60 million plus, we have over 161 million related to storm Water Management in the Flood Control in the capital plan before you. So weve tried to balance that just as we have with our building inspection permit process on capacity fees by having some folks work over times. While there is 30 cranes on the skyline now, there was one. There wasnt the backlog. You
City clerk would you like to call for Public Comment . I will do that. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will call for a motion. So moved. Its been moved. I will second as long as we have discussion after my second. And seconded with the caveat that we have a discussion. Lets commence that discussion. Vicepresident caen . I should have pulled it back down to 2 years where the motion fits. I appreciate you getting the line items to me to the departments. In so doing it really focused me on whats the difference bureau s and enterprises are planning to do because its in their request for new projects. I was at first taken by something that we are all very aware of. When you see it in black and white looking at you, its all the mandatory fringe benefits. They are horrendous and you get the salary and benefits. Its something you can put in your mind there is nothing we can do about it but its very s
With you. I have gotten to know many of you during the course of some very difficult weeks, and your courage and love for each other and your communities shines through every single day and we could not be more blessed and grateful for your loved ones who gave everything they had on behalf of our kids. As we await the president , lets go to our panel. Mark glaze is director of mayors against illegal guns and karen finney is former dn C Communications director and also an msnbc political analyst. Good day to you both. Mark, i want to talk about some of the points that the president is expected to make in a moment, but first lets talk about that rebuttal by the great Wayne Lapierre. Whats most amazing is that it did not at all mirror his barely concealed nativism which was on display in an editorial release that day. Hurricanes tornadoes, riots, terrorists, gangs, lone criminals, these are perils we are sure to face, not just maybe. Its not paranoia to buy a gun. Its survival. Its respon
Separate scoops including an intelligence memo that wasnt published by buzz feed because it was produced later after the election. That memo reportedly sites a russian government source basically bragging about the fact that the russian government was given veto power over who the new american secretary of state would be in the Trump Administration. There has been a lot of very good reporting in the last couple years how clhillary clintons tenure as secretary of state so exercised and upset russian president Vladimir Putin their ultimate efforts to interfere in the u. S. President ial election was steered by putins animosity towards clinton. After russia did what they can do to keep hillary clinton, former secretary of state from becoming president , jane mayors reporting today suggest russia then felt empowered. They reportedly were somehow empowered to choice mer ose ame next secretary of state. They did not want mitt romney. That of course, in turn, implies that russia did want Rex