[applause] good evening. Thanks for coming on on what was a nice day today. Welcome to the lecture on Harriet Tubman. You probably know we are in a Harriet Tubman revival right now. A new appreciation of an iconic figure. It is a name we relate with the underground railroad. We sort of forget that after the underground railroad, Harriet Tubman lived for another 50 years. Some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and uptodate on that in our lecture. [applause] as you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill soon. Our speaker, Catherine Clinton, [applause] Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised as a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her. I will tell you a little bit about catherine. She has been in perpetual motion almost her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, miss
Prejudice, the small contractors but it is going to be good for the city. And it is going to reward, the good contractors, and the many good contractors, large and small, and who do good work for the city. And so, i do and i just scribe these amendments in the beginning i would ask that the committee would adopt them and to forward this item with the positive recommendation. Supervisor yee . Thank you. First of all, i also want to thank the public for coming out. And thank you for supervisor weiner for putting this forward and i am happy to as you mentioned join you as a cosponsor. On this and i think were right this is really the much of this will be on the shoulder of city staff to figure out the languages so that that is going to be effective when were talking about the subcontractors i felt like in the contractor can continues to keep on using the same bad subcontractors will be reflective how youll rate them for me advertised im not looking for the city to go after a after a contr
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