S welcome. Madame clerk, please call the roll. The clerk breakthrough the clerk [calling roll] the clerk madame president , have you a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you, madame clerk are there any communication. The clerk none to report. Supervisor is there a motion to approve the october 24 Board Meeting. Not changes moved by supervisor yee and ronan and theyll be passed after Public Comment. Madame clerk lets go to the first item. The clerk the appearance by the honorable mayor and the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Thank you. Welcome mr. Mayor. Have you the floor. Good afternoon, supervisors. Glad to be here for the question time. I hope that all you had a wonderful thanksgiving. As we know the holidays bring out the best of people but with the spirit of giving theres hard times and the wintertime are the hardest for the individuals living on the streets. Theres no simple answer to solving homelessness but we must c
Consult with my executive director as soon as she returns from d. C. Supervisor cohen well, to be fair, you gave me your word that you were going to work with supervisor yee, and you didnt do that. We have met with him several times, and we have a differing dialogue, to be fair, but i will work with the director, cronenberg, and im sure its a conversation she will have with the other Community Members and sheriff ahern, absolutely. Supervisor cohen at this time, id like to ask the assistant sheriff of Alameda County to come up. I just wanted to give you an opportunity to give some feedback on some of the remarks you heard here today, going a little further than the two minutes that you had in Public Comment, and i assume out of the representatives, i am the most senior. Yes, maam, i am. Do you mind if i grab my notes. Supervisor cohen grab your notes. Ill just continue talking until you get back to the podium. Thank you for being here, because i think the short coming of this conversat
Welcome. Madame clerk, please call the roll. The clerk breakthrough the clerk [calling roll] the clerk madame president , have you a quorum. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you, madame clerk are there any communication. The clerk none to report. Supervisor is there a motion to approve the october 24 Board Meeting. Not changes moved by supervisor yee and ronan and theyll be passed after Public Comment. Madame clerk lets go to the first item. The clerk the appearance by the honorable mayor and the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Thank you. Welcome mr. Mayor. Have you the floor. Good afternoon, supervisors. Glad to be here for the question time. I hope that all you had a wonderful thanksgiving. As we know the holidays bring out the best of people but with the spirit of giving theres hard times and the wintertime are the hardest for the individuals living on the streets. Theres no simple answer to solving homelessness but we must con
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Of u. S. Worker is 39. The average age of the u. S. Farm operator is 55. There are not young people going into farming and we have to ask why. We need young people to enter into the farming industry. We need farming to be economically viable for young people and to supply restaurants like me the stuff that i need because what happens at my restaurant ultimately filters out to the rest of society. If you look at this chart, im not going to go into all the details of it, but you basically have a very small triangle which represents the family farm and on the other side the large part of the triangle which represents commodity agriculture. You need both. Obviously you cant be the entire world on small family farms, but to me, this chart represents something that is out of balance. We need to figure out a way to raise up family farms. We need to make farming attractive. We need to make it sexy. We need young people to understand this is something they can do as a viable job. We need food t