We talk about a fair and transparent election, the millions of dollars that get spent in these elections really do give a disproportionate voice to the wealthiest among us to determine who our representatives will be. That said, i want to honor what many members of the public have said. You know, and step back from the nomination, but i do want to thank supervisor fewer for that generous nomination. I also, chair, president tang, if i may, wanted to address one nominee that i heard from many members of the public and in fact she was my first choice and i would have really liked to have nominated her today and that is city administrator naomi kelly. She is someone had has served at the helm of the city for decades and is a great public servant. And would have been a perfect fit for the interim mayor role. For very similar reasons as to why the board in 2010 had shr selected then city administrator ed lee. I know she is close to ed lee and would have carried his principles and policies f
Comment. Im no. 3, Consent Agenda. All matters listed here under a constituted Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the committee and will be acted on by a single vote of the committee. There will be no separate vote unless the member of the Committee Suggests and it will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. Item 3a, approving the minutes of the meeting. I move for the approval. I second the motion. Item no. 4, Environmental Program support. Thank you, chair richardson, director and president tsen. This item will go to the board as an action item. I wanted to have a conversation here before taking it there because we kind of have two different paths Going Forward ahead of us. We have a contract with lang Engineering Environmental to provide Environmental Conservation services to tida to monitor the navys Environmental Program, and we brought them on in 2013. This is a Selection Process that actually had been contacted before i arrived to tida.
In new york, they came and they went. It was kind of routine. I heard it only cost 15 to take a helicopter from the panam building to jfk. Wow. I cant even imagine that. You cant even get a taxi to go from 75th to 86th street for 15. [laughter] that was cool. They dont do it anymore. Lets take one more look at it, there it is. No more helicopters. Hey, its safer not only for the people in the helicopters, but on the ground. We dont do it. Beautiful, beautiful day. All right. So we are thrilled that victor espy victor espinoza, the jockey, lets go through it. Videotape. The horse won thanks to victor espinoza, i think. That horse and victor are unstoppable. They won at haskell. Let me tell you something, they brought out record crowds to monmouth, record crowds. And everybodys wondering, what is going to happen . Because this horse could retire right now, very happy and healthy horse. There he is, number two, but hes going to come on in, sir. But hes doing that on purpose. Here he comes
Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s
Other. Tonight we have Team Coverage, meteorologist Melissa Magee has the latest on the storms path but we will begin with brian taff in naples in the eye of the storm is passing, brian. Reporter walter and sarah this has been a absolutely surreal hour or two hours, here in naples florida right now. Forgive me as lie around as i stay out of the path of flying debris. We just passed through eye wall, the strongest wins of what was a category three hurricane. We clock the wind of a gust of 142 miles an hour. That is stunning. Wind speed by any measure. Things have incredibly calmed down, from that point, in just the last five minutes. That is how quickly this storm is moving. Five minutes ago we could not see those trees behind me, and now as clear as day. Jason, come on out here survey some of the destruction. From what we have seen in just the last, couple of hours, of these incredible, wind speed, that building behind us is part of its roofies torn off. Jason, go ahead, look down. Tho