Come to the United States. I think it was a wartime thing. Workers were needed. You are exactly right. It started in 1942. What does guestworker mean . Temporary workers. Yes. Guestworker means temporary labor contracts which means they come in and they are recruited to work maybe a couple of months and then they return. Some of them have the option to renew the contract and stay in the United States for multiple years. Guestworker means just that. Think that Guestworker Programs would be important now . Because of the influx of immigrants that come to work . The u. S. Has constantly thought about and enacted agreements for bringing in guest workers. We have seen guestworkers. It brought an the largest Guestworker Program. Guestworker models are popular globally. Guestworker models are used across europe, across the middle the, and what we know about Bracero Program . It was the largest Guestworker Program in the americas and became a model for programs elsewhere. You can think about t
Director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinio
Be present, kim not present, mar, not present, peskin, present. , tang, present. Wiener, present. , yee, present. You have a quorum ladies and gentlemen these join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] mdm. Clerk any communications . None to report any changes to the federal 2nd 2016 whether Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. 20 past can we take that without objection . Without objection the can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Was Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment unanimously. [gavel] let them cook please call the next item todays special order at to copy him is the appearance by our hon. Mayor edwin lee. There be no questions omitted from the eligible districts the mayor may address the board for up to 5 min. Welcome to the chamber mr. Mayor. You have the floor. Good afternoon sup
I am excited to meet her. I know. And they would have to put in on a spreadsheet each of the 500 or 600 applicants and each one has to be tracked and it is not a pretty sight and what they will do is take the 500 that they pulled the 500 left after they went through housing and the applications to get People Housing and then we will keep that waiting list for at least 3 years and every year they will contact the people on the waiting list and ask them if they are still interested in being on the waiting list and if folks dont get back to them or if they say, no, i am not than the list get shorter and shorter. Then after the 3 years we go to replenish that list. The public will be able to apply again to get on the waiting list. But, for the 4000 and all of those other applicants you know, they have to put their name in the hat the next time. They have to keep applying. Name in the hat the next time. They have to keep applying. That is 500 that will be sort of the priority and they are o