Produced in washington, d. C. Every week eye on washington takes you straight to capitol hill for a discussion with nevadas delegation and other leaders about the federal matters that matter to you. Todays topic, inclusion. The growing focus on diversification in the workforce in nevada and nationally. My very special guest today is mr. Fred keeton. He is the principal of keeton iconoclast, llc. Thanks so much for being here today. Thank you for having me. Appreciate you coming. Go against the grain. Think about things in a markedly different way. Thats what diversity is all about. Well, thats what my guest said about diversification and inclusion in a recent magazine profile. Today on eye on washington, were going to learn why he believes a diversified culture can make or break a companys bottom line. Were going to find out the reasons one global ceo says diversity benefits business. And we will look at congressional delegation work. Well, can embracing diversity and inclusion benefit
Today out of the northeast about 10, 20 miles per hour. Temperatures are mild, 55 degrees but rain is on the way and just to our south. Out across long island, hauppauge, north port, massapequa at 5. Even at east hampton out of to montauk. 59 belmar, thats the warm spot in toms river. And 42 up around poughkeepsie. From the city east west and north its just cloudy. Showers are slow to creep on into Middlesex County there around marl boar bro and monmouth and marlboro and monmouth and ocean county. Its off and on rain all day long and temperature gets to 61. Weather and traffic together every seven minutes. Except were going to talk about the subways the a. Train goes fast track. They have the Service Going on on the a. Train. No trains if you are traveling between 168th street and 207th street. New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, metronorth running on or close to schedule. Using the George Washington bridge, coming inbound on the upper level, they are cleared the construction but
Evans. Any announcements . Please silence all cells phone and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. Items today will appear january 12 meeting unless otherwise stated would like to thank Jessie Larsson squh gym smith for braus braud casting todays meeting. Item 1 is consider apointding 3 members terms ending february 1, 2015 to the parks and recreation Advisory Committee. There are 3 seats and 3 appicates great, we have seberate members of prosack who are here today. Looks like [inaudible] is first is not going to be able to make it. She has written testimony boy robert brooust, if you can please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. I am robert braust and thank you very much for hearing and giving me the opportunity to introduce myself, explain why i was original picked to represent district 8 on prosack. Explain a little of what i managed to get done in the first 2 years and what i hope to get done in the next. I am a Founding Member of d
June 7, 2017. Okay, supervisor farrell. Thank you supervisor avalos and supervisor cohen and everyone who is here. I will keep my comment brief. We brought this item before committee and will continue today until the next rules committee, but want to reiterate the purpose behind this. I think everyone shares this here, the parks inside the sit a are some the greatest assets qu provide a high quality of life and as the city grows in terms of population and otherwise and we feel it every day, the parks are used with greater intensity more than ever before. Over the last few years inside of city hall the parks budget has note grown and if we want to maintain had parks and new open space we ptd to develop in San Francisco, we need to make sure spending for the park saz priority and that is what this amendment does. Before i introduce this we had a huge neighborhood process across the city. I want to thank the Parks Alliance for a great partner throughout the process. Neighborhood groups in
Okay we are back and ready for Public Comment. Thank you for the brief moment to gather my thoughts and talk with my staff. So Public Comment is now open. And i have a few cards and if first you come in the order your name is called by card, and then anyone else who hasnt filled out a card can come in behind. So first up is trevor martin. Amber actually, lets go first to people representing other people, who were to speak. Amber was here ufcw and others here will be the first people to speak, since you are speaking on behalf of actual candidates. And then well go on to the cards, okay. Thank you. Amber bauer, district director for uscw here on behalf of jim araby. He will no longer be applying for if that set and wed like to separate jan garcia in her application for this commission. Thank you. And your application actually just came in after the deadline. It did. Im Jennifer Garcia with ufcw in San Francisco and the application was in late. My local just recently got the Cannabis Divi