Mr. Clerk, can you call item no. 1. Item no. 1, ordinance amending the downtown support special use district to authorize a monetary contribution to satisfy required onsite open space requirements, exclude certain features from the Floor Area Ratio and gross floor area calculations, and dedicate the monetary contribution for light and safety improvements at victoria Manalo Draves park. Thank you very much. With the request of the project sponsor, the ordinance sponsor, i should i say, were going to entertain a motion to continue this item until march 20th. But before that, colleagues, if no questions, i would open up for Public Comment. Anyone wishing for comment on item 1, seeing none, Public Comment is closed [ gavel ]. Supervisor tang. Ly make the motion to continue to march 20th. Yes. 2017. Motion by supervisor tang and seconded by supervisorpisckin taken without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call item no. 2 please. Item no. 2, ordinance amending the commerce and industry element of
Ms. Zaragoza thank you please join me in the allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item a approval of the minutes of the regular meeting of of february 14, 2017, is there a motion please. You move adoption of minutes. Second interest vote ms. Casco thank you ms. Eng ms. Zaragoza and mr. Cook mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell dr. Murase ms. Norton and mr. Sanchez president walton thats 4 is. Thank you as been announced at the past few weeks complete a speaker card and present it to the executive assistant. Speaker cards will not be accepted if an item is already before the board presentation to the board of education. Importantly according to the board rules speaker cards are not accepted on items before the board presentation to the board of education superintendents report superintendant lee. Thank you president walton good evening, everybody tonight i would like to start my remarks a little bit differentl
Students are getting the education they deserve. This is a large problem. Nearly a nearly 100 schools in detroit Public Schools, 60 Charter Schools in and around the city, 18 Educational Achievement schools, several adjacent charter and school districts, yet parents cannot find the quality education they seek. One of the issues is detroit Public Schools are in debt. By this summer it will be over 515 million in debt. To achieve the needed academic outcomes Financial Stability and detroit Public Schools must be achieved. Going1100 per student is to debt service, and not to classrooms. Problem lets solve this problem and help the kids. Prompt legislative action is needed to minimize the fiscal impact on both detroit, and the rest of michigan. The time to act is now. And avoid Court Intervention that could cost all this much more and be more detrimental. I want to thank senator hanson for the legislation and the input of many legislators that they provided over the last several months. I
Also, i am looking for tour conversation about our primaries and what they all mean to us because in a few weeks well be in the midst of it all. One one of the real questions i think is whether it will be a rare instance where this is a form policy election or an election that is driven in a large part by Foreign Policy rather than domestic issues. We have a number of experts with us today. Opens, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook report, a colleague of mine, sam feist was senior vp of cnn who can entertain us with stories about organizing debates. , jim lindsay who is chair of the council. His long time partner. Well have an initial period where i lead a conversation but we will have ample time for you to ask your questions and make comments. I will get you out of here at 930 a. M. , as promised. I would remind you this is on the record, well simulcast of my casting this. This is not a typical cf our event where it is on what we call house rules. Let me start off by asking
It includes certification, connectivity, safety, and then they are offshore by regulation and also by advancement. If i look at theres mainly three years, one is commission engines and one is electric vehicles, the next one is fuel cells. We see many improvements and right now with all the low friction advanced cooling and others we have bringing you efficiency and provement by 35 to 50 reduction in fuel efficiency. Roughly at a cost of 2000 or 2500 per car. This is why we see today a landscape and it will continue for the future where it naturally these technologies would present the vast majority of the market. Meanwhile, the market for hybrid and better electric vehicles is being challenged. Right now this market has been growing for ten years and peaked in 2013 at three at 3. 8 of the u. S. Market. And that it declined to 2. 9 last year. The challenge is only 6 of the u. S. Drivers are ready to pay more for a greener and more efficient car. And what they would spend on average is 4