Violence cases, but those throughout the state as well. On a more positive note, i wanted to say that this week is a celebration of our Incredible School districts arts program formerly called young in art. Its our School Districts Arts Festival being held across the civic center plaza, the Asian Art Museum this week. I dont know if any of you have been enjoying the art and the performances, but i have as well. Its a celebration of student creativity, visual literary media and performing arts in our schools. And its running through sunday, march 10th. Im really excited that the Richmond District schools are participating from Frank Mccoppin elementary [speaker not understood] as well as many others. As my colleagues, supervisor yee and kim who are also former president s of the school board know, we couldnt do enough or we cant do everything to support arts without the support of the public and the passage of prop h or the public enrichment Public Education Enrichment Fund or peef and
Choose to remain in a costly Long Distance international relationship, to choose to live abroad in the foreign partners country so that they can be together. And if permitted, to seek a visa independent of the partnership for the partner and then go through very antiindicated and very cumbersome process to allow the person to remain in the country. ~ antiquated sometimes the couple have to choose to allow a foreignborn partner to return to remain, actually, in the country undocumented. And sometimes it has actually led to a termination of these relationships. We have to do better than that as a country. The limited Legal Options for samesecond partners to keep these relationships going exact an amount of tremendous amount of financial, emotional and mental toll. Quite frankly, its staggering when you think about the fact there are 40,000 it is estimated 40,000 lgbt american citizens that are in samesex Financial Relationships that are impacted by this discriminatory practice. Beyond th
Thank you, madam clerk. First, i want to echo president chius comments and welcome supervisor tang to her first Board Meeting and look forward to working with you. And i want to just thank my colleagues for a number of item that they have introduced and certainly supervisor wiener, like to cosponsor your resolution the bike sharing program. I think that is an important project that needs to move forward. And speaking of pilots, i do want to acknowledge the work of the mta, the free muni for youth coalition, and so many partners who attended the launch of the free muni for Youth Program which supervisor wiener, you might want to note that the mta held it at Everett Middle School in district 8. But it was great to see the number of young people who came and the level of involvement. And i also want to thank my colleagues who were present at the, at the launch. Supervisor avalos, supervisor kim, and supervisor yee, thank you for being there. The next item i have is a an ordinance that aut
â2020 Has Been a Wake-Up Callâ: Reflections on Our Civil Conversation Challenge
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This fall we invited teenagers to come to our site and, via the comments section, have productive and respectful conversations about some of the hot-button issues of the 2020 election.