Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 16 meeting of the government oversight and audit committee. Im joined by vice chair aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to john carol and i would like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. In order to protect board members, City Employees and the public during the covid19 health emergency, the rooms are closed. This is taken pursuant to various local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming a public calling comment number. Its available by phone calling the number on your screen, th entering the i. D. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the queue. Turn down your televisi
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Under pressure to step down mollys president is accused of failing to improve the economy and deal with threats from groups hes dissolved the Constitutional Court but controversially overturned Election Results in march but is that enough of what if turmoil spirals out of control this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program Adrian Finnegan its been described as the worst civil unrest in mali has seen in decades violent antigovernment protests this week left several people dead president abraham. Has promised to form a National Unity government the country has been without one since elections earlier this year hes dissolved the constitutional course thats faced controversy since it overturned provisional results from parliamentary elections in march but will not be enough to restore peace protesters say that the government is corrupt and that the economy is failing and they want president catered to resign now to serious shelagh bellis reports. In bamako a solemn feel well for pro
This island, for Many Americans is the place where their american story began. A lot of people do not know about ellis island before this time. Today we are 27 acres. Originally it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the harbor. Andly came above sea level highside. For most of his life, it was a military installation, and the world of 1812, and as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890 it was decided it would be the place second. The first one burned to the. Round during a furnace fire the federal government decided they needed to build something more permanent, something that would reflect the grandeur, so the structure you see here is built between 1898 and 1800 and of 1900. In december its a beautiful building and , itshe moment it opened constructed to handle about half a Million People a year. It ended up handling a million 2000 million 200,000 people. If you look at the building there was no thirdfloor. It was two stories with four towers. As we had more and more peo
A time in history when sports and politics has been so intertwined no not as her face of of course muhammad ali was a singular figure of global d influence and the 960 s. As we both remember were of very very contentious period of time yet tommie smith and john carlos with the race facility the 1968 olympics in mexico city a lot of Young Athletes protested the war in vietnam some were part of the counterculture bill walton d an extremely likable man nonetheless had some countercultural ideas which many agreed with so that was a period of time when it was out there but i dont think numerically there were as many athletes who had a political bent a seem to have today. And its going to so many instances i know you will for it for a long time i wish to what do you make on washington finally dropping the redskins well as i said a week ago theyre not doing it because they saw the light theyre doing it because theyre feeling the heat Daniel Snyder the owner have been adamant ill never change