Good afternoon and welcome everyone to the Mayors Disability Council here friday november 20 in room 400 at city hall. I lick to welcome guests and presenters for ateneding the meeting today. Observe we get started with the agenda councilmember roland wong will read the introduction. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, november 20, 2015 in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister streets via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street [inaudible] entrance is provided via a wheelchair lift. Listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our [inaudible] are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff sfr any additional assistance. To present electronic interference with this rooms sound system, and to respect everyones ability to foc
Use commission and to my right is 93 joining us shortly and to my left is supervisor kim alyssa and thank you jim smith and Jessie Larson from sfgovtv that are busy broadcasting this meeting mr. Clerk could ii actually any motherinlaws devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the confess 8 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Convalescent thank you very much call number one. A resolution authorizing the amended ground lease for 99 years with the twentyfour hour associates for one hundred and 9 housing unit on farrell street. At this time, id like to call supervisor jane kim the sponsor of this legislation farrell street was built in 198 of a 12 Story Building comprised ever one bedroom units a proposed amended ground lease with the parents corporation the tenderloin Development Corporation that manages many of the buildings in the tenderloin this extends the term of lease for an
Berkeley, what some of us call the other School Across the bay. Professor delay is known best for his book war of a thousand deserts which won 5 major book prizes. His scholarly articles also won multiple book prizes. He has even ventured into the realm of art history in a terrific essay on winslow homers famous painting, watson and the shark. Entitled the familiar made strange american artifacts after the transnational turn. His new contract under ww norton is to be called shoot the state arms, capitalism, and freedom. Professor delay is also a multiple awardwinning teacher who has served on an organization of american historians and a fulbright distinguished lecturer in japan. He won many distinctions. Yet i must add that professor delay wears these achievements lightly. He is great company. Bryan will be speaking to us today on the topic of guns, capitalism, and the independence of the americas. I give you one of your own, bryan delay. [applause] prof. Delay good afternoon everybody
When i come to washington i have to explain a little bit about the states. What you have read in the books and what people think about the states in washington often is not exactly true. So first of all its true all states are sulfur and yet, all states are not alike. Since we are sovereign we have our own ability to create our sovereign government in the way that we choose. Indiana is one of six states that has chosen what is a little bit more conservative path from our history and weve created the office of the attorney general as a Statutory Office. The other states are all constitutional officeholders but i serve as the indiana Indiana Attorney general under the Statutory Authority and that the distinction is one that i think merits some attention because if you are a constitutional officer you have some of the patriarchs which would allow you to do things based on the need of the population you serve. If you are a Statutory Office are coming you represent the State Government. So
And im Stephanie Ruhle. Lets start today with the latest on the plane crash in ukraine. The government there is trading accusations with russia over who shut down the Malaysian Airlines jet with a total of 298 people aboard. At this hour, the Un Security Council is meeting to meet to talk about the tragedy as the investigation gets underway and president obama will officially speak about it at 11 30 a. M. We will have it live here on bloomberg. It to ryanlets take chilcote, on the phone with us from kiev. Latest . He the latest is that at the time of the crash after the time of the crash, they have begun the rather grim task of recovering the body. The bodies. 298 people were on that flight, so they have a lot of work ahead of them. The crash site spreads over about 10 square miles. The plane is very high up. That is where you get such a spread of debris. The bodies will be transferred from there to a city, which is under the federal governments control. You see how confusing it all ge