Happen. [applause] next speaker please good evening commissioners and superintendents. Im the president of the social Justice Community at rooftop k 8. We plan campaigns and events we feel will help our school community. This year we got the opportunity to apply for a grant and we took it. We designed a campaign, submitted an application and got the grant. The problem we identified for our grant was the lack of womens programs. For the past few months weve done lots of research and planning around the lack of Wellness Program the School District funds. After getting all this information we decided to put it all together and this is what we got. We are very excited to present it to you. Hello commissioners, my name is cindy and i attend Rooftop Middle School. When i said rooftop what did you think of . If you think our students are rich white kids from the valley, youre way off. Rooftop has an extremely diverse population. I myself am filipino, but at any given time i could be work wg o
Promised taking care of our employees that we keep hearing about from the superintendent and the school board. I think its time the stop playing around. My students in first grade know that playing ing around time is for recess time. This is school time, we have serious work to do and there is a lesson to be learned and that has to do with prioritizing. Teachers and parents gave the district 60 million over the past four yours. Prop 30 will double your funds over the next few years. Today the golf nor put 469 million into prop 98 guarantees. Today you are wealthier than you have ever been and you offer me and my colleagues 2 percent. 2 percent into 6,000 teachers does not work. Look instead at your priorities. What have you brought this year . 175 new tsas, a floor full of administrators, curriculum experts, if you can spend money on these things, you can spend money on the people who do the work with the children who are your charges. S, if you can spend money on these things, you can
Host and this week on the communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association, matt polka. Mr. Polka, what is the American Cable Association . Guest thanks, peter. Nice to be here again. Nice to be here with you, lynn, as well. The American Cable Association is unique in the fact that we represent many smaller Cable Operators across the country, and everyone always asks me, are there still small Cable Operators left . In fact, there are nearly 900 of them in every corner you can imagine, rural areas, small towns. Many of them are providing Competitive Services even against some of the largest providers today. And whats great about these smaller companies, its a terrific story because theyre providing broadband, highspeed broadband in rural areas that desperately need Broadband Service. So these are the members we represent. Theyre smaller, theyre independent which means that theyre not affiliated with larger content companies or larger providers, and w
Communicators we welcome back the president and ceo of the American Cable Association matthew polka. Mr. Polka what is the American Cable Association . Guest the American Cable Association is unique in is unique and effectively is unique in effect that we represent smaller Cable Operators across the country. Everyone asked me are there still Cable Operators left and in fact there are nearly 900 smaller markets and rural areas in every corner you can imagine and rural areas small towns and small markets. Many of them are competitive providing Competitive Services against some of the largest providers today. What is great about the Smaller Companies its a terrific story because they are providing highspeed broadband and very rural areas that desperately need Rural Broadband service in addition to phone in audio service. These are the members we represent. They are smaller and independent which means they are not affiliated with larger context on pennies or larger providers and what we do
Production. And so there have been there are some things in the farm bill that would restrict Crop Insurance a little bit. Thats thats in the senate in the senate bill. But then there are other pressures to increase Crop Insurance for crops that dont have it. Its much harder to do Crop Insurance for the specialty crops, the fruits and vegetables, the nuts, et cetera, because theyre grown on smaller acreages and so its hard to develop the program in which you figure out what the what the rules would be. With the wheat and the corn, et cetera, you spread it over, you know, over large areas so the Program Works fairly well for those but not for some of the products yet. Host judy is up next who lives in a rural area. Good morning. Caller good morning. My problem is, okay, ive been a cashier for many years and i see a lot of Illegal Immigrants coming in that cannot speak english and theyve got a thousand dollars or more in food stamps. And i want to know why its so easy for these people to