Plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible a
On behalf of the board i want to welcome the new student delegate for the 201617 year. [applause] ms. Maria zaragoza from june jordan and ms. Jessica came from Lowell High School. We are very happy to have the week with us at your first meeting and excited to serve with you and learn from you and were honored to have you here representing students here on our board. Welcome and its quantity very enjoyable and fun year for you so thank you for serving. It has been announced at the last few Board Meetings, if you want to address the board of education, please fill out a speaker card prior to the item being called and if you please give that speaker card to our board assistant ms. Casco. Item a approval of board minutes. Of the regular meeting of june 28 26 and get a motion and second . Moved and seconded. Corrections . Nine fewer aye mendozamcdonnell norton aye wynns aye haney aye six aye item b superintendents report. Superintendent carranza thank you president mcelhaney and good evenin
The whistleblower complaint is not about the waste and abuse. Its about the retaliation against her and that has occurred because she has reported and tried to address the waste and abuse. Weve reached out to dr. Temecks attorneys for comment, in regards to her surrendering her dea license. They have not responded. Tom mckee, nine on your side. Right now on wcpo dot com. Slash. Va. You can find all the reporting by the Scripps National bureau and the wcpo iteam into the problems at the va hospital here. Including how cost cutting affected the care veterans recevied. You can also see all those reports on our mobile app. Tonight there also concerns about the staterun Veterans Home in georgetown. The ohio Inspector General says some doctors who worked there had a conflict of interest. Because they also worked at a hospice provider that does work for the agency. That made them both state employees and employees of a Inspector General says the hospice provider. Stein hospice. Also used a wi
Be celebrating at 11 00 a. M. Eastern which we are about 18 hours away right here in new york city. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im becky quick with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. The dow tracking to close out 2015 down about 1 . The s p is just near break even levels. Were three or four points above break even. That would be looking at the nasdaq and looking to finish 6 or 7 higher at this level. Lets take a look at the quick u. S. Equity futures. Where we go this year, break even on the futures this morning too. The dow futures are up by 7 points. Not to rain on the new years eve parade but news just out that authorities in belgium now detained six people as part of their investigation into a new years eve terror plot yesterday. Heres where it gets more complicated. They called off the new years eve fireworks display citing fears of a militant attack. They wouldnt be able to guarentee that every attendee could be checked so they cancelled the celeb
Japan, wellknown faces are disappearing. Moroccon authorities have a problem with reporters and a court case underway. What is the story at davos, with the world forum, the people who go there and the journalists who cover it. Jurmism in afghanistan was dealt a killer blow journalism. Many were killed when the taliban targeted their bus in a bombing. Last year the militant group declared the channel a military target and this attack was a message to the rest of the afghan media. The targeting of tolo leaves afghan journalists in a hard place with the threat posed by the taliban and the government to report on afghanistan in a way that suits their version of the political and social story, the progress is being made. Until last weeks attack on the media, government officials and those with links to them had been responsible for more threats against afghan journalists over stories of corruption, land grabs, violence against women and human rights abuses than the taliban were. With the af