University to interpret what the grades mean. If some students in the same course got a pass while others got a letter grade, that would be nearly impossible for them to decipher what that means. I suspect we would hear a lot of feedback from them. Commissioner collins i want to recognize president solomon. Thank you. I just want to make sure that things are accurate. I am speaking where it says teachers are encouraged not to give students lesser grades than they had. This is about contract language exact about what it says. It is not that teachers are encouraged to do so, it says that students will not receive a lesser grade than the grade after march 13th as a result of engaging in Distance Learning. Contract language will not mean this will not happen. Teachers saying it is not going to happen. This is from the m. O. U. Agreed to buy the district and the union. I want to be clear. I appreciate you clarifying. I want to make sure that i dont want to i am trying to i guess based on le
Good morning, everyone. The meeting with come to orthopedic. This is is the april 29, 2020, regular budget and finance committee. At this time, i will be calling the Budget Committee. Im chair of the budget and finance committee and joined by supervisor raphael mandelman. inaudible . Welcome, president yee. I would like to thank sf gov tv and if other supervisors have joined us, supervisors, if i have not mentioned your name, please introduce yourself. This is catherine stephanie. Welcome. Thank you. Any other supervisors that have joined us in. This is supervisor aaron pesk nix. Peskin. As supervisors join us, we will be introducing them for the meeting. And madam clerk, any announcements . Yes, madam chair, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Committee room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting. As if they were physically present. Comment will be available under the antici
Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerful when you look at europe you probably see facts you see 450 million citizens you see 27 countries united around a common political project. You see a quarter of the gdp. You see the bigger straining blood and probably we hope you see diplomatic power. When we europeans we look at ourselves we often do not see this power. We see we sold out divisions disagreements. Consensus on important decisions. And this is changing. It is changing because of my front president is putting a lot of energy the
Council we value european allies and valued u. S. Engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the European Union is a key, critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to explain the developments within the European Union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers United States and europe especially in times of Great Power Competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the European Union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up European Defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. These are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. Let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will open to a conversation with all of you and we want this to be as interactive as possible. Thank you very much. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you for hosting
Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerful when you look at europe you probably see facts you see 450 million citizens you see 27 countries united around a common political project. You see a quarter of the gdp. You see the bigger straining blood and probably we hope you see diplomatic power. When we europeans we look at ourselves we often do not see this power. We see we sold out divisions disagreements. Consensus on important decisions. And this is changing. It is changing because of my front president is putting a lot of energy the