Continue beyd 110 a. M. Eacmember other than the majority anminority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fromennsylvania, mr. Thomon, for five minutes mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this coming sunday of s the 26th anniversary the house of representatives passing the northern American Free trade agreement, nafta. This agreement with our two closest trading partners, canada outdated , has become as time has passed. Economies have flourished. Now, we are in desperate need of updating nafta to meet modern day economic demands. Many of us have staff who are younger than nafta, and we world hasree that the changed an awful lot in the last three decades. Needs to bring the United Statesmexciocanada or usmca, to a vote immediately to keep trade fair. Nd a vote on usmca is long overdue. 400 days more than since President Trump announced this historic agreement, and have often anada given usmca the green light
Not present yee not present you have a quorum thank you. Can we please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] speaking no mdm. Clerk, any communications . Yes. Where in the receipt of its litigation dated speaking no mdm. Clerk, any communications . Yes. Where in the receipt of its litigation dated february 22, 2016 pertaining to item 2629 todays agenda. Regarding the proposed commuter shuttle permit program appellant representing their Legal Environment of transit have formally withdrawn their appeal. Colleagues, any changes to the have formally withdrawn their appeal. Colleagues, any changes to the january 12, 2016 Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes. Moved and seconded. Colleagues, can we take this without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after public comment. [gavel] madam clerk, please read the consent agenda. Items 14 comprise of consent calendar if any members of the board would like to
Parent im pleased to introduce the parents of two children to the monroe elementary charles your experience about kindergarten to college. Thank you Jose Cisneros my wife sabrina works at monroe my children in second grade and my daughter in kindergarten were proud today to represent this vibrant and Diverse Community family to be striving to have their children go to college frequently the first generations to go to college i appreciated how to work are these to make that a reaching of arraignment for all children general Public Comment start for our family and outline e all families whether we begin to plan for college or not Kiddie College is getting our children to college at the starting line for dlej this may find us with their matching program incentivizing and rewarded benchmark amounts we have friends with kids in college we recognize the College Funding that if placed we know how much college cost and the 20 years since mooifrns e my wife and i went to college any College Cos
Information, compiled for the 2015, pointintime, Homeless Count. Thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in Time Homeless count here in San Francisco. As many of you are aware, the Homeless Count occurs every two years, in order to receive, federal funds to address, homelessness here locally. Back . January, i joined the city staff and the nonprofit partners to participate in the count and the white house, chief of staff came out as well and the results were just released publicly in july. And the results of the count, which we will discuss, in detail, today, provide some optimism, but also, show the way of a much more work to do ahead of us to reduce the homelessness here. And the stats in july shows that we continue to make the progress in the homeless, and we are on the way of achieving and 2015. But the count revealed that the population is older and a higher rate of Substance Abuse and
Session. Welcome back, members. Mdm. Clerk, please call the roll thank you madame president supervisor avalos present; pres. Breed here;; compost present; christiansen present cohen, present farrell, present; kimpresent some; mar not present tang present wienerpresent emacpresent you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you madam clerk are there any communications or yes mdm. Pres. This medication is meant to inform the public that the board of supervisors has expanded its existing Language Access Services Program by authorizing the office of the clerk of the board to enter into an abortive partnership with the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. For an 11 Month Pilot Program beginning september 1, 2015 and lasting through july 31, 2015. During that time, the staff will provide spanish and Chinese Interpretation Services upon request and every regular and special board of supervisors