Grateful to have your support for four more years on the b. A. R. T. Board. Thank you so much. Hi. I am alia, and i am running for San Francisco city college. I never knew that i would one day grow up and oversee the Free City College program at the department of children, youth, and their families, increasing access to Educational Opportunities for our Community Every day. In this role, i also monitoring the entire budget for the program. My passion for education started at a young age. I grew up in a lowincome household and have experienced firsthand the transformative nature of education both as a student and teacher. But over time, i realized how Education Systems failed our most vulnerable students. As a former legislative aide, i worked on legislation to ban the box on private college applications, making San Francisco the first city in the nation to do so. During this time of a Global Pandemic and a social movement to dismantle systemic racism, city College Needs a new voice and
Think in my opinion is really one of the most important stories of our time. Is not been well told until now. Were going to talk about that today. I got to know carter page professionally as an Investigative Reporter covering story i really was blown away by the facts and when you cover stories where household interest in trying to take them and youre not giving the true picture. We will talk about all of that today. Carter, can we start with you giving little brief background of your education, where you went to school and just very briefly, your job experience and career. Yes thank you so much for doing this today and its great to be with you. So i grew up in Dutchess County new york. If i received the nomination for the u. S. Naval academy. I started of the week after i graduated high school. That was in 1989. So i completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served in the u. S. Na navy. First is an armscontrol officer doing International Arms control negotiat
We dont want in drafting, start with what is the problem that you want to solve, and that is we dont want people asking for donors to pay for their holiday party. I think theres some question, as we get into the legislation, why theyre getting around the gift role . So its perfectly legitimate for organization, a corporation, or contractor to give money to the city, say, to help with the clean streets program, etc. , but if its over 10,000, they have to go to the board or it has to be posted on the departmental website if its under 10,000. We need to look inhouse in terms of is that process too arduous to go through where they go through this funding or they dont go to the parks alliance, they just throw this money in a special fund to a fiscal agent, and then, they can spend it more quickly. Sometimes, lets face it. Contracting, you give the money to the city, and then, they want to go out and contract somebody to provide rain barrels for drought resistance, and by the time you put ou
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