Thank you mr. Chair, were ready for the meeting. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 9, regular meeting of the joint city, School District, and city college select committee. Im supervisor haney, claihair the committee. Do we have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 health emergency, to protect Board Members and the public, the legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to the local state and federal orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, depending on your provider, cable channel 26, 78 or 99 or sfgov. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call the number streaming on your screen, 4156550001. The meeting id is 1460323750. Press pound and then pou
Campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom. Its out on september 29. If you havent yet preordered a copy of the book please consider grabbing one from book depot, we ship nationally, internationally, we have Curbside Pickup and we are actually open at a limited capacity. Just a heads up, weekends are busy so your best luck is swinging by monday or tuesday. Will share some guidelines in our chats and share some links to the book so you have easy access to purchases. Remember that your purchase goes to our supporting arts bookstore and staff. With that i would like to give a walkthrough of our platform and event after the introduction our guests for the night will be joining us up on the screen. We will be taking questions from the audience, please submit your questions in the q a photo below. If you are looking at the art below to the right you will see two bubbles that say q a thats where you should put them i would avoid the chat so we can keep track of a
Day. We ask your blessing upon those throughout our country who are suffering so much more each day. Keep safe the firefighters out west. Keep safe those who are responding to the destruction of Hurricane Sally on the gulf coast. Listen to the cries of those who have lost so much as a result of these natural covid rs even as the pandemic weeks its havoc in our communities. Here in the capitol impel with your spirit the members of congress who, more than any others, have the opportunity to address our nations needs. Give them the wisdom and ourage to do so working as a united force for good in these times. Lord, have mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker thank you, father. Pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Slotkin. Ms. Slotkin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and
Control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way. I think everything in life thats important really lives in the grey like theres no black and white theres this gray how do we make it more clear of what the problem is there are so many different Life Experiences of poverty and we dont have a real clear definition of the federal government does that. They say if your family is more. About. To take care of your family for a year in 2000 does that mean that if youre making more united red and that thats not the case i think the most difficult challenge. Your way out of your current predicament. Of course people cannot contribute to the nation if they are never taught to read or write. If their bodies are stunted from hunger. If their sickness goes on 10 didnt if theyre alive to spend and hopeless poverty just drawing a will search. So
A job and continue work and dont have children tell youre 21 and right now we walked out at the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those rules or they followed one or 2 or all 3 of the rules the results are stone. So i started talking to judges and lawyers and doctors and Health Providers and interviewing people and literally asked thousands of people how many of you course istria part of the United States. We are segregated in there by social class but he does think about it who the middle class people hang out with the middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st. Settle down to dinner together. Today millions of American Families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way. I think everything in life thats important really lives in t