Year 15 16 with 4 million to be added to the fund. Therefore the children and youth fund urges the mayor and board of supervisor tooz macmize children and youth resources to address unmet needs through Grant Program development,xpansion and improve. The resources should nolt be diverted to cover increase in minimum wage. The mayor made comment to address fiscal praesher [inaudible] while the children and yooth Fund Community youth [inaudible] supports the cost of doing business increase for dc [inaudible] the city should invest in the children to support Strong Agency doing quality work with young peopling in need. Giving budget predictions of [inaudible] 1. 5 million to support [inaudible] that will divert half tho2 million of the 4 million increase in the Children Fund next year. [inaudible] thank yous. Next speaker, please good afternoon supervisors my name is johny swarts and the executive director of [inaudible] here to represent the tay [inaudible] is group of director representi
Which we go through in earlier, and is it is understood, and so it is a lot of high level concepts around funding, and around how do we meet our greenhouse gas, reduction goals as a state and as a region, but how it really effects the locals here is the link to the county wide Transportation Plan as well as the other planning activities that are happening such as the neighborhood plans that i just highlighted and how do they ultimately make the way into the federal and state and other funding that the regional Transportation Plan prioritizes. Our hope is to educate the mtc commissioners and the way that the mtc and the way that they are structuring is there is no presentations and it is more like a presentation, and the feedback. Thank you, thank you very much. Commissioner mar. Yeah, i was just going to add that the last time that there was a planned area, and workshops around the region and ann from the mtc and i facilitated a little bit of a conversation but it sounds like it is dif
U. S. Secretary of state john kerry urged israeli and palestinian leaders to prevent the collapse of peace negotiation and the Israeli Government cancelled the planned release of a group of palestinian prisoners and made the decision after the palestinian renewed efforts at u. N. Correspondent Stephanie Decker is joining us live from jerusalem and a few weeks out from the deadline do you think it was ever a realistic timeline, are the two sides any closer now than when the first round of peace talks some nine months ago . Well, no one one commentator said it looks like they have gone back ten years and i think the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry had the right intention but it was very unrealistic to think in nine months we could overcome miss trust, animosity that stretches back decades. The point that we are at now none of the main issues have been addressed even and its being so difficult. I mean the palestinians will tell you they think the americans are not putting enough press
Process has reached a critical moment and secretary of state john kerry said that the Obama Administration is on the verge of giving up. At this hour Law Enforcement officials are saying the Army Specialist who killed three soldiers and wounded others argued with superiors about a leave request before the rampa rampage. We have conducted detail investigation and have been addressed the horrible tragedy. Heidi zhou castro has been following the latest. Reporter we all want to know what was the verbal altercation about . We have some clue abou. They saw a request for leave, and a superior told him to urn the next day. At that point lopez left and came back with a gun and open fired. Were learning more about the history of lopez when he lived in puerto rico. According to a friend who grew up with lopez the last time he visited the island was in november of last year for his mothers funeral. She had died suddenly from a heart attack, and according to this friend it was difficult for lopez
Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, th