Your perseverance and service to this nation, both the past, present and in the future too. Things arent getting a whole lot better any time soon, i fear. I would ask consent that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. As a hearing on the border we havent had one for quite a few months, so i obviously need to use a chart. Thats really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. Weve held i think close to 40 hearings on some aspect of the issues on the border and with our broken immigration system, began keeping this chart on unaccompanied children but then as the whole issue with people coming across and exploiting our asylum laws coming as families, the problem just exploded in late 2018 and into 2019, and the main reason i want to show this chart, youll see the gold colored bars are single adults, down slightly, pretty persistent, pretty stable for the, you know, eight years this chart represents. What you do see, though, in red is unaccompanied children, blue
Area, and while we were taping, another Public Health crisis hit the us all a deadly new virus called covid 19. Embedded with the king county seattle Public Health director, we kept our cameras rolling, as officials began to grapple with the enormity of the threat, and the challenge of protecting the most vulnerable. Stevie habedank weve got thick blankets. Weve got a sleeping bag. I think it was, what . Yeah. 36 six out. And i mean, i was fairly warm back there. Were you warm, kiddo . Alexa kind of. Stevie habedank kind of. Casey ballard merry christmas. Stevie habedank since ive been out of work, this has all been really hard. Trying to put gas in the car, trying to feed my daughter. People feel that Homeless People are junkies and alcoholics, and im none of those. Theres a lot of us out there that are just trying to get stable and on our feet so that we can live a normal life. Dow constantine seattle has a housing and homelessness crisis, and a lot of it really is tied up in the suc
Commissioners. Does anyone have an amendment, or moagdz to approve. So moved for approval. Second. President bernal i will do a roll call vote. President bernal yes. Vice president green yes. Commissioner chung yes. Commissioner chow yes. Thank you. Item 3 is general Public Comment and id like to just put this information back on the scroon be r screen, the callin number is. 4084189388. Access code 1465666224. Once you dial, you press the pound twice and to actually get in line to make Public Comment, you then press tries tries 3. Araceli, are there any people with their hands raise forward general Public Comment . There arent any. Okay. Great. Commissioners, lets just wait a few more seconds to make sure no one comes in, and we can possibly move to item 4. Item 4. The annual request to the Health Commission meeting ar approval of potential chapter 21. 42 sole waiver usage in fiscal year 2021. This item was brought at the june 16 meet and the item was deferred because the r we had issu
And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far as you want to go in American History, okay, the idea has been that the United States
That the public is aware of what is going on and the decisions that were making and what to expect. Theres so much uncertainty. This has been a very fluid situation and at any given time information can change. So we believe that it is critical that you understand how were making those decisions. And some of the experts who are leading these efforts are important people that i think that everyone should know and should hear directly from them. So today were going to dive into the statistics are and the criteria our Public Health officials are looking at and what they need to see for us to continue to reopen and advance our recovery efforts. Here in San Francisco, you all have been doing an amazing job. And as a result of following this order, and i would say maybe not everyone but for the most part a lot of folks are, because you have been following these social distancing requirements, you have made it possible for us to just move further into the stages that have been outlined for ou