Like to give a warm welcome to the new supervisor who is on this committee sandra lee fewer. [applause] our clerk is derek evans and from sfgtv we would like to thank the staff. Felix is new and at this time mr. Clerk do you have any announcements. Yes, sir madam chair. Please silent all cell phones and Electronic Devices and items should be submitted to the check and items will be on the tuesday january 242017 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Mr. Clerk can you call item 1. Item 1 is for the ordinance amending the administrative code to require that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing appoint one member to the Reentry Council increasing the member from 23 to 24 and increasing the time of appointed former inmate can be free from custody from maximum to two years to a three years and require that Council Submit a report to the board of supervisors recommended whether the council should continue by july 1, 2018. This is from supervisor aval
Until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attended was what kind of facilities, what would be the feels facilities preparation and my sense was a facility like ours ultimately, could very well have a lot of useful for a time
Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attende
Washington correspondent, peter cook and john kerrys diplomatic trip to ukraine. Our peace efforts yielding any results so far . Right now, he might be more of a side player in all of this. Hes not the only foreign visitor trying to forge a medic solution. At this hour, german chancellor Angela Merkel and the french president are in kiev and they brought with them a new ceasefire initiative. They did not provide details on the proposal itself. They had next to moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin directly who has offered up his own peace plan. This is their response and this will be Angela Merkels first visit to russia since 2013 with a goal to end the violence between the Government Forces and russian backed separatists. Fighting has escalated as the rebels mounted a new offensive stop the conflict has claimed more than 5000 lives. In his own meetings today, kerry says russian russia needs to ds goalie crisis. Russia and me separatists are seizing more territory, terrorizing more citize
Low 20s but not center city. That is a live view from the adventure aquarium. There are some clouds overhead. So the temperatures will not go lower in philadelphia. Philadelphia, even though its warmer, still dealing with windchills. The wind is blowing, feels like 20 degrees in Philadelphia International. While theres no wind in northeast philadelphia but no wind in pottstown and allentown as the temperatures drop down there to the 20s this morning. But a warmup yes, it will be warmer than yesterday afternoon. Well see 40s during the noon time hour. Climb into the low 40s early in the afternoon. Well see it hour by hour with the future weather when i come back in less than ten minutes. Right now, were checking with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. Good morning, jillian. Good morning, bill. Right now, we have two separate accidents with vehicles hitting deer. New hadtown road and buck road. The other is huntington valley, byberry road. And all looking good on route 100 but we