Abc7s kristen sze is here now with leaders in our local Apa Community. Thank you, cheryl. We have a great group for todays show. Nick kuwada is staff attorney with asian law alliance, based in santa clara county. Masashi niwano is festival exhibitions director for center for Asian American media. And elise maar former senior associate director of admissions to stanford. Now, we brought you all here because your expertise will really help us understand some issues that are very important. Were talking about timely and relevant to asianamericans and also the broader bay area community, of course. Were talking about this election year, president ial election, so we want to talk about voting, getting out the vote. Also, this year is the oscars so white controversy, so we want to bring in the issue of media representation of asianamericans. And, of course, something that is so stressful to parents out there, not just asianamericans, but it is a particularly important topic to asianamericans
Right now action news weekenedeng letter suspicious power sent to employees at the mosaic plant. Plus accused of picking and choosing who can in a polk county mobile home park. First what we know has been down graded 4. It is roaring across the caribbean, packing winds 15 a Miles Per Hour it is expected to remain powerful through the weekend. Lets go to shay ryan tracking mathews path. Yeah, if you have any plans to take a cruise over the next couple days, into this area, any where in the caribbean i would check ahead with your d s plans are to adjust the path it is a significant storm to say the least. Right now cat 4 almost a cat 5, it has just weakened slightly as upper level winds started to just pull this apart. Just a little bit. Still a major hurricane it is expected to continue on a anmak northerly turn. Once it makes its northerly turn we will have a much better idea what the final path will be. As you look at this cone of is just still barely in that cone. We are not complete
Lease and with the soon to be completed renovation project and the restoration project, the Department Anticipates receiving an average of 1. 3 million per year over the fiveyear term of this lease. Thats an increase of 5 63,000 per year, over 2. 2 mill over the fiveyear term,v with that, if there are any question the supervisors have . Supervisor avalos . The hearing we have coming up soon is [speaker not understood] is meeting rlb requirements, business local enterprise will be doing the concessionses in elevator for coit tower, is that correct, for the museum store in the elevator . My understanding of lb requirements those extend predominantly to contracts, not to leases. They are required to meet all of our requirements around nondiscrimination and the like for hiring. But as a lessee, those subcontracting goals do not apply under my understanding to leases. But the question is better directed toward the Contract Monitoring Division. Okay. How about answering in terms of the spiri
This supplemental focuses on the most immediate needs and we already have Many Organizations in dire straits. The bla report highlights the 2001 grant and puts out possible models for criteria for prioritization for what kind of an application process we would have. And [speaker not understood] going on reserve while the task force does its hard work and comes up with its recommendations for the best and most fair way to allocate these funds and what kind of an application process should exist. And we want to ensure that this limited pot of money is used in the best possible fashion. I do want to actually respond to supervisor mars question about the loss of nonprofits in the city. The october report that the budget and legislative analyst did noted about 7500 San Francisco an nonprofits two years if go and now there are 6,000. We lost 20 of our nonprofits. We dont want to go any further. ~ so, thank you in advance for both of your approval of this supplemental and your efforts to incr
Wednesday, may 28th. , toward winning author paul with an activist dr. Maya angelou has died. Probably best known for her seven autobiographiesincluding her first one i know why the caged bird sings. If she is also San Franciscos first black cable car conductor at the age of 16. She had reportedly been battling Health Problems street to center final 25 days ago saying to listen to yourself and then that quietudes you might hear the voice of god. Doctor my at angelo passing away and 86. Record s as hmm. Is inew. Wi newysonay srts breaast atbrds, and u stt wi beer iredits, li reaeggs quity son usag alnatul chses, and cris, fly flbrea quity son usag anour licis sawich, atbrds, of yr day prein. Giveou 2 or re teacher layoffs. And a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. Thats what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. So he partnered with Governor Brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. For the first time in thirty years. Today, the deficits are gone and wev