In the is that 5gallon or less include does that 5gallon or less is what we see in our offices, in a lot of the offices in the city. The dispensaries. When former mayor implemented his executive order reducing the use of single use plastic water bottles, i know our office eliminated the water, the big water container in our office. In our city, our best source tap water come from our hedge reservoir, not from imported plastic jugs. With the city, we spend somewhat some where around 98,000 a year on this type of water in our offices. What i do in my office is we have pitchers of water thats provided to folks so that were not using more and more plastic and that we are being consistent in policies like this. This policy was strongly urged by our department of the environment and i would strongly urge support for it. And i guess the question this is considered a single use container then . Thats why im confused. I thought they keep on using it. So it would be the type of plastic container
I want to thank mr. Yoder and mr. Antweiowe had a meeting last month on the role of the legislative branches together and directing your role in sacramento and there was a bunch of process improvements leading up to that hearing and im very pleased that you are here in person thank you for making the trip on short notice from sacramento in the middle of a very active legislative session in our state capitaland i want to thank mrs nicole wheatonelliott. And her staff for the work that with a have done and were now getting minutes from the Legislation Committee that we have been in endeavoring here at the board regarding pieces of state legislation to get them in your hand in our clerk has been giving them to use so thats been a resolution on our part and i want to give an opportunity for the public is watching as well as my colleagues to get to know youre in person it was a pleasure to get to meet know you over a bowl of soup i confess i am sick and have a fever so thank you for humorin
The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C, nod conversation will now come to order and the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for the purpose of an Opening Statement. This morning, first let me welcome our witnesses. This morning we will receive an update on the Consumer Protection efforts in place to address the fraud risk for americas seniors. As of july 2013, there are over 44 million americans who are older than 65. That almost 14 of the population. The population, 65 and holder in the United States, projects to outnumber people younger than 18 for the first time in 2033. A mere 18 years from now. The Median Income of these households is over 35,000 per year, and 71 report having a computer in their home. The median networth of seniors 65 and over is 25 times that of people under 35 years of age. The expanding population of Older Americans and their relative wealth compared to other age groups increases the risk that someone will want to ta
Changes the conversation because focusing on advancing women and, again, i want women in the top of every profession but when we think about it that way, we start counting. Because thats the way you measure how well women are doing, how many women are in fortune 500 and how many women are in Senior Management and how many women are computer scientists. All that have does focus pretty much on wealthy white women, by and large. It does not phofocus on the millions of the women at the bottom. One of the thing i realize, we have too few women at the top and too many women at the bottom and care or our lack of support for care plays a role at both ends. At the top end, if you take time out for care, your career goes off track. But for the millions of women at the bottom not supporting their care means if they take a day off they could lose a job, right . So focusing on care says we have to put in place the policies that rich women can buy their way out of often. We have to put in leave, pai
Regarding the dangers of financial exploitation through n Community Organizations and places of worship and Community Centers and resources that might be available to them, to utilize organizations like the National Guardianship Association to play an Important Role by promoting standards of best practices for guardians and probate courts by providing education and training and provide advocacy on the issue and the impact seniors including that impact seniors including elder abuse and financial exploitation, develop Court Systems and processes that dont work against seniors and consider the urgency of time for the elderly such as the probate and the elder law and miscellaneous remedies courts in chicago because many exploiters simply try to wait out the life span of those of the elderly victims. You have the written materials that ive submitted that are premised large part on article that my deputy Public Guardian wrote and id be happy to share our experiences with individual cases. Th