The National Independent Venue Association does. Independent venue is one that is not owned by a multinational or a publicly traded corporation. More often than not it means its locally owned. Lots of times its a family owned business thats been handed down from generation to generation. Two people in the communities that are hiring in their communities, that are taking care of their neighbors and opening their doors to is fundraisers. That are hired out for , special family and lifetime events. The onestaking chances on emerging artists and in rtrying to build more communitybased initiatives as well. Prior to four months ago literallyto the day , there wasnt an organization that was able to speak on behalf of these thousands and thousands of individually owned venues and promoters across the country and i think a good portion of that was because we didnt need it. Part of being independent is finding the solutions and putting them into play and everybodys so busy and overwhelmed with j
That deep, deep research that goes to the bones of our country and unearths the things we are not interested in talking about. So im deeply thankful to richard and i am paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. The second part of this is there is an notion i have been doing whatever i can to reverse this. We have conceived of ourselves as a country with a racial problem. Underneath of that is there notion is that there are pure races in this country, a white race from europe, a black race from africa, and asian race from asia a latino race that hails from, i dont quite know where. Increasingly in arab and muslim race. This is the path we are going down and what this language does is obscure the fact that race and racism in america is a done thing, that the name comes after the attempt to take something from somebody and what that allows us to do is feel like we are some sort of divine, god in with some sort of divine, god made problem when we are in fact dealing wit
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Associated with that multibillion Dollar Program and this geo specifically provides match and is part of that full funding plan. Capitalwise they will continue to be sustained by the citys proposition k sales tax. But we do, as tim noted, are continuing to have discussions with them longterm. Supervisor fewer okay . Thank you. Any other comments, questions, from my colleagues. Seeing none, could we have a b. L. A. Report . Yes, chair fewer, members of the committee, 4 and 5 i prove the issuance of 140 million in general Obligation Bonds for transportation improvement projects. We summarized the use of the bond funds on page 10 of our report and sort of the overall bond projects on page 11 of our report. Estimated debt service on the bond would be 9. 7 million per year as discussed. The impact on the property tax rate would be for property assessed at 600,000 would be 20 per year. This does fall within the citys capital debt limit and capital plan tax rate limit. We recommend amending t
Of representatives at 5 p. M. Eastern. And you can see that here on cspan2. Now, live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we whisper our prayer boldly before your throne of grace. You have invited us to come to you with all our needs. We thank you for our requests that you have already answered. We have sought and found. We have knocked and walked through open doors. Lord, with your grace and mercy, strengthen our lawmakers for their journey. Prepare them for the ravages of the valley and the chill of the mountain summits. Guide them, great redeemer. They are pilgrims on this earth. They are weak, but you are mighty. Inspire them to keep their eyes on you and not the problems that seem too difficult to solve. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pled