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Now Strong Enough for a december rate hike . A lot of things happening today, but first of all, a very Big Development in the president ial race. Eamon javers joins us in d. C. With more details. Eamon . Mandy, thats right. A blockbuster report here in politico. Com this morning. Politico reporting that ben carsons campaign is admitting that a central piece of his biography was not, in fact, correct as reported by him in his own books. Theyre saying ultimately ben carson was not ever an applicant to west point. In his books ben carson wrote he applied to west point and was offered a full scholarship after meeting with general william westmoreland. Politico reporting that the Carson Campaign is now saying that, no, in fact, he was never offered a full scholarship to west point. In fact, west point is tuitionfree for those offered admission. Theres no such thing as a full scholarship in any case to west point. This follows on a number of controversies for ben carson and his campaign whic
Test. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the tuesday september 17th meeting of the plans and im the chair of the committee. Our clerk could you please call the roll roll call. calling names we have quorum. Thank you. We have a pretty long agenda are there any announcements. No announcements. I wanted to jump right in to the first item. To approve the meeting of the july meeting. Seeing no comments from colleagues. Supervisor campos move to approve. Anyone from the public wishing to speak colleagues can we move this forward without objection. Number 3 this is an information item. And we have mr. Flanagan. Good morning. Commissioners my my name is joseph and im the Vice President of the Citizens Advisory Committee. Ill be providing the c acs chair report today. We have one item on our august agenda is before you today. As an action item and that is item number 4. Item 4 allocation of the property k and aa funds for 8 requests. The c ac passed them unanimously as part of the consent calen
For Public Comment. Well close Public Comment. We have a compliment from commissioner campos. Our next item is closed session. Closed session, employees closed hearing. This is an action hiring. This is a closed session. Were talking about parts of our offer for the new executive commissioners were back to open session and we want to make sure we have a moment for Public Comment as well. And Public Comment is open and seeing no one here for Public Comment. Well close for Public Comment and on our close session, we took no action but there were directions given to the negotiators and thats myself and the Transportation Authority staff and the Hawkins Company to negotiate an offer with the candidate and well move forward and on the 24th well have a resolution of offer that will be with us for terms of employment and thats on the 24th next tuesday at the full ta. Do we have other items before. This information item. Any other items for introduction. Topics, Public Comment on new items . A
Important. You have heard this already. But evan and Sarah Williams foundation, thank you. Thanks for believing in us and i have every confidence when we start making this vision a reality, we are going to have many folks that are coming to the table that say we want to be part of the vision that this board was talking about that night. You gave us a lot to digest. No pun intended. This is a bit big bite of information and we are going to chew on this for the rest of the night. So with that, i want to thank you all for being here. Meeting adjourned. Good afternoon. And welcome to the county Transportation Authority personnel committee. My name is john avalos the chair of the community and joined by my colleagues, wiener, and commissioner mar, and commissioner cohen and the commissioner is chang. Were shown by charles. Do you have any announcements . No announcements. Okay. The roll call. We have our minutes from our july 12th meeting. And any comments on that . We can go into Public Co