Speaks, followed by the leaders of russia, south korea and iran. We have it live on cspan. On friday, a Retirement Ceremony was held in honor of general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He retired after 41 years of service and will be succeeded by general Joseph Dunford of the marine corps, this is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen please stand for the arrival of the official party and welcome todays official, general martin dempsey, accompanied by the hosts for todays ceremony Ashton Carter and joseph f. Dunford jr. , incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Ladies and gentlemen, the ladies and gentlemen please remain standing as honors are rendered to general dempsey. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the troops representing Americas Armed forces and participating in todays revue are the United States army band under timothy j. Holton and led by drum major scott little. Elements of the armed forces include the president ial escort p
Request to speak regarding general matters. I am going to call your name and please line up at the microphone you will have two minutes each to speak. Evan, miller, joshua davidson, and cicilia, inaudible and inaudible and roslynbutler. Push good evening commissioners. Superintendent carranza. Excuse me my voice is kind of given out i have a little problem that i have been dealing with since the first of the year and it has caused me to be off of work quite a bit but i am here tonight to talk to you about the contract. As you know, it has been 7 years since we have had a raise. We have not had increase but we have had take away which includes furlough days. Our teachers and our parents and the crafts and the trays and their share and we wish to get ours. We are the first in the schools, we open the schools, we close them. We have student nutrition workers that serve our children we have custodians that clean our schools and Health Workers that tend to the inaudible as well as the secre
Do we have interpretation . So that we can. Let me try if i can do it. I am a union representative, of the 1021, do you want to read your stuff . Okay. So, why dont we start, and i apologize, why dont we start over and do four minutes so that you can interpret. I can summarize. She works as a Permanent Civil Service and she was laid off and she returned back to work at the School Nutrition services and is given 3. 5 and the 3. 5 hours per day, with the salary of 400 dollars a week is not enough for her to support her family. She lives in oakland, she has to pay to transportation but the buses are expensive and she has to take another bus to work, and so, she is asking for 7 years she has not received an increase in her pay and so, her family is struggling to meet, you know, the needs in the family. Hello, my name is roslyn butler, to the panel, the Board Members and the superintendent to highlight what josh said, i am going to go a little further. Other than the Board Members i am goin
Local Service Employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the School District and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. We have been bargaining since march. And the last meeting we had was on june 19th. And both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. And we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2. 6 Million Dollars for the inaudible for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. If i, if our researcher is wrong on that matter, we need you to correct us but that is what we found. And so, we tried to really meet with your negotiateors but they are holding on and understands that the budget does not reflect, you know, improvement for our member
Everyone administration and the board, if you do to show your appreciation by giving us the raise that we have earned, thank you. Good evening, and my name is luparas and good evening superintendent carranza and the general public. I am the representative of the local Service Employees that represent and the living 100 workers that work here at the School District and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. We have been bargaining since march. And the last meeting we had was on june 19th. And both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. And we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2. 6 Million Dollars for the inaudible for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. If i