These are live pictures we are bringing you would need to be better if theyre long sought other lawmakers has taken place in the my marriage central exhibition hall just outside the kremlin walls of course in central moscow. Putins 16th annual address of course one of 3 big events the president does alongside his annual q. And a session and press conference of course taking place later in the year the 1st address of this Congress Actually delivered were back in 1904 by then president barroso get some more than 20 years ago putin gave his 1st address in 2000 when he declared the need to transform russia into a strong and effective state. Lots of topics expected for this year for this year focused on the nations economy russian peoples disposable income other issues as well of course 16th time mr putin has the live of the address before a mixed audience theres government ministers judges from the constitutional and supremum courts as well members of the political elite and of course near
Suffering, including during this, yet another christmas season. Please work harder. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lisa. Im a proud district 5 resident. And im here on behalf of my friends and neighbors and as a board member of the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition to thank supervisor brown for her Wonderful Service for district 5. She has always led with her heart and with her head as a pragmatic progressive. We are so thankful for everything shes done for our district, for district 5 and advocating for the people who are most vulnerable in securing Affordable Housing for those who need it and honestly, every weekend and weeknight, just picking up the trash and cleaning up graffiti, talking with everybody and really making connections with everybody in our district. We are so appreciative. And we will really miss supervisor vallie brown. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Next speaker. My, im kathy. Im coming to talk about city colleg
Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this
Neighborhood commercial districts would not be part of the vacancy tax if it is passed by the voters, and the merchants of bernal and the portola who responded to quickly to confirm that they indeed do support this action, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. I have three items that we will be introducing today. For the first, along with my cosponsors, supervisor mar and supervisor haney, im introducing a supplemental budget appropriation ordinance to help restore the 300 classes proposed to be cut for the spring 2020 semester. I know firsthand how important city college is [applause] [gavel]. Supervisor walton i know firsthand how important city college is to San Francisco. Every year, thousands of district 10 residents and san franciscans across the city rely on city college and its various programs for jobs and skills trai
This is where all of the eminem music would come, out of this room. This is where the romantics recorded. And others too over the years. This is a pretty iconic place. The detroit music scene does censor around motown. That is what everybody knows. Interestingly, motown is sort of the middle of the story. Stories,t of all the of all the other genres of music. It plays a big role in the sound of detroit. Its known for motown, but its actually known around the world. What was happening in detroit, this was starting around the 1900s, 1910, 1920s 1920s, and into the 1930s. To becomes starting the automotive epicenter. Before that, detroit was a major manufacturing city. There were famous for ovens, and even cigars, and things like that. But then when the car company, when ford turned into the assembly line, that is when people really started migrating up here. A lot of jazz musicians started to migrate up here from the south, kind of like the blues. And the motown people, a lot of them, st