And girls that emphasizes how pressing and pervasive this problem is on our campuses. I am attending an initiative in connecticut to try to raise awareness about it and i would like your commitment that you will work with me and others on this committee on this issue. I look forward to working with you on that important issue in the statistics are alarming. 20 of all young women are either assaulted or an attempt of an Sexual Assault. Usually this happens and there freshmen are early part of their sophomore years. We have used those statistics in the work of the task force of the president has put together to deal with that issue and we look forward to working with you and other members of congress and trying to come up with meaningful ways that we can deal with an issue that has too often been if not ignored not given the attention it deserves. Just so no one thinks that this issue nearly involves rhetoric. There is a legal basis for legal action and federal title ix in protecting wom
Let me just say on the issue of trafficking i welcome your comments on that score. I have proposed a resolution, bipartisan resolution with my colleague rob portman who is not a member of this committee basically saying that there should be more vigorous enforcement of these laws particularly around the time of the super bowl because the trafficking on web sites like back page. Com and tends to increase during this time so i welcome your comments. And let me just add briefly, to take senator leahys comments, i want to thank you and the department of justice for really over these past years viewing these legal issues on their merits, on their legal merits putting politics aside. The Justice Department went through a dark area in my view under the Previous Administration when politics far too often became part of the analysis and i want to thank the career, Justice Department employees who worked so hard and long under you to make sure that the rule of law is berserk. Let me turn to a pa
And sometimes people are really passionate about their feelings on this issue. I want to thank you for heading this up and taking this on because it was something that needed to be discussed. You are doing a great job with this, thank you. Do we have any Public Comment at this moment on item no. 5. Cmon up and please state your name my name is danny miles an mire. I own a store. Im a vicepresident for the north association and a member on the board. I had a very open mind in the beginning, but its tough out there and we dont need anymore competition. Well fight it like we fought mobile retail and probably win. Just over there is certain where commissioner right dwight has your arms wrapped around it. Are there any scenarios where your merchants, are there services where they would welcome . For example, im in a dog patch, and we dont have any atm aechlz s. For the most part we have to get in our cars. I would see that work but from the Merchants Association they would not entertain any
Mayor was making his presentation, i was besides myself. I made comments during introduction about it as well. I spent about maybe 5 minutes talking with reporters afterwards. I was in shock that the reporting didnt even cover this huge discrepancy with what reality is and what was said by the mayor. It shows that we need better journalist in this city among other things. Okay. We can go on to Public Comment on this item, any member of the public when would like to comment, please come forward. Good afternoon, supervisors, good afternoon. Lafco staff. My name is Shawn Marshall with the local agriculturation Network Aggregation network with promoting greater energy. I serve as vicemayor as the city of valley. Im signature sitting here with my lead hat on. I want to commend mayor lee, there is nothing in the california statute that requires the sf puc to be the response offer cca. I do think it would be the most logical choice, but given the political stalemate, i think its smart for you
Parking there and 18th street for a while. I want to thank you for pulling all the merchant groups together and like commissioner dwight says, none of these other cities have seen this yet. I think people may copy us to see what we do. I do believe in what you said too, in smaller towns, where you dont have this type of access, i can see this working and in San Francisco, i see the opposite. For a while there, i was seeing a lot of this em and all of a sudden a lot of them went away too. I cant thank you enough for taking this on because i know you are hearing it from both ends. Good and bad and sometimes people are really passionate about their feelings on this issue. I want to thank you for heading this up and taking this on because it was something that needed to be discussed. You are doing a great job with this, thank you. Do we have any Public Comment at this moment on item no. 5. Cmon up and please state your name my name is danny miles an mire. I own a store. Im a vicepresident