The best of them and my career in the 70s and in the last panel if you had all the money what would you invest in . I would invest in education and were not investing in the future of the children and the in the country and the Global Future of our world and i agree absolutely with everything you said. Were short changing our kids and not giving teachers the resources. There is mold in the teachers work room. If i worked in the building that many children go to school in i wouldnt go to work either and in answer to your question there is a priority here about education thats not quite right. And while were earmarking money i would totally support that and i feel that we should train teachers in Digital Media. You cant teach cooking out a kitchen, so we need to bring Digital Media into the classroom so people can practice in the environments theyre in all the time outside of school. And i would say that having listened to the word Media Literacy as far as back when i was carrying 3inch
To keep doing this every month and to try to get people to come to the meeting. I think we made some really good headway through this process. So, council, you are going to have to pick a new chairperson for this committee. That will be a challenge, definitely. Thank you very much for that, john paul. One of the best things about this role is the opportunity to work with john paul and carla before you, susan, theres really some talented, dedicated people who are not just dedicated but really good at what you guys do. You are good teachers and so i thank you all for the opportunity to have done that. And, howard, if you would stay for a minute, the council would like to present you a small token of our appreciation. Thank you very much. Howard, on behalf of the council, carla, everyone involved, i with like to present you with this token of our appreciation for all your hard work and your dedication and we hope to see your face around because we do need your opinion and we know you will
Over 100 years ago, the disspensory sat here and over the years of the decades this hospital has helped to celebrate our births, has helped to mourn our deaths, has helped our community through our triumphs and our challenge and our obstacles. Our community, i want to thank all of you for coming together. It takes a village to rebuild a hospital. And it has been an honor, i know for my colleague supervisor marr and i to be chinese supervisors working with our First Chinese mayor. Working with our Chinese Hospital of board of trustees, with the chinese chamber, with our chinese family associations, with our chinese Nonprofit Sector and our friends from throughout the world to rebuild this hospital. And then healthcare. I want to mention for a second, that i come from a family of healthcare folks. My grandfather sold chinese herbs my brother is a physician, my brother is an actupuncturist. My mother says that becoming a politician i was a failure because i was supposed to be a doctor. Yo
Thank you for that focus too and i think that gentleman has comments. I was going to follow up in the conversation with Digital Media or literacy needed within the educational system. We are still experiencing Digital Divide and access and just the one you speak of recently officer when you mention the generations and investigators not engaged with this media and no dont know my book or face space and when you have to look at youth culture. We talk about texting and sexing and omg and i didnt text anything to you. I spoke to and part of the language and how they engage so until we look at the culture of young people and how do we Impact Todays 20th Century Media culture we cant make a huge impact in regards to bullying or electronic aggression or whatever name we want to place on it and is affecting the students and i am excited youre addressing this issue and its a crucial time for this generation and if we dont take serious this conversation today and action tomorrow we will see more
And prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or Vegetation Management program in cal fire, we have a Robust Program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and Vegetation Management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, Vegetation Management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you provide the defense. We talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against wild land fires. A lot of it is Public Education, survivability, building standards, but predominately our focus is putting the onus on the land owner, putting the onus on t