Yee. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen request can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Madam clerk, are there any communications. Today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. Stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. Is there a motion to excuse avalos. Without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from todays meeting. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda . I have no changes. Can you please rate the consent agenda. Items 1 through 12 comprised consent calen der. Supervisor campos. Thank you, i like to remove item 10. Okay. Seeing no other names on the roster, please call the roll on remaining items. Supervisor campos. Aye. Supervisor christensen . Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Superviso
Supervisor avalos president breed, supervisor compos supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, kim not present. Supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor weiner, supervisor yee. You have a quorum. Ladies and gentlemen request can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Madam clerk, are there any communications. Today we have communication dated yesterday from supervisor john avalos. Stated he will not be in attendance today and request to be accused. Is there a motion to excuse avalos. Without objection, supervisor avalos is excused from todays meeting. Madam clerk, are there any changes to the agenda . I have no changes. Can you please rate the consent agenda. Items 1 through 12 comprised consent calen der. Supervisor campos. Thank you, i like to r
Item 28 is a motion to appoint antonia diaz for a one year term. Same house same call sorry, supervisor mar. Thank you colleagues, i wanted to acknowledge the incredible work of antonio dias over the years. Leading within the southwest network for environmental and Economic Justice. In i also worked with. Antonio is a tremendous leader for our city. Not only in building grassroots organizations but really giving people of color, immigrant community, grassroot perspectives to the issues. Climate change and Climate Justice in our communities. This Energy Efficiency task force is part of work from antonio and others. I think the coordinating committees goal are to catalog all our Energy Efficiency and identifying Revenue Streams to Fund Additional work. Today many of us in the broad clean power except coalition were invited celebrating earth day but also the potential of clean power moving forward in a very strong and positive way. Antonio diaz is joining in Energy Efficiency committee. I
Justice, youve got to make sure that youre also taking advantage of the opportunities that you currently have. But that brings me to one last piece of advice for young people, and that is, think about more than just yourself. [applause] think about how you can have an impact beyond yourself. The people who i know who are really happy and successful as they get older, its because they have an impact on something other than just their own situation. Theyre not just thinking about how do i get mine. [applause] theyre thinking about how does everybody get their fair share. And when they do that, that gives meaning to your life; that gives purpose to your life; that gives you influence and a sense of purpose. And youve got to have a sense of purpose beyond just the almighty dollar. I mean, look, we live in a free market society, and one of the things that sets america apart is business and entrepreneurship and hustle, and folks are out there just theyre trying to make a new product or creat
John a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house has come to the close of an eventful week and we approach a weekend during which many members of this assembly will gather to remember a historic event in selma, alabama. 50 years ago, brave men and women americans of all races, colors and faiths walked together to help guarantee freedoms that were still denied men and women in alabama. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans to nurture and guarantee democratic freedoms to all who dwell in our great nation. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 2a, the journal of the last day