Has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work. When people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what we have on our staff. We have a south asian managing director, South African artistic director Latino Community out rich person. Aside from the staff, the other people artists that we work with being a reflection of us yes the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. When i came in i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic Mission District as well as serving the mission. Those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is ms. Wong here. Thank you. Stand and join with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the erasxxmj4 p cp flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under;oh b . ÷ god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pngeddle thank you for joining us today. Our
District. For more information visit ;] wt www. Sfusd. Edu. Thank you for that ive received from the public, askingt aboutb boweme . n information around prop 30. I also would like to share that as superintendent i often receivec 1 . And members of the communityj about therxn . n . Direction of our schools. And while we are fortunate to receive2 feedback one of the concerns i hear from many is whether or not standardized testing in math and ]n . n . English has narrowed what and how we teach our students. The answerwe boo to this question is v÷ux]u an. nr mastery of specific skills and subject materials align to state standardscn . n . In math and english that are assessed, usingdn . n standardized tests are only a small part of what is being taught in our San Francisco schools. Q k nn our schools who have made the greatest academic achievement gains in english and7iwo3i math educate our students in much more than just english and math. They are committed to science and social studies
Project that we know will benefit all of our operators and the cities and regions and residents. The objectives were developed by the councilmembers. First we want to build a workable understanding of our systems interdependencies and the conseqnces of existing conditions and help restoration and response among agencies. We are using a 2006 study and repeat of the earthquake as our scenario event and we will have a complete scenario of the likely buildings and damages resulting from such a earthquake. We hope to identify the key assets restoration priorities and the region after such an earthquake and develop performance expectations under the Current Conditions and standards to strive for in the next decade and communication is critical and fuel is critical to our life line and utilities and roads right after that. Weve focus the right now on the roads and vs access roads available and water, gas, electricity. I wanted to give you a Success Story from our life lines council and that i
These people who are in need. Watch over all of the volunteers as they carve this turkey and watch over all the people delivering all 6100 meals tomorrow. Thanks gets to their destination. We sd it in jesus name, amen. Ms. Lee here. Ms. Wong here. Thank you. Stand and join with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the erasxxmj4 p cp flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under;oh b . ÷ god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pngeddle thank you for joining us today. Our one and only meeting in november. So this is thanksgiving, thats coming up. So just to remind you that usually on[ g;a50e thanksgiving week is generally the where you scheduled the second meeting and we dont have the second meeting. So for all of you that are anxious tokn . n . Get to a second meeting, im sorry. We wont be able to have a meeting in november. Item a, approval of board minutes for the regular meetings of june 12, 2012, june 26 2012
The presiding officer are there any members wishing to vote or dhaing their vote . If not, on this can yeas are 99, the nays are zero. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having vote fed the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i wanted to spend a little bit of Time Offering a viewpoint different than the chairman of the committee on this bill. First of all, i want to say by context, my father and two brothers served in world war ii, my brothers during the vietnam era. There is no question we have an obligation to meet our commitments to those that have put their life and future on the line for this country. But it pains me that although weve increased spending 58 in the v. A. Program since 2009, which is fiscal 2010, what we have seen is a complete lack of oversight of whats happening. Let me give you an example. The v. A. Community in the Senate Committee in the Senate Last Year held