Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
A mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet. Tension once again in cities of the United States in Portland Oregon Security Forces have launched tear gas and protesters have lit fires on the streets theyre angry because federal offices have been sent to control demonstrations which have been going on for 56. 00 nights but President Donald Trump has promised to deploy more officers this time to the cities of chicago and albuquerque he says is to control rising crime others say its an election stunt mike hanna reports. The concern about federal involvement was spotted by scenes like this from Portland Oregon up to weeks of anti racism protests federal troops in unmarked uniforms moved in confronting demonstrate. Is entertaining them in unmarked vehicles much to the anger of the states governor this is a democracy not a dictatorship and we cannot have secret police abducting people into and putting them in unmarked vehicles. I cannot believe i have t
Back at this particular moment and talk about facebook the inside story couldnt be more timely. I am just going to start off we have a lot of places to go with this kind going to start with something timely. This morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of her and the fact trump has gone to facebook to get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for things over the years and i actually wrote a column recently about why Mark Zuckerberg hasnt fact checked. Tell us about your relationship with facebook and free speech. Im going to throw a big question to launch this off. Guest it is good to be here again with some virtuosi. Like a lot of things you cannot just tease out any one problem of facebook dna in its origins. In the case of trump obviously it wasnt something they talked about but by the time the campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook blather on top of the way that it dealt with controversy and it first came out in 2015 when he po
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
I want to thank you all. I want to step thank staff and partners for taking me seriously. Madame clerk can take the roll call please. [roll call] there are 11 eye. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please go to our first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please read items 24 through 47. Twentyfour through 27 continued from march 24th and june 23rd, 2020 comprise a public hearings of persons and certification of conditional use authorization issued by the Planning Commission to demolish a threestory singlefamily residence and construct a fourstory mix used building with three dwelling units at approximately 1,731 square feet of ground floor commercial within the neighborhood. Item 25 is the motion to approve the decision and approve the conditional use authorization for the project. Item 26 is the motion to conditionally disapprove the departments decision subject to the adoption of written findings by the board in support of the determination. Item 27 is