Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcnerney, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, i rise to celebrate the life and legacy of my friend, w. Ron cole who passed away on april 17, 2014. He was a native of stockton, california. He went to local schools, graduated from Stockton College and acquired a teaching certificate in the field of distribution from the university of california at berkeley. He was a veteran of the korean war, serving
The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for pet projects such as new teacher prep pardonness, which are redone ant of existing programs. Families deserve a better way forward. We needed administration to work with congress to advance Lasting Solutions facing schools nationwide. Instead of supporting ourests to strengthen education, the administration is implementing a con via luted scheme that has waivers to waivers that makes the secretarie
With our schools that have limited resources were need help from the city and the Wider Community to identify and remain reasonable resources to help with the work that will unavailable arrive from the earthquake ordinances thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Hi supervisors my name is a louis i was the chair of the private schools earthquake safety worker group with the parents and School Representatives weve meet to study the issue and put together a report that led to the draft ordinance i appreciate you guys are taking little issue seriously we know that private schools are important in San Francisco but the reason were here our workshopf. Found that half the School Structures are likely to perform parolee in an upcoming earthquake or has characters that the city doesnt 34 know howl how well perform the city is rigging all schools to be seismically save this is not the truth in recognition of the first step to find out and a because this is hard for schools we shouldnt req
The last few years the Mayors Office and board of supervisors has taken up issues for seismic safety including the legislation the board passed to have retrofits for soft story buildings. Im proud to be a cosponsor of those various pieces of legislation and look forward to work with the issues on the future preserving our building stock and keeping people safe when the big one hits must be a top priority at city hall todays legislation advances us towards it this goal it requires private schools in San Francisco under go a seismic evaluation theyve been retrofitted and this legislation is not a retrofit requirement but instead on evaluation requirement and will allow everyone to have a better understanding of the state of our private seismic safety and if any work needs to be done this will make our private sxlz for resilient and teachers and staff and children safer what was t was introduced we heard a number of concerns while the private schools have expressed the overall goal of mak
Are the deadline that we are facing. September 11th is when the developer signs, to buy the property and they have not said a single word to any of the tenant as of the flower market and now, they are in negotiations to buy the other half of the flower market. If i might add, generally these projects are anywhere from 12 to 24 months, looking through just approval process as well. So,. Yeah, at least i have to go through the planning. Most of the leases for the tenants are up, to the 31st of this year and so everyone and, no one knows if they have a new owner or how that is going to effect them in terms of their leases. And so it is extremely unstable situation. Next item please. Item 12 11 is general Public Comment, on items that are not before the commission. And do we have any members of the public that would like to make a comment on items that are not before the commission today . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, next item please . Next item is new business. Do we have any n