It is. Even when they say it is not, it is always about money. Lori would you want to gain tonight out at sea with a big ceo. It has been a very tumultuous year for the cruise industry with one disasterous set back or the next. One company is cruising forward hitting a monumental milestone. Royal Caribbean International is celebrating its 50 millionth cruiser. Talking about getting through the rocky waters and back to smooth sailing if you will, Royal Caribbean ceo and International President aaron goldstein. Nice to meet you, sir. Nice to meet you, lori. Lori tell how the bad pub listly has hit the cruise line industry . It has been a tough time but people recognize how rare those events are through the history of the cruising. That will move forward and customers will be loyal to us as they typically are. Lori interesting that Royal Caribbeans stock price held up nicely this year, it is up 14 . Most of the issues, especially really troubling one, the one so many people were aghast by
Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children were learning to ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday mor
Sfgov and those taping todays session. Madam clerk, any announcements . Seeing none. I would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if thats okay with the committee . Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards project. I have worked on this closely over the last two years with hydra mendoza and a number of people as well as rec and park and denny. And other folks from rec park as well. I want to thank all of those involved over the last two years. To give you background, i have talked about this a lot publicly. For me the impetus came up when first in office. And my children wer
Ride there, with the training wheels off of their bikes, and we lived close to roosevelt and thought that would be a great place to learn. We went over there on a saturday morning, and very frustrated by the fact that the schoolyard was closed and locked up. Huge black top, although asphalt great place for families on the weekends. And came back to city hall and talked to the head of Public Schools, and rec and park and hydra. And i said, if we could open up the schoolyards on the weekend, and it was closed because of the budget cuts. I know that growing up here in San Francisco, i grew up playing ball in the neighborhood in the local schoolyard. And if kids and families are not given that opportunity. I think its a real shame. We have embarked on a project and have had fundraisers over the last years, that have been very successful. And thank you to the sponsors that helped participate. And wouldnt have happened without all of those involved. And i am glad to say that we have 24 schoo
Okay, good afternoon and welcome to our first city and School District meeting for the year. I am jane kim and joined by supervisor mark farrell. And we will be shortly joined by supervisor avalos from the city end. And we have from the board of education, hydra mendoza and Rachel Norton and jill wynns. Our clerk today is rana calonsag. And we would like to recognize sfgov and those taping todays session. Madam clerk, any announcements . Seeing none. I would like to change order of the agenda and call up item 2 first, if thats okay with the committee . Okay, so we will be calling item 2 first. Madam clerk, can you please call item 2. Thank you, file number 130159, the hearing on shared scho scho schoolyards project. By member farrell. Thank you, i want to call up supervisor farrell and to make comments first. Thank you, chair kim, much appreciated. And its great to be here with all the school board members. Colleagues, today we will do a hearing and update on a shared schoolyards proje