Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary highprofile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail. Bernie madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra bland case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conversation between a young black man, black woman and a Police Officer who pulls her over, and the conversation goes off the rails.
Decision about Education University of california campuses. Will no longer require High School Students to submit an a c t e r s a t score for admission. Thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock everybody im grant lodes and Vicki Liviakis to use the regents voted unanimously to eliminate the exams today. Its the latest attempt to address fairness when it comes to getting into college. The s a t and a c t exams have long been criticized for favoring wealthy white High School Students. The new policy calls for those tests to be suspended through the year 2024. As the University System works to develop its own testing standard. The exams will be completely eliminated by 2025 even if the new you see specific standard test isnt approved yet and tonight californias top educator says that longawaited guidance on how to reopen schools in the fall. Could be coming in a matter of days today, educators from across the state weighed in on what they believe the process should look like our firs
Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco county transportation forth. Our clerk is mr. Albertta kintania. Can you please call the role. role call we have a quorum. Next item, please. Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 17, 2019 meeting. This is an action item. Is there any question on december 17, 2019 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve said minutes. On that motion made and seconded, a role call, please. role call the item is approved. Next item. Item 3, election of chair and vice chair for the year 2020. This is an action item. Nominations are now in order for the office of chair. Is there a motion, commissioner xi. I would like to make a motion to nominate erin peskin. Seconded. Any other nominations . Nobody wants the job. Seeing none, we will close the nominations and on that motion made and seconded, can we do that same house, same call im sorry, commissioner furer. I meant to put my name on the next item. Same house, same call. Than
Any discussion . Call the question, all in favor . Aye. Any opposed . The motion carryies. Now item number 4, the directors report, executive director Shireen Mcspadden. Good morning and happy new year. Is this mic on . So i feel like we just met because the holidays kind of sucked up much of december, so i dont have a huge amount to report. I was in washington dc the second week of december which was actually after we met last month. And i was there for the meetings and they are the National Association of area agencies on aging. The december meeting is when we put together the policy priorities for the next year. So we spent quite a bit of time working on that and the issues that came up were the ones that you would expect. Things like aging and homelessness, food insecurity, the big kind of big ticket items and basic needs issues that are kind of hitting older adults across the country. So i think everybody was really saying we are experiencing the same issues. There also continues
We do have a change in our supervisor. Rafael nadal him and will no longer be part of our board and we will have mr. Dean pressed things preston starting next month in february. We have a quorum. Item number four . Item four is the possible modifications of the meetings set forth below. Regular Meeting Minutes from december 12th, 2019. Are there any corrections to the minutes . I move adoption of the minutes for the december 12th meeting. Second. Any Public Comment on this item . All those in favor of approving the minutes signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed . Its unanimous. Item number five. Number five is the general Public Comment on matters within the boards jurisdiction. Happy new year. Im sure you are tired of hearing from me, but i want to let you know that i genuinely appreciate all of your time. I wanted to say that last month or the month before when you made the recommendations for the memo, i really wanted take to get to hard. I especially thought about what you said, c