Today. Thursday, april 6th. 10 10. I would like to get you started and im the vice chair of the committee. And to my left is supervisor tang and the chair colin willing here shortly. She is stuck in traffic and she wanted us to start and not delay so that people dont have to wait around. I want to thank linda wong who is the clerk of todays clerk. And also sfgov tv, who tapes every meeting and is available to the public after that. And i want to thank the staff there. Madam clerk, there are any other nounsments . Yes, silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards to be part of the file should be submitted to the clerk items it acted upon today should be on the april, 8th board agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, why dont you go ahead and call item one. Resolution, retroacting the public of health. To accept and expend a grant in the amount of 1,336,000 from the California Department of Public Health to participate in a program entitled hiv care Progra
Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting friday, march 17 here in city hall in room 400. I want to welcome our new councilmembers and later up in the agenda we will tell you about themselves and their background. So right now, lets start with the introductions. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting today here at city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street good entrance is provided via a wheelchair lifts. Accessible listening devices are available at our meeting is open captioned. Sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. Please, as that for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system, and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentation, these, sounds
Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep
And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outside of washington experts, as that is where i worked prior to coming to washington. I spent 19 years working in social Service Agencies in the state and city of new york and i have some idea of the dedication, hard and wisdom of people who work in peace programs, and i always love to be among them. So im very pleased to welcome and introduce to you the first panel which features three 3 mef communitybased organizations. First will be owed l. Cleveland the Administrative Officer for the Baptist Ch
Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago which may be i will tell you a little bit about that hes been teaching at Yale Law School since 1993 which yesterday was significant because that was my first class on the Death Penalty which he taught and was just a marvelous in its rationale figure and its a delight to be here with him. Roy adams is the director of the center for effective justice of the texas Public Policy center. Mark does interesting work in the cause of the criminal Justice System and is making the case for a conservative c