Directors, thats seven ayes and item 14 is approved. At this time you are scheduled to go into closed session. We have not yet received any indication that a member of the public wishes to address you on the items listed. However, they have an opportunity to do so now by pressing star 3 if they have already dialed in. Since there is a slight delay between our speaking and sf gov tvs live streaming, we will go ahead about wait about ten seconds or so, giving folks an opportunity to indicate whether they would like to speak on the items for discussion in closed session. All right, it does not appear that any member ts of the public wish to address you on any of the items in closed session. There are a couple of members from staff and the team, so whats going to happen now is the i. T. Function is going to take effect to change your viewing ability, basically exiting the room, if you will, so that the board can get into closed session. I will as well be doing so. So well get you into clos
Dismissal, dismissal at zuckerberg, theres only blacks and asians that were dismissed. Laguna seems to be kind of consistent. You see three for filipino, but we also know last year there was a patient abuse scandal, and it did affect a number of people who were filipino. That may be why that number seems to be higher than the others. But i think that we still need to do more work in terms of where the disparity is in terms of blacks, asians not so much asians, but dispanics. It goes back to the other slide in terms of theres an offset bases on the amount of people that are in the workforce and the amount of discipline that goes along with that. So in terms of disciplinary, i have some suggestions that go along with that. What im heard from my chair perso person, rhonda simmons, the disciplines are for coming to work late and those kinds of issues. But releasing in probationary period, and i have some suggestions where we can talk more about that where we and im not saying h. R. Where w
Served as the special assistant for human rights and began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, kosovo and zimbabwe and was the director for the human rights policy at the kennedy s school. Her book a problem from hell was the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 also the author of the bestselling book the fight to save the world and o the most recent book we wl bebeec discussing today the education of an idealist is was published by harpercollins in september of this year and ive just learned it is shortlisted for the irish book prize. Congratulations. [applause] and one more time please join me in welcoming samantha power. [applause] theres a reason this is my first trip to austin. We are going to start off the session with a brief reading. I want to set the stage for the conversation and i thought the reading i would do today is one that speaks to the challenges that we are facing figuring out how to engage with people that we disagree with vehemently so this is the sc
Tent. Im the editor at large of kirkus reviews, and im the host of the fully booked podcast, if youd like to subscribe. And i am absolutely honored to be in conversation with Samantha Power today. [applause] Samantha Power is a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy school at harvard law school. From 20132017 she served as the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a member of president obamas cabinet. From 20092013 she served on the National Security council as special assistant to the president for Multilateral Affairs and human rights. She began her career as a journalist reporting from places such as bosnia, east timor, kosovo, rwanda, sudan and zimbabwe, and she was the founding executive director of the carr center for human rights policy at the kennedy school. Her book, a problem from hell won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. She is yeah. [laughter] a big one a while ago. [laughter] she is also the author of the New York Times bestseller chasing the game. Her chasing the fl
And the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and Intelligence Committee wednesday july 17th, 9 00 a. M. Eastern. He will testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org on listen with the cspan free radio app. Two household and security subcommittees held a joint hearing how fema contracts are awarded and managed. They want to know about a 30 Million Contract after Hurricane Maria was awarded to a new company and tarps were never delivered. They heard from fema, Government Accountability office and Homeland Security Department Inspector general office. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on fema contracting, reviewing Le