Please make sure to silence all cell phone and electronic devices. Copies of any documents to be included the committee should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the september 17th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Please read item number one. Appointing supervisor Rafael Mandelman for a twoyear term to be to the bay area executive government regional committee. Great. Im going to make a motion to continue this item one week to september 16th rules committee meeting, per the request the from supervisor mandelman. Before i take a vote on the motion, i want to open up this item for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who would like to speak . Please come right on up. I recommend he be appointed. By the same response, i want to guarantee that redevelopment rules pertain to 15 of all Apartment Building complexes, that comes out of the Mayors Office on housing. Its suppose to be to very low and lowincome bracket people. Youve been vi
We have to get everybody talking about it. At my church, because the Planning Department did not get a piece of paper from page and turnbull in a timely manner, they red tagged my building. It becomes a lien, which means i have to do a construction draw, in general you cannot do. Luckily we had a great relationships with all of our lenders. Maria, who runs the tax credit buying for u. S. Bank, and so she said to me, foley, i would never sign off with a lien on title, but i know youre not doing anything crazy. I gave her all of the documentation. I think the critical issue that is we all have to talk. The community has to talk. Preservation planning has to talk. Planning has to talk. We all have to talk. If we talk, we dont have things like that happen. And luckily we were able to get through it. We were able to get the building renovated. We have a great relationship with historic and preservation. The other interesting story about preservation, im personally focused on, is when you lo
What better protect the kids if they can change it with the president . It wont be football if we continue to strip away the cake return, the threepoint stance or any number of proposals out there. We think those are ways like tackling. It is an attempt to somehow sanitize the very difficult, very physical act of tackling. It cant be done. Tackling is tackling. They define it exactly as it is done and should be done at the three levels of football where the game should be played. If they cant tackle the way the technique was designed, they shouldnt be playing contact football until such point they are ready to play. Ladies and gentlemen at this time i will recognize my colleague from virginia. I do apologize that my jacket off and ran over to vote in the rain and it got wet so i took my jacket off. Mr. Oneill, my 10yearold tried to tackle football, when my 8yearold was seven he played for flag football. Because they are not ready to tackle that they actually drop out of the sport . We
Israelis. And determination, a nineyearold girl is not going to let anything stop her. And we begin with the refugee crisis, where the refugee crisis is beginning to overwhelm governments. Today, the effort to control the number of refugees pouring into the country. A short time after germany threw open its doors to the refugees. The government has reached a breaking point, and the measure is temporary, and meanwhile, at least 38 refugees drown in the water between greece and turkey. Its the largest single incident reported in the water since the crisis began. There were dozens of survivors who did manage to swim to shore. In austria, thousands of people are stranded at the train station. 8500 refugees today alone. Aljazeeras paul brennan has more on the refugees. Vienna station sunday afternoon. They didnt know it at the time, but these syrian Refugee Families were among the last to leave before the Rail Services were suspended. There will be no more trains between germany and austria
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are battling two of californias fastest burning fires in decades. The valley and butte fires consumed 115,000acres. That is roughly the size of new orleans. Now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. More than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25 contained after five days. The valley fire close to napa is still raging. It began over the weekend. Strong winds and hot weather be making it difficult to stop. Melissa chan is live for us this morning in middletown, california, close to that valley fire. How much progress is being made fighting that blaze . Well, randall, the latest information that we have on this particular fire is its 0 containment. Thats the last figure we had. The valley fire has grown very quickly. In just the last 36 hours, its gone to 50,000acres and the deployment has been very fast in terms of the number of fir