Before we call item no. 1. Supervisors mar is out of town. Can i have a motion to excuse him. Please call item no. 1. City clerk item 1 agenda[waiving competitive solicitation requirement professional Services Agreement geneva car barn and powerhouse project aidlin darling design 838,000]1400341. Sponsor avalosordinance waiving the competitive solicitation requirement under administrative code, section 6. 40, and authorizing the general manager of the recreation and Park Department to enter into a professional Services Agreement with aidlin darling design in the amount of 838,000 for the purpose of completing the design and construction documents for the geneva car barn and powerhouse project, to commence following board approval. City clerk sf 11234 okay. Thank you this item sponsored by supervisor avalos. I will turn it to you. Supervisor john avalos thank you, chair farrell. Well talk about solicitation requirement or contract agreement. Im not in a habit of presenting these types o
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Geisler. Her book is left behind the democrats failed attempt to solve inequality. Lily geisler, lets start in the present before we go back in the past but a lot of the news today about the Democratic Party is the establishment versus Bernie Sanders. Does that have a history to it . Absolutely. Thank you. So and thank you so much for having me and talking to me about the book. I think that one of the things that theres a sense that the sort of came out of nowhere, but theyre actually really deepseated tensions within the Democratic Party that it really existed. I mean, i would say since the 1970s, but but came into the forefront of the 1980s as the party was really at another kind of crossroads of where to go. So after the defeat of Walter Mondale in that sharing of the 1984 election there was a sense of sort of three different directions. The party could have gone gone in and one was represented by someone like Jesse Jackson who would be of a more kind of Bernie Sanders type alec act