Regarding anticipated litigation matters. Motion to go back into open session. Second. All in favor. Aye. I make a motion we dont disclose anything we discussed in closed session. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to th e flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Be advised the chair may order remove from the meeting room for any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone. Please be adviced you have three minutes to make comments unless a shorter period. Item 8. Public comment on items not listed on the agenda. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ey item 9. Executive directors report. I am the executive director. My first item. I am very, very pleased moodys upgraded the port Credit Rating from aa3 to a1 in associati
Regarding anticipated litigation matters. Motion to go back into open session. Second. All in favor. Aye. I make a motion we dont disclose anything we discussed in closed session. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to th e flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Be advised the chair may order remove from the meeting room for any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone. Please be adviced you have three minutes to make comments unless a shorter period. Item 8. Public comment on items not listed on the agenda. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ey item 9. Executive directors report. I am the executive director. My first item. I am very, very pleased moodys upgraded the port Credit Rating from aa3 to a1 in associati
Matters. Motion to go back into open session. Second. All in favor. Aye. I make a motion we dont disclose anything we discussed in closed session. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to th e flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised use of cell phones and Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Be advised the chair may order remove from the meeting room for any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone. Please be adviced you have three minutes to make comments unless a shorter period. Item 8. Public comment on items not listed on the agenda. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ey item 9. Executive directors report. I am the executive director. My first item. I am very, very pleased moodys upgraded the port Credit Rating from aa3 to a1 in association with refunding of the bonds. I
Mulcair, and steven harper. Tonights debate will cover four broad subjects at the top of voters minds the Economy Energy and the environment the state of canadas democracy in Foreign Policy and security. Each segment will begin with questions forrom me. Another leader will respond followed by an extended discussion among all the leaders. We will go through that process twice for each of our four subjects. We drew lots to determine the speaking order. Everybody here knows that order but nobody in any of the parties have seen or heard the questions i will be asking tonight. The parties have agreed that at any point i can intervene to direct conversation. Lets begin with our first topic, the economy. This is one subject on everybodys mind as the election approaches, the economy. We have dangerous economic wind flowing in canada. The countrys Economic Health is shaky. We are coming out of a mild recession. Oil prices have slumped, exports are weak. What ottawas proper role in the canada .
We have taken a two track approach. One track is to put in fixes to our Current System knowing that is not the solution. My first trip to phoenix, i sat down at the computer screen and worked the scheduling system myself. It really is a green screen. Like we have to make things simpler for veterans, we have to make things simpler for our employees. Putting fixes into the system is the fastest approach. We are going for an off the shelf system you are going to implement as quickly as possible. We are going to start putting this in place. It will take some time to do it. The third thing we have to do is make sure our people are trained. This is why i am eager to have a simplified system. While there have been things that have gone wrong and we are Holding People accountable for those things, for example, there was a person who manipulated data in georgia who was indicted two weeks ago. As times goes on, these measures of accountability will come out. I believe we have to make things simp