Appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring an acclaimed journalist in new york author Janice Kaplan in her fascinating book. She will be in conversation with kelly the ceo the women spawned of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will tell you that right now. I want to thank our partner, and our Wonderful Community partners who have the school for girls. I will introduce janice and kelly just a moment the first just one ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have read. [laughter]. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited what we mentioned. We are right in the street and we would like any of you and invite you to come and see us and him and browse. Women open for just over three years and with hosted 300 events. [applause]. Besides being a fullservice independent bookstore, we want to connect the community. Thats exactly what were doing tonight and you receive the program when he came it in order q
Tonight, we are featuring aid journalists and near times bestselling author, Janice Kaplan and her fascinating book the genius of women from overlook to changing the world. Janice will be in conversation with the ceo of the womens fund of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will say that right now. Eni want to thank our venue partners and our fantastic friends and our Wonderful Community partners and all of these organizations have helped us get the word out. I want to fully introduce janice and kelly in a moments, but first i just want to ask you to silencer t phones, or any other noisemakers you might have with youou tonight. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited the books we are right down three, two blocks down we invite any of you who have not been there before to come and browse. We have been open for just three years and have promoted over 300 books during that period. [applause] besides being a fullservice independent bookst
Will you please call the roll call . [roll call] we have a quorum. Thank you. Please call the first item. Item one is a hearing on how the cuts of over 300 classes will affect low income in communities of color and to take in High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet college and requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be heard by the students in communities most impacted. Thank you, mr. Clerk. This is a hearing that was called by supervisor walton. I will turn it over to you to make an introductory remarks. You can feel free to run the hearing. Thank you. First i want to thank all of my colleagues on the board of education and also city College Trustees, as well as faculty from city college for coming out to have this important conversation. There is a rally going on outside to talk about some of the concerns about the college, so im pretty sure we will have a bigger crowd joining us in a minute, but i do want to open up with a statement. On decemb
To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the 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. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect