Have a younger girl cousin, you better be able to pull it back in. Otherwise you are in a heap of trouble. [laughter] what we have to do as social workers is we have to rally around the families who want to support these kids, both want to want to take them back and the one to are going to receive them and encourage them. We should be leading the charge. We should be encouraging people and providing support to the sounds to are from different ethnic groups sued the site to take an africanamerican child and support them. For the support around them and dont make them feel bad about the decision they have made. You have made the right decision. Particular, many of them need intense Mental Health support. Intense. They have some of the most acute issues of anyone you will find. Right . You have seen like i had seen, these kids find themselves in those situations have the most acute issues and they are the most challenging. They will need support. I thank you sincerely. I really do. Before
The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot
Kinds of conditions our Transportation System is in now as well as the new growth, both in terms of residents and jobs in the city. And so the scope of the Task Force Work does not address the operating deficits nor does it solve all of the problems that have been identified. About 10 billion have been identified as a need for transportation. And this leaves a gap of 6. 3 billion. The task force identified what we believe is required in terms of infrastructure and well be proposed some new Revenue Sources to fund a portion of that gap. So the three recommendations that will be brought forward from the task force is to invest in programs with the greatest impact to first maintain the current Transportation System which we found in great disrepair and enhance the system and sfand expand the city system to meet new growth and also set to pursue three new Revenue Services combined to address that significant portion of that gap and as well as to continue to support and seek additional stat
Mr. Chairman, let me start with a few general comments. As i think you indicated in your remarks and i think that all of us have underscored the region as a whole has a great importance and a lot to offer in terms of security and u. S. Interests. So one of our challenges has been to ensure through our diplomatic and other engagements that we can work with the governments of all four countries in ways that support each other. And clearly as i was underscoring in my remarks i think that rocco and algeria morocco and algeria can be helpful to libya so one of the issues the colleague can address is to try to use those strengths to security support throughout the region. Likewise, in terms of economic development, unfortunately it is a region in which it isnt sufficient economic integration that drives down the economic prospects of the region. So one of our efforts come and again some of the lines of activity that we are seeking to try to break down the barriers and encourage that kind of
Local matches for additional funds. So, in order to make a big dent in the needs and to fund them, the task force is recommending three new Revenue Sources, two 500 million in Revenue Bonds in a year and year after dedicated to improvements. And second vehicle license fee which has been set at 2 persona number of decades and early 2000s to 2. 6 5 and increased the vlf to its full 2 percent cap in reservation for the task force and a couple years later proposing a sales tax dedicated to city improvement. This is the projected plan for the next 15 years. Whats happening next year . Thats going to depend on the board of supervisors to develop the time to do so. Your recommendation for new revenue is so far in the future. My question is at least, last year, 5 years ago when we were going through planning did you identify Revenue Sources that are being utilized today. Im looking for something more in the shortterm. As part of the Transportation Task force work we did look at the existing fu