Tax credit. His penchant for policy included the first law that he signed as president , the family medical leave act, as well as the childrens initiative, the other laws that we will discuss, and if you wonder the impact of these laws, i was speaking on a radio show and one of the producers was not there because her family is going through a rough patch, and she is able to do that without imperiling her job, and she would thank president clinton for that if she could be here today. Alexis herman deserves applause for being here because her flight was canceled, so she jumped in a car and got here at about midnight. [laughter] [applause] she has promised not to take a nap until the panel is over. [laughter] Alexis Herman helped organize the 1992 Democratic Convention and with bill clinton won that she became the Deputy Director of the Transitional Office in the white house. She handled the White House Office of public liaison in clintons second term. Bruce reed was the chief advisor, an
Getting on the agenda, im going to work with vicepresident caen to see that it does. The committee is counting on us to vet these things out. Donna, would you be kind enough to provide me a bullet point list of the items that i have requested under this line item, but also under the line item that comes immediately following the closed session. I will. Thank you very much. Commissioners, anything else . Are there any Public Comments on my comments . Public comment is close. Thank you francisco. Commissioners, what if i share one thing in common and that is that we worked as Union Members and represented the community. What you have stated and what some of the employees do not seem to fathom is this when we are talking about workforce development, we are talking about career jobs. You had a career job, i had a career job. The career jobs come benefits. When they play the youth with all this mickey mouse giving them opportunities for two or 3 months, no good training, and even city build
Next item, to prove the minutes of august 12th shgs , 2014. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. I will call for a vote. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item is general comment. If you are interested in speaking on items not on todays agenda, please fill out a card. First card i have here is from francisco decost a. Good afternoon commissioners, jasmine and ms. Hood. I see you are going to have a new secretary or back up. Thats good. I want to bring today attention of the commissioners a number of things. First and foremost we all know that we had an earthquake. Of course we had this earthquake in napa, but what is happening now is the United States geological is survey, the maybe federal agency that invest a lot in earthquakes is pointing a finger in the direction of the hayward fault. So if you say the hayward fault, we should feel a little bit embarrassed because we were supposed to finish a project in that area in 2009 and its
Lets call this meeting to order 1 30. Tuesday august 26, 2014. Jasmine, please read the roll. City clerk commissioner courtney, veet or, moran, torres, caen is expected shortly. Next item, to prove the minutes of august 12th shgs , 2014. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. I will call for a vote. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Opposed . The motion carries. Next item is general comment. If you are interested in speaking on items not on todays agenda, please fill out a card. First card i have here is from francisco decost a. Good afternoon commissioners, jasmine and ms. Hood. I see you are going to have a new secretary or back up. Thats good. I want to bring today attention of the commissioners a number of things. First and foremost we all know that we had an earthquake. Of course we had this earthquake in napa, but what is happening now is the United States geological is survey, the maybe federal agency that invest a lot in earthquakes is pointing a finger in the d
All this mickey mouse giving them opportunities for two or 3 months, no good training, and even city build, you have to evaluate that, then what happens is you train somebody, but you train them at you about buffoonery. You can go in the army and go to various departments and train and choose what you want to be. Thats what we need. The other thing is we have 29,000 city employees. For every constituent we have 900 employees. The population is 805,000. How many of those employees live in the city . So we have all these people who dont live in the city, who come here and their heart is not in the right place. When we give the statistics that our unemployment is just 5 percent or 6 percent, thats not true. There are hot spots where there is unemployment as high as 50 percent. And we need to address that. So, im calling upon the unions, im calling upon the private sector that we need career jobs with benefits. That employees Department Heads are not paying attention to that. They listen t