Now also the mayor of harrisburg. [applause] it is a pleasure to welcome everyone here tonight for bestselling author dan pfeiffer but before we begin we have some guidelines to make us go as smooth as possible. Please take out your phone and join me as a power off our cell phones we want to welcome cspan tonight they will be filming with a want to add any interruptions. So thank you. At this time i went to introduce our speakers but i want to quickly plug one upcoming event. There is a lot of great talks coming up friday march 6 you may be interested driving while black a true story of the green book and its effects. That is at 7 00 oclock. The number one New York Times bestselling author. [cheers and applause] and author of god save america. [cheers and applause] one of Barack Obamas longest running advisers under president obama 2009 through 2014 Senior Advisor to the president and lives in the bay area with his wife and their daughter. Interviewing him this evening. [cheers and app
They are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. They are older adult students. Many of my Child Development students work fulltime and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide my name is janet. I teach ceramics. I think its time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. We had and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. So we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. When i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. I see a lot of black hair. I mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. We are an ethnically Diverse College and we know it. Nobody needs to even prove that. We know that is true, and yet t
Appear on the january 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madam clergyman, can you call item 1 and 2. Clerk resolution approving the issuance of up to an additional 3,000,000,000 aggregate Principal Amount of San Francisco International Airport second series Revenue Bonds to finance and refinance airport capital plan projects; and item 2 ordinance appropriating 3,888,069,311 of proceeds from the sale of Revenue Bonds or commercial paper for Capital Improvement projects to the Airport Commission for fy20192020; and placing 3,888,069,311 on controllers reserve. Thank you, madam clerk. I think we have Cathy Widener from the airport joining us today. There has been a request to continue this item for one week, but i think well have the presentation for today. So if you wouldnt mind, ms. Widener, and we will hear from the b. L. A. Good morning. Cathy widener with the San Francisco International Airport. The two bond items for consideration before you
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
Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the january 15, 2020, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. I am sandra fewer. I am joined by supervisors walton and mandelman. Our clerk is ms. Wong. Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the january 28 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Madam clergyman, can you call item 1 and 2. Clerk resolution approving the issuance of up to an additional 3,000,000,000 aggregate Principal Amount of San Francisco International Airport second series Revenue Bonds to finance and refinance airport capital plan projects; and item 2 ordinance appropriating 3,888,069,311 of proceeds from the sale of Revenue Bonds or commercial paper for Capital Improvement projects to the Airport Commission for fy20192020; and placi