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Commissioner joanna wald. Commissioner sarah wan vice chair here. Next item on the agenda welcoming remarks by Deborah Rafael and discussion item. Should thank you, monica and good evening everyone. How is everyone doing tonight . We are beyond excited to be here tonight in the portola. To be with the community. Its something that we really are proud of what we do at the Environment Commission. One of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [fore ....
Some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. Thank you. Monica, where is monica . Good evening, monica. Hi. My name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. If anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. Thank you, monica and joy. Good evening. My name is joy audio. Im the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. All right, thank you for everything you do. My name is joshua arce. I have the honor of chairing our commission and on behalf of all of us, we are so excited to be here because we feel that the neighborhood, the portola is a hidden gem environmentalism, of ....
Speech from texas across the florida up to Southern Maryland, we couldnt use a public toilet, we couldnt room in holiday inn, we couldnt buy ice cream at howard johnsons. They said our money was counterfeited. Against those odds, marion volunteered to be an unarmed soldier in the army for justice. He was not killed, but there are the wounds every soldier is a wounded soldier. When the war was over, the unarmed soldier had won the war. Today the falcons can play the panthers. He helped to make the south investment worthy and attractive. [inaudible] state legislators and the congress. No southern governor or senator has his or her name on that new south, marion was one of the architects of the new south and the new america. The little rock nine led by ernie green, the greensboro four [inaudible] led by martin king. Ralph abernathy, fred shuttles worth, Julius Hobson, hilda ma ....
Why do you think a lot of those recommendations were ignored . I think the service itself has noted it has not always done what it needed to do in terms of following through on recommendations. The hope is coming out of this report, that there will be a real opportunity to focus on these specific recommendations and follow through with tracking to make sure actually get implement it. If there is a real process, and i am sure this committee will have a role in it and others will have a role in it to ask of the service, and where is that going, and i also assume that this at future president s will hold them accountable as well. The last question, how do you define that success if you have implemented recommendations properly . From our perspective the kind of cultural change in leadership change weve talked about, that really defines the commission paired we talked a little bit in the report say it has been five years that the service submitted to congress looks about the same with litt ....
Question. Senator, for 29 years in the legislature, you have fashioned yourself to be a collaborative consensus type of leader. Things have not gotten better. Its gotten worse. A State Hospital crisis. We have the highest electricity prices in the nation. The state of our Education System needs some budget fixes right now. How can we be sure if you can do the job for 29 years, that you can fix our problems as a governor when you go to a bigger and greater job. Thank you very much for that question. I would love to be able to respond to it. You know, i am the only candidate here that has passed conference of restructuring of our Public School system. I am the only candidate here that has passed legislation that allows the Public Private partnerships for our hospital ....