Reverend dean curie Life Center Church, at that comba, washington. The chaplain let us pray. Father, what an honor it is to be in your presence here today. We celebrate this morning what you have done to the United States of america. We acknowledge the hand of providence in our history and the force of inspiration in our future. Be with us here now most significantly in our present, that we can see what others do not see, that we can do what others fear to do, so that we can change what others are afraid to change. We are reminded that we are so small and urso big. Our problems are you are so big. Our problems are daunlting and our responsibilities are many. But we look to you today, to your principles and to your goodness, that we could be everything you designed for us to be. That we could do everything you planned for us to do. That others may be free. Today may every decision made, every plan contemplated be sprinkled with your grace and inspired from heaven. Change us change our m
Fiscal years 20202025. Campos i will be supporting this item, but i want to be very clear that and theres nothing in the document thats before us that actually addresses this issue. But i just dont want any ambiguity in the record. That i think that theres still many questions to be answered about one specific item within the capital plan. And thats whether or not to replace county jails 3 and 4 in the hall of justice. I think that there is strong evidence against the need for a new jail. Given the decrease in the jail population and the in fact, sf Community Based interventions like pretrial diversion, and other alternatives to incarceration. And i hope that its clear that by supporting this capital plan, it doesnt mean that we are committing ourselves to the rebuild of a new jail. I know that supervisor kim has been doing a lot of work on this issue, and well pull to the hearing that she will be holding on that issue. Thank you supervisor campos. And i agree with you as well. Supervi
Means its necessary or that it makes us safer. But it im not saying it doesnt make us safer either. I just wish we had more options in terms of nonlethal options. And we explored daytime versus nighttime. I get the nighttime obviously. That off the bat i understood immediately. I just wish we had time to explore less guns on the street and other nonlethal options. We werent able to do that in this time. I appreciate they get more training than was initially presented to us last week. Firing range is different from a moving target in a very busy city. I would like to understand that a little more as we move forward. But i certainly think safety is a top issue for our employees. If we look at safety, we have to look at our bus drivers, because theyre the ones where we have a history of demonstration of attacks and assaults on our bus drivers. We havent seen it yet with our fare collectors. This is where the questions come up if our goal is really ut most safety for our what are we doing
Vote No On Vaping Preemption Monday, April 5, 2021
I am writing to express my opposition to two current bills that if passed, could have devastating effects on the health of teens and youth across Tennessee.
House Bill 705 and Senate Bill 1047 serve to protect the tobacco industry’s bottom line with zero regard for what is in the best interest of our community. These bills would prohibit all future vaping laws and stop our ability to take local action protecting our kids.
Can you imagine local governments being forbidden to regulate the sale and marketing of flavored tobacco products, increase taxes on e-cigarettes, and adopt licensure laws for tobacco retailers that sell e-cigarettes? Furthermore, the passage of these bills would perpetuate practices that disproportionately target low-income communities and at-risk youth further aggravating health disparities.