are at the world famous schomburg center for research in black culture. why is the world famous? because it is the most important repository to study black history founded 90 years ago. and who is pearl? he is the founding cureateer. he migrated from puerto rico and found a job on wall street working in a mail room. he worked hard and brought any rare or unique books you could find that were by or about black people eventually becoming famous for this collection. people would go to his home in brooklyn to see the library, borrow from the library, people like langston hues and hurston eventually. it arrived 90 years ago and made up the core of what is a 10 million item collection at the schomburg center for research in black culture. how did it end up at this location? because this was the settlement zone, ground zero, for what came to be the negro mecca of the world. harlem usa four blocks over. most people today think about harlem in relation to the apollo or the b
made so voters can make the best decision. voters understandably assume that the arguments that are being presented to them as the official proponent and opponent arguments are exactly that, proponents and opponents. unfortunately, we ve seen over the years through a flaw in our municipal elections code that some people have been able to game the system to be able to take on the role of official proponent or opponent, and they do this because when the board of supervisors itself does not keep the official proponent or opponent role, anyone from the public can submit a proposed argument to be official, to be official proponent or opponent. and if there is more than one submitted, a lottery is conducted and one of those arguments is selected. over time we have seen a number of situations where someone will come along and will submit 5 or 10 or 15 or 25 or even more arguments and make them very, very slightly different from each other and will basically overwhelm the process, ov
to provide water, power, and deal with wastewater across the bay area, northern california, and it s important that we approve these projects and move the puc forward, and also put a small part of keeping cca alive. so, colleagues, i hope for your support. thank you. thank you. , supervisor avalos. any further comments? ~ all right, colleague, can we take these items same house same call? without objection these ordinances are passed on the first reading. [gavel] madam clerk, could you call items 15 through 16? item 1a is the interim proposed annual budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and expenditures for selected departments for the city and county of san francisco as of june 2nd, 2014, for the fiscal years ending june 40th, 2015 and june 30th 2016. item 16 is the interim annual salary ordinance [speaker not understood] positionses in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance ~ for the fiscal years ending june 30th, 2015 and 2016
environment. as i say, the great race is a two-month long bay area wide competition that helps to clean the air by reducing c.o.2 emissions and encouraging workers and employees to use alternative and cleaner and greener commuting methods. and this spring over 1,000 employees from 70 bay area companies saved more than 770,000 pounds of c.o.2 from entering the environment. and the winners have been chosen, they re recognized for, one, the highest c.o.2 savings, two, the highest level of employee participation, and the highest percentage of clean commute days, days when employees used cleaner, greener alternatives to driving alone to just transit, biking and car pooling. i m really proud to say san francisco businesses took the top spots in a number of the category. and i d like to thank the executive director of community focus stephanie anderson who is here with us. if she could come forward. but i d like to thank her and her staff for their efforts in coordinating this annua
act. the president is focused on middle class families who are paying 30 to $40,000 a year for premiums. is he going it the no fair league clib ca kaepernick filing a grievance for colluding with owners to keep him off the league. respect our country. respect our flag. i think i m a great legislature. self-promotion is a terrible thing but clearly somebody has to do it. wake me up when it s all over when i m wiser and i m older all this time i was. steve: somebody forgot to wake up brian kilmeade after a couple weeks of doing the 10:00 show he is taking today off. ainsley: where is brian? pete: i don t know last minute i m happy to be here. ainsley: maybhappy you are here. steve: thank you for joining us. as we heard in the cold monday griff depicted today as mitch monday. they will have lunch today and they have lots to talk about. although they did apparently talk together on the phone on saturday. they talked about taxes. they talked about the budget. and