williamsburg interpreters talk about bringing african-american stories to life and how they felt compelled to tell their ancestor stories appropriately. panelists include american civil war museum ceo christy coleman and curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly and i am the vice president of the education, research and historical interpretation division. and it is my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. fort years ago the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story, and so with determination and courage and p perseverance, the program was designed by our panelists tonight so we could tell the whole story of our 18th community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making h
been doing research on men and women. i used to be on the board of directors of the national organization for women and i was speaking around the world on these issues and teachers in japan would come up to me and say we have more problems with boys than girls. and i started seeing ultimately in 14 years of research i did for the boy crisis: why our boys are struggling and what we can do about it, 56 of the largest developed nations were having problems where boys were pulling behind girls in all academic subjects but especially reading and writing, the two biggest predictors of success so i started saying is something bigger going on and what is the cause of this and why has it developed and i focused, developed nations had enough mastery of survival to allow permission for families to have divorces and for women to raise children without much father involvement or any father involvement so i started looking at those populations and found when there were divorces children
from the system and only on the basis. this is what is wrong things where you board has done and i don t know ma to say about this and he gave 150 mali 150 medallo the cab companies so he can start selling his medallion but what was the deal between kim we would like to know and for around three years there s no top light which is required in law and that has $100 and 100 times you are informed it has no top light on the taxi. why don t you investigate it? why don t you find out. thank you. thank you. do i have anymore speakers under general public comment? seeing none. please, come forward. anybody else, if you can please come forward as well and lineup. my name is gordan wong of eco taxicab company. i just want to say that the rule change has impacted my income. i m a senior citizen. it s very stressful for me and my family. my uncle, my auntie, and my cousins have turned in their permits because they gave up. they couldn t operate anymore. there s no profit or anythi
maybe they ll start selling lawn mowers. i thought that was a joke, but i saw that the on the internet. there is no way they can survive. lyft shows this and so will the über one. so i m hoping that you ll give us some time here. i don t think lyft and über can survive. they ve got plenty of venture capital money, but they re starting to question the business plan. beyond the chronicle . if you look deeply. so please give us a break. and let us at least try to survive this period. we don t know what will happen, but hopefully, you ll give us a break at this time. thank you. next speaker, please. last two speakers. good afternoon, my name is bernard. i m with the taxi san francisco taxi coalition. a couple of weeks ago we sent you a letter requesting waiver for all the fees in the taxi industry. the drivers are barely taking money home medallion owners are struggling. especially the pre-ks who are not getting any income at all thanks to your new rule, your ban, your
cabin does tree. thank you for listening. any further public comment. public comment is closed and we ll move on. madam chair, you are at your consent calender these items are routine. unless it would be accept another. no member of the public has asked an item will be severed. do i know with anyone to officer or a motion to approve? do i have a second. all in favor. aye. aye. any opposed. seeing none, consent calender is approved. moving on to your calender, madam chair. item 11 presentation discussing regard the powered scooter shared findings. e excellent, thank you. thank you for having me again today. in case you don t remember, i m adrian for this item i m the policy and evaluation lead for our scooter shared pilot. very quickly, for review, the unregulatedder of scooter share started around last year in march. by may, the board of supervisors and the m.t.a. board had worked together to establish a permit, which meant we could permit unpermitted operations w