All right, ladies and gentlemen. I want to now pivot the conversation to hear from our australian counterparts. Our commitment to working together beyond this dialogue is critical to the growth and development of our state economies. Increasingly, chrysler two countries, we are seeing hurdles and opportunities tove this Economic Growth created by new innovations. Today with my fellow governors in the estrella got chief minister is, we are hoping to learn from our peers on the different approaches to the shared challenges and what innovative policy ideas have been developed in the face of these fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the queensland premier anna stage why had the pressure of meeting during my travels to australia. Well tell us about whats driving quinlans innovation economy and what role do you see the United States playing and not. Good morning. Good morning. Its a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and from our Prime Minister. I think we had a lot of
He worked at Merrill Lynch 15 years where he developed his management skills and later left corporate life to pursue his calling in pastoral ministry. He leaves behind to cherish his memory his best friend and his loving wife tamara hall man jackson, his parents of washington, d. C. , and ruth jackson, also affectionately known as polly. Shes a leader right here in our own Visitacion Valley community. He left behind four brothers, brian, drew, james, and lorenzo and one brotherinlaw, raphael who resides in hollywood, california. So, please join me in lifting up our dear friend and sister ruth jackson as she mourns the loss of one of her children. On another note, another sad note, i also want to lift up another mother of the Bayview Community that has lost her son. Many of you know ms. Espinola jackson. She recently lost her daughter to a battle of cancer. Ms. Yvonne Jackson Harris was born february 9, 1956. She attended San Francisco Public Schools and in the fourth grade she had alre
And our minds were opened. We were able to support, learn, and be educated in how to stand up for the right things in life. One thing that i can say about the roth family, they didnt stand up for bull s. , that whenever an issue was right, thats what they stood for. Whether it was popular or not popular. A lot of times they caught a lot of heat for it but it didnt matter to them because they believed in doing what was right for the people that were in need of that. It was just again great to see that that name is being honored today. Thank you. applause fred, let me just say that we have a number of africanamerican or black History Month honor aloees in a month coming up in ray moment. I want to acknowledge labor president mike casey in the audience. applause i want to thank you for [speaker not understood] to our doors. We have this coming up on our for a vote. Your oscar time is up. A [laughter] i want to say supervisor avalos and campos are cosponsoring this commendation with me and
Fred roth, senior, was an inspiration to many of us, especially those that have been Community Organizers like myself. He trained an army of organizers, not just for the united farm workers, but for many different struggles historically. And its really an honor for me to stand here before you with fred roth, junior, and others to urge your support to join hundreds of other labor and community and civic organizationses and groups in urging president obama to bestow the president ial medal of honor post hume usly on fred senior. His entire life work was spirited and defiant in the struggle for freedom and dignity, especially for lower income workers, not just farmers, but disinfran hiesed and depressed communities not just the state of california, but nation wood. A more proactive struggle for equity and Human Dignity for everyone. I wanted to also say that a little bit of history is important. In the 50s mr. Roth worked in the latino communities and barrios of los angeles, san jose, and
Between pope bennedictedict xvith, supervisor chiu, and sheila might be a connection. I want to take this opportunity to thank sheila and well certainly miss her. The rest ill submit. Thank you, supervisor campos. Supervisor carmen chu. [laughter] supervisor carmen chu . Mr. President , seeing no other names on mr. President , forgive me. Supervisor cohen would like to be rereferred. Thank you very much, colleagues. Hi, san franciscans. Today im introducing an ordinance ive been working with with the neighborhoods of the bayview as well as the Community Department to establish a neighborhood notification requirement for parcel zone pdr1b. Im sad to say this legislation was actually borne out of an unfortunate incident. Late last year the old Berkeley Farms milk plant on oakdale avenue was demolished with no notification to the immediate neighbors and resulted in numerous notices of violation and a stop work order. When we went through when we went through nearly a decade long process t