For thursday, january 5, 2017, happy new year everyone id like to call roll at this time. Or actually please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Now im not commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner koppel commissioner melgar and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson and commissioner hillis to be absent firefighters is proposed for continuance at leeland avenue discretionary review to january 12, 2017, and item 2 conditional use authorization is proposed until january 26th no other items proposed for continuance there are no speaker cards. Okay any Public Comment on the two items proposed continuance not seeing any, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner moore. Move to continue as noted. Second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion to continue both matters and proposed commissioner koppel commissioner melgar commis
Of u. S. Worker is 39. The average age of the u. S. Farm operator is 55. There are not young people going into farming and we have to ask why. We need young people to enter into the farming industry. We need farming to be economically viable for young people and to supply restaurants like me the stuff that i need because what happens at my restaurant ultimately filters out to the rest of society. If you look at this chart, im not going to go into all the details of it, but you basically have a very small triangle which represents the family farm and on the other side the large part of the triangle which represents commodity agriculture. You need both. Obviously you cant be the entire world on small family farms, but to me, this chart represents something that is out of balance. We need to figure out a way to raise up family farms. We need to make farming attractive. We need to make it sexy. We need young people to understand this is something they can do as a viable job. We need food t
My 25 is frwife is from india. I still love india. Be careful yeah. But and india has enormous potential and capability. But i have to, again, simply say india has a great capacity also for disappointing. It lumbers forward like an elephant and it also operates on its own strategic agenda. People from the Indian Strategic elite and ive spoken to a few of them by accident. They all seem to be related to my inlaws in one way or another, country of 1. You know, 2 billion and Everybody Knows everybody else it seems. They are not ready to play this kind of role. They are enormously focused upon pakistan and upon internal issues and thats and the strategic agenda. So, i dont think theyre going to what we are seeing, though, at least in the maritime issues partly because china is pushing into the region and chinas support for pakistan, they are interested in countering that and in certain areas we are seeing increased cooperation. I think theres a lot of room for it, for example, u. S. And it
Gov. Pence on behalf of my family here and looking on, would you join me in thanking and hisrump, melania, entire family for the sacrifices they are making to make America Great again . [applause] gov. Pence and i thank donald trump, the confidence you have placed in us, and i accept your invitation to run and serve as Vice President of the United States of america. [applause] gov. Pence i come to this moment deeply humbled, but with a grateful heart. Grateful to god for his amazing grace. Grateful to my wonderful wife. And our three incredible kids, michael, charlotte, and audrey. And grateful to this builder this fighter, this patriotic , american who has set aside a legendary career in business to build a stronger america, donald j. Trump. [applause] gov. Pence and let me say, having had the privilege to spend time with this man and his family out of the limelight, i know what all of america will soon know even better. These are good people. Donald trump is a good man, and he will m
Good afternoon. Thanks for being with us. Police say that men then turned himself in and confessed. Wbz is live outside of Salem District for us. Donna. Reporter and chris, these documents from court show the victim filed for divorce and a restraining order in may. She wrote that her husband had tried to kill her before and she feared he would d horrifying. Just shock. Reporter police tape around this home on chandler street where police say they found a 48yearold woman strangled to death Tuesday Morning. The crime scene is putting people in this quiet neighborhood on edge. Scary and uneasy because this is my home and it just makes me nervous. This is like an uneasy feeling. Reporter police say 50yearold Douglas Steeves walked into the Police Department Tuesday Morning and told officers he killed his estranged wife. Something like that did happen because like there was no indication that anything was wrong. Reporter the District Attorneys Office says Police Responded to the house and r