committed to some sort of democracy. it s not like we are saying we don t mind if we produce a bunch of students that are marcus and we think that would somehow, we would have done something wrong along the way. host: professor thomas with the decline in liberal arts education overall in the country are we losing civics? guest: that s a great question and should be a serious concern to us. in fact at the end of the book i oppose the great challenge in our day really is the potential commercialization and the career turn in liberal arts education which threatened to eclipse the more robust liberal arts element and when you think of how in the founding generation the biggest threat in some sense might have been from religion in our day the biggest threat will was a commercial nature which in interesting ways it s probably because of the success of american constitutionalism. the forward-looking version of it really wanted to create a thriving commercial society and we have
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impressive portfolio for african-american for the arts and politics and medicine and many more. african-americans have left an positive imprint on our city and for that those contributions should be recognized arrest i m happy to have co-sponsorship from supervisor breed and supervisor chiu and i d like to welcome an opportunity for other members of the board colleagues who would be interested in supporting i see supervisor farrell thank you very much supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. supervisor mar supervisor kim. supervisor campos. supervisor yee. supervisor tang? okay supervisor tang. okay mr. president, we ll make a note. thank you, colleagues can we take that same house, same call? . without objection this is adapted and back to our 3:00 p.m. special order and mr. quan is back from dpw we ve met with the property owner her property was stricken in the revised list and we ve met with one other prove or disprove that agrees to pay the outstanding balance this is
submided with the clerk. okay. very good, just to go through today s agenda. we are going to go into a little bit out of order after our minutes, and we are going to go to our appointments item number six we will move up to after our minutes. let s go to item two. approval of the lafco minutes from the may 16, 2014. any comments or questions? motion to approve the minutes? we will hold that motion in abuy ans and seeing no member of the public coming forward we will close public comment and we have a motion from commissioner breed and seconded by campos and we will take that without objection? and let s go on to item number six? consider appointing one public member and one public (alternate) member, terms ending february 22, 2018, to the local agency formation commission . okay. thank you, madam clerk, and so colleagues, we have up two seats, one public seat and an alternate, and i think that we have the ability to appoint both today and i hope that we can do th
income and middle class communities and the communities that i came from. and to see the politicalizing the many that others have pushed against the clean power sf has been disheartening, and it all makes sense and then you figure out what does it take? it takes the community to step up. and hopefully, if both miss crews and i, are appointed, with the involvement that we have in the community, we can engage them, and we can say, this is why it is important, this is why, not only do we need people on this commission to care about it but we need the people who will push the city hall and push the mayor and say that we want the clean energy because it does effect us. and it effects us because we are the people of color and because we are the poor community and the example is the effect that is happening in bay view hunter as point and the friends who grew up with asthma and respiratory issues and i want to fight for that. and i went to law school, and i think that i am someone w