Minutes. Now ladies and gentlemen please rise for the National Anthem sung by diane from enzi oc. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome citizenship chairman michael reiser. [applause] diane ty you should know is not only a talented performer and artist, she is also a very talented fundraiser and her connection to the National Conference on citizenship is working with our service year project. You may have heard the term the franklin project. Its all a line so we appreciate your efforts on our behalf and we appreciate you bringing her talents to our state once again. [applause] i am significantly less talented. [laughter] and coc is honored to partner with Users Conference with all of the eagles in the room please stand up . People from American University please stand up. [applause] yes. Thank you for being here. This is a fall break for aau and faculty and most of the administration is at a retreat. They are students and campus in a number have joined us and we appreciate the
Into volunteering, lets persuade them with a very specific benefit. Our volunteering as a pathway to employment that was released this report released last year has given us some very good news. If you are unemployed and youre looking for work and volunteer, you increase the likelihood of gaining a job about 27 . If you dont have a high school diploma, that likelihood raises up to 51 . If you live in a Rural Community and looking for woerk, you increase the likelihood about 55 . Because so many of our young people in the age group of 18 to 24 are looking for work, in fact, theyre in the bracket with the highest unemployment rates of any age group, we need to find ways to get them connected to jobs. And i think with this case study, now, that luring them in through the volunteering is a really good way to do so. Its going to help them but also the communities they served. More hands and hearts to help those that serve. So thats the case. How do we do it . The president s task force on e
I would hope we have another round we can get into sort of what has worked because i am troubled sometimes by some of the conversation were having when they return to a given country what do we do . It almost sounds like deprogramming from a cult and i dont think thats going to work given the numbers. And so i would be interested in hearing from both of our witnesses about are there examples of things that have worked in a preventing people from going and unfortunately if we fail on that, helping to reintegrate them in a genuine successful way when and if they come back. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I know my time super. Chair recognizes is gentleman from california, colonel cook. Thank you, mr. Chair. Ambassador, i wanted to ask you about the role of hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in terms of perhaps facilitating the information on people recruitment and some of the smuggling activities, if you had any insight at all from a diplomatic standpoint. Specifically i do not, sir, no. No perso
Season. Recreation and Parks Commission would the secretary please call the roll. Commissioner buell. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bonilla. Here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner wei. Here. Just a few remark focus you have any electronic sounding devices that are on please turn them off so they wont go off during the meeting. You will have three minutes to speak under Public Comment. Remember when you make Public Comment that you make it to the commission. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions until Public Comment is through, and the commission may ask staff to respond once that done. If theres an item if there is not an item on the calendar that you wish to speak on an item under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Commission you would speak on item four which is general Public Comment and then it is continued again on item 9, and last as a reminder the january Committee Meetings are canceled. We will have our full Commission Me
Shortly. Recreation and Parks Commission would the secretary please call the roll. Commissioner buell. Here. Commissioner low. Here. Commissioner bonilla. Here. Commissioner harrison. Here. Commissioner wei. Here. Just a few remark focus you have any electronic sounding devices that are on please turn them off so they wont go off during the meeting. You will have three minutes to speak under Public Comment. Remember when you make Public Comment that you make it to the commission. Neither the commission nor staff will respond to any questions until Public Comment is through, and the commission may ask staff to respond once that done. If theres an item if there is not an item on the calendar that you wish to speak on an item under the jurisdiction of the recreation and Parks Commission you would speak on item four which is general Public Comment and then it is continued again on item 9, and last as a reminder the january Committee Meetings are canceled. We will have our full Commission M