This is not for action, but i can see that we are going to have a lot of stuff to work through around the green purchasing and the conversation of the item that we are continuing tonight, should that end up in the policy committee and i just throw out there that this is something that commissioner stephenson is interested in in the Top Priorities that if commissioner wald is into the idea to think about agendaizing all of the policy Committee Meetings because you never know when we might want to engage and show up and it will be properly noticed to have more than three commissioners present. If we could do that i would have absolutely no objection to it and i assume my fellow commissioners would not either and we would welcome the attendance of others. So we can do. I agree. Commissioner josefowitz agrees. What do you think . Fine with me. All right. All right. So, Public Comment on this item . And seeing none, and dr. Jackson just came in, dr. Jackson no comment on the policy report,
That the policy committee had on july 8th, regarding the retreat, the upcoming, as yet unschedule, retreat and how it might be schedule, organized and what topics of the discussion we might address. The conversation that we had then, actually was endorsed by president arce and he was, he participated in it and afterwards, we thought that if we reported on that discussion, tonight, it would spark a discussion among all of the commissioners, here. About how we ought to organizize the retreat. And so let me tell you briefly that discussion or during that discussion, the four of us agreed that an appropriate focus of the upcoming retreat would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commi
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Are getting cal fresh and that whole range are vital to tap into the 36,000. So you are not on the same page . Yes, we are. Its not in our particular budget request but we support. I guess what im looking for is the desire to make sure that how we use dollars, its being used officially and i dont want to go somewhere where we do not need to go. From your collaborative perspective. Yonlt i dont want to add to that. All i can say is our department has been operating in the task force. I can check back with the director if hes in support. I would imagine he is. Okay. Supervisor breed, i understand the task force has home delivered meals and delivery of groceries to isolated and vulnerable. I think the additional outreach money to expend the number of people who are eligible but not signed up for cal fresh is really significant and tremendously urge. I think its 195,000. I will to have dig back to the Security Task force and add that request and work with hsa staff and others to try to mak
Emission scenario, there goes sochi, there goes grenoble, you go a little bit further, vancouver, squaw valley, sarajevo are in trouble. When you get down here, the majority of the sites where weve had Winter Olympics are now no longer climatesuitable for Winter Olympics, including lillehammer and mageno, oslo, care koi sarajevo, grenoble and on. So, the people who are involved in these Winter Sports know about this and 100 athletes at the sochi olympics from ten different nations wrote a letter saying, we have got to take Climate Change seriously. And theyve particularly focused on the small towns in the mountains where skiers and snowboarders train and where the economy is based on snowboarding and skiing and Winter Sports ads, and the deaf sthaition would happen in those and the devastation that would happen in those small towns if the economy collapsed because of Climate Change. If you want to go ahead now, senator . Mr. Schatz i thank the senator from rhode island. Id like to whoe