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[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and Ameri...

Privilege. Other other issue energy independence. What did you propose that is different . We have to wean off fossil fuels. Investing in alternate Energy Resources while engaging in an all of the above strategy. We are getting to the point where we are exporting natural gas. But we have to have the all above strategy. Not drill baby drill. Who is the next generation of leaders in congress . Would you like to be speaker of the house . I am focused on what is in front of me and that is doing the ...

So over the next 18 months, and its broken out by divisions. We have approximately 56,000 hours to properly conduct outreach and engagement for these projects and the key word is properly. To do it right way. I dont think can you quite see it here, but that is an equivalent of 20 fulltime employees. So the process or the approach, rather. So over the last eight months we conducted a Public Outreach and engagement assessment. We identified current practices and gathered internal and external pers...

And engagement. Whether its someone in Capital Planning division or someone in the transit division. The third there are limited tools and resources. You have a project manager saying that i need more tools and resources to properly conduct the outreach that is expected of me. The final that we are all familiar with slow project delivery. Why is there always a delay and how come we didnt know about it . So that is our little graphic about how frustrated everybody is and in acknowledgment, i thin...

Recommendations. I just presented this similar presentation to all of our directors last monday. To let them know we are now in the third section of the approach and that is making recommendations. Today what i will do is explain the same recommendations that i just explained to them and really some of the actions that need to happen for those recommendations to move forward. Then the fourth of course is well, lets implement the strategy. And the fifth is to continuously evaluate that. You can l...

To make sure that we connect the dots. [ applause ] thank you, sister. Brother jasiri, a fashion not young hiphop activist. Tell me whhow the Hiphop Community has responded to ferguson and what are they doing to keep the memory of ferguson alouf within the Artistic Community . First, the word was spread through social media, and really the word was spread by the young people in ferguson that witnessed what happened to mike brown and took pictures of it, that put it out. They began to organize on...

[inaudible] and decide what direction were gonna take. Second thing, i am really worried because many families suffer the consequence for applying different places and the schools they already have that information so with why we need to [inaudible] difficult to the family. Why . We dont need. What we need is working to find Permanent Solutions to this issues, housing is the first necessity. The other thing im seeing right here how [inaudible] lgbt, like, they live on the families on the parents...

[inaudible] and decide what direction were gonna take. Second thing, i am really worried because many families suffer the consequence for applying different places and the schools they already have that information so with why we need to [inaudible] difficult to the family. Why . We dont need. What we need is working to find Permanent Solutions to this issues, housing is the first necessity. The other thing im seeing right here how [inaudible] lgbt, like, they live on the families on the parents...

At donald trump. I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And [ cheers and applause ] and i watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women playing with their dogs on the white house lawn. Dont let anyone ever tell you that this country isnt great. That somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right now is the greatest country on earth. Were also watching donald trump this morning. Hes in north carolina, speaking right now to the veterans of forei...

Bankers he would not talk to will be byists. If you can buy what he said at whats happening at the epa across the entire administration, this is a Corruption Administration that talked about the president , draining the swamp. This administration is the swamp. And french kiss. The french president on the hill today after being wined and dined at the trumps first state dinner. A lot of public displays of affection. With thanks to our friends at the 11th hour who put that together. G good day im A...