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Comments from the board, superintendent. Commissioner wynns. Commissioner wynns i want to thank everybody on both sides of the bargaining teams for reaching this agreement and happy to see it here. Superintendent carranza. Superintendant carranza i would also like to thank our labor partners, uasf for reaching this agreement and being partners with[qtzym us dug the good times and during difficult times. So we appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Lets have a roll call. Ms. Lee, yes. Ms. Wong, yes. Ms....

Here. The transgenders have just left outside the city today. Thank you for the support. Although were finding out in this city a lot of people civic and civil rights are being cut back on. We hope you, the board of supervisors, will be like the board of supervisors who brought forth the medical marijuana that now 25 states enjoy. Supervisors to create codes and sros will be coming here december 4. You know sros, you talk about domestic violence, you talk about homophobia, racism. Its inside now...

Narrowed in on a topic. Commissioner fewer. Commissioner fewer i just want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving. Is there a meeting at your home on thanksgiving or something . Okay. Commissioner yee, i can do this later but based on the discussion i just had with deputy superintendent lee this afternoon and something i will be doing tomorrow, i think it would be good if somewhere in the Budget Committee we could cuts, and what the impact of those might be. The fiscal cliff you mean . Well im d...

A want to make this comment before we go into Public Comment, more question than anything else. In the spirit of how i do business. This is the part of tonights agenda. Im not saying it should have been. But tonight looking at the response of Domestic Violence, the prosecution rates, the query reporting module, and the other things im curious about the status of women. At some point i would like to hear about any progress in prevention of any of these crimes. What we really want to do is go out ...

Hope you will follow the guidance in my budget recommendation and fully fund this effort. These courts provide a valuable service that helps get mississipians on the right path again. To combat serious crime in our state i have asked that you fund a Violent Crime strike force to impose a state federal and local Law Enforcement at officers these elite forces will respond to specific crime areas and hit gangs in drug dealers where they live. [applause] if you will give Law Enforcement the authorit...

Hardworking taxpayers all across the state through tax cuts and withholding changes. Once passed, the total tax relief provided since i took office will be roughly 2 billion. [applause] first, we will reduce property taxes by 406 million. [applause] this is more than four times larger than the Property Tax Relief we passed last year, and it is vitally important to protect working families, senior citizens, farmers, and small businesses. The typical homeowner will see an actual reduction of 101 d...

Cultural divide here in the earlymorning tweets. The president also spoke about this today . Reporter he did speak about it. He was meeting with the spanish Prime Minister in the rose garden of the white house. And he said, ive not been distracted by this at all. Ive not been distracted by the nfl controversy at all. A reporter was asking him about puerto rico, why hes tweeted 24 times about the nfl, 4 times about puerto rico. This is what he said. To me, the nfl situation is an important situat...

Forces. After the coup in twenty fourteen the king was accused of legitimizing the rule of the military judge after he gave royal blessing to the armys transitional government. The king spent the final years of his life battling illness he died a year ago at the age of eighty eight. Following his death his son must have achieved along has taken over the rain but he does not share the same popularity a says father without stabilizing influence many thais are anxious about their countrys future. F...

But as [website] people you talked to around the president , they are just people you talked to, they have very readily said that this is about a culture war, is that correct . They have been pretty blunt about it. In a white house where on certain issues it can be hard to get an answer, this is an area where people close o to him are pretty candid and they say this is his idea of a culture war issue. He doesnt out of on social issues, but he does focus on issues he can galvanize its unusual to ...

Also just in, cnn reporting on the embattled epa chief. Why President Trump may now be entertaining the idea of firing scott pruitt. Stand by, we have new information. But lets begin with the biggest Foreign Policy decision of the Trump Presidency so far. About an hour from now, the president announces whether the United States will pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Sources say hes expected to announce that he will reinstate sanctions against iran. That would be the first step toward withdrawin...