Over we ask longtime protest organizer vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory. And his nasa launches its historic perseverance rover to mars to look for signs of life is at the end of us a gemini and rocking the secrets of the universe after chinese attempts to make history on the red planet we ask alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yet its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city every night appears to look. A war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flas
That many people are appalled to see that graffiti but i think that images such as george floyd getting the life choked out of him or even the flash bangs and rylan that weve seen at these protests as much more appalling than any graffiti that my occur at a protest and i also think it is a very small amount of individuals who may do that graffiti and it does not make sense in a country those opposed to be a free country that they would be deploying indiscriminate weapons against entire nonviolent crowds just because of the actions of some small amount of individuals while the nato nations are supposed to i dont know media in countries that washington may see as enemies the pictures of had to be on the internet mainly theyre not headlining the news what have you witnessed and what have you heard from the street level actions of Police Involved in because weve been seeing what seem to be u. S. Federal forces attacking protesters on the ground amidst clouds of tear gas. I think what youre
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Present. Thank you. Mr. Hursh . Present. Lipkin present. Tavares is absent. Vice chair gee present and madame chair present. Directors, you do have a quorum. Go ahead and call the next item. Sure. Directors, the next item, item 3 is communications. Wed like to provide further instructions for the Public Comment process which has changed slightly from the last meeting. Members should dial into the published number, 408 4189388 and enter access code, 1466334383, press pound and then pound again. Listen to the meeting as they wait for Public Comment to be announced. At which time, members would have up to three minutes to provide comments on each agenda item. They would get into the queue for a particular item by pressing star 3. I will announce Public Comment on each item and or for general Public Comment. And that is when callers will dial star 3. It will show their hand is raised and theyll be added to the queue and called on. Lets see. Callers will remain muted until their line is ope
This hearing to the call of the chair. But its my intention to have d. P. H. Back at one of our two july meetings, because i would like to have more of that detail and maybe some dollar figures attached. And i do have at least a couple of additional questions about the you know, the results of the bed study, for example, you know, how does that proposed increase in funding relate to the existing d. P. H. Budget for beds . Because my understanding is the existing budget for beds does not actually account for all of the beds we buy over the course of a year. So if were adding 10 million to a budget that already doesnt account for for the beds that we need to buy over the course of the year, im not sure thats guaranteed well be making progress toward the number of beds that we need. Anyway, maybe somebody can explain to me that aspect of the budgeting and maybe we can have craig wagner talk to us about that. And im wondering how the bed study relates to the beds we dont use. We know we ha