This is awesome. I wish you put us in a time machine and take us back to 1895. A man stands at the end of a drafty core door, the 19th century, and in the flickering light 7 oil lamp examines a machine made of nickel and ivory with brass rails, a squat, ugly contraption somehow out of focus, not easy for the core reader to visualize despite a listing of parts and materials. Our hero fiddles with some screws, add a drop of oil and plants himself in the saddle. He grasps a lever with both hands. He is going on a journey. By the way, so are we. When he throws that lever, time breaks from its moorings. The man is nondescript, almost devoid of features, gray eyes and a paleface and not much else. He lacks even a name. He is just the time traveler, for so it will be convenient to speak of him. Time and travel, no one had thought to join those words before now. And that machine with its saddle, it is a fantastic bicycle. The whole thing is the invention of a young enthusiast named wells, who
Commission up to three minutes on any matters [inaudible] to Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The lack of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you madam secretary. Is there any member of the public that would like to come forward and speak at this time . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Item 3 approval of the minutes. Approval of the Meeting Minutes from the regular meeting on september 28, 2016. Is there any members of the public that has a comment on the minutes as sent to us . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. And my fellow commissioners i would like to continue this item. There are a number of things they want to discuss with the secretary. Actually i dont need to continue because theyre not [inaudible] [off mic] no. Not of great import, so i will entertain a motion. Then i mov
Projections to be released by the mayors Budget Office and we work closely with the office for the five year Financial Plan for the city with the Mayors Office. Related to academies our 120th academy are in the final weeks. There will be a graduation of 51 members. We started with 54 on november 4 at usf. They have been grairks to provide their presentation auditorium for us. 10 00 a. M. On november 4, a week from friday. With regards to the class we are anticipating hiring 54 members and into the academy. 42 will be off the National Testing network list and we will be bringing 12 employed members from station 49 over two weeks later to join the class so the original 42 will start on the 28th and they will be joined by members of station 492 weeks later. The two week gap which i think i have discussed before is that the members of station 49 have demonstrated their competency and theyre working on as paramedics and the first two weeks of the academy is evaluation of the emt skills so t
The necessary work thats needed , coordination work for with fta to recommend the grant so are we feeling so confident about this that we dont have any sort of backup or contingency plan . We are feeling very confident about it. Based on the work we have done with fta. The limited notices to proceed having issued specifically for the Design Elements of the project. So if for some reason the full Funding Grant agreement and not materialize the wasnt another alternative we would be able to terminate those contracts. That is not the expectation. We have further backup plans in the event that the full Funding Grant agreement is delayed beyond what we have now as march 1 for the notice to proceed for construction could we have enough money for fiscal year 17 through the other sources to cover but at this point there is no reason for us to have any expectation other than we are going to receive that grant. All right, thank you. Okay. Any further questions . We will move on to Public Comment.
Much for being here and i hope you have taken advantage of all of the perks available to you and those who are not book fair members as yet i know you are considering becoming members so thank you very much. Acknowledges miamidade college, the convener of this outstanding book fair and many thanks to our students, faculty and staff are giving up their time to make sure this book fair is the caliber that it is today and has been for the past three decades so thank you to miamidade college. [applause] lets get right on with the show. I would like to bring on Mister Eldridge Birmingham for questions, he is the chief science officer, thank you. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is a great pleasure. I have lived in miami several years, this is my second presentation. The first was with Richard Dawkins and im equally fortunate to introduce james glieck who is one of the great science or historians of science ever. I thought what i would do was read a brief statement, some of you know c