Few minutes for up to the minute details on that and why its not ealing a blow to the u. S. Economy. First, stocks, as we do every 15 minutes, going to the floor. New york Stock Exchange. Lauren is there watching it. Any indication from the investors and traders about a deal . Are they telling you if they have an inside scoop . They do not have an inside scoop, but theres con play sen sigh, and stocks stuck in the range, down half a percent for the broader market, down for five days in a row waiting, two hours from now, to hear somebody in washington Say Something about fiscal cliff, and then well move on that news, but traders are saying if we get a deal done, well see the market take off. We have not seen a santa claus rally this december, unfortunately, and, in fact, the nasdaq lower. Stocks lower, by the way. Heres the New York Stock Exchange, three stocks trading down for every one trading up. Another thing trading up a the vix index. Its 20. 18. The vix has traded below the two d
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My jobs and our jobs come down to partnership and discussion and consensus building and meetings and more meetings and unfortunately that takes more time than a linear top down structure so when i talk at conferences i was at dream force not long ago and having lunch with people i dont understand government and how this works. I spent time educating people how government is today and how were trying to change it and streamline it and maybe it more efficient but its a challenge and its a transition for a organization. I think like a battle ship City Government is not easy to turn quickly. Its going to take us years of hard work and partnership and dedication to make that happen. I think we are forging those partnerships. I think there will be debated about centralize and decentralization but in the interim period or Department Heads make a determination about that i think it boils down to partnerships and i think department of technology and cio and coit we spend time creating these par
Other Community Based agencies. We are very excited working with city colleges, San Francisco and we already work with them and develop where some of our graduates have moved into academy as the openings have happened and we are very excited about opening the vocational city colleges and working with ged and esl programs. We are also Certified Testing Center for ged testing. So we want to collaborate with city college because we know they have a program similar. We want to leverage our joint services meeting. Im looking forward to the thursday Southeast Commission where we present on a more thorough presentation on what our program is and more detail thursday at 6 00 p. M. So with that, i will give it to sheriff. Thank you for being here. We are going to have comments on the item only. This is 21n. Is there any other comments . I would like to say there was a meeting with with the South East Commission last week. I would like to say this fact concerning the oak dale project has been go
People have the misunderstanding of the college and the southeast commission. I stated to her yesterday that they didnt to have come before first to the commission. They have to first go through the dean and through the chancellor for the program to began at the college because thats where the college is from. Everybody is not satisfied. I just heard hes going on thursday. I will be there to make sure that there is an understanding a separation of services from the college to the facility. I just want to make sure that you all know that they will be approving it anyway or on thursday because i will be there because i have worked with the sheriff over many years and i was there when he said hes going to run and he was carrying on hennessys program. Thats what the college is for. Those young people who have dropped out of school and instead of having them go to jail, and if i had asked the head of the police commission, if they would put together and mandate instead of these young people