We saved a lot of money. We saved a good 70,000 on not having to conduct big elections. Ive provided you a copy of the october dashboard, operations dashboard. Also, again, weve been reminded make sure you mark your calender, the off site board retreat is scheduled for wednesday, february 19th, starting at noon. It will be held at 50 california street. And we anticipate that it potentially run beyond five but hopefully not much beyond 5 00. President driscoll, thank you for reminding me, theres a requirement that each of you complete the implicit bias training before december 31st. Ive included in my report the instructions on how to access that. My understanding is that its a 45minute course that you need to have a certificate of completion and you must file it can darlene before december 31st. Im not familiar with this training. Department heads have to take a full day training. Which im going to be take on december 20th. So i just a reminder, i believe that there is a list that need
Lets get going. Good afternoon. Please take your seat. We will get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the december 10th, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at San Francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report today, mr. President. Okay. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from the october 22nd, 2019 and october 29th, 2019 board meetings. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . So moved. To moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen without objection, those minutes will be approved after public c
House of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise to recognize july as park and recreation month. Its a fitting time to celebrate our local parks and recreation systems as so Many Americans will visit them this summer. An avid outdoorsman and spending my life as a recreational therapist, i enjoy our parks and facilities. It provides Educational Opportunities for individuals and families to enjoy the outdoors. This month recognizes the roles they play in lives of americans and contributions o
All right. I dont consider myself a journalist and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of the running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Where are you from originally . Thomas i was born in new york. Shery your father was a businessperson . Thomas i lived in new york until i was eight, then moved to florida. David thomas i was born in new. Shery you wanted to reduce your taxes, you moved to florida. Thomas very precocious. I knew at eight Capital Gains taxes were best paid in florida. David you went to high school at the rose, one of the most famous warning schools in the world, in switzerland. Then oxford and you got a phd in history. What type . Thomas the undergrad was in what is called modern history which by english standards means when the romans leave britain. David when did you move back to the United States . Thomas what happened
To poverty to National Security and, yes, education as well, seeking to make sure we are bringing all the talent to the table for the benefit of us all. On this weeks bloomberg big decisions, Dan Porterfield. Dan porterfield, welcome to bloomberg big decisions. Dan thank you, david. Great to be here. David you have been described as a leader in ensuring access to high achieving low income students for colleges. Take us back to baltimore, maryland. What in the small, young boy of Dan Porterfield led him to that decision . Dan i grew up in Baltimore City in a couple different neighborhoods. One of the neighborhoods, it was my parents, me and my sister, we were pretty much the only white family. And then after my parents divorced, we moved about a mile away, very similar neighborhood. There, there was only white families. And that neighborhood felt like a fine neighborhood. I didnt know it at the time, but it was segregated. Eventually integration came to that neighborhood. A family, i be