About 22d today, and accrediteddegree granting fouryear colleges, which i think is the secondhighest number of any Congressional District in the country. I was elected to congress in 1993. The shape of the district has changed over that time but i have represented lynchburg for the entire 25 years and my hometown of roanoke, the northern end of the district has grown further and further north, so that is probably 40 or 50 miles further north than it was originally when i started representing a 25 years ago. Lynchburg is a community that has a very rich history going back to the early 1700s, settled by an individual named john lynch. He settled here because we are at the falls of the james river, and there are canals through this area and it was a very important port for carrying various Agricultural Products richmondjames river to and then all the way to the chesapeake bay. And it also was a Major Community during the civil war, because there was a major hospital. Cemeteryynchburg city
Failing good humor. Particularly at very long meetings. Her commitment to the department , herren enthusiasm learning everything a department does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that shes earned another year in this position. I think she deserves another year in in this commission. I think we will all benefit from having her as our president again. I am so humbled. We need a second. Commissioner. Do you accept the nomination . I do, yes. Thank you. [laughter] gladly. I was surprised. Th
So, im supervisor katie tang, your new Land Use Committee chair. Vice chair for life. [laughter] all right. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Complete speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items asked upon today will appear on the february 18 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. All right. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call the first item . Item number one, establishing the gary masonic special use district in the area generally bounded by gary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and [inaudible] number 1071 lots numbers 1 and 4 to north and west. Respectively. Thank you. And i believe that you have assumed sponsorship of this item. Thank you. Im going to ask kaniska from mark ferrells office sorry to say a few words and talk about continuing this item. On behalf of former supervisor mark ferrell.
More about how that has evolved and Rubber Company placed in that. Okay. Its funny, so i thought i would have to let a lot of grunt work that you guys have laid a lot of the grunt work for me. Alecs talked about the two copyrights in every recording that you here. Theres the composition the notes and lyrics and the sound recording. The sound recording is that artist, that recording artist interpretation of that composition. And then fixed permanently somehow to be a recording. So before 1995 1998 before the performance right was created in those two laws there was no performance right according under federal law. But some in 1998 there was and there was no one to collect the royalties for the performance right. So as services developed and as they need to pay royalties develop the industry collectively created an entity to collect those royalties and that was soundexchange. Initially it was kind of this come in the corner of an office a group of people trying to figure out how are they
Pardon me . My hard pains for congressman, what you need to think about is our security. We are better off with iran not having a Nuclear Weapon. No question. Our primary objective here was to have a negotiation because they were already at 19,000 centrifuge already with enough material for 10 to 12 bomdz, already enriching at 20 and they were a step away from a plutonium react thats true could produce enough material for one to two bombs a year. How we stepped into that. I get that. And we rolled that back. You said that. How long before we knew about fordau. We discovered it. We blew the whistle. How long was it there before we discovered it. I dont know a precise amount of time. Ten years . But congressman, we discovered that and we also im sorry, you let me just say, in 2003 we discovered they were actually trying to make a bomb and we did it without inspectors, without this regime. Youve said all that. This is about the trust you keep saying were going to have. No theres no trust.