[gavel] good morning, everyone, we are in rules committee today for january what day is today, january 28. I am supervisor cohen, as katy tang, and we have eric mar, and supervisor cohen will be joining us shortly, and we have the honor of having supervisor here and take his Charter Amendment first quickly which is item 7. And thank sfgovtv and our clerk, mr. Evans. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silent devices and any documents are to be presented to the clerk, and items will be on january 29 board of supervisors agenda. Call item 7 out of order. Item 7, Charter Amendment to amend the chart of the city and councily San Francisco to require an annual baseline appropriation for the park and recreation open space with an election to be held on june, 7, 2016. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, i will save my comments for a full board with this measure. At this point i counted this charter measure has been in committee five months and have gone over 15 amendments. And i want to say tha
In this 1983 photograph, president reagan meets with a group of afghan commanders in the white house. Matteluary of 1988, gorbachev announced the soviet government would withdraw their 100,000 troops from afghanistan. The final troop withdrawal was one year later. Next on American History tv, an author and historian explains why native americans were so vulnerable to europeanintroduced diseases. Indigenous populations had little to no exposure to diseases like smallpox or to colonization. However, illness was only one piece of a larger puzzle in the native populations dont fall. The Kansas City Public Library at the university of Kansas School of medicine hosted this event. Its about one hour and 18 minutes. Im the director of the Kansas City Public Library. Its a pleasure to have paul here to talk about cherokee medicine and colonial germs, the topic of his recent book. We are honored to have him here and are equally honored that this is cosponsored by the Kansas City School of Medici
Crosby im the director of the kansas city public library. Its a pleasure to have paul here to talk about cherokee medicine and colonial germs, the topic of his recent book. We are honored to have him here and are equally honored that this is cosponsored by the Kansas City School of Medicines Department of history and philosophy. This is a great topic and when im interested in because at least on my mothers side of the family, we claim to be part cherokee. Her grandmother claimed to be half cherokee. So i am particularly interested tonight. Im also particularly interested because this is a big part of the history of this part of the world. Many of you will know about the trail of tears and the march of the Cherokee Nation into kansas and oklahoma. What you probably dont know but what you will hear tonight is some of the history of some of the cherokee before they were sent by Andrew Jackson and others across america in the trail of tears. This is not just a story of victimization, but i
And im Michelle Charlesworth. Today is saturday, november 21st. Happy weekend. No kidding. Getting closer to thanksgiving too. A week before turkey day. What are you doing. Are you sticking around . Ive got to work thanksgiving morning. Ill probably be at the parade and working friday morning with all of the same folks standing outside of a walmart at a. M. , and thats my week. What about you. All the same. Spending it with family. Amy freeze, whats going on. Ill be working next thursday an friday but i take the kids every year to the mission and we do the serve. They lover that. Stewardship. They learn theyre not the only ones in the world. Were doing that this year. Today, it turns out to be a nice one. North winds, 20 milesperhour through central park and temperature right at 43 degrees. A bit of a chill. Were not expecting the winds to be strong all day but it is going to be a cool one. 40s on the island and were looking at the change in temperature degrees colder this morning comp
Annually at the timma board the board shall elect the newly postponed chair shall immediately precede his or her election according to the public speaker as soon as one of the nominees get a vote that person is elected and no other nomination mr. Clerk can you please call this item. Item 5 election of chair. Okay nominations are now in order for the office of the chair any nomination on the floor. Commissioner yee i nominate the current chair continue to be the chair. Thank you, commissioner. Supervisor kim. Thank you commission any other nominations . More than happy to take other nominations okay seeing none, nominations are closed oh, im sorry is there a second to commissioner yees if noting no further well open up for Public Comment on this item any Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed excuse me. . Okay. Mr. Clerk call that same house, same call . Well do that same house, same call . At this time we will take nominations for the office of vice chair. Co