We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the romantic ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Item two is the approval of minutes for the november 14th, 2023, Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes unanimously the minutes of the november 14th, 2023, meeting are adopted. Item three is Public Comment on executive session on. We will now take Public Comment on executive session. Seeing none in the room. Do we have anyone on the phone . There are no callers for Public Comment. For callers on the line, please dial star three. If you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star three if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is cl
The release of when race trumps merit how the pursuit of equity excellence destroys beauty and threatens lives. Im brian anderson, the editor of city journal. And its my honor to introduce the books heather mac donald. Thank you. Thank you for heather is the manhattan Thomas W Smith fellow, a contributing editor of city journal who has written for the magazine almost since its inception, and her byline appears regularly in the wall street journal and many other leading publications. Shes also the author of the best the war on cops and the delusion just for kicks. I asked chat gtp, who the most influential journal writers are, and heathers name headed the list. So i like that. I like that i a a i yes. Over the years heather scrupulous and groundbreaking has shed light on trends in american life. Her new book brings relentless reporting to perhaps the most dangerous one yet, which is the equity craze that is threatening our scientific, cultural and Public Institute shines in this new boo
Good evening everyone. Thanks for joining us to note the release of when race trumps merit how the pursuit of equity excellence destroys beauty and threatens lives. Im brian anderson, the editor of city journal. And its my honor to introduce the books heather mac donald. Thank you. Thank you for heather is the manhattan Thomas W Smith fellow, a contributing editor of city journal who has written for the magazine almost since its inception, and her byline appears regularly in the wall street journal and many other leading publications. Shes also the author of the best the war on cops and the delusion just for kicks. I asked chat gtp, who the most influential journal writers are, and heathers name headed the list. So i like that. I like that i a a i yes. Over the years heather scrupulous and groundbreaking has shed light on trends in american life. Her new book brings relentless reporting to perhaps the most dangerous one yet, which is the equity craze that is threatening our scientific,
The approval of minutes for the november 14th, 2023, Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes unanimously the minutes of the november 14th, 2023, meeting are adopted. Item three is Public Comment on executive session on. We will now take Public Comment on executive session. Seeing none in the room. Do we have anyone on the phone . There are no callers for Public Comment. For callers on the line, please dial star three. If you wish to make Public Comment. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star three if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Next item please. Item four is executive session and there are three executive session items. One Public Employee hiring and two conferences with Real Property negotiator as agen
Actively to pursue revenue to meet these needs, and its not just to rely on taking one step or measure, but rather identify multiple actions that could be pursued over a period of time to meet these needs. So next recommendation, number three was probably one of the most contentious issues that was discussed, and that was what a major Revenue Source for 2018 might be. There were in the final vote, four measures that came out on top culled from a list of over 30, and probably the biggest debate was about looking to sales tax as a key revenue measure versus looking to some form of gross receipts tax. This wasnt a huge amount of disagreement between which form of gross receipts tax, you know, looking at certain types of taxes on businesses rather than on sales to consumers, but there were very strong opinions around both sides of those issues. But those broad types of revenue measures were what came out on top. So recommendation number four from the group, you know, this group was not jus