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Lunchtime dialogue series. I want to thank the people in the rook in washington, d. C. As well those Live Streaming and those watching on cspan 3. Im i wonder how many there are. Im janet, im director of the group. What we do we do a lot of work in the country quipping local leaders to build prosperous region. Since 1985, aspen as focus its work in rural. Through our experience we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly over country. Rural america is live in, start a business in and...

Lunchtime dialogue series. I want to thank the people in the rook in washington, d. C. As well those Live Streaming and those watching on cspan 3. Im i wonder how many there are. Im janet, im director of the group. What we do we do a lot of work in the country quipping local leaders to build prosperous region. Since 1985, aspen as focus its work in rural. Through our experience we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly over country. Rural america is live in, start a business in and...

But theyll be ushered in. Good afternoon and welcome to the Aspen Institute. On behalf of the Strategy Group and the Rural Development Innovation Group, i want to thank you for joining us for this lunchtime dialogue series. Americas rural opportunity. I want to thank all the people in the room here, in washington, d. C. , with us, as well as the hundreds of the people Live Streaming and those of you watching on cspan3. So i am i wonder how many there are. Im janet topolsky. Im executive director...

Test test test. Test test test. With us from the South Carolina association for Economic Development. Bernie . Thank you and welcome. I bring you greetings from warmer climates where there are Smiling Faces and beautiful places. [ laughter ] South Carolina is a great place to be. We have urban and rural areas that definitely have slight differences. In South Carolina, the Unemployment Rate in our 11 most distressed and rural count iies averages 12 , this is twice that of the more developed and y...

Lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 ...

The last question is, i do believe that the comments on the central subway had a larger negative affect on some of the occupancies and vibrancy of part of stockton street in particular but also on some of the stores which are on the Market Street side of the central subway has slowed us down for many many years. It is the lower part of stockton and even with the christmas attempt to put some [inaudible] there and make some activities it has not really helped those stores at all. What has helped ...

Commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and schaem commissioner pearlman commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Does my member of the public wish to speak on a nonagendized item seeing and hearing none, Public Comment is closed. Item one directors announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners tim Frye Department staff the directors report was in your packet should you have any questions. Seeing none, commissioners ite...

Commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and schaem commissioner pearlman commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Does my member of the public wish to speak on a nonagendized item seeing and hearing none, Public Comment is closed. Item one directors announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners tim Frye Department staff the directors report was in your packet should you have any questions. Seeing none, commissioners ite...

Your agenda is general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Does my member of the public wish to speak on a nonagendized item seeing and hearing none, Public Comment is closed. Item one directors announcements. Good afternoon, commissioners tim Frye Department staff the directors report was in your packet should you have any questions. Seeing none, commissioners item 2 review of past events that is Planning Commission staff recorded and amazements important tim Frye Department staff no for...

I am sure that the alarming President Trump federal budget is not a surprise, but nonetheless they remain disturbing in stark contrast to invest in infrastructure, he has proposed the budget of 16. 2, billion reflect as a 13 percent cut, with major impacts to transit, and hitting urban and Rural Community as like, the budget proposes eliminating all future funds for grants that we know as the new starts program when are not a part of the signed full Funding Grant agreements. This will effect sev...