This is a Great Partnership and i know that you have a long meeting today i will cut my presentation short and answer any questions if you have them at this time. Thank you, mr. Car. By the way i want to welcome you, this is the first time appearing as the new head of the Workforce Development in the city. Welcome. Thank you. Colleges questions . I just like to be added as a cosponsor next to tang for being the lead sponsor on this thank you so much. Thank you for your support sir. Thank you. With that we will move on to Public Comment, anybody wish to comment on item three . Okay, seeing none, closed. Colleagues could i have a motion to move this forward. So moved. We can take that without objection. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, could you call item, 4 through 20 together . 4, resolution, approving amendment number one to the department of Public Health contract for the services with alternative Family Services to extend the contract by two years. Five, resolution approving amendment number o
Good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of december 8, 2015. Clerk please call girl thank you. Avalos, breed im a campos campos, cohen farrell, present. Kim, here. Mar, present. Peskin speed tang tang speak wiener yee present. Met pres. All members are present thank you. Ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you. Mdm. Clerk are there any communications yes i have three. Up first to medication from Julie Christiansen resigning from her seat as district 3 supervisor dated today december 8, 2015. Additionally, my office is in receipt of a resolution that is a return to the board signed by the mayor certifying and declaring that their peskin received a plurality of votes cast at the election held on november 3, 2015 and has been duly sworn in. Welcome supervisor peskin. [applause] the third communication is from our controller mr. Ben rosenfeld city controller. Concerning the newly elected member o
Overall management of the agency, with that said, i would glad to see sba has agreed with nearly all of the gaos recommendation and has begun to take action. Today im looking forward hearing from gao about whether or not they believe gao is standing through commitment. It is a vital role and one that i want to ask all Committee Members to take part in. I look forward to hearing the gaos testimony and i just to explain very briefly our rules here in the time limits which the share is familiar with, im sure we operate under the fiveminute rules. We will give you a little bit longer than that if you need it theres only one witness, we generally have four. You need a little more time, thats okay and we will limit ourselves to five minutes at least in the first round and then we will determine whether i think its necessary in the second round at the appropriate time. The yellow light comes on and says its time to wrap up and if the red light comes on we will let you go on a little more like
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . The yeas and nays are 56, the noes are 50. 40. The motion is agreed to. The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk Madeline Cox Arleo of new jersey to be district judge for the district of new jersey. The presiding officer there will be two minutes of debate equally twieded prior to a vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the beetlestone nomination. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Casey mr. President , i rise today to speak on this nomination. I know we have very limited time, but this is a nomination of Wendy Beetlestone to be United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of pennsylvania. Shes got great qualifications, a graduate of the university of pennsylvania law school, an honors graduate in her undergraduate institution, has worked now for 19 years at the law firm
Government that theyre unfamiliar with and, you know, i think its great that the high number of latino members of your force that you have. How do you make sure that theyre really truly grounded and what it is that these people may be trying to or want to communicate but maybe afraid to communicate to operate under the corridor of law. Yes, we are familiar with the various communities in mexico. At the individual agent level, i cannot speak to that. What i can say is that they are trained to be consistent in terms of how we process people and to treat people with dignity and respect. That is a core principle of cdp. I cant speak to the individual offices of assessment. But i can speak to what we ask them to do. This question is for mr. Jones. And it kind of follows up on the direction in which commissioner yaki has been hinting. But it would appear that the custom and border officers are critical players in this immigration process. And the screening and the selection and the training