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For the regular for the regular hearing which of thursday, august 11, any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson so arrive shortly and commissioner wu to be absent commissioners, the first item on your agenda is consideration of it...

Good afternoon. Welcome to the to say Planning Commission for the regular for the regular hearing which of thursday, august 11, any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson so arrive shortly and commissioner wu to be absent commissio...

Good afternoon. Welcome to the to say Planning Commission for the regular for the regular hearing which of thursday, august 11, any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson so arrive shortly and commissioner wu to be absent commissio...

Good afternoon. Welcome to the to say Planning Commission for the regular for the regular hearing which of thursday, august 11, any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president fong commissioner Vice President richards commissioner antonini commissioner hillis and commissioner moore. We expect commissioner johnson so arrive shortly and commissioner wu to be absent commissio...

Inches of snow, you can see the lake effect is really starting to dwindle. we are in the teens and we will stay in the Single Digits as we start the day tomorrow. the wind chills will remain near 0. Friday afternoon another round of snow will be moving in and the snow is the head of a arctic front that will make temperatures on saturday pretty mental on monday and tuesday we are keeping an eye on interesting situation that could be setting up, one that can bring snow too much of northern ohio. w...

This is of course one of the items that we have been working on together. Youre correct that we had a disclaimer in 2014 and in 2015. Im pleased to tell you that ginnie mae has been working. It has filled key leadership positions. It has revamped several of its processes. Improved the way that it does business. I also want to assure you that i have made it very clear to all of my staff that we take the recommendations of the Inspector General seriously. In fact, i know that yall are going to hav...

States. Syria has become a controversial issue. ,he president ial candidates Hillary Clinton has a different view than obama. But hardly anything clear. A fascinating note to end on. Im sorry we did not get to talk more about the American Election and so many other things. Thank you all so much for coming today and for all the great questions. Thanks. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Or...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by a...