The senate gavels in at 2 00 eastern for general speeches. At 5 30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. You can watch the house life on cspan live on cspan, the senate on cspan2. Deputy National Security adviser tony blinken talked about the u. S. And European Response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. He talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. He spoke at a conference on europe hosted by the brookings institution. Its about 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, i hope youve had a chance to enjoy some lunch. It is, of course, a brookings sandwich lunch, so, you know, theres limits to the enjoyment, but nonetheless, we hope youve had a good lunch. Were extremely pleased to have tony blinken here to finish off and wrap up our annual conference for us today. Tony, unfortunately,
And that is for monies that would cover unavoidable or already incurred costs. And then the balance of 3,580,4 61 which is shown in table 6 on page 36 of our report, we consider that to be a policy matter only because the board determines the priorities of what should be expended from the city state Revenue Reserve lost fund. So, our recommendation are on the bottom of page 36. We recommend that you amend the ordinance to delete the Human Service agencies, appropriation for inhouse supported Services Administration and reduce a million 114,76 total requested appropriation by 581,300. That would reflect revised total of 5 34,0 06 remaining for the department of Public Health. And we recommend that you amendedth proposed ordinance on page 2 to reduce ,169,175 offsetting appropriation from state loss Revenue Reserve by the same 580,300 to 6,589,585. And our second recommendation is to amend the ordinance on page 2 to delete the 1,800,000 source of funding for the children with families co
Matter only because the board determines the priorities of what should be expended from the city state Revenue Reserve lost fund. So, our recommendation are on the bottom of page 36. We recommend that you amend the ordinance to delete the Human Service agencies, appropriation for inhouse supported Services Administration and reduce a million 114,76 total requested appropriation by 581,300. That would reflect revised total of 5 34,0 06 remaining for the department of Public Health. And we recommend that you amendedth proposed ordinance on page 2 to reduce ,169,175 offsetting appropriation from state loss Revenue Reserve by the same 580,300 to 6,589,585. And our second recommendation is to amend the ordinance on page 2 to delete the 1,800,000 source of funding for the children with families commission. And on page 5 to delete that same 1,800,000 appropriation no longer needed by the commission. They have sufficient funds in their budget. So, its not under budgeting that. It would be full
Okay. Seeing none, at this point id like to open up to Public Comment. Any members of the public that wish to comment on item number 2, please step forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ill move the amendments recommended by the budget analyst. Okay. We have an amendment a motion to approve the amendments to make this retroactive to january 1st. We can do that without opposition. And we have a motion to move this forward so moved. To the full board with recommendation. We can do that without opposition. Mr. Clerk, can you please call item number 3 . Item number 3, resolution authorizing the office of Contract Administration to enter into the seventh amendment between the city and xtech part of the Technology Store procurement vehicle in which the amendment shall increase the contract amount from 60,490,000 to 90,580,000 for the period of january 1, 2009, through december 31, 2013. Thank you very much. Mr. Jones . Good morning, supervisors. Bill jones, office of Contract Admin
Eight of Donald Trumps a cabinet nominees and threatening to dragout the confirmation process for months. But is it a losing fight . Federal help . Chicago suffers its highest murder rate in two decades with 762 homicides in the year that just ended. President elect trump warns the citys mayor that, if he cant fix the crime problem, he must ask for federal help. What does trump have in mind . I am wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. President elect trump is digging in his heels, casting fresh doubt on the u. S. Intelligence assessment that russia directed Cyber Attacks on the Democratic National committee in order to sway the election. But tonight, digital fingerprints tracing the Election Hacking directly back to russia are giving intelligence officials fresh confidence that they have got it right. Trumps spokesman insists the Intelligence Report is not final and trump claims he knows things about hacking that others dont know and that hell reveal his inside information this