It is slow today. No problem. Operator this question is now in question and answer mode. To alert the speaker, you have a question, press zero. Each question will be heard in the way it was received. This is Public Comment for minutes on june 30th. So if you wish to address the board on the minutes, dial 10 now. There are no callers. Chair Public Comment is closed. Motion to approve. Chair is there a second . Second. Chair secretary boomer, can you please call the role. role call . Five communications, madam chair. Item 13 regarding the caltrian sales tax has been removed at the request of staff and proposing amendments to the board of directors and we will schedule a special meeting for members of the public to hear our item and for us to act. If you wish to address the directors today on this topic, you can do so under general Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Again, so the caltrain sales tax measure will not be heard at the end of the agenda but will be heard in a special m
I think in terms of the Animal Welfare, that will be the most and were seeing anywhere between 50 to 60 cost increase to move over to nae products. And for us, its figuring out ways to creatively pass that along, whether it to be the cafe or increasing our prices through the cafe and, also, reducing meats. We have reducing meats and every monday is a meatless monday and normally, we would serve about 200 pounds of protein on a monday, but over the last, i would say, three months, we havent done meat on mondays and thats pretty significant. Thats about it. Im happy to answer my questions. Thank you very much. So we have elvis lavaera to speak about laguna honda. Yes. Im from the laguna honda hospital. So, yes, we currently serve 170 residents and offer a 28day cycle menu to the residents. What makes the hospital is unique is the population that we serve, the highly vulnerable population and the age group. A lot of our residents are here and their length of stay is two weeks to some have
Recent book one person, no vote how Voter Suppression is destroying our democracy. Doctor anderson is a renowned historian, educator and author. She is the Charles Howard kammer professor of every american studies at Emory University and the author of white rage, the unspoken truth of our nations divide. Im a great admirer of her work exploring the legacies of slavery, segregation, and discrimination and how we remain fundamentally an unequal nation, 400 years after the arrival of african slavery in north america. Doctor Andersons Book one person, no vote chronicles the history of Voter Suppression in america including all the current ways the Republican Party is undermining Voting Rights. Doctor anderson, i am delighted to have you here to talk with you about your work, its wonderful to you. I want us to talk about what we can do to fight back against efforts to suppress the most fundamental and sacred rights we have committed right to vote. We know that this is the current each and e
Now at 9 as most of the bay area transitions into phase 2 of reopening the number of covid19 related fatalities in the nation has now surpassed 90,000 raising concerns about a second wave. Good evening, everybody, im paying more and im ken wayne, the first known us coronavirus related fatality was back on february 6th. Since then 10s of thousands of americans have died and tonight there are more than 1. 5 million cases in the United States this as state after state relaxes a social distance, the rules and restrictions today experts say only 18 say showed a downward trend of new cases last february it was im sorry last friday it was 28 states. It is not clear if the increase in cases is because of more testing whether the virus is just spreading more now that so many places are back open. Heres a look at the numbers globally there is close to 5 there are close to 5 million cases more than 318,000 deaths in california more than 81,000 cases more than 3,000 deaths in the bay area more tha
So history as you all know is about words. Thats why you are here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full meeting of our creed. And its also about music, and music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to song with which you might disagree, more ingeniously and more profitably and you couldmo ever listen to e speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely. As sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and the guns, they were carrying their pin and prose and poetry along with them to move this revolution forward and move our countryio forward. Henry David Thoreau once wrote when i hear music i fear no danger. I see, no foe unrelated to the earliest times into the latest. That pretty much sums up i th