More. Look back at how american tuts attitudes shifted in 2013. Time and money are running out for more than a million jobless americans. The emergency Unemployment Benefits that they have been getting from the federal government are expiring tomorrow. About 1. 3 Million People who have been out of work for months will stop receiving payments. The average recipient will lose out on more than 1,000 each month. The benefits program was introduced in 2008 at the height of the recession. Since then the payouts have caused the federal government 225 billion. Extending them for another year would tack on another 19 billion but congress hasnt done that yet. Months ago they lost their jobs, now theyre losing the money they get from the government to get by. Since 2008, congress has extended the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program almost a dozen times. But this time lawmakers have let it lapse. That means that people who have lost their jobs will no longer have a cushion once their stat
As a last reminder please address Accident Commission you should know that they dont respond to questions during any Public Comment . No order to allow equal time for all. At the end of the comment if he e they may request staff to respond or not. With that on item 2 which is the president report just two quick observations in the interest of one off our supervisors commissioner mcdonnell i want to expedite comboet through as many items as quickly the Zoo Committee has all of the evidence on occasion from meeting at the zee and at city hall well meet anothers city hall for the next meeting. That concludes my comments that i comments from 9 president report seeing none, were on item 3 the general managers report audience deploring borrowing groundbreaking were hosting a groundbreaking on saturday on march 4. Its been opened and san franciscans have enjoyed the festivities we love that park to death but thanks to a over 71 thousand san franciscans have voted for improvements and prepare
If i had my way, it would be left to the states. His recent piece, dropped the dropout. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you very much. Host that does it for todays washington journal. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] looking ahead at the day here in the nations capital, the u. S. House is in a weeklong recess for members to meet with constituents in their own districts. There will be a brief poor from forma session today. The house voted to permanently extend research and Development Tax credit. The senate is in today. At 11 00, lawmakers will hold a procedural vote to advance expired tax breaks. Senaterning, the Homeland Security committee is hearing from top military officials and from the Defense Department inspector general. Looking for ways to improve the deities Financial Management. The dods Financial Management. President obama will award the medal of honor to kyl wait for his actions in afghan
That i Electronic Device thank you, your honor turn them off their disrupt during the meeting and any conversations please take them outside if you want to comment we do request you fill out a blue card underlines the president announce otherwise each person will have 3 minutes to comment on each item. As a last reminder please address Accident Commission you should know that they dont respond to questions during any Public Comment . No order to allow equal time for all. At the end of the comment if he e they may request staff to respond or not. With that on item 2 which is the president report just two quick observations in the interest of one off our supervisors commissioner mcdonnell i want to expedite comboet through as many items as quickly the Zoo Committee has all of the evidence on occasion from meeting at the zee and at city hall well meet anothers city hall for the next meeting. That concludes my comments that i comments from 9 president report seeing none, were on item 3 the
Call item no. 2 please. Roll call. Avalos present, breed present, commissioner mar . Present, schmeltzer is absent and Leah Pimentel is absent. President torres, commissioner cane present, commissioner moran, and commissioner courtney is excused today. Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. Very good. Thank you very much. If you can call item no. 3, please. Item 3 opening remarks and discussion of expectations for the joining meeting. Sf lafco chairperson john avalos and sf puc president art torres. Sf 31234 thank you very much. As chair of local Agency Formation commission, i would like to thank you for joining us at this meeting. We are at a very critical juncture now to approve the water program. We have received a lot of information from people across San Francisco and even across california that we are an approving a shell contract today and that is not the case. We are here to approve a rate for clean for sf program. Its well within the ability to negotiate a contract for our clean four