How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col
Moving here, as well as construction was a huge economic boom. As we go from agricultural to suburbia, one of the big contributing factors of that are these machines right here. So you have cooling, which this would have filled up with water and air would have been blown through it because in the desert its so dry that the addition of humidity would cool he air down. But it didnt do as good a job. Then you have this, which was brought to arizona via motorola. But it then made its way not just from that industrial use but then every home started having its own air conditioning as well. This really caused was one of the major factors in folks now moving to arizona. Because before that, it was really the weather that prevented folks from being here yearround. But with the addition of air conditioning, you now had the ability to control your own climate and your house. Arizona is a state that is very much still finding itself. Its a new state. 1912. We just celebrated, a few years ago, cen
Artists dealing with social and plenty social and political content. A lot of these artists throughout history have recognized the artforms ability to bring about social change. Later, we will make our way to the top of hayden butte and hear about the man credited 40 settlement, Charles Hayden. He was a Community Builder in a wider sense. Thinking about what could he do to help the Community Get bigger and that is in a lot of ways why his figure has become bigger historically. We begin the hour at the asu library, where we will looking at items from two long serving senators, Barry Goldwater and carl hayden. The arizona collection here at the asu library preserves accessible the papers of 14 members of congress from arizona. The goldwater papers and the hayden papers are the two largest archival collections that document the works of the arizona congressional delegation. Hayden is an interesting individual because his father was the first white settler of the city in about 1870. He bui
Silence any mobile devices during this proceedinging rho, commissioner president richards. Commissioner antonini. Here. Commissioner hillis and commissioner moore . We do expect commissioners johnson and wu to arrive at some point. Commissioners, today on your special calendar item 1 Public Comment on matters to be considered for discussion in closed session. I have no speaker cards. Any Public Comment for item no. 1 . Okay Public Comment is closed. Item 2, consideration consider adoption of motion on whether to assert the attorneyclient privilege regarding matters listed below on your agenda as conference with legal counsel. Commissioner antonini. So moved. Do i hear a second . Second. Thank you, commissioners on that motion then to assert attorneyclient privilege, commissioner aintioni. Aye. Commissioner hillis. Aye. Commissioner moore. Aye. Commissioner richards. Aye. And Commission President fong. Aye. That passes unanimously 50 and i will now move to go into closed session. So tha
Proposal for the last month a lot going on in the Mayors Office i dont understand i want to sit down with the Mayors Office of housing as they clearly are dealing with the developer i want to marry Community Help facilitate these negotiations we would like to sit down and discuss we have many, many people coming on their way by the way, we only just now heard the continuance it grant and have heard that was grand after our testimony please be prepared at general Public Comment there are a couple hundred people coming i urge you giving us more time beyond june 2nd thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners steve with mary tell on behalf of the project sponsor we dont object to a time longer i understand your calendar were not in opposition of the continuance thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance. My name is rick hall i support a continuance i believe that a month would be much more appropriate than two weeks i think i certainly agree that