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To spent 2. 5 Million Dollars to fund golf courses that include one in San Mateo County that floods every winter and killing two endangered species in the process . Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello i am Harriet Larkin and here from renaissance parents of success and nonprofit in the southeast sector. However we serve all children city wide and by children i mean youth. We also support the families and we were not defunded for our specialized team, social Justice Program or Work F...

So, i mean as a kind of overview just to refresh everyones memory here, we started with an overview of the history of it. Rwanda. This tension was precipitated by the withdrawal of the colonial powers in the 1950s and 1960s such that there was tension for the next 20 and 30 years erupting into violence. Becoming pretty severe starting in 1990 with the invasion of uganda of the Rwanda Patriotic front. This violence escalated through the early 1990s. There were preprisal killings i r rwanda. That ...

Democrat senators that are running for reelection want to delay because they dont want to face the people that are being affected by the law because they want to win their election. That should tell you everything you need to know about whats going on here and how people are perceiving it. The president s numbers are in the tank. Joining me is kentucky congressman john yarmuth. As a member of the energy and Commerce Committee and he was there for wednesdays hearing. Sir, great to have you with m...

Havent to the conversation today. Last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you ...

There are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, ...

So long to make it. We aint going to take it. Were going to rake it in. Were going to take the money that they get and were going to surely rake it. Were going to make it and were going to take it some more. Yes, and dont forget one last thing dont forget please the budget, the budget. Downtown where all the budget lights are bright. Downtown the budget is waiting for you tonight. Downtown and the budget money is waiting for you. Downtown were going to have more downtown and its going to be budg...

Level and we occupy and operate the Recording Studio of africanamerican art and culture complex. We could stay up here all day and talk about our list of accomplishments. We are a musicking Programming Program in a safe environment that the africanamerican Cultural Center has provided for the youth. This is a small fraction of us here but i wanted to speak on behalf actually we were requested by the District Attorneys Office to write the theme song and we performed it today on the steps here and...

Significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are b...

Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. Fi...

These are Award Winning policy makers and leaders in our community. We will start with jeff rosen. [applause] hes the District Attorney of Santa Clara County and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. He oversees the largest Prosecutors Office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. He sees it all. He is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. You should be very happy. You won. Next to him is Richard Ca...