Pears, peaches, prunes. It was called the valley of hearts delight. The weather was good, and it was beautiful. You could have gone upi] in the hills of cupertino and looked down. There are some famous paintings made up there during that period. You could5a look down in the valley and its just a sea of blossoms. Cupertino and itsfa neighbors sunnyvale anwa Mountain View would soon grow to crowd out the blossoms and replace theme1 with very different industries. Extraordinary things happen here but you dont really notice them. Its all very lowkey. And soul of Silicon Valley. Jf by the 1950s this is the epicenter of the digital revolution. In the mid 1950s Lockheed Martin moved to sunnyvale to open a missiles system division. Mary wattin is the author of Silicon Valley in pictures. She says hightech brought early traffic jams. rj photo is very interesting to me because its rush hour in the 1960s and this is lockheeds campus. You can see all the farmland around it. And thenxd this is just
Pears, peaches, prunes. It was called the valley of hearts delight. The weather was good, and it was beautiful. You could have gone upi] in the hills of cupertino and looked down. There are some famous paintings made up there during that period. You could5a look down in the valley and its just a sea of blossoms. Cupertino and itsfa neighbors sunnyvale anwa Mountain View would soon grow to crowd out the blossoms and replace theme1 with very different industries. Extraordinary things happen here but you dont really notice them. Its all very lowkey. And soul of Silicon Valley. Jf by the 1950s this is the epicenter of the digital revolution. In the mid 1950s Lockheed Martin moved to sunnyvale to open a missiles system division. Mary wattin is the author of Silicon Valley in pictures. She says hightech brought early traffic jams. rj photo is very interesting to me because its rush hour in the 1960s and this is lockheeds campus. You can see all the farmland around it. And thenxd this is just
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Mr. Pryor i would ask that it be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i rise to talk about the business on the floor, which is the omnibus appropriation bill. Let me start by thanking chairwoman mikulski for her leadership. She has put long hours in this over the christmas and new years break where most people were home with families and doing things in their home state and on vacation, she never stopped working, and her team, her staff on the Appropriations Committee never stopped working, and the staff as always is kind of the unsung hero around here. They did so many great things to put this together, both democrats, republicans, house and senate. Everybody had to Work Together to get this done. Im proud that they did. Im also proud to be the one of the appropriations subCommittee C
City departments, we feel like we feel as if we would like to wail until the final report has been finally vetted before we determine what portions of funds could go to what solutions as acquisition and rehab, subdifficulties. We talked about many different solutions. As youll see in the report, these looked at Public Private partnerships in conversations with private philanthropy i. Were in conversations with the tech industry. Were in conversations with the real estate to look at vacant or surplus city property. Were looking at vacant store fronts in commercial corridors, store front that might be available in the housing developments. Were also looking at, as i mentioned, the possibility of perhaps shortterm rental subsidies. Were in the process of analyzing the data that we are receiving from all the different city nonprofits. It looks as if when we did our survey in conjunction with the Controllers Office, over the past three years, the approximately at least 25,000 from us on a r
[speaker not understood], affect our health care costs. The next thing is going to be how our rents are going up and we cannot simply continue to provide services as they are now unless something is done about the cost of living increase. We asked the mayor to fund the cpi this year. We would prefer to take it out of the annual politicized process and have it be something that the city would ultimately institutional eyes through some mechanism so those increases could happen in a rational way through multiyear contracts and automatic escalators. That is something done in every other kind of contract the city has, whether its city leases or supply contracts or forprofit contracts erg. Theres no reason why nonprofits should be treated differently and we hope the Mayors Office come to you before the budget comes to you. We hope to have your support there. Thank you very much. Anybody else wish to comment . Thank you, supervisor. My name is richard heasley, im on the Steering Committee on