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So really i want to thank everybody for being here today. All right. Lets get started. Todays session and conversation is about equ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ race study. I want to get started, first lets give our guest a round of applause. [applause] i want to start off first with some of the introduction in jeffs book. The introduction on the crisis cycle and i want to hit a couple of points and open it up to jeff and dr. Cunningham. Mark, is it okay that i call you mark . Please,...

So really i want to thank everybody for being here today. All right. Lets get started. Todays session and conversation is about equ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ race study. I want to get started, first lets give our guest a round of applause. [applause] i want to start off first with some of the introduction in jeffs book. The introduction on the crisis cycle and i want to hit a couple of points and open it up to jeff and dr. Cunningham. Mark, is it okay that i call you mark . Please,...

Good morning, everyone. In is the Transportation Authority finance commission of San Francisco county meeting of thursday, march 17, 2016, my name is eric mar the chair and our clerk steve stamos. You roll call commissioner campos absent commissioner cohen commissioner kim absent supervisor mar commissioner yee we have quorum thank you. I wanted to thank from sfgovtv for televising us for every meeting leo davis and nona nicoles from sfgovtv item 2 the minutes of the april 2016 meeting. No quest...

General contractor bill we are supported by assemblyman chiu heard at the transportation it passed out of committee eric of our staff and soould presented it and others were in support so i think youre working with the coalitions and interests that have been expressed concern over similar bills their satisfied that is a narrow scope of application of the delivery mechanism their satisfied that theyre not going to approve it so hopefully that move forward and finally just you know weve been prese...

Okay yes 37 firms attempt the preproposals conference so the our process goes like this we hold the issues rfp and have a database of firms that are registered with us to receive the notifications of our contract analysis our rfp and rfp qs we invite any interested firms we answer questions about the scope of work and it is an opportunity for potential vendors to network with each other in the team. Is it mandatory. I know you continue to advance in the process to prequalifying meeting. Not mand...

Involved too. We have 100 union jobs across the board were in full support of the height increase. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon my name is paul weber and im not representing anybody but myself today. Im listening to the discussion of the value of the property and some call it subsidy and that is sort of key to the whole project. It seems to be a debate among many people about the adequacy or the value specified. Why doesnt the Board Commission its own appraisal you h...

Advance in the process to prequalifying meeting. Not mandatory we ask all the participants to sign in and provide the Contact Information we post that as well as questions asked during the conference and the answers that we provided as well q and a we received from email and other needs by the deadline for questions or comments that we provide in the rfp q. How do we determine the 5 agencies. What happens there is a period of lets see our schedule i wonder if where we have the schedule in here w...

National hero, and when it comes to the reverbiations, the National Security issue and they, for the most part, want to see it in the economic sphere. Theyre really hoping, as rouhanis Campaign Promises indicated and hes continually said so, some of this sanction relief is going to be a breath of new breath of fresh air for the countrys economy and hes sticking with his Campaign Promises which, for the most part he has a the of promise is but very heavy handed when it came to Economic Relief it ...

Once again, live for a hearing on last months waste water spill at the Gold King Mine in colorado. A couple of house committees this morning will hear testimony on capitol hill from epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy and a number of tribal officials from the Navajo Nation, just one area affected by that spill. The spill contaminated rivers in kol co colorado, new mexico and utah and in the Navajo Nation. Yesterday, Gina Mccarthy testified before a Senate Committee and she defended the epas response...

Epa is only involved in actually a small percentage of those. Why . Because the authority to look at these is spread among a number of agencies, and epa can you break it down so that we have an idea of what the problem really is with some of these mines that may affect the health and welfare of our communities . We can do our best but i can tell you that the ones we follow are the ones on the National Priorities list and the ones where we work with states to address what we consider to be an imm...