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Profile of the nations infrastructure issues to recruit new c. E. O. s and toplevel voices to the cause, and to generate more interest among the Business Community for addressing the challenges we will discuss today and throughout the week. Little did i know a year later we would be here today with a week packed full of events and national and Regional Media campaign involving a Steering Committee that unified business, labor, and think tanks. Paul urassi is the president of hnt tv culls compani...

Should we diminish enforcement and penalties for those other crimes that are far more serious . Racialhere are disparities in the approach to criminal justice, we should seriously consider examining the types of sentences and approaches we take to dealing with those Public Safety issues. I take that as sort of a yes. Do you agree that there is thatl bias or bigotry leads to these rates of arrests . People dont draw that conclusion based on analysis that is race alone. I think you have to look at...

The key one would be the toomey. Number ofee any amendments that would be related to taxes. You could see things that would make permanent some of the things that would be extended in the package, the package would only extend for two years. People might want permanent andnsions such as Research Development tax credits. That is something that was passed by the house last week a bipartisan vote. The General Convention wisdom is we will see a good debate in the senate this week. It is unclear if t...

This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It co...

Will you help us figure out a place that might look good because we want to know what the public is thinking as far as where an acceptable place is and we can investigate if that particular location works under an order and if it doesnt then we can suggest like this place maybe we can suggest some other location similar to it that doesnt have these pediments in the order. When the process is allowed to work we have on many many occasions have been able to work with the community to find alternat...

Enough in the day we can get that out. I have been aware of things come to me where people had not reported it and for whatever reason 311 miss identified it and it didnt get to us. When we get it, im very happy are the track record of abating graffiti. Supervisor jane kim my fault to that is we even heard already with the hearing today it can take two months to clean up the graffiti. Im curious what the obstacles were . I know anecdotally people have come to a hearing and said that, but i dont ...

Audience to pose questions. Here we go with our panel number one. We are looking at the vision. We will explore innovative practices and partnerships. Our first speaker will be the Senior Program officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. Hoping to have leon mac, director of el paso Public Library. Unfortunately she had a family emergency and was not able to the year. We are excited to have clarence anthony, executive director of the National League of cities. We will start out with her. ...

Now. And the revenues have increased some what more rapidly than folks had anticipated and so it is a bit of a happier place in sacramento in terms of budget and there are still issues that will be sorted out during the budget process and one of the key features of the budget is a Pretty Healthy reserve, and the reserve totals almost 2 and a half billion dollars and about a billion of that is a regular Standing Reserve that would be available throughout the year, or to Carry Forward if it is not...

Consent calendar. And these items are considered routine, and the staff are not planing to present these and if a member would like to sever an item for discussion, we can do that. All right. Thank you very much. So would anyone like to sever this item . Would any of the commissioners like to sever an item. It looks like there is no interest in that. So we can continue. Okay. Thank you. Is there a motion . Okay. There is a motion made by tang, and seconded by david chiu and passes. Number four, ...

That you want to submit. Ber who a staff mem will be picking up those questions after each panel. We will also have a chance for members of the audience and our virtual audience to pose questions. Ate is what we are looking with our first panel, the vision, what happens when we get it right. Examine why partnerships and investments in broadband make a difference. We will have a senior officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. We are hoping to have the had of El Paso Public Library with u...