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This is bbc world news america, reporting from washington, im katty kay. Pope francis apologized for the evils of child abuse by catholic priests. The obamastration streags says to nt grant a visa teherans choice to the United Nations. And just like this country, baseball has been shaped by imgravents tonight, we look at its special role in u. S. History. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television here in america and around the globe. For the first time the head of the Catholic Church has taken...

And the second frankly is that the Decision Making process about appropriating funds from the reserve to the district is now resting with the mayor and the board of super visors so certainly that was the intent of the original language, but that is something that the city has you know, the willingness to revisit and change. Thats some of the discussion thats taking place now. The possible changes. One is that there would be two separate reserves created so right now instead of having the one plo...

The second thing i had a question on and we didnt talk as much about it, but in the beginning you say here actually the very first thing, move from decentralized site based technology purchasing to a centralized purchasing and budgeting strategy. Id like to know more about what that means in terms of sites and how quickly they can move on things. With this, is there some concern or what are we doing around ensuring that sites are supported with the need that they have as quickly as possible arou...

Percent of the current balance and the district would receive 25 percent. And then if the say if and when the city in any year where they would make an additional deposit to the reserve then the same per centages would apply. In other words, we would use the funds to avoid lay offs rather than rescinding lay offs and thats proving to be a very process. The second change is who decides whether a draw should be taken. This change would allow the board of education without needing approval to decid...

Deputy superintendent. Were going to press our luck with a third powerpoint presentation. We know how you all love powerpoint, but this is going to be a brief presentation. At least its only six slides long, so hopefully it wont take terribly long, but we did want to do a couple of things this evening, just the latest in a series of discussions that weve been bringing information to the board about renewal effort for the Public Education Enrichment Fund so one is to provide a process update, kin...

Reserve, but those would need to be made through a Charter Amendment which would require a voter approval. The process for that is because this is not a component thats related to any legislation thats been introduced, then additional legislation would need to be introduced by the mayor or supervisor, and that would need to happen by next tuesday. If it is introduced, then by the citys process, that language could be incorporated into a single ballot measure, along with peef and perhaps Children...

Announcer youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Were waiting on ifo data from germany Business Survey data. Its come out significantly weaker than expected. The Overall Index coming in at 1. 08 versus 109. 4. Significantly weaker on the Overall Index. The Current Conditions is coming in at 112. 9 versus a reuters consensus of 124. 5. Weaker than expected on the Current Conditions. Looking at the expectations, much weaker than expected at 104. 5. Let...

Then the final piece of information that you received was just a summary of the three pieces of legislation that were introduced by supervisors kim, avalos and yee. Thats is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner wynns. I have a few questions. The first is there is nothing here as far as i can tell, but i havent read the actual proposed language yet i have to say that we just got it that addresses the link between peef and the Rainy Day Fund. ...

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