1974 when the new opry house was built. But during the run of the 40s, 50s, 60s and early 70s, some of the most famous people in all of Country Music history debuted here at the grand ole opry including hank williams, george jones, dolly parton, all these brand names of Country Music cut their and got their start in this wonderful building. The Ryman Auditorium almost didnt happen because of the 1884 president ial race versus Grover Cleveland versus blaine. And the democrats had lost literally six president ial races and had not won since 1856. And tom ryman, who was a river boat captain here in this town, was a very bad gambler. And he was walking the streets of downtown nashville and got goaded on to start betting on the president ial election. And the blaine people were all out thinking that blaine was going to win, and ryman basically took all bets or people that thought that blaine would win. So hed say ill bet 100 to you, 500 to you, 1,000 to you. And before captain ryman knew wh
Welcome to nashville, tennessee located on the car lumbered in the river, 650,000, the second largest city in the state. National is known as the Country Music industry only get the nickname music city usa. With help of Comcast Cable partners we will travel the city and surrounding areas and talk with local authors about the history of national including stories of escaped slaves on their way to freedom. Wherever slavery existed the point in the 1850s what you see happening is slaves running away in groups. It presupposes an organization, not just family units but groups of people not necessarily related who may Work Together. We will learn how negative campaign ads can affect president ial races. One of the things people assume is a tax i made up. You go after somebody because you go after them. That is not quite right. You need to have a basis of evidence for the attack to work. There has never been anybody who attacked bill clinton for not being informed on Public Policy because he
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 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 we post of the rfp q and a schedule with certain meanwhile
Ladies and gentlemen, the chair call thd meeting to order. Can you please turn off your Electronic Devices as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I like to call the roll. Please do, sergeant. Commission president lofts, here. Commissioner Vice President turman, here. Commissioner marshzal is in root. Commissioner dejesus is route. Commissioner wong excused. You have a quorum also with us is chief of police greg ory suhr and joyce hicks. In light of the significant amount of Public Comment we opet tonight ill limit comments to two minutes. Item 1 adoption of minutes action for the meeting of february 10, 17, 9 and [inaudible] you have in your packet minutes from those meetings and have one correction and if anyone has others notify. Correction is meet
Lazer is excited about the opportunity to be part of castro neighborhood weve been well received by all the merchants weve poling to and supportive around the communities and neighborhood and we respecting ask for your approval. Opening up for Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . This is my neighborhood i walk through this everyday but sprint pace the lease im happy to have this business campaign. Yeah. He agree i think that is be a nice addition to a vacant spot even without the vacant is it is a good addition goes for formula retail to formula retail so i think that is very good project ill move to approve. Second. Thank you, commissioners commissioners, if theres nothing further, well move on to approve that with condition as commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson and commissioner Vice President richards so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 4 to zero. Commissioners, that places you under your on our final item the discretionary