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Can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cu...

Thailand continues. Thai police say they still havent found any suspects. Hello. A warm welcome to the program. Polls have opened in scotland, where voters are deciding whether or not they want to remain part of the United Kingdom, or become an independent country. Lets take a look at the live shot from edinburgh. Doors have opened four hours ago to the polling stations. It is expected to be the largest vote in scottish history. Almost 4. 25 Million People have registered to vote. Reporter the d...

Also, american boots on the ground to fight a deadly enemy. But this is liberia. The enemy is ebola. Also, the eu and kiev ratified their Association Agreement as ukraines parliament offers an amnesty and selfrule for rebelheld regions. Well be live in kiev and strasburg. Also, aaron is here. A cabinet meltdown and the admission of broken economic problems. Yes, its been rough for Francois Hollande, but there is more to come because today he faces a Parliament Vote of no confidence. Basically, d...

Transportation expenditures. I want to make sure our need is lined our resources i lined up where our needs are. Working with ntc and bart, to make sure that we are planning on the modernization of the Regional Transit lines and looking for smart ways to expand transportation in our city. It is important to leverage the local sales tax dollars to complement and support of the city funded Infrastructure Investment coming from voter approved initiatives such as the street bond that we all i think ...

Commissioner al perez. Here. Commissioner akers. Here. Camp angoli. Here. And hyde. And we got an email from president tan who said that he will not be here this evening. Public comment on anything that is not in the regular agenda, do we have Public Comment . Good evening commissioners thank you so much for having me unexpectedly this evening, i know a couple of you commissioner akers and hide, and my name is Stephanie Ashley and i am the director of the saint James Infirmry to tell you know ab...

We have on the expenditure side we are living within budget. Youll see that we have a projected 16. 6 million favorable variance in salary and Fringe Benefits so were coming in below budget by 16. 6 millions. That is due to a couple of things. We have a couple units that are under their budgeted agent census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commis...

For fulfilling my weather girl fantasies and putting me on tv, and so thank you for all of that. So the first thing that we are going to do is have Public Comment, which is. Sorry, we are going to call the roll. Commissioner al perez. Here. Commissioner akers. Here. Camp angoli. Here. And hyde. And we got an email from president tan who said that he will not be here this evening. Public comment on anything that is not in the regular agenda, do we have Public Comment . Good evening commissioners ...

The people who prevent crime are part of that. So any time we have a community process, all of these people need to be at the table. Because we cant be doing anything unless thinking that we do good and that were having a collaboration and we dont have essential pieces to that. So i would encourage the Police Department to continue to do that and be at the table in any process that communities have. Thank you. You i was stopped when the police thought i was texting and im not a texter, let alone...

With the university home, could you give us some examples of wage theft in the Nursing Home Industry . Yeah, i deal a lot with the care home industry which is a smaller facility. Theyre usually a sixbed facility. It is either elderly individuals or folks with Developmental Disabilities that receive funding through private or through the state. The common practice in those care homes, small Residential Care homes is to hire one or two individuals to take care of the residents in the facility and ...

I gave you the example of the tenderloin plan we were working on, but the peace plan in the mission actually has the Police Department at the table. And i think that you cannot work on a process within communities without involving all stakeholders, and the people who are who might be victims of crime, the people who are providing services and the people who prevent crime are part of that. So any time we have a community process, all of these people need to be at the table. Because we cant be do...