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Critical because half of our board now are new members so it was very interesting to see all of the ripple effects and the issues that have to be con frokted the complexity of the project as well as cost time and other factors that need to be considered but cannot always be anticipated ahead of that. Executive board cap lin joined us as well we welcome all the Board Members she explained to them in the beginning at our next meeting we will indeed have an orientation for them to the entire background of the project. This one was particularly consumed with that. I really appreciated steve humfri...

Practices of the recent past are behind us. The overarching inquiry is whether or not the current law remains fit to assure not only equal opportunity and not the convenience of bureau cats, and also how you as supervisors can measure progress. How do you define progress . And what are the systems of public accountability to make sure that we dont have this big lapse that weve had . You know without data there is no accountability. So, what were trying to do here is make the law work for everybody. This is a collaborative process and we look forward to working with you as well as the other mem...

Discussion about whether right now 30 years after 14b has gone into effect whether were really thinking aggressively enough in how we achieve our goals. There have been suggestions we ought to have citywide goals for lbe participation. So, for example, there have been some who have suggested a 40 goal of all City Contracting dollars staying with local business he. There has been other suggestions that we ought to set aside at least 10 of our contracting dollars exclusively for local competition and other businesses. Our ordinances should not apply to funded city contracts, but public lands tha...

Close this sad chapter. The vast majority of these people probably dont pose a risk and they certainly wouldnt pose a risk incarcerated in our maximum security facilities in the United States. But its time to close this facility, to honor the rule of law, it strengthens our position internationally. It saves money. And it allows us to actually get some of these people who may be bad guys actually convicted. Military tribunal doesnt work, our courts do. I hope we will step up, do the right thing, aprove this amendment and give mr. Moran a growing a a going away present. I yield back. The chair ...

Of apartheid and went on to leads of age. And parents are to be stringent and now apple wait to check their children for radiation exposure as they continue to worry about the partnership the nuclear crisis. The people negotiating a free trade deal for the Asia Pacific Region say theyre going to miss an important deadline. Ministers from the Top Countries at the Trans Pacific partnership talks say there wont be any agreement this year. But dont push on with discussions in two thousand and fourteen. For the course of this meeting. We identified potential landing zones for the majority of key ou...