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Plus monopoly, the true story of greed goodness, and americas most iconic game. He was the Ferguson Police chief for five years. Tonight hes out of a job. Chief Thomas Jackson resigned. He was outspoken defending the department in the days after the shooting death of Michael Brown but today at a press conference fergusons mayor made the announcement that chief didnt show up. Randall pinkston is here with that. Randall . John, the events that began with the police chief started when Michael Brown himself was shot and killed in ferguson last summer. Officials seem intent on staying put for a whi...

Present to the commission and i also want to acknowledge commissioner yee riley, who last summer served on the working group, the investment in neighborhoods working group, that helps to oversee the creation of this program. Do you have my presentation in front of you . Okay, great. Im going to give you an overview of the program. The elements, the Baseline Services, the commercial district assessment and Customized Services and do some q a. So essentially the mission of this program is our neighborhood commercial districts will thrive and its born out of the mayors commitment to Economic Deve...

Thank you. Actually, we were thinking about a centralized resource meaning the consultant, Small Business development center, our community partner, which we provided Grant Funding for this program and other programs in our office. Not a location, but a place, where somebody can talk to you to guide them through the process. Great. Thank you. Commissioner yee riley. I want to know if there are any new staff requirements or just going to use existing staff . This is going to utilize existing staffing. And we have a 60,000 commitment that is in the mayors budget right now. That money is going to...

Department of Public Health and supervisor mars office for reaching out to oewd and the department of Public Health, and the groceries association. I think its wonderful and you did a great job. So do we want to make a motion on this one, anyone . I will make the motion to support it. Second. Chris . Commissioners, i have a motion by commissioner yee riley to recommend approval of board of supervisors file no. 120996, administrative code healthy food retailer incentive program, seconded by commissioner dooley. On that motion, commissioner president adam [stphfplz ] yes. Commissioner dooley . Y...

I will amend it with my substitute which is based on the text of the leahycollins bill. I assume there is no objection to the substitute. Its a bill without objection. The bill as amended by the substitute is now opened for further discussion and amendment. If i could, i would start the discussion. Before i make a statement, i think i have not talked to senator sessions. I talked to senator cornyn. You folks want to make statements overall or youre ready to go to straw purchasing bill . Its on the agenda now. So the chairman has the right to bring it up. Or do you want to go right to this . I ...