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Before they levi will be glad to sign it. [inaudible conversations] this is booktv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Booktv visits ucla to talk with social welfare professor georgia leap about games and Gang Violence at 7 30 p. M. At 8 00 eastern, the actions of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. Former speechwriter adviser for president Clinton Eric Lou looks at the history of Chinese Americans and recounts his own familys experiences at 9 00. At 10 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards dr. Ben carson sits down with chuck todd of nbc news t...

Additional unit in a place that make sense the open space exception is not a huge issue given what i saw from the planned i move to approve. Second. Commissioners on that motion to approve with condition. Commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards additional commissioner wu so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 5 to zero Zoning Administrator what say you. Close public hearing and it is allows the for that requirement to be waved and not Historic Resource that appears to be thanks. Very good commissioners moving to item 14 ab on fulsom...

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...

Public comment because we do have a lot of folks here today. There has been a lot of 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 busin...