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The committee will come to order. Welcome to our guests. Thank you so secretary duncan for joining us. We know your time is valuable and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Each year the secretary comes before the committee to discuss the priorities of department of education. Each year he is faced with the underequirable task of defending new programs, burdensome mandates that adopt the president s preferred policies. The budget request for the department clocks in at an incredible 82. 3 billion. This includes 70 billion in Discretionary Spending and mandatory funding for p...

Find. I looked at do we get this in times of political hardship or voices with people in the media planting fears or is it grassroots conflict and economic conflicts that bubble up and become widespread panic. At the outset, i was looking to see if there was a clear difference between alarm and panic. Not all political alarm is panic. What was in my head was after 911 we had good reasons to be concerned about security. When a bomb was detonated my parents had concern because we were the only country with this powerful weapon. In 1834, when a convent was burned down that was panic. So how did w...

Citys law cannot violate the higher state law. Regardless, this city is taking this legal action which will have a Significant Impact. Although, the city is also proposing to change the location of many of these stops. That is not just information collection, thats moving the desk chairs around. The courts have construed ceqa exemptions very narrowly which in the cast ak lake got leveled in an earthquake and they said we are going to do a ceqa exemption and build higher and the courts said you cant do a ceqa exemption because you are not building it the way it was. Once you go outside the narr...

The violation, is it the code that they point to . Yes. Its state code 22500 which makes it illegal for any vehicle to block the bus stop. Who enforces that . The San Francisco Police Department or muni zone enforcement officers. Are you saying the pilot says its okay for the shuttles to violate that section of the code . Yes. The primary legal action occurred in the Pilot Program is to amend the citys transportation code. The citys transportation code makes it ill egal for a private bus stop. The Pilot Project amends the citys transportation code to make it lawful for these private shuttles t...

San francisco and make those quick connections and get to their homes down in silicone valley. Does that raise a ceqa concern around displacement to cal train and muni and say this is a ceqa problem because you are going to cause these Technology Workers to want to live in San Francisco and we are making it too easy for them to get to work. Absolutely. I dont want to mins words but everyday when the government does a Transit Program or fremont or San Francisco muni program, they do an eir. The eir analysis all the impacts including air quality, including growth, what is called growth inducing ...