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Generating clean air, clean energy . Yes. Supervisor peskin and if i may, supervisor, i just actually im going to ask for an amendment through the chair, and you will see that in the amendment that i have circulated, there is actually language very specifically to that effect to make it abundantly clear that it cannot finance the construction of a power plant that generates electricity using fossil fuels or for that matter, nuclear energy. Supervisor yee thats great. Supervisor safai thank you. Supervisor tang . Supervisor tang thank you. Im just excited that this is coming forward. I think th...

And that ultimately was, in 1999, as the result of a Charter Amendment, proposition e, became its own independent, what we call the sfmta. And certain powers and authorities that the board of supervisors had relative to Budgetary Authority when i first became a member of the board in 2001, the board of supervisors would literally approve each and every yellow, red, white, blue curb, and i dont know if you remember, but the land use and Transportation Committee used to have pages of red zone 25 feet west of, you know, stockton and what have you. And in 2007, there was a wyatt spread sense of cr...

Accidents and dismal customer service. In 1999, there were expectations by the voters that mta would bring improvements. Theyve had almost two decades to do that, but has that happen . Now is the time for voters to weigh on whether the mta experiment has been a success or not. I would strongly urge the board to respect the voices of the voters and place this charter on the june ballot. Let the mta and others make their case in the voter handbook, not in the board chamber. Thank you. Supervisor safai thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public C...

[applause] ms. Albright thank you. Good afternoon and welcome. I am truly delighted to be here with all of you and to celebrate Public Service and the legacy of harry truman. As someone who believes passionately in the importance of americas global leadership, i have a natural love and affinity for harry truman. But my affection for him is rooted in something more basic. He was my First American president. My family and i arrived in america november 11, 1948. A week after he narrowly beat dewey in 1948. All of this was some time ago. In fact, i tell my students now that i went to college about...

Point of all this attention on this one book . Any copies you think have sold . They did not know and i actually do not know the number it was like 300 copies. I said it is promised no where near 100 million americans. We need more people would you look at the Publishing Houses that there are tens of thousands working on behalf of literature what if we just had more . That were invited into that fold so we could do more it would make the difference because we have done what with the small number of passionate advocates but if we could build the network and that change our america happens. With...