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It to others and maybe staff would like to comment too on how you see this fitting into what youve already got going and what we can move into. The whole idea here of Natural Resources actually as i was looking into other cities examples of the preservation elements, i saw lool a lot of emphasis on Natural Resources and particularly interested in our program here and how we are classifying Natural Resources as part of our Heritage Preservation program. I noticed you didnt have too much on the area of natural realm. There is a beautiful picture of the boat on the water for a water front, so i d...

Gentlemen is here to make that request in person. If you would like to take up that matter of continuous now . [inaudible] also another person in support of continuous i think we have a motion to continue if there is a proposal we should open up to comment on the matter of continuous okay. Mr. [inaudible] do you want just on the matter of continuous is there pucklic comment on the continuing on an daga street . Seeing none we close Public Comment and bring back the had the motion. I believe commissioner hiland beat you to it [inaudible] very good. On that motion is there any particular date th...

I believe commissioner hiland beat you to it [inaudible] very good. On that motion is there any particular date that person was requesting . I believe they are available for the next hearing. He didnt indicate is that may 6. There are no other items on your calendar for may sex and so i had a brief conversation with preservation coordinator fly and will try to birch your matters a little tighter on your calendar so you done have hearings with just one item. My recommendation is to continue this matter to may 20. Yes very good. On that motion to continue this matter to may 20, commissioner haws...

You this exchange illustrates the issues the task force struggled with and the reason they focused on these concrete recommendations for example calling on cms, the model, not to scale hennepin to model hennepinlike examples so that we can in a deliberate fashion uncover this Common Element that needs to be there and the models that can be tested and proved. We can scale in a way it is almost as if hennepin is priming the pump, giving us a little bit of an example. What are the mechanisms and tools that we have for access like, for example, innovation grant awards, etc. , that can help us resp...

They took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. We are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. That is a good thing. It is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. We have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreignlanguage. Of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 mandarin, 9 certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to get...