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And also recognize the staff. For taping our meetings and making sure that there are online. Mdm. Devon announcements . Yes please make sure that you go ahead and turn down your cell phones and any electric devices. Thank you mme. Court and youll take members of the committee that our attendance. Can we please call item number one . We are in fiscal year 2015. Submitted by the property of district law of 1994. Thank you, and before we began our presentation by the department of office of Economic Development and neighborhood partnerships, i wanted to say thank you for the model for the city. A...

We think over 50 thousand permanent residents in San Francisco eligible for citizenship by lack information and resources so really the project is not about citizenship but really academy our immigrant community. Making sure theyre a part of what we do in San Francisco the San Francisco pathway to Citizenship Initiative a unique part of just between the city and then our 5 local foundations and Community Safe organizations and it really is an effort to get as many of the legal permanent residents in the San Francisco since 2013 we started reaching the San Francisco bay area residents and 10 th...

Steve happening now. Major problems for bart in the east bay appear to be over. Trains are now going to the pittsburg bay point station. Bart says theres some sort of problem with the tracks between North Concord and pittsburg bay point. Bart says it is working on pinpointing the problem and getting it fixed. Since late this afternoon. Shuttle trains were taking passengers between the two stations. We just got off the phone with bart. They say the Shuttle Service has stopped. They are now testing out regular trains awith passengers. But they are not yet confident the problem has been solved. T...

President obama there were a grup of churches on the south side who tried to deal with the steel plant that had closed in the area. The economic station that had been taking place but also the racial tensions and turnover that was happening in these communities. So they formed an organization. They hired me as what was called a community organizer. I did not really know what that meant. Or how to do it. But i accepted the job and for the next three years i lived right here in hyde park but i worked further south in communities like roseland and west pullman. Working class neighborhoods. Many o...

It is wonderful to be home. It is wonderful to be at university of chicago. It is wonderful to be on the south side of chicago, and it is wonderful to be with these young people here. And what i want to do is just maybe speak very briefly at the top about why we are here, and then i want to spend most of the time that we are together hearing from these remarkable young people who are i think representative of some amazing young people who are in the audience as well. I was telling these guys that, it was a little over 30 years ago, that i came to chicago. I was 25 years old and i had gotten ou...