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The focus on the middle class and raising the minimum wage. This is about an hour and a half. Good afternoon. On behalf of the board of trustees, i am honored to welcome you to the college of marin. We are joined today by our esteemed board of trustees. Please stand. Please give them a round of applause. I also know were joined today by a variety of other leaders in education, both superintendents and various school board meetings. So if youre in the audience, please stand so we can acknowledge you as well. Dayna king was a familiar face in the bay area for 15 years as an em my volunteering on...

Thank you for being here. First were getting through our security system. Its great. If you have ever been to dca in august, you know this is not typical at all. We hope you had a great experience and we wanted to make it more special. I want to work i want to are excitedand we to have so many partners engaged in this work. It is an issue for me that is so vital, having spent the bulk of my career in education and having seen what occurs with students on a regular basis and all kinds of settings. I will talk more about that in just a few minutes, but it such a great honor for me to introduce o...

The time we act first and study later. We have been engaged in this war against extremism for the last 13 years. We have no strategy. Almost everything was being handled by the military. And a lot of it was off the cuff. A lot of it was knee jerk. There were a lot of problems on who was responsible and who was accountable. So for the first time when i took over when this government took office i think one of the first imperatives for all of us was to have a strategy, have a policy. So that is the reason we worked almost six months. We worked with the military, we worked with the provinces, the...

Many families do not qualify on the of assistance are struggling financially. As we continue to raise prices, some will no longer be able to afford to eat with us and the financial losses payfors our program to cut staff so they are impacting the community. Sparks that growth that led to huge declines in a la carte sales with an estimated loss of 700,000 in revenue. Items such as fresh to go south have to be taken off the menu because the small amounts of meat, cheese and salad dressing did not meet the sodium and fat requirements. Our sub sandwich was a very popular item but to me the rules w...

We could reach even more kids in need. My food Bank Provides more hot meals a day or case throughout the year. Children who visit partner sites were not partner sites a model to receive a nutritious meal bubble have a safe alternative to being on the streets. They get tutoring mentoring and sports. Far too many children cant read afterschool programs particularly in the summer. My stay of less than 10 of the lowincome kids in and 18 nationally. Why is that . Our programs are concentrated in Jefferson County and urban county were programming and services are available at many children can get t...