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Blakley, and michael and wrap up by jeff. We can have blakley. Good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about university of marylanded and University College which is a public Online University designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible skbalt career relevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947 at the university of maryland as a department that was charged with serving adult students particularly returning gis from...

Not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. Since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. This is really good news. You know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. This is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. We dont want another death on our streets because of human error, because of anything that we can avoid. If we c...

Does. All of the challenges that it faces and her willingness to get in there and try to solve or to advance ordeal with those challenges all the while maintaining her wonderful sense of humor. And because i think this is a job that takes well more than a year to master. Ive been really impressed by the degree to which she has mastered the jobs and the inns and outs of the department and the commission and the confidence she shows now in running meetings with lots of people in the room, compared to when she did it in the beginning i think that shes earned another year in this position. I think...

Said. You know, and step back from the nomination, but i do want to thank supervisor fewer for that generous nomination. I also, chair, president tang, if i may, wanted to address one nominee that i heard from many members of the public and in fact she was my first choice and i would have really liked to have nominated her today and that is city administrator naomi kelly. She is someone had has served at the helm of the city for decades and is a great public servant. And would have been a perfect fit for the interim mayor role. For very similar reasons as to why the board in 2010 had shr selec...

Those from a seismic perspective, the just of replacing windows in building one, for example, will be a significant expense. So from a seismic preservation and also from an access perspective, building one has never had elevator access above the second floor. So well have to figure out how well get to the third and fourth floors with elevator access. As part of that, we would also include an assessment of what it would take to environmentally control some of those buildings, as theyre currently all steamheated to the extent theyre heated at all and naturally ventilated. This will require some ...