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Items acted upon today will appear on the february 27 board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. Is thank you very much. Can you please call item one . Item number one, ordinance amending the planning dozed establish the gearymasonic special use district in the area generally bounded by geary boulevard to the south, masonic avenue to the east and assessors parcels block number 1071, lots one and four to the north and west respectively. Thank you. I will defer to supervisor stefani first since this is in her district. Thank you. You heard this project last week. Most important, it al...

[no audio] good afternoon and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of the mayors. I am the mayor of the great city of new orleans. [applause] start, we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver is here. She wants us to note that today st birthday of vancouver. Birthday madam mayor. [applause] honor to introduce Steve Benjamin of south carolina. Second Vice President of rochester hill. Director tom cochrane. We also have with us in the audience, our past president. Elizabeth of burnsville. Several formal mayors who have served in the leadership in the audience today. There are many ...

Dc for the u. S. Conference of birs by annual meeting annual meeting. It started with an address from new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. Mayor landrieu chatter] good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to the conference of mayors. I am at mitch landrieu, the mayor of the great city of new orleans, president of the conference of mayors. Thank you. [applause] we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver wants us 161st that today is the birthday of vancouver. New orleans is going to celebrate her 300 birthday in a couple weeks, so congratulations to us to. [applause] it ...

And when we tried to understand why it is that so many of our family members, friends, neighbors are working at are working to or three jobs in order to cobble together an income and some health care, the answer is that wages in our country for many people are much, much too low. Why we have got to recognize that a seven dollar and 25 minimum wage is a starvation wage. We have to move to a living wage, 15 an hour. What we understand also is that when we lived in a competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce possible. It makes no sense to me that we have hundreds of thousand...

Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in...