i think i also did want to acknowledge, too, and we have angela thomas from sciu10-1 who is here, but wanted to -- hi, angela -- but wanted to note that our classified staff have also taken a particular hit in the balancing of this budget and if you could -- i know that we a few years ago had a thousand classified staff and are into the 500s. if you think about the critical influences that our classified staff perform at the college is very troubling. but wanted, if you could speak about the impacts of the surp and why it was required to even balance the budget we have, that would be helpful, i think. >> one of the things that i didn't into the presentation is that one of the things to ease the budget is that we spent money on a special supplemental early requirement programme for the first time that was offered to all full-time faculty, all part-time faculty and all classified staff. and so we had in total, how many that take the surp? >> just over 200. >> 2

angela thomas, sciu10-1 and thank you for being here. >> i pause because we have a very divided city college and angela has a tendency to be a little off-message, ok? because you've heard all of what you've heard and some of it is true and some is the perspective. unfortunately, the real truth from my perspective, we just don't have enough money and some of the reason we don't have enough money suspect the fault of anyone in this room. it's an personal tragedy. american tragedy because we do not fund our schools properly. and i'm going to go out in the reservation and say being a black woman, that's america. education wasn't for everybody. so when you get to there, it becomes an in-here thing. what am i going to do about it? because i'm not blaming a lot of these people that are here. what am i going to do about it, because i do believe in a very inclusive city college. i need my day classings. classe. i need my evening classes. i need my online classes because i went to peralto. i went at night because i spent my early adulthood working in the family business. there wasn't a certific

angela thomas, sciu10-1 and thank you for being here. >> i pause because we have a very divided city college and angela has a tendency to be a little off-message, ok? because you've heard all of what

thomas sparrow in milan thank you very much . here in germany it was a miserable night for the parties that make up the national government angela merkel's conservatives and her coalition partners the social democrats together they lost one was 20 percent of the votes the biggest winners were the german greens who doubled their showing a result that propels them into 2nd place the far right if the party also gained ground but lost support in comparison to the last national election. i sometimes reaction speak louder than words the german greens ecstatic as they watched their vote sarge this triumph belt off the back of young voters under climate and marriage and say i warning shots of the country's government was the signal used the signal today is that the german government has been voted down as a result of its hesitation on climate protection and its failure to unify europe. up give your god yes we are fighting for european solidarity and strong climate protection emotional. at the c.d.u. party the watch dawn in dread not exactly drowning their sorrows but these results down 7 percent make for sobering reading as the party gr

this comes at the same time that europe is transitioning from chancellor angela merkel to her successor. chad thomasg editor. michael kraus berg are a blackrock and peter dixon of commerzbank are still with us. when we look at germany we often think about the stability of europe. we have a huge generational shift with angela merkel possibly stepping down and her successor coming in place. do you worry more about the political vacuum or the fact that the companies we are mentioning are trying to spin or become much more comprehensible for investors? >> as someone who has lived in germany for a long time what is interesting is that these transitions are happening at the same time. you have this transition playing out very slowly but away from chancellor merkel. no one knows how that is going to end. you have the political stagnation that is happening. you have all these companies that seem to be in turmoil. that is something fairly new for corporate germany. have activist you investors stepping in and saying we want change. look at what happened with -- it was unheard of at the ceo would lose a boat l

my name is thomas lee, and i'm one of the celebration cochairs with alcaraz, our entertainment commissioner, as well as angela pang who is -- who is not here today. we are very excited. after the awards ceremony, we will have a wonderful celebration at city hall where we will welcome the community to asian cuisine and cultural performances. after we celebrate the honourees , we get to mingle and mix and chat with each other. from all of our sponsors, community partners, we look forward to seeing everyone at the after party here at city hall right after the award ceremony, and the celebration doesn't end there. we have a lot of nonprofits will be joining us that day who will be highlighting special events and activities throughout the month of may. please join us and find out more about it at our website. thank you. >> thank you. [applause]. >> thank you all for being here. see you next wednesday.streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chines

angela merkel has been leading the country while it misses the targets, that will happen and it looks like it mess that 2030 target as well. i'll let thomasrst years of merkel being chancellor and then we stopped making process for a number of reasons, and became late in the action. we are still in the phase of creating a concept of what we are going to do. but people outside don't understand it and it comes also from the outside into germany, but germany receptive of it all. help me understand because the coalition partners of anglo merkel ibs pb and they would like to see much more ambitious targets advantage your party will agree to, so why won't you go along with them? it's not a question of target, we would like to stay with the targets at the paris agreement, which we don't need at present, so it's not time to lift harder, it's time to execute well. we do not believe that a new tax would help because you can go on the amount of carbon or you can cut over the price. but germany missed the targets in 2020 and it's on target to miss the target in 2030, its reasonable for voters to think well perhaps this party is not sure about how to